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“simone malacrida”

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  • The Eternal Time of History - Part XIX

    by Simone Malacrida ...
    Through the Mailly family saga, the city of Paris became the cultural and political center of the nineteenth century, spanning the Napoleonic era, the Restoration, the July Monarchy, the 1848 uprisings, the Second Empire, the Commune, and the Belle Époque.In this context, different approaches and tensions emerge: musical Romanticism, great literature and poetry, art, which sees Impressionism as a ... Read more

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  • The Eternal Time of History - Part XVIII

    by Simone Malacrida ...
    The eighteenth century began with the absolutism of the Sun King and the pervasive presence of empires like the English and Russian, and ended with the figures of Napoleon and the independence of the United States of America.This transformation was made possible by three distinct, and almost simultaneous, revolutions: the American, the French, and the Industrial Revolution.These revolutions were ... Read more

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  • The Eternal Time of History - Part VIII

    by Simone Malacrida ...
    The great power of human culture and knowledge, expressed in multiple aspects of daily life and speculative reflection, did not seem sufficient to stem the violence of arms and the prevalence of war in a century, the eighth, which saw the peak of the Islamic Caliphate and the Lombard kingdom's expansion, while an intense unifying drive attempted to create a new Empire after centuries of ... Read more

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  • The Eternal Time of History - Part IX

    by Simone Malacrida ...
    The fragmentation of the Holy Roman Empire due to internal struggles among Charlemagne's heirs and the arrival of Norman history marked the unfolding of events in the ninth century, through a relentless succession of hopes and immediate disillusionments regarding a past that was not destined to repeat itself.At the same time, the individual families belonging to these peoples tended to follow ... Read more

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  • The Eternal Time of History - Part XVII

    by Simone Malacrida ...
    The seventeenth century was the century of the great scientific revolution, with the inductive and experimental methods developed by Bacon and Galileo, the discoveries of optics, Kepler's laws, Descartes's philosophical system, the ideas of Pascal and Spinoza, and, finally, the great work of Newton.The same century was also pervaded by the destruction and disease caused by the Thirty Years' War, a ... Read more

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  • The Eternal Time of History - Part XVI

    by Simone Malacrida ...
    The colonization of the Americas, Protestantism, and the Catholic Counter-Reformation are the three pillars of the sixteenth century around which the diverse human experiences of individuals unfold.In Spain, entire families of colonists and explorers found themselves having to deal with the destruction of pre-Columbian civilizations by the conquistadors, and the blunder of Charles V's Universal ... Read more

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  • The Eternal Time of History - Part X

    by Simone Malacrida ...
    Three distinct portraits of tenth-century life unfold chronologically, from the Heian era in Japan, marked by the rise of the Fujiwara clan, to the rebirth of the Holy Roman Empire under Otto I of Saxony, and finally to the Viking spirit of adventure that reached the farthest reaches of northern Iceland and Greenland.Amid these events, several families of middle and lower social standing operate, ... Read more

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  • The Eternal Time of History - Part XIII

    by Simone Malacrida ...
    The first half of the thirteenth century is characterized by the sudden rise of the greatest empire ever.The Mongols of Genghis Khan overwhelm entire civilizations, but their military supremacy will give rise to an ephemeral world, one that a family of horse breeders will understand well, suspended between tradition and the necessary integration with superior cultures defeated in battle.In Europe, ... Read more

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  • The Eternal Time of History - Part I

    by Simone Malacrida ...
    Servio Italico's choice to break with his family's traditions will give rise to a lineage that, for five generations, will walk alongside the history of the first century.From the defeat of Teutoburg to the conquest of Britain, from the death of Octavian Augustus to the fire of Rome, from the eruption of Vesuvius to the first campaign of Dacia, men and women will find themselves in the presence of ... Read more

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  • The Eternal Time of History - Part V

    by Simone Malacrida ...
    The sack of Rome by the Visigoths opens the history of the fifth century, which witnesses the definitive decline of the Western Roman Empire and Italy as the central hub of the world known until then.The ensuing decline of society continues for generations until the effective dismemberment of every pre-established order, bringing the history of the Italics to its final conclusion.No longer united, ... Read more

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  • The Double Half of the World

    by Simone Malacrida ...
    Two families, two social and cultural contexts contiguous in space and time, are totally confined and divided not only by precise political choices, but also by the actions of individual people.In apartheid South Africa, an in itself paradoxical situation becomes normality for decades and the same subsequent turning point overturns prejudices and expectations.Entire communities suffer the ... Read more

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  • Chasing the Harmony of the Wind

    by Simone Malacrida ...
    The vortex of life unfolds in multiform verses, sometimes following random rotations or precise directions, as is typical of the nature of the wind.Sixteen characters alternate against the background of their single day, representing completely detached cultures and sensibilities, ages and experiences, perhaps united among themselves only by an invisible, elusive and eternally changing harmony. ... Read more

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