![]() ![]() After "1,000 copies were printed and the type was destroyed."(Welsh 2168). Con i versi dell’Inferno della Divina Commedia, Pisa è rimasta nella storia come luogo ostile a Dante Alighieri. Resumed in 1873 by his son Giovanni, the edition was completed at the Printing Works 'Alla Minerva' in Padua overseen by Gaetano Gianuzzi and completed on 9 June 1878. ![]() The project was begun in 1850 by Giacomo Gnocchi, but the work was abandoned. The printing process was arduous, in part because of the minuscule 2-point Didot type (so-called "flies' eye" type), "thought to be the smallest ever employed," and "said to have injured the eyesight of both the compositor and the corrector." Because only 30 pages could be printed in a month, the work took many years to complete. La Divina Comedia es la expresin luminosa de un poeta cristiano dentro del Humanismo caracterstico del primer Renacimiento. Finely bound in vellum elaborately stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, looped string straps with one clasp post lacking. ![]() First edition of what has become known as "Dantino," one of the smallest books printed in movable type and one of the most renowned miniature books. Printed by Fratelli Salmin of Padoua, 1878. Andrea Pierini, Dante legge la Divina Commedia alla corte di Guido Novello, 1850, dipinto a olio, Palazzo Pitti-Galleria DArte Moderna, Firenze. First edition of what has become known as "Dantino," one of the smallest books printed in movable type and one of the most renowned miniature books Dante Alighieri, o Alighiero, battezzato Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri e anche noto con il solo nome di Dante. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Without fortune or means to pay those debts, Sir Bennet realizes his only option is to make a marriage match with a wealthy noblewoman. Sir Bennet is returning home to protect his family from an imminent attack by neighboring lords who seek repayment of debts. No nobleman would want to marry a woman so flawed…and a possible witch at that. Lady Sabine is harboring a skin blemish that, if revealed, could cause her to be branded as a witch, put her life in danger, and damage her chances of making a good marriage. If you’re looking for a good, clean listen that combines the setting and mood of a medieval fairy tale with the heat of historical romance - you found it! A dangerous secret that threatens their love…and their lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stunned, he could not get his breath, could not move. Saw a log lying across the path, jumped but caught one foot on the rotting wood. Second, it is inheritable, but the genes of his mate would dilute the intelligence, so the puppies would be smart but not as smart as their father and each succeeding generation would get dimmer, duller, until eventually his great-great-greatgrandpups would just be ordinary dogs.” “ What’s the third possibility?” “Intelligence, being a survival trait, might be genetically dominant, very dominant.” “In which case his puppies would be as smart as he is First, his intelligence isn’t inheritable, so his puppies would just be ordinary puppies. ![]() Then he said, “If Einstein mated and produced puppies, what would they be like?” “You mean- would they be as smart as he is?” “I wonder… Seems to me there’s three possibilities. They were silent for so long that she thought Travis had fallen asleep. He loves books.” “Maybe books aren’t enough,” she said. And if you do go back to real estate eventually, there’ll be a lot of time when Einstein’s without anyone.” “He has his books. I paint, and you do things in which poor Einstein doesn’t get included. He must get lonely now and then.” “ We’re with him all the time.” “No, we’re really not. They marry the good-looking ones who half the time treat them like dirt. But women are just as choosy about looks as men are, don’t you think? They don’t go for husbands with hound-dog faces. He’s such a nice man, and he’d make someone a great husband. ![]() ![]() Wonderful Mrs Willis, the home teacher who lets him do explosions, coming less often, his Dad waking to reality and turning brilliant, his Mum learning to let go. We see the relationships round him shifting too. Through Sam’s journals and his lists and his questions, all brief and beautifully woven together, we travel with him, as he gradually changes his perspective, sometimes with a jolt, sometimes gently. Sally Nicholls doesn’t flinch the difficulties. ![]() ![]() But he wants to know: why do kids die? what happens when you die? as well as – can he run up the down escalator? ![]() We meet his cynical, adventurous best mate Felix from the hospital, his Mum, doing her best to hold it all together, his Dad, trying to pretend it’s not happening, his little sister Ella, sometimes jealous at the attention he’s getting.Īnd we meet Sam, full of interesting facts and full of profound questions that people don’t like asking. He reckons he’ll be dead by the time you finish the book. ![]() ![]() What they are finding is upending the traditional view of how birds conduct their lives, how they communicate, forage, court, breed, and survive. But the bird way is much more than a unique pattern of brain wiring, and, lately, scientists have taken a new look at bird behaviours. ‘There is the mammal way and there is the bird way.’ This is one scientist’s pithy distinction between mammal brains and bird brains: two ways to make a highly intelligent mind. ![]() From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, here is a radical examination of the bird way of being and of recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds - how they live and how they think. ![]() ![]() ![]() He celebrates here his teacher, Frau Corkhill, who taught him German conversation but, more importantly, the art of conversation itself, and it’s worth noting here that although he clearly has a prodigious intellect, he is humble and keen to explain and share rather than to look good and clever. However, he pushed himself to start reading, first encyclopaedias and dictionaries and then history books and memoirs, then trying to teach himself how dialogue works by starting to read novels. ![]() ![]() Add this to an advanced and hugely detailed synaesthesia, and he has a rich interior life most of us could only begin to imagine. He could even think of poetry in numbers. The first chapter, “Finding my Voice”, is a fascinating account of Tammet’s early obsession with numbers – he saw them as a kind of language, and while this eventually led to him holding the world record for reciting the digits of Pi, it left him ostracised at school, as he knew no one would understand. Now living in France with his husband, his latest book is a very learned but also joyful and exploratory set of essays on everything from sign language to Icelandic naming conventions, via an Englishman at the Academie Francaise and much more. You may remember Tammet from his autism memoir, Born on a Blue Day, and his fascination with words and languages as well as numbers continues until the present day. ![]() ![]() ![]() She used her son as delivery boy, though he preferred the fishing. Then he walked carefully up the beach toward the village store, in which Tommy’s mother struggled to fill all at once the jobs of grocer, bookseller, fruiterer, postmistress, and occasionally-if Tommy went fishing-fishmonger. Out of the boat he took a deep shopping basket woven of wicker, grey-brown with age. ![]() ![]() Like his master.” The MacDevon stepped over the side of the dinghy, lifting his big rubber boots as if they were too heavy for him. “Have you not brought Fergus?” Tommy was astonished the old man never went anywhere without his dog. ![]() “Aye,” said the MacDevon, in his soft, rusty voice. This was a weekly ritual: the old man’s shopping trip from the island of Castle Keep. MacDevon.” He caught the bow of the dinghy as it crunched into the small stones of the beach. The MacDevon was a clan chief, the last of his line, and you didn’t ask a clan chief a question like that. His father said the MacDevon was one hundred years old, but Tommy had never had the courage to ask if it were true. Tommy could hear the slow creaking of the oarlocks, and see the white hair of the lean old man bent over the oars. The little boat crept closer, over the grey-green water of the loch. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You can ask in our Weekly Recommendation Thread, consult our Suggested Reading or What to Read page, or post in /r/suggestmeabook. We don't allow personal recommendation posts. We also encourage discussion about developments in the book world and we have a flair system. We love original content and self-posts! Thoughts, discussion questions, epiphanies and interesting links about authors and their work. 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Subreddit Rules - Message the mods - Related Subs AMA Info The FAQ The Wiki Join in the Weekly "What Are You Reading?" Thread!.Check out the Weekly Recommendation Thread.New Release: Fire with Fire by Candice Fox. ![]() ![]() ![]() With no handsome prince in sight, the queen wakes the princess in the traditional way - but things are not as they seem, and it will take more than a kiss to ensure everyone lives happily ever after. ![]() There, she finds a beautiful princess, sound asleep, and a very old woman, forever awake. As a girl, she survived her own long, magical sleep, so she must try to turn back this new plague and save her people.Ībandoning her bridal finery, she dons her armour instead, and rides out to a castle at the very heart of the sleeping lands. But when three dwarves bring news of a sleeping sickness sweeping across her realm, she knows she cannot stand by and do nothing. In a mountain kingdom far away, a young queen prepares for her wedding, believing her future is sealed. ![]() A brand new BBC Radio adaptation of Neil Gaiman's award-winning fairytale, merging Snow White and Sleeping Beauty to enchanting effect. ![]() ![]() ![]() Supporters claim critics left out important facts, distorted evidence and didn’t reveal certain information until all the principles were dead. Eve had only three faces Sybil subdivides like a paramecium into sixteen selves including two males during the eleven-year period of her analysis with a Dr. They also suggest the fabrication of material to protect her identity does not constitute a proper case history as would appear in a peer-reviewed journal. They cite tapes in which the psychiatrist is heard describing to Sybil her personalities. However, it remains highly controversial as critics suggest Sybil was a simple hysteric, manipulated for profit by her psychiatrist. ![]() The book was wildly successful when published, spawning two movies, and an upsurge in cases of reported dissociative identity disorder. ![]() With help from her psychiatrist, these selves gradually become co-conscious, ending with Sybil’s integration as a whole person with full knowledge of past and present. “Sybil” suffers extreme childhood abuse which causes her to separate into sixteen different “alters.” She has huge memory gaps given the differing personalities in charge. This is a non-fiction book about the treatment of a woman for multiple personality disorder. ![]() |