Vincent Cronin

'I wanted to find a Napoleon I could picture as a living, breathing man.' Vincent Cronin superbly realises his objective in this, probably the finest of all modern biographies of Napoleon. It is generally accepted as the author's masterpiece.

Napoleon

An Intimate Biography.

Napoleon Bonaparte

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE An Intimate Biography

Napoleão - Uma vida, do biógrafo inglês Vincent Cronin, une extensa pesquisa a uma escrita saborosa, buscando aproximar-se do líder francês de modo bastante pessoal sem deixar de lado as reviravoltas históricas que ele protagonizou. “Quando Napoleão colocou os pés pela primeira vez no convés de um navio de guerra inglês, observou os marinheiros içando a âncora e armando as velas, e reparou quão mais silencioso o navio era do que um navio francês. Seis vezes mais silencioso, ele calculou. O livro que segue é mais silencioso do que a maioria dos livros sobre Napoleão, no sentido de que há menos fogos de artilharia. Esta é uma biografia de Napoleão, não uma história do período napoleônico, e acredito que biografias devem lidar com eventos que elucidem o caráter de uma pessoa.” Amarilys, um selo da Editora Manole

Uma vida

Napoleão

The Florentine Renaissance

History of Paris between the wars, one of its most creative periods

City of Light, 1919-1939

Paris

"Matteo Ricci was a Jesuit who was sent as the order s first missionary to China in 1582. Although he spent nearly thirty years in China and died in Beijing in 1610, Ricci had only very limited success in persuading the Chinese of the truths of Christianity. However, in addition to his bible, Ricci also carried with him much of the accumulated scientific and mathematical knowledge of late Renaissance Europe. To this the mandarin classes were much more receptive. Ricci learnt Chinese in order to be able better to discuss religious and scientific issues with the intellectuals of the country; he wrote books in Chinese; he even began to dress like one of the mandarins. Vincent Cronin s book is both a superbly written biography of a remarkable man and a fascinating account of the first fully documented encounter between the two very different cultures of East and West.

The Wise Man from the West

a Novel

Nero

Catherine, Empress of All the Russias

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The Golden Honeycomb

Florence in the fifteenth century was the undisputed centre of the Italian Renaissance. Its legacy is apparent today in every aspect of human endeavour. Our art and science, our learning and literature, our Christianity and our civic liberties, even our conception of what constitutes a gentleman, have all been shaped by Florentine thought and deed. In this brilliant and absorbing book Vincent Cronin brings vividly to life the people and myriad achievements of this astonishingly fruitful epoch in human history.

Sie wurde als Tochter eines deutschen Fürsten geboren und mit 33 Jahren Herrscherin des russischen Reichs - Katharina II. (1729-1796). Die Geschichte verlieh ihr den Beinamen 'die Große'. Vincent Cronin porträtiert die schillernde Persönlichkeit der russischen Zarin, ihr ereignisreiches Privatleben und ihre großen Leistungen als Regentin - gerade auch bei der Verwirklichung weitreichender Sozialreformen. Und er korrigiert damit ein über lange Zeit verfälschtes Geschichtsbild.

Biographie

Katharina die Große

Catherine the Great was one of the most remarkable women in history. Born in 1729 into the family of one of the lesser princelings of Germany, she was married to the heir to the Russian throne at the age of 16. The marriage was an unhappy one and Catherine was banished from her husband's palace but, when Peter came to the throne and was then ousted from it in the space of a few months, it was Catherine who replaced him and became Empress. She ruled her vast domain for more than thirty years, until her death in 1796, and greatly expanded its territories. In her lifetime and since she has been infamous for her intrigues, her possible involvement in political murders, including that of her dethroned husband, and her numerous love affairs. Vincent Cronin's highly readable biography sifts the facts from the legends in Catherine's extraordinary life.

Louis XVI of France and his Marie Antoinette.

Louis and Antoinette

Biographies of four women of the 19th century who epitomize Romanticism.

The Romantic Way

Four Women in Pursuit of an Ideal

Matteo Ricci, an early recruit of the Jesuit order, was sent to China as a missionary in 1582. If he approached the Emperor with a Bible in one hand, in the other he carried much of the accumulated technological and philosophical wisdom of the late Renaissance Europe, and thus found favour among the Mandarins, the men of learning who enjoyed high status at the Imperial Court. He learned Chinese the better to discuss with them the problems in science and technology, as also questions of religion and the hereafter. But his progress was not unopposed, for the Wise Man from the West came to be seen as an unsettling element in a too-settled society. Ricci died in 1610, disappointed in his ambition to convert the Emperor, and with him the whole of China, to Christianity. But the seed was sown and the crop, even after almost a century of atheistic communism, continues to grow in present-day China. This story of the first fully documented contact between West and East offers a fascinating insight into the history of ideas during one of the most fertile eras in European and Chinese history. Vincent Cronin has built up a reputation with his scholarly, elegantly written works of history and biography, as one of the finest popular historians of his generation. This early book proves his gift as an acutely observant and sensitive historian.

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