This book is a collection of letters written by Axel Munthe during his time in Naples in 1884. Munthe, a Swedish physician, provides a vivid firsthand account of the cholera epidemic that struck the city that year, as well as his observations on the people and culture of Naples. With its mix of personal narrative and historical insight, this book offers a unique perspective on a crucial moment in Italian history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Uno de los grandes libros de memorias europeos del siglo XX. Una nueva traducción de un clásico moderno del humanismo. San Michele es el nombre que el médico sueco Axel Munthe dio a la villa que compró en Capri en 1887. Construida en el punto más alto de la isla —en el lugar que antes ocupara la residencia del emperador romano Tiberio—, Munthe pasaría allí el resto de sus días, convirtiéndola poco a poco en un refugio de belleza para su singular personalidad: un verdadero prodigio arquitectónico, un mundo de pérgolas y jardines, de perros, monos y lechuzas, de esculturas, sarcófagos, mosaicos y columnas por el que desfilarían todas las grandes personalidades de la época, desde Henry James o Stefan Zweig hasta Greta Garbo o la princesa Victoria de Saboya. Memorias desprejuiciadas de un brillante médico humanista; evocadora semblanza del Mediterráneo de un apasionado de su arte, su historia y sus gentes; elegante libro de viajes de un aristócrata diletante y flâneur; alegato filantrópico y pacifista de un hombre entregado a los padecimientos de todos los seres vivos... Historia de San Michele es una obra única y magistral, un clásico contemporáneo convertido por derecho propio en uno de los grandes libros de memorias europeos del siglo XX. «Unas memorias europeas comparables a las de Stefan Zweig, la obra de un doctor que nunca se rendía, y porque amaba la vida, supo disfrutarla como nadie y se volcó como pocos en combatir a la muerte». Sergio Vila-Sanjuán, La Vanguardia «Nadie busque en Historia de San Michele esa visión ingenua y nominalista de la memoria. Hay en la obra una valiosa representación de la vida europea en los años finales del siglo XIX y comienzos del XX». Mauricio Wiesenthal «A lo largo de diez años Munthe escribió Historia de San Michele, del que se vendieron más de treinta millones de ejemplares y que se tradujo a cuarenta idiomas, llegando a alcanzar tanta popularidad como Lo que el viento se llevó o Doctor Zhivago».María Belmonte «Su vocación de médico le obligó a vivir siempre junto a la muerte. Pero amó con todo su corazón la vida».Mauricio Wiesenthal

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

This work presents engaging anecdotes from Axel Munthe's experiences in France and Italy. It contains stories about the author's relationship with nature depicting how he prefers animals to people, about the typhoid fever problem, where the disbelief in medicine is presented, and many more. An interesting read for history enthusiasts.

This complex and insightful work presents an account of a doctor's experiences with injured and dying patients in a French hospital. These reminiscences of Munthe's time in the ambulance corp during the First World War are a must-read historical work dealing with the tough questions of that period.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Red Cross & Iron Cross" by Axel Munthe. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Boken om San Michele av Axel Munthe är en av de svenska böcker som fick störst spridning i världen under 1900-talet. Den skrevs ursprungligen på engelska men översattes till svenska av författaren. Den är en slags memoar med en självbiografisk ryggrad och fiktiva inslag, där Munthe tagit sig stor frihet med förläggandet av händelser i tid och rum. Han har dessutom valt att utelämna Drottning Victoria, vars personliga läkare han var i över trettio år, helt ur berättelsen. AXEL MUNTHE [1857-1949] var en svensk läkare. Efter examen i filosofi och medicin arbetade han i Paris och Rom. Sedan flyttade han till Capri, där han behandlade fattiga medborgare utan betalning, och byggde villa San Michele, som i dag tillhör Svenska institutet. Under 1890-talet blev han den svenska kronprinsessan Victorias livläkare, en tjänst han innehade fram till hennes död.

I protagonisti di questi racconti sono esseri fragili e umili, che mettono in luce la delicatezza dell’animo umano e la nobiltà di quello animale. È in questo modo che la storia dello spazzino Angelo Fusco, quella del suonatore d’organetto accompagnato da una scimmia tisica e quella delle reliquie miracolose di suor Filomena si intrecciano, dando vita a una penetrante ballata dal respiro profondamente esistenzialista. Axel Martin Fredrik Munthe (1857 -1949) è stato uno psichiatra e scrittore svedese. Dopo avere avviato la sua carriera in ambito medico presso la Casa Reale di Svezia, nel 1884 si trasferisce a Capri per curare i malati di colera, colpiti dalla tremenda epidemia che aveva decimato la città. Durante questo periodo redige "Lettere da una città dolente", le cui vicende furono poi riprese nella sua opera magna "Storia di San Michele". Tra gli altri scritti ricordiamo "Piccoli schizzi", "Vagabondaggio" e "Croce rossa e croce di ferro".