Charles II of Naples

Giuseppe Verdi was born in a small village Roncole, Italy in 1813, and passed away in Milan in early 1901. Considered a leading figure in Italian music, he composed twenty-six operas and hundreds of choral works which were, as Julian Budden wrote, “the epitome of Romantic drama and passion.” Unlike German leading Richard Wagner with his highly chromatic melodies and harmonic settings, Verdi liked to portray characters, emotions, and scenarios with relatively simple musical language, such as…

of limitation of Catholic Church influence to get the loyalty of patriots at home and having liberal image abroad. In addition He submitted the Italian case before the Congress of Paris and the tribunal of world opinion in 1856. Later Victor Emanuel II has announced as king of Italy by Cavour’s persuasion of the parliament and proclaims the city of Rome as the future capital of hoping kingdom of Italy through an agreement with church to solve the Roman issue. Unfortunately Cavour didn’t lived to…

signs to protect the Pope. These soldiers’ jobs originate from the Helvetian soldiers. As a great latin historian, Tacitus, said, “The Helvetians are a people of warriors, famous for the valour of their soldiers.”(4) This namesake led to Pope Julius II calling on the Swiss Cantons(Helvetians) to become “Defenders of the Church’s freedom”(4) in 1512. Since that time the Vatican has employed Swiss guards to protect the Pope, and perform ceremonial roles for the Church. The Swiss and Papal…

The Spanish Inquisition spread into Sicily in 1517, but efforts to set it up in Naples and Milan failed. In 1522 Holy Roman Emperor Charles V introduced it into the Low Countries, but its efforts to wipe out Protestantism were unsuccessful. John III of Portugal, with the permission of Pope Paul III, introduced a tribunal like the Spanish Inquisition against Portuguese…

As mentioned in the book, the most important of these cities are Milan, Venice, Florence, Rome, and Naples. This chapter is about Italy during the Renaissance during the 1500s. Trade flourished during this time period and merchants were a big part of the recovering economy. There were several extremely wealthy families that had a major influence on Italy…

jealousy from another crime boss competing for Lucania’s attention, Salvatore Maranzano. There was no letup of the pressure from both Salvatore Maranzano and Joe “the Boss” Masseria for Lucania to make a decision and join one or the other (Gosch, 1975). Charles was sure that sooner or later, more sooner than later, Maranzano and Masseria would have a war (Gosch, 1975). The two would never be happy until one of them got rubbed out (Gosch, 1975). “To me, the whole thing was a matter of…

An opera house is the place for performing arts such like opera, stage show, symphony, choral concert, singer concert and a place for the artist to perform or display their arts as a world tour around the world. There are hundreds of opera houses around the world include the Malaysia’s opera house as known as Palace of Culture, also known as Istana Budaya that located next to the National Art Gallery on Jalan Tun Razak in the heart of Kuala Lumpur. The first and the greatest public opera house…

Gentileschi was allegedly patronized by Charles I, and was not commissioned to create this specific artwork. Instead, the work is considered to be the promise of Gentileschi to produce a portrait for both Cassiano dal Pozzo and Don Antonio Ruffo. Of the two portraits, one was never delivered…

Two courses of action, it was argued, were required. First, crypto-Judaism could only be overcome by the introduction of an Inquisition; second, Jewish influence over the conversos could only be overcome by their expulsion. These ideas, adumbrated in works such as Alonso de Espina's Fortalitium Fidei, continued to gain ground, and on 27 September 1480 the Catholic Monarchs appointed Inquisitors in Castile who began their work in Seville shortly after (1481). Conversos, often subjected to torture…

Neither Dale Carnegie nor the publishers, Simon and Schuster, anticipated more than this modest sale. To their amazement, the book became an overnight sensation, and edition after edition rolled off the presses to keep up with the increasing public demand. Now to Win Friends and InfEuence People took its place in publishing history as one of the all-time international best-sellers. It touched a nerve and filled a human need that was more than a faddish phenomenon of post-Depression days, as…