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“simone malacrida”

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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 XV

    by Simone Malacrida ...
    The century marking the transition from the Middle Ages to the modern era opens with a feudal legacy stemming from the internal divisions of France and England, still embroiled in the Hundred Years' War.Between mutual betrayals and the mystical figure of Joan of Arc, this historical transition marks the arrival of gunpowder in Europe, marking one of the world's epochal changes.Along with it, the ... Read more

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  • The Eternal Time of History - Part VI

    by Simone Malacrida ...
    The new course of history after the final fall of the Western Roman Empire is revisited through the stories of three sets of twins, set in different places and contexts.Alongside a fleeting desire for restoration emanating from the East, which saw the great splendor of the Justinian era, but also the definitive collapse due to the plague and the endless wars that tore apart what remained of the ... Read more

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  • The Eternal Time of History - Part XIV

    by Simone Malacrida ...
    The relationship between the Papacy and power that marked the period of the Avignon Papacy and the conditions that would spark the Hundred Years' War form the backdrop to the events of a French family of Norman origin torn between the concreteness of money and the revolutionary ideas of William of Ockham.These divergent paths were the seeds of future great rivalries between France and England, ... 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 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 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 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 IV

    by Simone Malacrida ...
    With the rise of Constantine to the helm of the Roman Empire, religion became a crucial element, along with civil wars and barbarian invasions, shaping the entire history of the fourth century. This was characterized by a continuous transformation of society, much more concerned with cultural, philosophical, and theological aspects than with military tradition.The Italics were no exception, and ... Read more

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  • The Eternal Time of History - Part II

    by Simone Malacrida ...
    Following the family saga originated by Servius Italicus, his descendants will find themselves facing new challenges and new problems, unfolding throughout the second century.The conquest of Dacia, the endless wars against the Parthians, the barbarian incursions will mark the territorial and cultural expansion of the adoptive principality, one of the most glorious pages of the Empire until the ... Read more

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