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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Desmond Seaward |
ISBN: | 9781907973765 1907973761 |
OCLC Number: | 951749879 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | An Armchair Traveller's History of Apulia; Contents; Author Biographies; Foreword: Old Apulia; 1. Introduction; Part I: The Gargano; 2. The Gargano; 3. Monte Sant' Angelo; 4. The Norman Conquest -- of Apulia; 5. San Giovanni di Rotondo and Padre Pio; 6. The Gargano Coast and the Tremiti; 7. The Heretic from Ischitella; Part II: Hohenstaufen Country; 8. "The Wonder of the World"; 9. Castel del Monte; 10. The Emperor's Faithful Andria; 11. The Land of Manfred; Part III: The Tavoliere; 12. Foggia and the Tavoliere; 13. The Tavoliere: Lucera, Troia and Cerignola; 14. Life on the Old Tavoliere. 15. LatifondismoPart IV: The Adriatic Shore; 16. Cathedral Cities on the Coast; 17. King Ferrante's Coronation at Barletta, 1459; 18. Trani; Part V: Bari; 19. The Catapans; 20. Old Bari; 21. Bari, 1647 -- Revolution; 22. New Bari; Part VI: The Murge; 23. The Murge; 24. Cities of the Murge; 25. The Battle of Cannae, 216 BC; 26. Maundy Thursday at Noicattaro; 27. The Masserie; 28. The Via Appia; 29. Horace, the Apulian; 30. Life at Altamura; Part VII: The Cave Dwellers; 31. The Cave Dwellers; 32. Gravina-in-Puglia; 33. Matera; Part VIII: Trulli and the Difesa di Malta; 34. Trulli. 35. The Difesa di Malta36. The Duel at Ostuni; 37. Brigands; Part IX: Tàranto and Brìndisi; 38. Classical Tàranto; 39. Two Men from Taras; 40. The Princes of Tàranto; 41. The Travellers' Tàranto; 42. Brìndisi; Part X: Lecce and the Baroque; 43. Lecce; 44. Don Cirò, the Bandit Priest; 45. Baroque in the Salento; 46. A Band of Brigands -- the Vardarelli; 47. Tarantismo; Part XI: Greek Apulia; 48. The Byzantine Terra d'Òtranto; 49. The Castle of Otranto; 50. Manduria; Part XII: Three Little Courts; 51. Conversano; 52. Martina Franca; 53. Francavilla Fontana; Part XIII: Risorgimento? 54. The Death of the Regno55. The Brigands' War; 56. "A War of Extermination"; Part XIV: Epilogue; 57. Apulia Today; Acknowledgements; Further Reading; Short Chronology; Historical Gazetteer. |
Abstract:
A story of the heel of Italy - Puglia - as told by travellers. It has beautiful landscapes, cave towns and frescoed grotto churches, wonderful old cities with Romanesque cathedrals, Gothic castles and a wealth of Baroque architecture.
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