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"First published in France in the dark year of 1942, the story collection Waystations of the Deep Night remains the best-known of Marcel Brion's numerous novels and stories in the vein of the strange and the fantastic. The journeys in this volume carry the reader through the surreal vistas of an underground city that appears aboveground as a bizarre theater of facades and a fire-ravaged landscape where souls turn to ash. A young castrato sings his heart out in a lost baroque garden; a child falls under the fateful spell of an enchanted painting; a traveler in a burned-out landscape encounters the Prince of Death; and dancing cats engage in mortal combat in the cellars of an abandoned port city. A self-declared heir of Achim von Arnim and E.T.A. Hoffmann, Brion was also an admirer of the German Romantic writer Novalis and his sequence of Hymns to the Night, but his own imaginative homages to the night are more troublingly ambiguous, possibly an indirect reflection of the dark times in which they were written. Born in Marseille in 1895, Marcel Brion was a freelance writer and critic. In 1964 he was elected to the Académie française in recognition of both his critical and creative writing, Over the course of a long and productive career he published 20 novels, four volumes of short stories and some 68 nonfiction books covering music, art, literature, history and travel. He died in Paris in 1984." --Amazon.com

Cezanne's was a dedicated and a heroic life, in the strongest sense of the term.The path of his life is recorded in his works, for those works were it's sole purpose.If ever a man lived only in order to paint, that man was Paul Cezanne.

Bankers, masters of Florence, popes, humanists, and patrons, the Medici embodied the Italian Renaissance. From the 14th to the 18th century, they were major players on the European political chessboard. From Cosimo the Elder to Lorenzo the Magnificent and Cosimo I, the first Grand Duke of Tuscany, the rise of the Medici was exceptional: they married their daughters to kings, lent money to monarchs, became popes, and were at the heart of the major social, cultural, and political currents of their time. Kings without crowns, they were the masters of the Republic of Florence. By encouraging and funding emerging geniuses, the Tuscan Renaissance shone with magnificent brilliance thanks to them. From Dante's Florence to the eve of the French Revolution, Marcel Brion brings to life the fascinating destinies of this captivating lineage.

Les Huns rassemblent des peuples asiatiques turco-mongols dont on ne connaît, en général, que la branche occidentale à laquelle Attila a donné ses lettres de noblesse. Ce livre retrace leur histoire et expose les raisons qui leur ont fait quitter les plaines chinoises pour envahir l'Europe. Défilent ainsi quelques grands chefs, comme Teou-Man ou Kiuntchin, qui n'ont cessé de guerroyer contre la Chine, d'abord avec succès, avant d'être vaincus.Tous, comme Attila, le dernier d'entre eux puisque son empire ne survivra pas à sa mort en 453, sont des princes pillards continûment en train de mettre sur pied une organisation territoriale qui ne résiste jamais aux dissensions internes. Plus que l'histoire d'un peuple, la biographie d'un peuple vu comme un personnage.

Bankiers, Meister von Florenz, Päpste, Humanisten und Mäzene, die Medici verkörperten die italienische Renaissance. Vom 14. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert waren sie bedeutende Akteure auf dem europäischen Schachbrett. Von Cosimo de’ Medici bis Lorenzo de’ Medici und Cosimo I., dem ersten Großherzog der Toskana, war der Aufstieg der Medici außergewöhnlich: Sie verheirateten ihre Töchter mit Königen, verliehen Geld an Monarchen, wurden Päpste und standen im Zentrum der großen sozialen, kulturellen und politischen Strömungen ihrer Zeit. Als Könige ohne Krone waren sie die Meister der Republik Florenz. Indem sie aufstrebende Genies förderten und finanzierten, strahlte die toskanische Renaissance durch sie in prachtvollem Glanz. Von Dantes Florenz bis zur Schwelle der Französischen Revolution lässt Marcel Brion die faszinierenden Schicksale dieser fesselnden Linie lebendig werden.

Tan estimado 250 años después de su nacimiento como lo fue en el apogeo de su carrera musical, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart fue un hombre transformado por su música, una música que ha influido en innumerables compositores a lo largo de los siglos posteriores a su obra. A través de documentos primarios y un estudio en profundidad de su canon compositivo, este autor erudito ha elaborado una biografía cautivadora del compositor e intérprete de Salzburgo, así como un retrato enriquecedor del contexto histórico y social en el que Mozart desarrolló sus talentos musicales.

Un arheolog, plecat în căutarea unor fresce maniheene în ținuturile Asiei Centrale, asistă la miracolul revenirii la viață a unui oraș străvechi. Atunci, un impuls misterios îl face să participe la viața tumultoasă a cetății. În oraș, noii prieteni ai arheologului - negustorul de pietre prețioase, Mama Semnelor, povestitorul... - îi oferă, fiecare dintre ei, elementele unei adevărate inițieri. Prin ei accede la enigmele familiare vechiului Orient, cărora Europa le-a uitat de mult soluția. Într-o zi, orașul dispare din nou sub o furtună de nisip și omul din zilele noastre se trezește singur în pustiu. A trăit cu adevărat această aventură extraordinară? A visat? Nu are importanță. El este acum un om care a văzut, un om care știe...

Die Eine Florentiner Familie [The A Florentine Family] in GERMAN. Text in GERMAN. Contains 192 pages plus photo inserts in both color and black and white.

Barcelona. 26 cm. 309 p., [16] p. de lám. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Brion, Marcel 1895-1984. Traducción, Carlos Gómez González. Biografía e historia. Índice. Traducción de: Michel-Ange. Michelangelo. 1475-1564. Biografías .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 8466613927