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5 giorni fa · 16 minuti di lettura. La consolazione della filosofia, sua opera più nota, ci ha restituito, attraverso i secoli, le parole definitive di uno degli ultimi grandi intellettuali antichi o forse di uno dei primi grandi intellettuali medievali. Già, perché Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Boethius, più semplicemente noto come ...
5 giorni fa · Within the grand ducal abode of Pitti Palace, in the heart of Florence, lies a building whose construction and décor reflect the history of Tuscany’s rulers. This is the Palazzina della Meridiana, or Sundial Villa, a south-western extension joined to the palace by a long corridor and several flights of stairs.
5 giorni fa · Publisher: Oxford University Press Print Publication Date: 2009 Print ISBN-13: 9780195334661 Published online: 2009 Current Online Version: 2009 eISBN: 9780195334678
2 giorni fa · Saxony. Map. Saxony, [a] officially the Free State of Saxony, [b] is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and its largest city is Leipzig.
4 giorni fa · Charles Edward (Leopold Charles Edward George Albert; [note 1] 19 July 1884 – 6 March 1954) was at various points in his life a British prince, a German duke and a Nazi politician. He was the last ruling duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a state of the German Empire, from 30 July 1900 to 14 November 1918. He was later given multiple positions in ...
4 giorni fa · The date of the first Saxon bridge over the Thames is extremely uncertain, as our chapter on London Bridge will show; but it is almost as certain as history can be that, soon after the Dane Olaf's invasion of England (994) in Ethelred's reign, with 390 piratical ships, when he plundered Staines and Sandwich, a rough wooden bridge was built, which crossed the Thames from St. Botolph's wharf to ...
1 giorno fa · Charlemagne engaged in his final campaign in Saxony in 804, taking control of Saxon territory east of the Elbe and removing the Saxon population, giving the land to his Obotrite allies. During this campaign, the Danish king Gudfred , uneasy at the extension of Frankish power, offered to meet with Charlemagne to arrange peace and possibly hand over Saxons that had fled to him.
