Elizabethan Parliaments 1559-1601

Cambridge - Sydney, Cambridge University Press 1981, cm.14x22,5, pp.VIII,321,(5), leg.ed. cartonata amaranto, titoli in oro al dorso, sopraccop.fig. (lacuna triangolare alla base del I risvolto della sopraccop. ma copia in stato eccellente.) In the past the House of Lords has been the Cinderella of parliamentary history. This volume makes amends for the omission. It is the first systematic institutional study of the sixteenth-century Upper House. Not only does it chart its composition and quality, its record of attendance, activity and conflicting centrifugal and centripetal forces, it also examines the role of the legal assistants, who contributed so much to its efficiency as a legislative machine, analyses its procedures and assesses its legislative record in the mid-Tudor parliaments. In the process it also sets the Edwardian and Marian Commons in their right perspective. The Lords emerges as a vital party in the legislative process. Until 1553-5 its performance was, more often than not, superior to that of the Commons. But then it reneged on its political responsibilities and resisted the Crown in a rare act of sabotage - the most effective of the sixteenth century. It did not recover.

Milano, Fratelli Treves Editori 1925, cm.11,5x16, pp.(10),166, brossura intonso, cop.ornata. (macchietta d'umido al dorso.) Coll.Teatro Completo di Giacinto Gallina,24.

Commentati da Demetrio Ferrari. Bologna, Nicola Zanichelli Editore 1926, cm.12,5x19, pp.VIII,274,(2), rilegatura coeva in mz. tela rossa, tassello in pelle con titolo in oro al dorso. Copertine originali conservate. Copia in ottimo stato.

recitant Jacques Bonnaffè. Piano Shani Diluka. Illustrations: Delphine Jacquot. Paris, Didier Jeunesse 2011, cm.27x27, pp.30, ill.col. Relié. Coll.Comptines du monde, Un livre, Un CD. 9782278061938 La célèbre fantaisie zoologique de Saint-Saëns dans une version inédite ! Le conteur Pépito Matéo, avec une verve sans pareille, nous livre une fable écologique pleine de panache : les animaux tirent « la sonate d'alarme » ! La partition d'origine est confiée à dix solistes renommés : Pascal Amoyel, Emmanuelle Betrand, A. Kossenko, E. Sammut. Une interprétation magistrale ! On applaudit les illustrations joyeuses et colorées de Vanessa Hié !