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81The Romantic Road - Wurzburg, Germany
Come join me on a tour of the Romantic Road in Germany. Wurzburg, Germany is the first city going south on the Romantic Road in Germany. This road is full of castles, old walled cities, medieval knights, and fairytales.
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77Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato: Painter of Beautiful Madonnas
Seventeenth-century Italian painter Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato is profiled. His renown for paintings of Our Lady Mary is presented. Six of his most famous paintings are discussed.
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8015th Century Renaissance Art in Northern Europe
A historical discussion on the various phases of 15th century Renaissance art
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82Triumph GT6 Sports Car
The Triumph GT6 was yet again designed by Giovanni Michelotti as a coupé version of the Triumph Spitfire. The problem was that the extra weight and cost in building it meant that Triumph needed to justify that extra cost and a slower top speed from its original 1147cc engine was hardly going to help.
72Guess who's coming to dinner? The Commendatore scene. Mozart's Don Giovanni. Don’t invite a dead man to a meal.
The opera Don Giovanni by Mozart is an horrific cautionary tale. Read about the evil Don, and his awful end here. Not for the squeamish.
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78A Mammoth Book of Stories by Giovanni Boccaccio
The Decameron is a mammoth book of stories, written by Giovanni Boccaccio, told from the point of view of ten Florentines attempting to escape the Black Death which their hometown is...
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76the true story of Salieri's mistress: Catarina Cavalieri
Very little is really known about Catarina Cavalieri. In the movie Amadeus she plays a key role in the rivalry between Salieri and Mozart, but her part in the movie is nearly completely fabricated. There is no...
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76L'Uomo Universale
A perspective on the purpose of Machiavelli's "The Prince," and why it is still a valuable text today.
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71Mozart Opera - Don Juan or Don Giovanni?
Here I am reaching my 80th hub with this article, I guess I wanted it to be special like a lot of my other big number hubs but don't ask me why I chose this subject. All I can say is I was lounging in the...
83Science in the 17th Century
The word scientist was coined in 1840. But the 17th century is revered among scientists as an age of great discovery. This is the century of Galileo, Kepler, Bacon, Pascal, Descartes, and Newton. The 17th century saw the rise of those we now call...
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