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  • Pinocchio in America

    With an essay by Carmen Petruzzi and an afterword by Maria Truglio

    by Angelo Patri, Carmen Petruzzi, Maria Truglio ...
    Series Book 4 - Wonderland. Testi e percorsi di letteratura per l’infanzia
    Pinocchio represents a cornerstone of children’s literature worldwide. The narrative value and symbolic complexity of Carlo Collodi’s work have made it extraordinarily adaptable, as evidenced by its numerous rewritings. Almost a century after its first appearance in 1928, Angelo Patri’s Pinocchio in America is being republished, enriched with the original illustrations by Mary Liddell. This ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pinocchio in Africa

    Journeying Through Africa with a Wooden Boy

    by Eugenio Cherubini ...
    Translated by Angelo Patri ...
    In "Pinocchio in Africa," Eugenio Cherubini reimagines Carlo Collodi's iconic character, placing the wooden puppet in a vivid African landscape. This novel employs a rich tapestry of magical realism, blending traditional folktales with contemporary themes, and illustrating the universality of Pinocchio's quest for identity and belonging. Cherubini'Äôs prose is both lyrical and evocative, capturing ... Read more

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    by Francesca Billiani, Laura Pennacchietti ...
    Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime discusses the relationship between the novel and architecture during the Fascist period in Italy (1922-1943). By looking at two profoundly diverse aesthetic phenomena within the context of the creation of a Fascist State art, Billiani and Pennacchietti argue that an effort of construction, or reconstruction, was the main driving force ... Read more

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  • Leonardo da Vinci

    An Untraceable Life

    by Stephen J. Campbell ...
    How our image of the Renaissance’s most famous artist is a modern mythLeonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) never signed a painting, and none of his supposed self-portraits can be securely ascribed to his hand. He revealed next to nothing about his life in his extensive writings, yet countless pages have been written about him that assign him an identity: genius, entrepreneur, celebrity artist, outsider. ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

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  • The History of Futurism

    The Precursors, Protagonists, and Legacies

    by Günter Berghaus, Monica Biasiolo, Francesca Bravi, Sascha Bru, Silvia Contarini, Eleonora Conti, Patricia Gaborik, Laura Greco, Kyle Hall, Stefano Magni, Florian Mussgnug, Davide Podavini, Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Beatrice Sica, Teresa Spignoli, Dirk Vanden Berghe, Federico Luisetti, Marjorie Perloff, Walter L. Adamson ...
    Futurism began as an artistic and social movement in early twentieth-century Italy. Until now, much of the scholarship available in English has focused only on a single individual or art form. This volume seeks to present a more complete picture of the movement by exploring the history of the movement, the events leading up to the movement, and the lasting impact it has had as well as the ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • Italian Crime Fiction

    Edited by Giuliana Pieri ...
    Series series International Crime Fictions
    Iberian Crime Fiction is the first volume in English to provide an extensive overview of crime fiction in Spain and Portugal. While the origins of peninsular crime fiction are traced in Nancy Vosburg's introductory chapter to the volume, the essays focus on specific topics that provide readers with a sense of the development of the genre in the second half of the 20th-century and current trends in ... Read more

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  • Marco Bellocchio

    The Cinematic I in the Political Sphere

    by Clodagh Brook ...
    Marco Bellocchio is one of Italy's most important and prolific directors, with a career spanning five decades. In this book, Clodagh J. Brook explores the boundaries between the public and the private, the political and the personal, and the collective and the individual as they appear in Bellocchio's films. Including work on psychoanalysis, politics, film production, autobiography, and the ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

  • The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction

    A Bloody Journey

    by Barbara Pezzotti ...
    By taking as its point of departure the privileged relationship between the crime novel and its setting, this book is the most wide-ranging examination of the way in which Italian detective fiction in the last twenty years has become a means to articulate the changes in the social landscape of the country. Nowadays there is a general acknowledgment of the importance of place in Italian crime ... Read more

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  • Stories of Spain

    by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Prosper Merimee ...
    This beautifully edited e-book contains two short novels. "The Pretty Sister of José" is a sweetly passionate story of love spurned and requited, complete with flamenco singers and bullfighters, all lovingly described by the pen of the incomparable Frances Hodgson Burnett. This story includes the charming original illustrations with plenty of ruffled dresses, bolero hats, flowers, and longing ... Read more

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  • Politics and Society in Italian Crime Fiction

    An Historical Overview

    by Barbara Pezzotti ...
    This book comprehensively covers the history of Italian crime fiction from its origins to the present. Using the concept of "moral rebellion," the author examines the ways in which Italian crime fiction has articulated the country's social and political changes. The book concentrates on such writers as Augusto de Angelis (1888-1944), Giorgio Scerbanenco (1911-1969), Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989), ... Read more

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  • A Very Seductive Body Politic

    Silvio Berlusconi in Cinema

    by Nicoletta Marini Maio ...
    This volume maps the multilayered narratives created in cinema on and around Silvio Berlusconi as a means of exploring the ageof Berlusconismo. The analysis crosses chronological and generic boundaries, stretching back to the comedy Italian style, which foreshadows the symbolic meanings incarnated by Berlusconi before he actually entered the public stage. The book delineates a comprehensive ... Read more

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  • Corporeality and Performativity in Baroque Naples

    The Body of Naples

    by Clorinda Donato, Marino Forlino, Lara Harwood-Ventura, Marcella Salvi, Carmela Benedetta Scala ...
    This book provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the Neapolitan Baroque, through original and in-depth interpretations of pivotal masterpieces of Neapolitan art, literature, philosophy, theater. The book also presents the city of Naples as a cultural space in which the body functions as a visual, literary, and urban metaphor. By examining the works of Giordano Bruno, Caravaggio, ... Read more

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