Moura Budberg

Excerpt from Biography of Mrs. Catherine Babington: The Only Woman Mason in the World, and How She Became a Blue Lodge Mason Hall of Lee Lodge, N 0. 253. This is to Certify, that Brother J. P. Babington is at the date of these presents, a Master Mason, in good and regular standing, and has paid all dues and is free from all charges, and is a member of Lee Lodge, working under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an...

Claudio Monteverdi, el padre de la ópera, y Antonio Vivaldi, el maestro del violín, los dos geniales iniciadores del periodo barroco de la música clásica, vivieron en épocas diferentes, pero tuvieron en común realizar buena parte de su vastísima obra en Venecia y haber abrazado el sacerdocio, con escaso entusiasmo por parte de ambos. Monteverdi luchó en vano por alcanzar el reconocimiento profesional y económico que deseaba. Vivaldi combatió con éxito la seria debilidad pulmonar que lo afectó desde el nacimiento. Ambos fallecieron a edad avanzada para la época; Monteverdi en...

Maryse Condé takes up the story of her life and invites us to accompany her on the exciting journey that marked her youth: a journey that begins in Paris, with an accidental pregnancy and the abandonment of the man she loves, and that leads her to wander through different African countries in search of that identity that was already beginning to glimpse with the discovery of blackness. Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Ghana and Senegal make up the polyhedral scene of the vital transformation of Maryse, who walks through the revolutionary circles of African socialism and surrenders to the fever of...

Biography of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. A brief essay about different scriptures that depict the life of Jesus. With pictures that portrait different religious episodes in Christianity.