|
Books: The high-society terror 2ist John Adamson assesses the eventful life of the aristocrat who tried to export the French Revolution to Ireland
|
Citizen Lord: Edward Fitzgerald, 1763-1798
by Stella Tillyard
Chatto & Windus, pounds 16.99, 321 pp
THE FRENCH Revolution, said Pierre Vergniaud (who was shortly to
be one of its victims), had a tendency to devour its children. Of
all the offspring it later devoured, however, few were more sweet
or better intentioned than Lord Edward Fitzgerald: the architect of
the 1798 Irish Rebellion against English rule, and the would-be
exporter of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity to the bogs of County
Kildare.
Fitzgerald's career encompasses the sort of adventures and
coincidences normally only found in ...
|
Madden, Thomas F. Enrico Dandolo and the Rise of Venice.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books
; Madden, Thomas F. Enrico Dandolo and the Rise of Venice Baltimore...Publication Date: September 2003 Enrico Dandolo was the doge of Venice from 1192 to...age when most men died young, Enrico Dandolo lived over ninety years and led a crusade...
|
|
Enrico Dandolo and the rise of Venice. (reprint, 2003).(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; 9780801885396 Enrico Dandolo and the rise of Venice. (reprint...an examination of the life of Enrico Dandolo, who ruled Venice as doge from 1192 until his death in 1205. Coverage includes Dandolo's efforts to reform the Venetian Church...
|
|
St Mark's Square: an imperial hippodrome? Charles Freeman offers a new theory to explain the positioning in Venice of the famous horses looted from Constantinople eight hundred years ago this month.(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...but intransigent Venetian doge, Enrico Dandolo (doge 1192-1205), who had nursed...city was given over to the sack. How far Dandolo had worked towards this end is a subject...among these, picked out expressly by Dandolo. At least three such sets of four horses...
|
|
Palazzo party
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...Venetian Shylock Doge by the name of Enrico Dandolo, who infamously had financed the Fourth...now guarding the pigeons in San Marco. Dandolo was a real prick. He came to power aged...greedy as hell. He built the Palazzo Dandolo on the Grand Canal, and every time I...
|
 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
|
It's a Doge's life.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...have worked in the case of Doge Enrico Dandolo, who, in 1203, aged 96, was the...the horns were nearly eaten away by Dandolo's enthusiastic successors. There was, however, much more to Doge Dandolo than mere vulgar longevity. His ability...
|
|
Assisted Reproductive Technology affects developmental kinetics, H19 Imprinting Control Region methylation and H19 gene expression in individual mouse embryos.(Research article)
Magazine article from: BMC Developmental Biology
; ...Fauque (corresponding author) [1,2]; Pierre Jouannet [1]; Corinne Lesaffre [2]; Marie-Anne Ripoche [2]; Luisa Dandolo [2]; Daniel Vaiman [2,3]; Hlne Jammes [2,4] Background Many studies have focused on the effects of Assisted Reproductive...
|
|
Broadband quality standards proposed.
News Wire article from: Australasian Business Intelligence
; ...hired a consultant to research broadband service standards. Dandolo Partners was commissioned after an issues paper on a code of...Date: 1 August 2003 AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICATIONS AUTHORITY: DANDOLO PARTNERS PTY LTD: TELSTRA CORPORATION LIMITED - ASX TLS...
|
|
|
Sunk by its own history.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...great deal of Venetian history, particularly that of Enrico Dandolo, a hero who was reportedly blinded by the eastern Christians...of monarchy by outlawing the hereditary principle, three of Dandolo's descendants managed to become Doge. * UNLIKE the unfortunate...
|
|
Valentine's special: Sleepover: A bed for the night in Venice - Hotel Danieli
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday
; ...oldest portion of the hotel was home to four generations of Dandolo Doges - their most famous forbear being Enrico, the conqueror...comfort factor The most romantic rooms are in the original Dandolo Palace with a lagoon or canal view. Much of the furniture...
|
|
The lost crusade: in the 13th century, Christian crusaders who took up the cross to liberate the Holy Land from Islam were misdirected into serving very different ends.
Magazine article from: The New American
; ...They were cordially received by the Doge of Venice, Enrico Dandolo, a "very wise and able man," according to Villehardouin...comrades-in-arms had any inkling of what the aged statesman Dandolo had in store for them, they might have departed
|
Find more facts and information related to the
article "Books: The high-society terror 2ist John Adamson ..."
