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  • Italy’s Eighteenth Century

    Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour

    In the age of the Grand Tour, foreigners flocked to Italy to gawk at its ruins and paintings, enjoy its salons and cafés, attend the opera, and revel in their own discovery of its past. But they also marveled at the people they saw, both male and female. In an era in which castrati were "rock stars," men served women as cicisbei, and dandified Englishmen became macaroni, Italy was perceived to be ... Leer más

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  • The Birth of the West

    Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century

    de Paul Collins ...
    The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne's empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even the papacy in Rome was embroiled in petty, provincial conflicts. To many historians, it was a prime example of the ignorance and uncertainty of the Dark Ages. Yet according to historian Paul Collins, the story of the tenth century is the story of our ... Leer más

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  • Sicilian Carousel

    Adventures on an Italian Island

    A moving account of friendship and discovery on the island of Sicily by the New York Times –bestselling travel writer and author of the Alexandria Quartet.Despite decades spent writing poetic evocations of the timeless pleasures of life in the Mediterranean, Lawrence Durrell had never set foot on the sea's largest island: mysterious, impenetrable Sicily. For years his friend Martine begged him to ... Leer más

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  • The Honored Society

    A Portrait of Italy's Most Powerful Mafia

    de Petra Reski ...
    In the early hours of an August 2007 morning a gunfight broke out in an Italian restaurant in Duisburg, Germany; in less than five minutes over seventy shots were fired into the bodies of six men. Both the victims and the assassins were members of the 'Ndrangheta crime organization. Calabria's Mafia had brazenly shown its savage influence outside Italy for the first time.In The Honored Society ... Leer más

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  • A Gift from The Enemy

    de Enrico Lamet ...
    By Enrico Lamet an 81-year-old retiree living in Florida. How he got there is an amazing tale. Born in Vienna as Erich Lifshütz, an upper middle class Jew with Polish roots, he left Austria with his parents in 1938, at the age of 8. As Jews, they were not permitted to take much money out of the country as they shuffled across France and came to settle in Italy, as the Nazis marched across borders. ... Leer más

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  • Film Sound in Italy

    Listening to the Screen

    de A. Sisto ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    A critical engagement with cinema in Italy, this book examines the national archive of film based on sound and listening using a holistic audio-visual approach. Sisto shifts the sensory paradigm of film history and analysis from the optical to the sonic, demonstrating how this translates into a shift of canonical narratives and interpretations. ... Leer más

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  • Twentieth Century Italy

    A Social History

    Series series Social History of Europe
    Following a historically chronological approach, and with a clear focus on the marked regional diversity characterising Italy, this volume analyses the impact of social, economic, cultural and political transformation on the lives of Italians. It assesses their living standards, their health and education, their working conditions and their leisure activities. The final part of the book examines ... Leer más

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  • Daughters of Alchemy

    Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy

    Series series I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
    The era of the Scientific Revolution has long been epitomized by Galileo. Yet many women were at its vanguard, deeply invested in empirical culture. They experimented with medicine and practical alchemy at home, at court, and through collaborative networks of practitioners. In academies, salons, and correspondence, they debated cosmological discoveries; in their literary production, they used ... Leer más

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  • Essays and Studies in Middle English

    9th International Conference on Middle English, Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław, 2015

    Series Libro 49 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
    This volume is a selection of papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Middle English held at Wyższa Szkoła Filologiczna (Philological School of Higher Education) in Wrocław, Poland, from April 30 to May 3, 2015. The contributors cover a wide range of topics in the area of language and literature. The linguistic papers constitute the majority of contributions and focus on problems ... Leer más

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  • American Responses to the Holocaust

    Transatlantic Perspectives

    Edición de Hans Krabbendam, Derek Rubin ...
    Series Libro 12 - Interamericana
    This collection puts the topic of Jewish Studies and Holocaust Studies in a new American Studies perspective. This perspective compares the similarities and differences in responses and their transatlantic interaction. As the Holocaust grew into an important factor in American culture, it also became a subject of American Studies, both as a window on American trends and as a topic to which ... Leer más

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  • Sicilian Splendors

    Discovering the Secret Places That Speak to the Heart

    de John Keahey ...
    "A wondrously joyous account of travel as it should be." – Publishers WeeklyA travel narrative that focuses on Sicily's little-known regions, from the author of Seeking Sicily and Hidden Tuscany.From Palermo to Castiglione di Sicilia to Alimena, Sicily holds great secrets from the past and unspoken promises. Tradition, in the form of festivals, the written word, photographs, and song, reverberates ... Leer más

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  • Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment

    Art, Science, and Spirituality

    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    Pope Benedict XIV Lambertini (r. 1740–58) was one of the driving forces behind the Italian Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. His campaign to reconcile faith and empirical science, re-launch a dialogue between the Church and the European intellectual community, and expand papal patronage of the arts and sciences helped restore Italy’s position as a center of intellectual and artistic ... Leer más

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