Of the many treatises written in Italy during the Counter-Reformation, none is more illustrative of the intellectual fermentation of the period than Comanini's work on the purpose of painting, Il Figino overo del fine della Pittura (1591). Although the importance of Il Figino has long been recognize...
Hardcover
192
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
0802035744
9780802035745
10
Agnes is getting older. In the 1880s, a single woman in her thirties has good reason to worry. But Agnes is going to learn that those tiny lines, the new softness around her chin, are not her worst enemies. As she struggles to hold together her family’s estate and falls under the spell of the myster...
Ann Maureen Doyle
Kindle Edition
316
Ann Maureen Doyle
6
Who hasn’t dreamed of creating a new life by escaping to a paradise island? The author did just that and almost didn’t live to tell about it. Midlife Monkeylala is the true story of a teacher’s wacky adventures on the remote island of Roatan, Honduras, in the early 1990s before modernization. E...
Edwina Ann Doyle
Paperback
254
Llumina Press
1605946745
9781605946740
5
Thirteen year old Margaret Ann Doyle, deprived of her innocence by a shameless priest, is placed in the solitary confinement of a convent where he hides his young carnal conquests. Resisting authority at first, she finally yields to the pressures of the Abbess and dedicates her life to the Church. ...
David R Stewart
Paperback
368
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
1449593291
9781449593292
4
Randy had always looked at the world differently than most, and was quietly disappointed in nearly everything he saw. Then, he met Mary Ann Doyle, a wild spitfire on the opposite end of his untroubled spectrum. Most had written her off, and few dared to look beyond her rugged past, but Randy was no ...
Randy Goetz
Paperback
187
PublishAmerica
1413772986
9781413772982
1