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There are three big periods of music. These periods are Baroque, Classical, and Romantic. In these periods there were several different composers who helped shape that period. Here are but a few in each of the period. In the Baroque period, some composers are Vivaldi, Monteverdi, Pachelbel, and Handel. There, of course, are much more as these are just four composers. First, Vivaldi, his full name is Antonio Lucio Vivaldi. Vivaldi was born in 1678 and grew to be an Italian violinist and a composer

A consideration of patronage obviously introduces questions about money. One of the defining characteristics of Florentine society throughout the centuries was a deeply-rooted system of patronage networks. Patronage was practiced as a social institution throughout early modern Europe, peeking in importance between the 14th and 17th centuries. The Medici family controlled Florence throughout much of the Renaissance and played a large part in the patronage of the arts and the political development

Abstract Self-concept is one’s view of personal identity and goals in relation to others, which could be influenced by culture and understood by the collectivism-individualism dimension. This study examines self-concept of individuals from countries of different cultures, to be compared to Individualism Index ratings to ascertain correlation with allocentric, idiocentric and group levels. The sample is dominantly Australian (72%), with 6.5% from United Kingdom, 2.6% from Singapore and 18.9% from

Mazzini's ideology of an independent integrated republic spread quickly among large segments of the Italian people. Revolutionary cells formed throughout the Italian peninsula. Massive reforms that took place during the 1840s in the Papal States, Lucca, Tuscany, and the Kingdom of Sardinia were intended to slow the revolutionary movements, instead these reforms (1846 and 1847) only intensified the resolve of the revolutionary cells culminating in the Revolutions of 1848, that spread to Germany, the

after getting married to her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary Shelley was famous for her predominantly Gothic novels that include History of a Six Weeks’ Tour (1817), Mathilda (1819), Valperga; or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (1823), however she is best known for Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus (1818). As a novel Frankenstein defined the happenings of the post enlightenment era/ nineteenth century. Gothic Novels, especially Frankenstein, were extremely popular during

In 1095, at the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II preached the first crusade. In addition to the formulation of the physical element, the ideological counterpart of Holy War, built upon existing traditions, was also developed over the course of the crusading period. Popular scholarship has displayed a tendency to portray jihad as endemic to Islam, while the crusades are often depicted as an aberration of Holy War, however an analysis of points of convergence counters this view. Though the formalization

Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist- I really believe he is Antichrist- I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my 'faithful slave,' as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see I have frightened you- sit down and tell me all the news." It was in July, 1805, and the speaker

Dante Alighieri was born on the year of 1265 in Florance Italy. Dante 's family was involved in complex Florentic polotics. This would latter become a huge influence in Dante 's life and work. A few years latter, around 1272 his mother joins those in the relm of the dead, never to return. At the young age of 12, Dante 's family arranged a future marrige with the daughter of one of their family friends. Arround 1285 Dante married Gemma Donati. Although Dante was married to Gemma he was never truly

Caring science encompasses a humanitarian, human science orientation to human caring processes, phenomena and experiences. Caring science includes arts and humanities as well as science. A caring science perspective is grounded in a relational ontology of being-in-relation, and a world view of unity and connectedness of All. Transpersonal Caring acknowledges unity of life and connections that move in concentric circles of caring – from individual, to others, to community, to world, to Planet Earth

The research demonstrates about how the mafia organized crime structured in society. Mafia is an organized crime who is capable of invading the economy and politics with gaining social acceptance. Mafia is an organization of territorial control and illegal activities like smuggling, weapon, trafficking, and more. Mafia’s groups are also known to provide private security for theft, coercion, and police baiting. The research depicts the case from the blog of Gangster Inc. of the Italian Mafia Boss