Naples

It is rare when a book comes along that transcends its genre and elevates itself to seminal status. Books that have the power to impact entire fields of thought should be revered, but also healthily feared, because of their influential nature. Machiavelli’s distinguished classic, The Prince, is one of those thought defining works. Niccolò Machiavelli was a high-ranking Italian diplomat for the Florentine Republic. He was removed from office and exiled when the Medici family returned to power in…

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…

The novel, My Brilliant Friend, is renowned for its portrayal of strong female friendship. This work, set in 1950s Naples, follows the lives of two young girls, Lila and Elena. Told from the point of view of Elena, a well-behaved studious girl, the story follows the girls from elementary school to rebellious Lila’s wedding day. It explores numerous themes, from social class to femininity. But, one aspect of the girls’ friendship that stands out is Elena’s dependence on Lila. Throughout the novel…

The Medici family did not always start off with controlling Florentine’s politics and being Florence’s richest family. They were the first dynasty to not prevail their social position by warfare or inheritance but through financial transactions and banking. Not only they are the head of Europe’s largest bank but they dominated the Italian city throughout the Renaissance and beyond from 1434 to 1737. The House of Medici rose to prominence and power around 1291. Together with bringing peace and…

one and only sister, Frances Parthenope. Both Florence Nightingale and Frances Parthenope was named after a place they were born in, one being Florence, Italy and the latter “Parthe” after Parthenopolis which once was a Greek settlement, now part of Naples, Italy. Florence Nightingale was born into a British family that belonged to the upper-middle-class social circle. William Edward Nightingale, Florence’s father, was the son of a Sheffield banker named William Shore in England and was born in…

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…

During the Renaissance, there was a rise in theoretical discussions regarding the nature of the arts. These discussions set the base for critical art theory that would come to form throughout the Renaissance and onwards. From this arose the question of paragone – a debate between artists and theorists as to which form of art was superior. This could refer to any sort of competition; whether the Florentine or Venetian school of painting was more preferable, or if the visual arts or written word…

Today in the United States prison system, mental health problems among prisoners are somewhat high. Some like to think that prisons are now becoming institutions for those with mental health problems. Hearing these statements and thoughts from others makes many feel that people need all the help they can get with such a strong disability, not to be thrown away and locked up in prison. The next few paragraphs and pages are going to be a brief investigation of the mental health problems among…

Staying first with relatives in Naples, he later worked in Rome and Florence, filling notebooks with sketches of faces, historic buildings, and the landscape, and with hundreds of rapid pencil copies from frescoes and oil paintings he admired. Degas’s transition to modern subject matter…

There are many factors in which make up a successful, yet compelling writer. William Sydney Porter known as O. Henry, was an American Short Story author. As he developed his writing career he became notorious for his writings to have the utmost unexpected twist endings. All through his writings the theme of love, deception, mistaken identity, the impacts of incident, the unchangeable idea of the destiny and the determination of apparently unsolvable challenges isolating two lovers is seen.…