Read more
Gente difficile, quella ligure, riservata e diffidente, tanto da essersi attirata accuse proverbiali di rusticità. Ce la rappresentiamo chiusa in un suo tipico, interminabile mugugno, attaccata alle piccole cose concrete, serrata gelosamente nel borgo natio. Questo volume sta a dimostrare il contrario, rendendo giustizia a un patrimonio di tradizioni per troppo tempo ignorato. Questi testi popolari ci rendono al vivo lo spirito schietto e tagliente con il quale da sempre questi uomini scabri e arguti sono abituati ad affrontare l'ambiente difficile che li circonda. Rivivono in questi racconti i piccoli borghi arroccati sui monti dell'entroterra e i paesini nascosti nel grembo delle insenature marine.
About the author
David Starkey is the Bye Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and winner of the W. H. Smith Prize and the Norton Medlicott Medal for Services to History presented by Britain's Historical Association. He is best known for writing and presenting the groundbreaking and hugely popular series Elizabeth and The Six Wives of Henry VIII. He lives in London.
Summary
An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual -- though, as she maintained, a virgin -- Elizabeth I is famed as England's most successful ruler. David Starkey's brilliant new biography concentrates on Elizabeth's formative years -- from her birth in 1533 to her accession in 1558 -- and shows how the experiences of danger and adventure formed her remarkable character and shaped her opinions and beliefs.
From princess and heir-apparent to bastardized and disinherited royal, accused traitor to head of the princely household, Elizabeth experienced every vicissitude of fortune and extreme of condition -- and rose above it all to reign during a watershed moment in history. A uniquely absorbing tale of one young woman's turbulent, courageous, and seemingly impossible journey toward the throne, Elizabeth is the exhilarating story of the making of a queen.
