Divination on stage
Divination on stage

Author: Folke Gernert

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2021-02-08

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 3110695758

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Magicians, necromancers and astrologers are assiduous characters in the European golden age theatre. This book deals with dramatic characters who act as physiognomists or palm readers in the fictional world and analyses the fictionalisation of physiognomic lore as a practice of divination in early modern Romance theatre from Pietro Aretino and Giordano Bruno to Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca and Thomas Corneille.

Kane Chronicles, The, Book Two: The Throne of Fire
Kane Chronicles, The, Book Two: The Throne of Fire

Author: Rick Riordan

Publisher: Disney Electronic Content

Published: 2011-05-03

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 142315438X

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In this exciting second installment of the three-book series, Carter and Sadie, offspring of the brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane, embark on a worldwide search for the Book of Ra, but the House of Life and the gods of chaos are determined to stop them.

I Hate Men
I Hate Men

Author: Pauline Harmange

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2020-11-26

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 0008457603

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The feminist book they tried to ban in France ‘A delightful book’ Roxane Gay

On the Infinite, the Universe and the Worlds
On the Infinite, the Universe and the Worlds

Author: Giordano Bruno

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2014-08-21

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781500826314

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In 1584, while living in the household of Michel de Castelnau, the French Ambassador to the court of Queen Elizabeth of England, Giordano Bruno completed three books of cosmological dialogues: The Ash Wednesday Supper; On Cause, Principle and Unity; and the current volume, On the Infinite, the Universe and the Worlds. Drawing on the work of Lucretius, Nicholas da Cusa, Nicholas Copernicus and others, Bruno developed the theory of an infinitely extensive universe, filled with stars like our sun and planets like our own.Giordano Bruno's heretical ideas and forceful personality led to a turbulent life in which he travelled to most of the great academic and cultural centers of Europe, culminating in his trial and execution by the Roman Inquisition in 1600.Recently, this work and Giordano Bruno were referenced in the new series of Cosmos.