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Ancient Rome. E-book. Formato EPUB Robert Pennell - Endymion Press, 2016 -
We have learned the probable origin of the LATINS; how they settled in Latium, and founded numerous towns. We shall now examine more particularly that one of the Latin towns which was destined to outstrip all her sisters in prosperity and power. Fourteen miles from the mouth of the Tiber, the monotonous level of the plain through which the river flows is broken by a cluster of hills (The seven hills of historic Rome were the Aventine, Capitoline, Coelian, Esquiline (the highest, 218 feet), Palatine, Quirínal, and Viminal. The Janiculum was on the other side of the Tiber, and was held by the early Romans as a stronghold against the Etruscans. It was connected with Rome by a wooden bridge (Pons Sublicius).) rising to a considerable height, around one of which, the PALATINE, first settled a tribe of Latins called RAMNES,—a name gradually changed to ROMANS. When this settlement was formed is not known. Tradition says in 753. It may have been much earlier. These first settlers of Rome were possibly a colony from Alba. In the early stages of their history they united themselves with a Sabine colony that had settled north of them on the QUIRÍNAL HILL. The name of TITIES was given to this new tribe. A third tribe, named LUCERES, composed, possibly, of conquered Latins, was afterwards added and settled upon the COELIAN HILL. All early communities, to which the Romans were no exception, were composed of several groups of FAMILIES. The Romans called these groups GENTES, and a single group was called a GENS. All the members of a gens were descended from a common ancestor, after whom the gens received its name...
Ciò che conta è la bicicletta. E-book. Formato EPUB Robert Penn - Ponte Alle Grazie, 2014 -
Senza dubbio il più popolare mezzo di trasporto nella storia, la bicicletta è una delle più grandi invenzioni dell'umanità. Robert Penn ci va da quando ha memoria, ci ha anche fatto il giro del mondo. Tuttavia, nessuna delle innumerevoli due ruote che ha posseduto è riuscita a incarnare fino in fondo questa sua autentica devozione. È il momento di farsi fare una nuova bicicletta, un gioiellino costruito su misura in grado di riflettere appieno lo stato di grazia in cui si trova mentre pedala, quello di «un comune mortale in contatto con gli dèi». Ciò che conta è la bicicletta è un appassionante viaggio nella progettazione e nella costruzione della bici dei sogni. Da Stoke-on-Trent, dove un artigiano gli cuce addosso un telaio fatto a mano, alla California, patria delle mountain bike, dove nel retro di un anonimo negozio Robert assiste alla nascita delle ruote, passando per Portland, Milano e Conventry, culla della bicicletta moderna, è il racconto di una storia d'amore. E già che c'è, pezzo dopo pezzo, Penn coglie l'occasione di esplorare la cultura, la scienza e la storia della bicicletta, per narrarci come abbia cambiato il corso della storia dell'uomo: dall'invenzione del «cavallo della gente comune» al suo ruolo nell'emancipazione della donna, fino al fascino immortale di Giro d'Italia e Tour de France. Ecco perché pedaliamo. Ecco perché questa macchina così semplice rimane al centro della nostra vita oggi.
A History of Ancient Rome. E-book. Formato EPUB Robert Pennell - Blackmore Dennett, 2019 -
"Romulus, first king of Rome, ruled for thirty-seven years (753-716). He found the city needed inhabitants, and to increase their number he opened an asylum, to which many refugees fled. But wives were needed. To supply this want, he celebrated games, and invited the neighboring people, the SABINES, to attend the sports. When all were engaged in looking on, the Romans suddenly made a rush and seized the Sabine virgins. This bold robbery caused a war, which finally ended in a compromise, and a sharing of the city with the Sabines. Romulus then chose one hundred Senators, whom he called PATRES. He also divided the people into thirty wards. In the thirty-seventh year of his reign he disappeared, and was believed to have been taken up into heaven..." An excellent survey of the history of Rome, from the legendary founding through the Republic to the Empire and the subsequent collapse of the Western Roman Empire.