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This thoroughly updated edition of Bradt's guide to Switzerland offers a unique perspective on getting the most from this mountainous country travelling only by public transport - a timely release with the Gotthard Base Tunnel transforming north-south train services. Switzerland boasts the world's finest public transport network, and the Swiss Travel System is a revelation. The comfort, efficiency and frequency of train, bus, boat and cable car services explain why so many Swiss don't own cars. Visitors cannot reach many of the finest Swiss sights by road, and there are over a dozen car-free resorts for experiencing the peace and clean air of the mountains. For walkers and cyclists, there ar...
Siamo a Genova, è l’inizio di un nuovo anno, ma per Tito Laremi e Serafino, il suo inseparabile cane, è cominciato male. Tito, single e quasi ex magazziniere di Le Roy Taten, tornando a casa carica Melita, una bellissima prostituta che viene poi trovata morta sugli scogli di Varazze e tutti gli indizi portano a lui. Interrogato dalla polizia, passa in un attimo da persona informata sui fatti a presunto colpevole. Sarà però l’amore per i cani, che traina tutti i personaggi della storia, a creare una squadra stranamente assortita e a far compiere ad Andrea Cervi (l’avvocato) un triplo salto mortale con l’asta per far scagionare Tito e indicare ai giudici il vero insospettabile assa...
With the Paduan playwright Angelo Beolco, aka Ruzante, as a focal point, this book sheds new light on his oeuvre and times - and on Venetian patrician interest in him - by embedding the Venetian aspects of his life within the monumental changes taking place in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Venice, politically, economically, socially, and artistically. In a study of patronage in the broadest sense of the term, Linda Carroll draws on vast quantities of new archival information; and by reading the previously unpublished primary sources against each other, she uncovers remarkable and heretofore unsuspected coincidences and connections. She documents the well-known links between the increasing...