The spirit of "The book;" or, Memoirs of Caroline Princess of Hasburgh, : a political and amatory romance. : In three volumes. /

Vol. 3: The second edition.

The life of Marie Antoinette,

At head of title: Crowned by the Académie française.

The memoirs of the Empress Marie Louise.

Mode of access: Internet.

Une protectrice de la réforme en Italie et en France : Renée de France, duchesse de Ferrare /

Bibliography: p. 561-563.

Streaks of life,

Recollections of the Empress Eugénie.--A fresh start and two portraits.--Two glimplses of Queen Victoria.--'Mount Music.'--An adventure in a train.--The quotation-fiend.--A winter of storm.--The opera fiasco.--An open secret.

Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia : an historical romance /

Mode of access: Internet.

Memoirs of Marguerite de Balois, written by herself.

Mode of access: Internet.

Letters and poems of Queen Elisabeth (Carmen Sylva)

"Poems ('Vers libre') by Carmen Sylva": vol. II, p. 175-222.

A queen of indiscretions; the tragedy of Caroline of Brunswick, queen of England,

Mode of access: Internet.

Marie Antoinette and the downfall of royalty,

Covers the year 1792 to the proclamation of the republic. In continuation of "Marie-Antoinette and the end of the old reǵime" and "Marie Antoinette at the Tuileries."

The martyrdom of an empress;

Mode of access: Internet.

The sound of whiteness: early music vocal performance practice in Britain

American Musicological Society annual meeting, San Francisco, 10 Nov. 2011

Vatel y otros arquitectos de sueños efímeros. Banquetes, sentidos y triunfi en las cortes europeas de la Época Moderna

El artículo trata de hacer una aproximación a la vida de François Vatel, analizando la época en la que vivió y su relación con la corte de Versalles, partiendo de la película Vatel (Roland Joffé, 2000). Al mismo tiempo hemos considerado interesante comparar su vida con la de otro artífice de sueños: Leonardo da Vinci, cuyo papel en la corte de Milán a las órdenes de Ludovico Sforza el Moro fue similar, aunque un siglo antes.

IL PROCESSO DI FRANZ KAFKA: TRA POSSIBILITÀ E REALTÀ

This essay analyzes the work The Process of Franz Kafka and its three streams of interpretation more diffuse: the one that considers the novel an anticipation of totalitarian universe; the one that sees it as a religious parable; and the one that tries to understand it on the basis of Freudian ideas. From the moment in which it is concluded that the Kafkaesque world goes far beyond these possibilities, it is an attempt at analysis, based mainly on the ideas of Milan Kundera. According to the scholar, the world of Kafka does not resemble any reality he lived or known but is, instead, an extreme possibility and unrealized human world. Due to innovations that Kafka carries in his novels, he can be considered to inaugurate a new and still open phase in the history of the novel. His capacity was not prescient, but the result of observing connected to a singular imagination, able to find the poetry hidden in the bureaucratic world.

Spinning a sustainable yarn: assessing the claims of Australian companies’ eco-initiatives

In Australia, few fashion brands have intervened in the design of their products or the systems around their product to tackle environmental pollution and waste. Instead, support of charities (whether social or environmental) has become conflated with sustainability in the eyes of the public.However, three established Australian brands recently put forward initiatives which explicitly tackle the pre-consumer or post-consumer waste associated with their products. In 2011, Billabong, one of the largest surfwear companies in the world, developed a collection of board shorts made from recycled bottles that are also recyclable at end of life. The initiative has been promoted in partnership with Bob Marley’s son Rohan Marley, and the graphics of the board shorts reference the Rastafarian colours and make use of Marley’s song lyrics. In this way, the company has tapped into an aspect of surf culture linked to environmental activism, in which the natural world is venerated. Two mid-market initiatives, by Metalicus and Country Road, each have a social outcome that arguably aligns to the values of their middle-class consumer base. Metalicus is spear-heading a campaign for Australian garment manufacturers to donate their pre consumer waste – fabric off-cuts – to charity Open Family Australia to be manufactured into quilts for the homeless. Country Road has partnered with the Australian Red Cross to implement a recycling scheme in which consumers donate their old Country Road garments in exchange for a Country Road gift voucher. Both strategies, while tackling waste, tell an altruistic story in which the disadvantaged can benefit from the consumption habits of the middle-class. To varying degrees, the initiative chosen by each company feeds into the stories they tell about themselves and about the consumers who purchase their clothing. However, how can we assess the impact of these schemes on waste management in real terms, or indeed the worth of each scheme in the wider context of the fashion system? This paper will assess the claims made by the companies and analyse their efficacy, suggesting that a more nuanced assessment of green claims is required, in which ‘green’ comes in many tonal variations.