Title : The Giudecca Manuscript - Yvon Toussaint - book Summary : The life of Cardinal Girolamo Aleandro was a grueling cavalcade from one end of Europe to the other. A scholar and a great official of the Church, he crossed paths with an emperor, four popes, a handful of kings, and most of the humanists who illuminated the Renaissance. He was in turn rector of the Sorbonne, chancellor of the Bishop of Liège, prefect of the Vatican Library, prosecutor against Luther at the Diet of Worms, witness to the capture of Francis I in Pavia, nuncio to Venice, and, despite a stubborn case of syphilis, the fulfilled lover of a beautiful Roman woman. Yet, the great passion of his life was... Erasmus. The two men met in Venice during their younger years. Each time they met again, it was to experience the same explosion of love and hate, the irrefutable marks of which their correspondence bears. The manuscript found in the foundations of the Giudecca in Venice reveals, in a shameless and ferocious tale, the secrets of this liaison between the flamboyant prelate and the most famous philosopher of his time. A great "novel of formation": that of the European spirit. EAN : 9782253155676 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Tea Master - Yasushi Inoue - book Summary It's 1591, in the midst of the feudal revolution. The Taiko, the emperor's advisors, are working to unify Japan. The tea men, their mentors, are preparing ceremonies to help them find Zen peace. Rikyu, the tea ceremony master attached to the governor, commits hara-kiri. Six years after his death, the monk Honkakubo recalls the memory of his master. Rikyu had invented "simple" tea, stripped of luxury. Why did he kill himself? Who ordered it? In his journal, Honkakubo recalls his encounters with great tea masters and notes imaginary conversations with Rikyu beyond death. The dream that concludes the book finally provides an answer to the questions he has been asking himself for thirty years. In sixteenth-century Japan, the Way of Tea became a ritual. Tea ceremony masters were important figures, alternately protected and rejected by those in power. Inoue wrote this book based on recovered manuscripts, and it suggests that these ceremonies were the site of secret negotiations. He meticulously and poetically details each gesture and each utensil, introducing us to an increasingly pure ritual. EAN : 9782234049222 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Manor in Turmoil - Patricia Wright - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782258008434 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The Imaginary Invalid - Molière - 2007 - book EAN: 9782253037941 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The Inquisitors' Manual - António Lobo Antunes - 2000 - book EAN: 9782264026026 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The Game Master - Grisham John - 1998 - book EAN: 9782702820056 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The Ladies' Manor - Patricia Wentworth - 2003 - book EAN: 9782264025555 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The Sailor of Casablanca - Charline MALAVAL - 2022 - book EAN: 9782253262305 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The French Evil - Alain Peyrefitte - 1976 - book EAN: 2259002048 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Evil of the Century - Pierre Desgraupes - 1977 - book EAN: 9782246005315 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Marriage of Figaro - Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais - 1995 - book EAN: 9782038710311 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Imaginary Invalid - Molière - 2022 - book EAN: 9791035807153 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Imaginary Invalid - Molière - 2020 - book EAN: 9782081518438 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes - Jamyang Norbu - 2004 - book EAN: 9782877307130 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Marriage of Figaro - Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais - 2006 - book EAN: 9782035831972 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The Marriage of Figaro - Beaumarchais - 2019 - book EAN: 9782081487154 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The Game Master - John Grisham - 2003 - book EAN: 9782266078580 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Homesickness Autobiography of Belgium - Patrick Roegiers - 2003 - book EAN: 9782020574365 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Evil of Being Jewish Between Withdrawal, Assimilation and Manipulation - Dominique Vidal - 2003 - book EAN: 9782748900170 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Chancellor Manuscript - Robert Ludlum - 1992 - book EAN: 9782221064832 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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