The Churchman

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Casa Braccio

Casa Braccio PDF Author: F. Marion Crawford
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734031974
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 457

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Reproduction of the original: Casa Braccio by F. Marion Crawford

Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2

Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 PDF Author: F. Marion Crawford
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Languages : en
Pages : 415

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2" by F. Marion Crawford. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Casa Braccio (Complete)

Casa Braccio (Complete) PDF Author: Francis Marion Crawford
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465604154
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 635

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Subiaco lies beyond Tivoli, southeast from Rome, at the upper end of a wild gorge in the Samnite mountains. It is an archbishopric, and gives a title to a cardinal, which alone would make it a town of importance. It shares with Monte Cassino the honour of having been chosen by Saint Benedict and Saint Scholastica, his sister, as the site of a monastery and a convent; and in a cell in the rock a portrait of the holy man is still well preserved, which is believed, not without reason, to have been painted from life, although Saint Benedict died early in the fifth century. The town itself rises abruptly to a great height upon a mass of rock, almost conical in shape, crowned by the cardinal's palace, and surrounded on three sides by rugged mountains. On the third, it looks down the rapidly widening valley in the direction of Vicovaro, near which the Licenza runs into the Anio, in the neighbourhood of Horace's farm. It is a very ancient town, and in its general appearance it does not differ very much from many similar ones amongst the Italian mountains; but its position is exceptionally good, and its importance has been stamped upon it by the hands of those who have thought it worth holding since the days of ancient Rome. Of late it has, of course, acquired a certain modernness of aspect; it has planted acacia trees in its little piazza, and it has a gorgeously arrayed municipal band. But from a little distance one neither hears the band nor sees the trees, the grim medi¾val fortifications frown upon the valley, and the time-stained dwellings, great and small, rise in rugged irregularity against the lighter brown of the rocky background and the green of scattered olive groves and chestnuts. Those features, at least, have not changed, and show no disposition to change during generations to come. In the year 1844, modern civilization had not yet set in, and Subiaco was, within, what it still appears to be from without, a somewhat gloomy stronghold of the Middle Ages, rearing its battlements and towers in a shadowy gorge, above a mountain torrent, inhabited by primitive and passionate people, dominated by ecclesiastical institutions, and, though distinctly Roman, a couple of hundred years behind Rome itself in all matters ethic and ¾sthetic. It was still the scene of the Santacroce murder, which really decided Beatrice Cenci's fate; it was still the gathering place of highwaymen and outlaws, whose activity found an admirable field through all the region of hill and plain between the Samnite range and the sea, while the almost inaccessible fortresses of the higher mountains, towards Trevi and the Serra di Sant' Antonio, offered a safe refuge from the halfhearted pursuit of Pope Gregory's lazy soldiers.Ê

Casa Braccio - Part II

Casa Braccio - Part II PDF Author: F. Marion Crawford
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 147337572X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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This volume contains the second part of Marion Crawford's 1894 novel, "Casa Braccio". Full of forbidden love, passion, murder, vengeance, and dark secrets, this scandalous book will appeal to those with an interest in boundary-pushing literature. It would constitute a worthy addition to collections of similar works. Francis Marion Crawford (1854 - 1909) was an American author famous for his novels set in Italy, and for his strange and fantastic stories. Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.

The Churchman

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