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“simone castaldi”

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  • Corto maltese

    In Siberia

    by Hugo Pratt, Hugo Pratt, Patrizia Zanotti, Engli Frank ...
    Translated by Dean Mullaney, Simone Castaldi ...
    Series series CORTO MALTESE_USA
    With this book Pratt leaves behind the short story form he'd used for twenty-one interrelated tales and presents a truly epic graphic novel. In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution and the First World War, Corto Maltese is engaged by the Red Lanterns--a Chinese secret society made up entirely of women--to find an armored train laden with gold that belonged to the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Corto Maltese Under the Sign of Capricorn

    by Hugo Pratt, Patrizia Zanotti ...
    Translated by Dean Mullaney, Simone Castaldi ...
    Series Book 1 - CORTO MALTESE_USA
    The secret of Tristan Bantam: Tristan, who has inherited precious papers that tell of the lost kingdom of Mû, has a dream that portends an apparently incomprehensible fate. At Paramaribo, in the sultry heat of Dutch Guyana, Corto finds himself entangled in a sordid tale about a stolen inheritance, while surrounded by such strange characters as Kerster, an unscrupulous lawyer; Jeremiah Steiner, a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Corto Maltese

    Beyond the Windy Isles

    by Hugo Pratt ...
    Translated by Simone Castaldi, Dean Mullaney ...
    Series Book 2 - CORTO MALTESE_USA
    Mushroom Heads begins and ends in Maracaibo, Venezuela, where the antiquarian Levi Colombia finances an expedition to the equatorial Amazon led by Corto Maltese and Professor Steiner, on the trail of the legendary Eldorado. Banana Conga is based on a story by American writer Art Buchwald, taken by Pratt and reworked to explore the idea of a foreign presence forced to leave Mosquito, a small town ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Corto Maltese

    Jack London and Corto Maltese in The Early Years

    by Hugo Pratt, Patrizia Zanotti, Engli Frank ...
    Translated by Dean Mullaney, Simone Castaldi ...
    Series Book 3 - CORTO MALTESE_USA
    The protagonist of this tale, actually, is not the 18-year-old Corto, but Rasputin, a deserter from a Siberian rifle regiment, and the writer Jack London, who was a war correspondent in the region at that time. London is already friends with Corto and introduces the sailor to the unpredictable Russian, who even as a young man kills with disconcerting ease and is ready to lie and betray without ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Drawn and Dangerous

    Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s

    by Simone Castaldi ...
    Exploring an overlooked era of Italian history roiled by domestic terrorism, political assassination, and student protests, Drawn and Dangerous: Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s shines a new light on what was a dark decade, but an unexpectedly prolific and innovative period among artists of comics intended for adults.Blurring the lines between high art and popular consumption, artists of the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Drawn and Dangerous

    Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s

    by Simone Castaldi ...
    Exploring an overlooked era of Italian history roiled by domestic terrorism, political assassination, and student protests, Drawn and Dangerous: Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s shines a new light on what was a dark decade, but an unexpectedly prolific and innovative period among artists of comics intended for adults.Blurring the lines between high art and popular consumption, artists of the ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

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    According to Wikipedia: "Benvenuto Cellini (3 November 1500 13 February 1571) was an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, painter, soldier and musician , who also wrote a famous autobiography. He was one of the most important artists of Mannerism." ... Read more

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  • Naples Declared

    A Walk Around the Bay

    by Benjamin Taylor ...
    It is a city of seemingly irreconcilable opposites, simultaneously glorious and ghastly. And it is Ben Taylor’s remarkable ability to meld these contradictions into a whole that makes this the exciting and original book it is. He takes his stroll around the bay with the acute sensitivity of a lover, the good humor of a friend, and the wisdom of a seeker who has immersed himself in all aspects of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • As If God Existed

    Religion and Liberty in the History of Italy

    by Maurizio Viroli ...
    Religion and liberty are often thought to be mutual enemies: if religion has a natural ally, it is authoritarianism--not republicanism or democracy. But in this book, Maurizio Viroli, a leading historian of republican political thought, challenges this conventional wisdom. He argues that political emancipation and the defense of political liberty have always required the self-sacrifice of people ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Heroines of Comic Books and Literature

    Portrayals in Popular Culture

    by Caryn E. Neumann, Sandra J. Lindow, Tricia Clasen, Lauren Lemley, Adina Schneeweis, Christina M. Smith, Mauricio Espinoza, Itir Erhart, Hande Eslen-Ziya, Christopher Paul Wagenheim, Anita McDaniel, Sharon Zechowski, Trina Robbins, April Jo Murphy, Roy Cook, T. Keith Edmunds, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Michael R. Kramer, Joseph J. Darowski, K. A. Laity, Nathan Miczo ...
    Despite the growing importance of heroines across literary culture—and sales figures that demonstrate both young adult and adult females are reading about heroines in droves, particularly in graphic novels, comic books, and YA literature—few scholarly collections have examined the complex relationships between the representations of heroines and the changing societal roles for both women and men ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Censorship and Heresy in Revolutionary England and Counter-Reformation Rome

    Story of a Dangerous Book

    by Giorgio Caravale ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book explores the secrets of the extraordinary editorial success of Jacobus Acontius' Satan's Stratagems, an important book that intrigued readers and outraged religious authorities across Europe. Despite condemnation by the Catholic Church, the work, first published in Basel in 1565, was a resounding success. For the next century it was republished dozens of times in different historical ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The Batman Filmography, 2d ed.

    by Mark S. Reinhart ...
    This is a complete reference work to the history of Batman big screen works, from the 1940s serials through the campy 1960s TV show and film, and up through the series of Warner Bros. summer blockbusters that climaxed with Christopher Nolan's 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises. Chapters on each Batman feature include extensive film and production credits, a production history, and a critical analysis ... Read more

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