HISTORY AND STORIES
by bard842
Giuseppe Serpagli                                    mail: bard842@yahoo.com
A collection of articles I published in a few Italian and Swiss newspapers (such as "Corriere del Ticino" - Lugano (CH) [up to 1995 only], "La Sicilia" - Catania (It), "Libertà" - Piacenza (It)) over the past 20  years. Although most of them are history books reviews and life outlines of great historical figures, several also deal with geopolitical topics (such a few Arab countries) or other issues.
The English versions will be ready I really don't know when... If you wish, you may come back later or try the Italian versions.
This site also contains monographic image pages. Mostly,  their source is stated in the Notice hereunder.
Giuseppe Serpagli - April 2001
TEXTS IN ENGLISH
Empty as of May 25, 2004 
If you wish, you may in the meantime:
1. Ask me via email the English translation of a specific page, which I'll make expressly for you.
2. Or, if you happen to understand some Italian, go to the Italian original version.
...and, next, many others such as:
Libya, Frederick II of Prussia, Talleyrand, Saudi Arabia,  Qatar, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Bahrein, Madame de Stael, Charles V and much more...
NOTICE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, COPYRIGHTS AND USES

A) PHOTOS and DECORATION ITEMS of this site pages (mostly) belong to Yahoo.com, Geocities.com and Corbis.com and - in a few cases - to Edda Livingston's Argotique Graphics (medieval motifs) or to FOTW (flags). Any further use of them must therefore be agreed with those companies or organizations.
B) TEXTS belong to the author who has copyrighted them. Short quotations (max 500 characters) can be reproduced stating their source. Other uses or reproductions involving an use different from a strictly personal one of the user must be agreed upon with the author.
C) Author has no responsibility in such cases when quotations from his texts may - in other contexts - assume meanings different from the original ones as intented by him.
D) Author had no - and has no - relationship whatsoever with the quoted publishers and writers.
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M -  Z
ENGLISH  INDEX
Alexander the Great

Algeria (
20 years ago)

Assassins sect

Bedonia (Parma) (something about...)

Bismarck

Bonaparte (Beauharnais) Josephine

Bonaparte Lucian

Bonaparte Pauline Borghese

Caroline of Brunswick (Queen of UK)

Casanova Giacomo

Catherine of Medici (Queen of France)

Charlotte of Belgium and Mexico

Che Guevara (and Evita)

Cleopatra

Crusades (...as seen by Arabs)

Elizabeth of Austria (Sissi or Sisi)

Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy

European gastronomy

Evita (and Che Guevara)

Frederick II of Hohenstaufen (emperor)

Frederick the Great (Frederick II of Prussia)

Geographic discoveries

Henry IV (King of France)

Henry VIII (King of England...his six wifes)

Ibn Battuta's travels

Joan queen of Naples etc.

Loire castles (...in history...Renaissance)

Louis XIV (through images)

Love and sex in French History

Lucheni Luigi (Sissi's murderer)

Ludwig II of  Bavaria

Ludwig's castles (images)
Maria Theresa of Austria

Mary Louise of Austria and Parma & Piacenza

Mary of Medici (Queen of France)

Mazarin (cardinal...)

Mediterranean corsairs

Monarchies (in Europe in the past century)  

Montespan (The marquise of...)

Montez Lola

Napoleon I (The rise and fall through images)

Napoleon III

Peter the Great

Prostitution in France (in the past...brothels)

Prostitution in Italy (in the past...brothels)

Radetzky (Count Joseph...)

Roman Emperors (a dozen...)

Savoy Royal Family (...kings of Italy)

Siberia

Sissi (or Sisi - Elizabeth of Austria)

Switzerland  (a short history of...)

The 14th century (a distant mirror)

The last sultan (Abdul Hamid II)

Versailles (images only)

Zita
(last empress of Austria-Hungary)




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