Author: Hugh Thoma
Publisher: Yale University Pre
Keywords: intermezzo, seville, beaumarchais
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2007-01-24
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0300121032
ISBN-13: 9780300121032
In 1764-65 the irrepressible playwright Beaumarchais traveled to Madrid, where he immersed himself in the life and society of the day. Inspired by the places he had seen and the people he had met, Beaumarchais returned home to create The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro, plays that became the basis for the operas by Rossini and Mozart that continue to delight audiences today. This book is a lively and original account of Beaumarchaisâ??s visit to Madrid (he never went to Seville) and a re-creation of the society that fired his imagination.Drawing on Beaumarchaisâ??s letters and c
Author: Arturo Perez-Reverte
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: communion, seville
Number of Pages: 375
Published: 2004-06-07
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0156029812
ISBN-13: 9780156029810
A“diabolically good” hacker puts a message on the pope’s computer, pleading for him to save a seventeenth-century Spanish church—a church that is killing to defend itself.Although Our Lady of the Tears is but a crumbling baroque building in the heart of Seville, it is also the center of a multilayered mystery—one that will force ecclesiastical sleuth Father Lorenzo Quart to question his loyalty, his vow of chastity, and his faith itself.
Author: DK Publishing
Publisher: DK Travel
Keywords: guides, travel, eyewitness, andalusia, seville
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-12-27
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0789495724
ISBN-13: 9780789495723
Highlights include: Seville, Huelva, Sevilla, Cordoba, Jaen, Cadiz, Malaga, Granada, and Almeria.
Author: DK Publishing
Publisher: DK Travel
Keywords: travel, guides, eyewitness, andalusia, amp, seville
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2010-05-17
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0756661439
ISBN-13: 9780756661434
DK Eyewitness Travel’s full-color guidebooks to hundreds of destinations around the world truly show you what others only tell you. They have become renowned for their visual excellence, which includes unparalleled photography, 3-D mapping, and specially commissioned cutaway illustrations. DK Eyewitness Travel Guides are the only guides that work equally well for inspiration, as a planning tool, a practical resource while traveling, and a keepsake following any trip.Each guide is packed with the up-to-date, reliable destination information every traveler needs, including extensive hotel
Authors:Seville Flowers, Arthur Holmgren,
Publisher: The Blackburn Press
Keywords: west, utah, mosses
Number of Pages: 567
Published: 2001-07
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 1930665253
ISBN-13: 9781930665255
This title was first published in 1973 by Brigham Young University Press and is a classic of the bryological literature. Mosses : Utah and the West made a substantial and original contribution to our knowledge of the mosses of the Western United States. Before Flowers began his extensive bryological research Utah was considered to have a relatively small and uninteresting moss flora because of its generally low rainfall. This book however, treats 256 species in 77 genera and 18 families a large proportion of which were discovered in Utah for the first time by the author. The beautifully
Author: Elizabeth Nash
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: history, cityscapes, cultural, granada, cordoba, seville
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2005-10-13
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0195182030
ISBN-13: 9780195182033
Spain’s southern city of Seville basks in romantic myths and legends, evoking the scent of jasmine and orange blossom. But there is an ascetic core to its sybaritic spirit. For all their fame as passionate performers, the poet Unamuno called Sevillanos "finos y frios"-refined and cool. Once Europe’s most cosmopolitan metropolis, bridging cultures of East and West and hub of a sea-borne empire, Seville was defined by Spain’s great seventeenth-century playwright Lope de Vega as "port and gateway to the Indies". The city retains both the swagger of its seafaring heyday, and the
Authors:Pierre de Beaumarchais, John Wood,
Publisher: Penguin Classic
Keywords: penguin, classics, figaro, marriage, seville, barber
Number of Pages: 223
Published: 1964-06-30
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0140441336
ISBN-13: 9780140441338
A French courtier, secret agent, libertine and adventurer, Beaumarchais (1732-99) was also author of two sparkling plays about the scoundrelly valet Figaro - triumphant successes that were used as the basis of operas by Mozart and Rossini. A highly engaging comedy of intrigue, The Barber of Seville portrays the resourceful Figaro foiling a jealous old man’s attempts to keep his beautiful ward from her lover. And The Marriage of Figaro - condemned by Louis XVI for its daring satire of nobility and privilege - depicts a master and servant set in opposition by their desire for the same woma
