celebrations
![[PARMA] - PACIAUDI, Paolo Maria Paciaudi (1710-1785) - Descrizione delle feste celebrate in Parma l'anno 1769. Per le auguste nozze di sua altezza reale l'infante Don Ferdinando colla reale arciduchessa Maria Amalia. Parma: Giambattista Bodoni, [1769].](/assets/image/picture_1242120/53894/8-donz4q7whl2byun7qhp5k8feaaetqjqvruztoagotvwg7oaowqo5xmhtyfe-1608650265jpg__fix_374_244.jpeg)
![[PARMA] - PACIAUDI, Paolo Maria Paciaudi (1710-1785) - Descrizione delle feste celebrate in Parma l'anno 1769. Per le auguste nozze di sua altezza reale l'infante Don Ferdinando colla reale arciduchessa Maria Amalia. Parma: Giambattista Bodoni, [1769].](https://veryimportantlot.com/assets/image/picture_1242120/53894/8-donz4q7whl2byun7qhp5k8feaaetqjqvruztoagotvwg7oaowqo5xmhtyfe-1608650265jpg__fix_374_244.jpeg)
John Quincy Adams was an American politician and statesman, the sixth President of the United States (March 4, 1825 - March 4, 1829).
John Quincy Adams was the son of John Adams, the second President of the United States, and, of course, public service was his destiny. As a child, in 1778 he traveled to France with his father, who was then U.S. Commissioner to France. At the age of 14, Adams became personal secretary to Francis Dana, the U.S. Minister to Russia, serving as his father's secretary as well during the negotiation of the Treaty of Paris (1783). In 1787, the twenty-year-old Adams graduated from Harvard University and, after studying law, began practicing in Boston.
In addition to numerous diplomatic appointments, Quincy Adams served as a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts from 1803 to 1808. President James Madison appointed Adams U.S. minister to Russia in 1809, and Adams served until 1814. And under President James Monroe, he served as Secretary of State from 1817 to 1825 and is considered one of the best Secretaries of State in U.S. history.
John Quincy Adams won the 1824 presidential election in a four-way race against Henry Clay, William Crawford, and Andrew Jackson. As president, Adams supported a program to modernize the U.S. economy. But his popularity declined because of his approach to Native Americans, whom he supported against the demands of settlers from the west.
After losing the 1828 presidential election to Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams was elected to the House of Representatives, where he served as a representative from Massachusetts for the next 17 years. In the House of Representatives, Adams became one of the most vocal opponents of slavery. He consistently defended abolitionist views and policies, denouncing slavery as an immoral institution and attacking the interests of Southern slaveholders. During the U.S.-Mexican War of 1848, Adams was a leading opponent of the annexation of Texas, farsightedly predicting that it would lead to civil war.
After suffering two strokes, Adams died on February 23, 1848, at the age of 80. Had fate not predestined him to pursue politics, John Quincy Adams would have become a famous poet. He spent his life composing poems in various genres. After his death, many of his poems were collected and published in Poems on Religion and Society (1848).
Mark Twain, real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an American humanist writer, journalist, and social activist.
As a young man, Samuel worked in the printing press and in the gold mines, then went on a steamboat trip to Europe and the "Holy Land". His travel letters, full of vivid descriptions and ironic observations, were very well received by the public and were later revised into his first book, Innocents Abroad, published in 1869.
The pseudonym "Mark Twain" first appeared in 1863 under one of Samuel Clemens' short stories, and since then all his significant works have been signed by that name.
A talented storyteller, a peculiar humorist and moralist, Twain knew and loved his many diverse characters. His scandalizers and dreamers, caring aunts and ambitious politicians, grumpy widows and lying aristocrats, cunning but generous slaves, sentimental moralists, brave and naive children - all these types of American people Twain gave voice to thanks to his masterful command of colloquial language, slang and jargon. Twain wrote a lot and in a variety of genres: humor and satire, philosophical fiction and journalism and others, but he always stood on the position of humanist and democrat.
Mark Twain became world famous for his travel stories and adventure novels about his childhood, these are "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876) and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1885). Twain is still one of America's, and indeed the world's, best and most beloved writers. His works have been and are still being published in many languages around the world.
Abraham Lincoln was an American statesman and politician, the 16th President of the United States (March 4, 1861 - April 15, 1865).
The son of a frontiersman and a Kentucky farmer, Lincoln worked hard from an early age and struggled to learn. He was a militiaman in the Indian War, practiced law, and sat in the Illinois legislature for eight years. He was an opponent of slavery and gradually gained a national reputation that earned him victory in the 1860 presidential election.
After becoming the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln turned the Republican Party into a strong national organization. In addition, he drew most Northern Democrats to the Union side. On January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared permanently free those slaves who were in Confederate territory. Lincoln considered secession illegal and was prepared to use force to defend federal law and the Union. Four more slave states joined the Confederacy, but four remained in the Union, and the Civil War of 1861-1865 began.
Lincoln personally directed the military action that led to victory over the Confederacy. Abraham Lincoln was reelected in 1864, and on April 14, 1865, he was fatally shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. by actor John Wilkes Booth.
Abraham Lincoln is a national hero of the American people, he is considered one of the best and most famous presidents of the United States until today.
![MUNARI, Bruno (1907-1998) - [CORRAINI editore] - Una serie di ristampe dei celebri libri di Bruno Munari fra cui: Discovery of the Square](/assets/image/picture_942482/cb9d6/ts8s52csymy4higim0mpzuffqq6atg4ic7orhnlmestu2vjj1igkhi4rflk7swq1596201882jpg__fix_374_244.jpeg)
![MUNARI, Bruno (1907-1998) - [CORRAINI editore] - Una serie di ristampe dei celebri libri di Bruno Munari fra cui: Discovery of the Square](https://veryimportantlot.com/assets/image/picture_942482/cb9d6/ts8s52csymy4higim0mpzuffqq6atg4ic7orhnlmestu2vjj1igkhi4rflk7swq1596201882jpg__fix_374_244.jpeg)
![[VENEZIA] - La Temi Veneta: 5 annate del celebre almanacco veneziano. - Venice: Paolo Colombani, 1777, 1788, 1792, 1794 e 1796.](/assets/image/picture_1242151/6ed56/vjgz9q28pvp-jegc5muv37z9qvwoe4bndorvoi4kasxshtvbkeylmtnzq-whio1608650265jpg__fix_374_244.jpeg)
![[VENEZIA] - La Temi Veneta: 5 annate del celebre almanacco veneziano. - Venice: Paolo Colombani, 1777, 1788, 1792, 1794 e 1796.](https://veryimportantlot.com/assets/image/picture_1242151/6ed56/vjgz9q28pvp-jegc5muv37z9qvwoe4bndorvoi4kasxshtvbkeylmtnzq-whio1608650265jpg__fix_374_244.jpeg)
![[MANZONI] - Interessante lotto di opere dedicate al celebre autore milanese](/assets/image/picture_1242190/3889b/mc4jhvguy8e0jjddu8fo90auoget7t3rhvfc6g2dtymqryzkhpvwghegsisa3fn1608650265jpg__fix_374_244.jpeg)
![[MANZONI] - Interessante lotto di opere dedicate al celebre autore milanese](https://veryimportantlot.com/assets/image/picture_1242190/3889b/mc4jhvguy8e0jjddu8fo90auoget7t3rhvfc6g2dtymqryzkhpvwghegsisa3fn1608650265jpg__fix_374_244.jpeg)
