Böcker av Pascal Paul Piazza

The Pisan Interlude intersected over two-hundred years forming a transcendent arc in Corsican history. This book completes the initial trilogy of the Cycle of Cyrnos. The first book explored the origins of the Corsican people from the Mesolithic to the Bronze Age, The second book developed the foundation of the Corsican people from the Bronze Age to the Preaching of the First Crusade and Pisa's acquisition of Corsica.

Poetry is the map for a journey of diversions. From the most mundane to the selectively sublime, these poems cover different inspirations and questions. They are seemingly random, yet all possibly interconnected. There are what-we-should do musings, why-we-know questions, pre-historic and historical meanders, visits to great poetry, celebratory profiles of five wonderful women, unrequited love surmises, glory-of-nature trumpets, and a modern trek through the Inferno (with apologies to Dante) freeing past occupants and finding modern replacements which will please some and offend many others. There is something for the rationalist, the romantic, the scientist, the sceptic, the faithful, the lover, the loved and you the reader however you may call yourself. Pace e salute.

"The Cycle of Cyrnos - Book Two: Foundation" explores what is meant to be a Corsican. It is an epic poem covering the period from the Bronze Age to the eve of the Crusades. There is a Corsica of local legend and lore, but there is also a Corsica that played an underappreciated, but integral, part in the prehistory and early history of the Western Mediterranean through the Late Antique Period. Corsica is an ungovernable island with an ungovernable people that provided a crucible for civilization and culture forged by the relationships with the Sherden, Phoenicians, Phocaeans, Carthaginians, Etruscans, Romans, Visi, Vandals, Goths, Byzantines, Lombards, Franks, Saracens, Popes, Genoese and Pisans seeking respectively to trade with, dominate, govern or administer Corsica. Corsica engaged in robust or innovative trade, commerce, warfare, defiance and conscience. The soul of a Corsican manifests itself in the propulsion of the culture of and commerce of the coast, in one of earliest and largest megalithic traditions, in the sanctuary of the maquis and interior, in the fealty service as foederates, in the diaspora, in its lure to the major powers and religions, and in the resulting Corsican character. The Corsican soul will thereafter playout for the next millennium"

The Cycle of Cyrnos - Book One is truly an epic poem with twists, turns and tortured tense and rhyme. It delves the depths of the human experience while journeying from the Franco-Iberian Refuge to Mesolithic caves to the founding of Corsica and Europe and to the incubation of the birth of civilization in Sumer. It finds magic in a flower. It dares you to see that there is an inseparable bond between the Western Mediterranean and Sumer born of adventures of the heart and sword with demons, dragons and demi-gods.