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Marzieh Gail

Autor(a) de Life in the Renaissance

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Reviewers are well-advised to avoid the word "charming". Still, there are times when that is exactly the right word, and this is one of them. Ms Gail writes with grace and confident knowledge of that much-discussed but little-understood French city where the Popes resided for many years -- long before anbody started singing that silly little song about the bridge. In the interests of Full Disclosure, this is more a set of anecdotes and reflections, and thus, is hardly scholarly history, but once that is conceded, the pleasure flows like the Rhone. Once having read it, who will forget the story of some Huguenots using the skull of the lone dead (and comparatively benign) Pope Clement VI as a football? Likewise, Ms Gail's speculations that Petrarch's Laura was nor a person, but a place? Find this book, and have some fun!… (mais)
 
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HarryMacDonald | 1 outra resenha | Jan 4, 2013 |
964 Avignon in Flower 1309-1403, by Marzieh Gail (read 20 Aug 1968) I thought this a good book to read, though unfortunately I did no post-reading note so cannot tell you why!
 
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Schmerguls | 1 outra resenha | Aug 2, 2009 |
1072 The Three Popes: An Account of the Great Schism, by Marzieh Gail (read 6 Sep 1970) I read the author's account of the Avignon popes Aug 20, 1968. This book is an account of the Great Schism. It is beautifully written, even if some of its judgments are screwy. It is footnoteless and popularized, but eminently readable.
 
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Schmerguls | Jun 5, 2009 |

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14
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171
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#124,899
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3.9
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3
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17

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