1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910267160503321

Autore

Thiel, Peter

Titolo

Da zero a uno : i segreti delle startup, ovvero come si costruisce il futuro / Peter Thiel con Blake Masters

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : Rizzoli Etas, 2015

ISBN

978-88-17-08046-0

Descrizione fisica

IX, 230 p. : ill. ; 22 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

Masters, Blake

Disciplina

658.11

Locazione

ECA

Collocazione

1-6-589-TI

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Traduzione dall'inglese di Giovanni Gladis Ubbiali



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910164949803321

Autore

Holmes Richard

Titolo

This Long Pursuit : Reflections of a Romantic Biographer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westminster : , : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-101-87176-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 pages)

Disciplina

809.93592

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Part I. Confessions -- Travelling -- Experimenting -- Teaching -- Forgetting -- Ballooning -- Part II. Restorations -- Margaret Cavendish -- Zélide -- Madame de Staël -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- Mary Somerville -- Part III. Afterlives -- John Keats the well-beloved -- Shelley undrowned -- Thomas Lawrence revarnished -- Coleridge misremembered -- William Blake rediscovered.

Sommario/riassunto

From the award-winning author of The Age of Wonder and Falling Upwards, here is a luminous meditation on the art of biography that fuses the author's own experiences with a history of the genre and explores the fascinating and surprising relationship between fact and fiction.     In a book that ranges widely over art, science, and poetry, Richard Holmes confesses to a lifetime's obsession with his Romantic subjects. It has become for him a pursuit, or pilgrimage of the heart, that has taken him across three centuries, through much of Europe, and into the lively company of many earlier biographers. Central to this quest is a powerful and tender evocation of the lives of women both scientific and literary, some well-known and some almost lost to history: Margaret Cavendish, Mary Somerville, Germaine de Staël, Mary Wollstonecraft, and the Dutch intellectual Zélide. Holmes also investigates the myths that have overshadowed the lives of some favorite Romantic figures: the love-stunned John Keats, the waterlogged Percy Bysshe Shelley, the chocolate-box painter Thomas Lawrence, the opium-soaked genius Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the



mad visionary bard William Blake.     The diversity of Holmes's material is a testimony to his empathy, erudition, and inquiring spirit--and, sometimes, to his mischievous streak. The Long Pursuit gives us a unique insider's account of a biographer at work: traveling, teaching, researching, fantasizing, forgetting, and even ballooning. From this great chronicler of the Romantics now comes a chronicle of himself and his intellectual passions; it contains his most personal and most seductive writing.