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Street Fight in Naples: A City´s Unseen History
Peter Robb
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Description for Street Fight in Naples: A City´s Unseen History
Paperback. A vivid memoir which brings Naples and its extraordinary history to life Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; AC; HBJD; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 196 x 27. Weight in Grams: 294. A City's Unseen History. 416 pages. A vivid memoir which brings Naples and its extraordinary history to life. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DST; AC; HBJD; WTL. Dimension: 127 x 196 x 27. Weight: 296.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408822326
SKU
V9781408822326
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About Peter Robb
Peter Robb's first book, Midnight in Sicily (1996), was a bestseller in the UK and Australia. It won the Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction in 1997. His book M (1998), about the painter Michelangelo Merisi, won the same prize, and the National Biography Award, two years later. It was a bestseller in the US and a New York Times Notable ... Read more
Reviews for Street Fight in Naples: A City´s Unseen History
Remarkable ... [an] atmospheric and erudite portrait of a fascinating city
Sunday Times
Finely crafted ... offers is a vivid sense of the infinite layers in a city older than Rome that was once the biggest in Western Europe
The Economist
Never fails to take one's breath away
Financial Times
Robb joyfully flouts the ... Read more
Sunday Times
Finely crafted ... offers is a vivid sense of the infinite layers in a city older than Rome that was once the biggest in Western Europe
The Economist
Never fails to take one's breath away
Financial Times
Robb joyfully flouts the ... Read more