'It tells us something about how elites seek to retain their power': How Lampedusa's The Leopard skewered the super-rich
Lampedusa's mid-20th-Century novel The Leopard became a bestseller, then a revered film – and is now a lavish Netflix series ...
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Experience the Fusion of History, Art, and Culture in Vienna, Austria
Vienna, a timeless European capital city, blends royal grandeur with modern vibrancy. From the opulent Hofburg palace halls ...
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'It tells us something about how elites seek to retain their power': How Lampedusa's The Leopard skewered the super-rich
Sicily had been ruled by the Spanish kings, the House of Savoy, the Austrian Habsburgs and eventually the Spanish Bourbons. The Spanish Bourbons had taken over by the time Naples and Sicily were ...
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Hofburg Palace
The Sisi Museum offers insights both into the grandeur of the Habsburgs and into the life ... go check out the Spanische Reitschule (Spanish Riding School) where sugary-white Lipizzaner horses ...
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‘The Great Siege of Malta’ by Marcus Bull review
He places the 1565 siege in the wider context of the great-power rivalry between the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburgs along with their proxies ... Francisco Balbi di Correggio, who served with the ...
The inexorable rise of Dean Huijsen has now reached the Spanish national team
The Bournemouth centre-back had a great few days with Spain - and showed he might be the best teenage defensive prospect in ...