Name: Guelfes et Gibelins (in French)
SKU: 60702844
Price: 26.65 EUR
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Author: Alejandro Dumas
ISBN: 9781533682628

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alejandro Dumas

Publisher

Createspace

Language

French

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x0.2 cm

Weight

0.07 kg.

ISBN13

9781533682628

Synopsis "Guelfes et Gibelins (in French)"

Les guelfes et les gibelins sont deux factions (parti ou, plus souvent, brigate ou sette) médiévales qui s'opposèrent militairement, politiquement et culturellement dans l'Italie des Duecento et Trecento. À l'origine, elles soutenaient respectivement deux dynasties qui se disputaient le trône du Saint-Empire: la pars Guelfa appuyait les prétentions de la dynastie des Welfs et de la papauté, puis de la maison d'Anjou, la pars Gebellina, celles des Hohenstaufen, et au-delà celles du Saint-Empire. Conflit en apparence limité au Saint-Empire, l'opposition entre Guelfes et Gibelins va se transporter dans diverses parties d'Europe, principalement dans les villes de la péninsule italienne. Dans cette bipolarisation, parfois surestimée, les allégeances dynastiques sont parfois secondaires, les adhésions fluctuantes, et il faut attendre le règne de Frédéric II pour que papauté et empire deviennent des symboles forts de ralliement et que se construise une véritable division antithétique. Ce clivage trouve des manifestations dans le domaine civique et religieux et cristallise les tensions entre les villes italiennes, au sein de leurs élites et parfois entre la ville et son contado. L'écho du conflit se manifeste à des époques ultérieures, en revêtant de nouveaux caractères et en stigmatisant des oppositions idéologiques nouvelles.

Alejandro Dumas

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Alexandre Dumas is one of the most prolific and popular authors from France. He was born in 1802 in the city of Villers-Cotterets, and soon moved to Paris to work as a secretary for the Duke of Orléans. There, he completed his education on his own and began to take an interest in writing.
He started by writing plays, and then moved on to poems and long stories. However, his real success did not come until 1844, the year he released the work that would catapult him to fame: The Three Musketeers. The serial publication of this novel brought him a huge sum of money, but it also meant countless hours of work, many collaborators, and the production of up to eighty installments to meet the growing public demand.
After the publication of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas amassed a great fortune. However, his hedonistic nature led him to squander all he had earned and he soon found himself forced to exile in Belgium to escape his French creditors.
The Count of Monte Cristo, the pinnacle of the author's narrative, is considered one of the greatest adventure novels of all time.

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