Peter Robb: Street Fight in Naples

Cover: 9781408822326 | Street Fight in Naples | A City's Unseen History | Peter Robb | Buch

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Beschreibung

Naples is always a shock, flaunting beauty and squalor like nowhere else. It is the only city in Europe whose ancient past still lives in its irrepressible people. In 1503, Naples was the Mediterranean capital of Spain's world empire and the base for the Christian struggle with Islam. It was a European metropolis matched only by Paris and Istanbul, an extraordinary concentration of military power, lavish consumption, poverty and desperation. It was to Naples in 1606 that Michelangelo Merisi fled after a fatal street fight, and there released a great age in European art - until everything erupted in a revolt by the dispossessed, and the people of an occupied city brought Europe into the modern world.

Ranging across nearly three thousand years of Neapolitan life and art, from the first Greek landings in Italy to the author's own, less auspicious, arrival thirty-something years ago, Street Fight in Naples brings vividly to life the tumultuous and, at times, tragic history of Naples.

Über den Autor

Peter Robb was born in Toorak in 1946 and grew up in Australia and New Zealand. He has lived in Europe and South America for much of his adult life. In 1996 Midnight in Sicily was published in Australia and won the Victorian Premier's Award for non-fiction. In 1999 Peter Robb received the same award for M, his acclaimed biography of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Published by Bloomsbury in June 2004, A Death in Brazil is as unorthodox a travel book as M is an unusual biography, combining writing on politics, history, culture and food in an in-depth account of a fascinating country.

Zusammenfassung

For fans of classic travel writing; City of Djinns by William Dalrymple, Salonica by Mark Mazower and Calcutta by Krishna Dutta

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2012
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781408822326
ISBN-10:	1408822326
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Robb, Peter
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	195 x 129 x 33 mm
Von/Mit:	Peter Robb
Erscheinungsdatum:	05.07.2012
Gewicht:	0,297 kg

Artikel-ID: 106586462

Über den Autor

Zusammenfassung

For fans of classic travel writing; City of Djinns by William Dalrymple, Salonica by Mark Mazower and Calcutta by Krishna Dutta

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2012
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781408822326
ISBN-10:	1408822326
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Robb, Peter
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	195 x 129 x 33 mm
Von/Mit:	Peter Robb
Erscheinungsdatum:	05.07.2012
Gewicht:	0,297 kg