Ergebnis für "Passione" in Romanbiografien

Set against the glorious backdrops of Rome, Florence, and Genoa, and Naples, peopled with historical characters and filled with the details of the life of a 17th-century painter, The Passion of Artemisia is the story of Gentileschi's struggle to find love, forgiveness, and wholeness through her art.

"À partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi." Annie Ernaux. Juliette Binoche interprète avec sensibilité cette œuvre essentielle d'Annie Ernaux, prix Nobel de littérature 2022.

Narrated by the talented Jon McNally and published by Audiobook Publishing Services, "A Passion for Tom" offers a deeply immersive journey into the life of Thomas Stearns Eliot ("Tom")—a young American poet navigating the complexities of 1920s London. As he struggles with mental instability and the pursuit of literary greatness, Tom finds himself entwined in relationships that both inspire and torment him.

Never underestimate just how dangerous a woman on a mission can be. Sally Amir never wanted to be a spy. The life of covert espionage was forced upon her the day she discovered her husband was not, in fact, a simple embassy attaché – but a top-secret spy for the Israeli Mossad. But now, undercover in Tehran, posing as a businesswoman and tasked with infiltrating the highest levels of the Iranian government, is not the time to ponder the life choices that led her there.

À Bordeaux, Lucrèce, jeune femme au caractère bien trempé, mène de front des études de journalisme et un emploi de caissière. Au-delà de sa vie étudiante éprouvante et du divorce de ses parents, il est une blessure secrète, dont elle ne guérit pas : avoir été rejetée par son père. Dès lors, plus que l'ambition, ce qui la motive, c'est la revanche. L'occasion d'empoigner son destin se présente rapidement à elle : elle fait une entrée remarquée dans le monde très masculin du journalisme.

Messico, 1925: A 18 anni, Frida Kahlo sogna di diventare medico, ma un terribile incidente sconvolge tutti i suoi progetti. Costretta a letto per tre anni, grazie al supporto della famiglia la ragazza inizia a dipingere, cominciando con una serie di autoritratti. Incoraggiata dal padre che ne intuisce il talento, Frida sottopone i propri dipinti al famoso pittore Diego Rivera. Ma il fascino e il genio dell’artista la colpiscono tanto da farla innamorare perdutamente.

It is a time for upheaval in Cuba: the time to build a new society. Even from her position of privilege, idealistic divorcée Carmela Vasconcelos sees the waves of uprising and is caught up in the excitement. Persuaded by her brother, Lucas, she flees her wealthy home to join Fidel Castro’s rebels. In the mountainous jungle of the Sierra Maestra, Carmela meets Ignacio Deheza, a charismatic Argentinian socialist fighting on behalf of the insurrection. On the training fields of a revolution, they bond in the cause - and in a blind passion that stirs their blood and soul.

In una sontuosa villa di Buenos Aires, Maria Stella Pellegrini Ortiz de Rozas, avvenente cinquantenne di origine italiana, sposata al rampollo di una delle famiglie più potenti d'Argentina, conduce un'esistenza apparentemente perfetta. La sua vita scorre tra impegni mondani, cavalcate e lezioni di tango, che le riempiono le giornate, ma non colmano il vuoto della sua anima.

A beautiful and talented actress, Mary Robinson was one of the most famous women of her time. But Mary was destined always to be betrayed by the men she loved: by her father, who abandoned his family; by her husband, who bankrupted the family with his gambling and humiliated his young wife with numerous affairs; and by the Prince of Wales, later King George IV, who fell in love with Mary when he saw her playing Perdita in A Winter's Tale.

Lee Krasner was determined to be an artist. With single-minded passion she pursued her dream. By her twenties she was Hans Hofmann's best student, and a vanguard of America's first art movement, along with de Kooning, Kline and Pollock. But for most of the twentieth century, art was a man's world, and even her peers failed her. Another obstacle for Lee was her marriage to Jackson Pollock, whose star shone so brightly, it cast a shadow over everything around it, eventually self-destructing.

Anne, Duchess of Brittany, is the love of King Louis XII of France's life. Too bad he's already married. While his annulment proceedings create Europe's most sensational scandal of 1498, Anne returns to Brittany to take back control of her duchy that her late husband, Charles VIII, King of France, had wrested from her. At age 21, Anne is sovereign ruler of Brittany as well as Europe's most wealthy widow. But can she maintain Brittany's independence from France if she accepts Louis's offer to make her Queen of France once more?

1720. Tras la inesperada muerte de su esposa, un devastado Johann Sebastian Bach conoce a una soprano a la que prácticamente dobla la edad y ambos cometen el peor de los errores: enamorarse.

The stories of two very different women, linked by the secrets and lies of history, merge together as past and present weave together in this stunning story of love, loss and resilience. 2016. Kitty, fleeing from a devastating revelation in her own life, finds herself at her...

Quattro persone entrarono nel Pardès, nel giardino dell'Eden, è scritto nel Talmud, ma soltanto una ne uscì incolume. Le vie dell'Eden, infatti, dove maturano i frutti più preziosi della vita, sono lastricate di pericoli. Lo sanno bene i personaggi che compongono questo trittico dove, ancora una volta, Eshkol Nevo indaga dietro le maschere che vestiamo per gli altri, ma anche su quelle che indossiamo quando ci troviamo di fronte a verità troppo difficili, o pericolose, da accettare.

Cronaca dell'innamoramento, esplorazione del discorso amoroso, anatomia del sentimento al tempo della crisi, il nuovo romanzo di Giorgio Fontana disegna la geografia emotiva di un personaggio che trova se stesso per poi disorientarsi, smarrendosi in un movimento interminabile. Il suo, dettato dal desiderio e dal senso della fine, sarà un itinerario incessante in una città in cui sparire e nascondersi, e che di continuo si rivela, sorprende e inganna. Così come inganna quella passione, quella speranza, che per un momento ha illuminato, violenta e paradisiaca, la mente e il cuore.