This new recording pays tribute to a little-known, mysterious figure of 18th c. Naples: Prince Raimondo di Sangro. A soldier, scientist, poet, alchemist and freemason, he bequeathed posterity a palace and a magnificent chapel, the site of a tragedy that w..
A young elementary school principal grapples with the problems of a small river town just after the Second World War. The Sacramento River plays a major role in this novel. The town''s inhabitants: a mixed bag of descendents of the Chinese who built the le..
Lyons presents the remarkable story of how medieval Arab scholars made dazzling advances in science and philosophy--and of the itinerant Europeans who brought this knowledge back to the West.
One of the handful of films that found Pier Paolo Pasolini sustaining a merrier mode of cultural assault Hawks and Sparrows [Uccellacci e uccellini] features Italy's popular comic actor Toto (known to cinephiles as the star of Roberto Rossellini's Dove la..
Ordained in the Lutheran Church of Saxony, he was called to an urban parish in Chemnitz. There he introduced a youth worship service marked by contemporary music, uncompromising preaching of the gospel message, and calls to discipleship in Christ that attr..
