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Vita e morte di un ingegnere (Scrittori italiani e stranieri)

The Venetian Atlas is a recently rediscovered work of the 14th-century Genoese cartographer Petrus Vesconte, thought to have been completed towards the end of his Venetian period (c. 1330). Though the geographer has long been renowned for the accuracy of his nautical maps of the Mediterranean and Black seas, this long-lost portolan chart is particu... See more

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Susan Sontag

Michael Dean • 2 cards

By a convenient coincidence, King Attalus III of Pergamum had died in 133 BCE, and – combining a realistic assessment of Roman power in the eastern Mediterranean with a shrewd defence against assassination by rivals at home – he had made ‘the Roman people’ the heir to his property and large kingdom in what is now Turkey. This inheritance provided a

Mary Beard • SPQR

Project Ö | Your Private Island in Finnish Archipelago

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Canada (OLIV. LIT.ET)

Richard Ford

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The Egyptians were preoccupied with death, and believed that the souls of the dead descend into the underworld, where they are judged by Osiris according to the manner of their life on earth. They thought that the soul would ultimately return to the body; this led to mummification and to the construction of splendid tombs.

Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy

Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. (Illustrated)

John L. Stephens