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  • Hermenegildo and the Jesuits

    Staging Sainthood in the Early Modern Period

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This bookexplores the cultural conditions that led to the emergence and proliferation of Saint Hermenegildo as a stage character in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It considers how this saint became a theatrical trope enabling the Society of Jesus to address religious and secular concerns of the post-Tridentine Church, and to discuss political issues such as the supremacy of the pope over ... Leer más

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  • Egil's Saga

    Egil's Saga tells the story of the long and brutal life of tenth-century warrior-poet and farmer Egil Skallagrimsson: a morally ambiguous character who was at once the composer of intricately beautiful poetry, and a physical grotesque capable of staggering brutality. The saga recounts Egil's progression from youthful savagery to mature wisdom as he struggles to avenge his father's exile from ... Leer más

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  • Death and the Dolce Vita

    The Dark Side of Rome in the 1950s

    "A brilliant, methodical investigation of a murder scandal that convulsed the Roman political and social establishment in the 1950s" ( Financial Times).On April 9 1953, twenty-one-year-old Wilma Montesi went missing from her family home in Rome. Thirty-six hours later her body was found washed up on a neglected public beach. Some said it was suicide; others, a tragic accident. But as the police ... Leer más

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  • Seneca: Oedipus

    Series series Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy
    Oedipus, king of Thebes, is one of the giant figures of ancient mythology. Through the centuries, his story has inspired works of epic poetry, lyric poetry, tragedy, opera, a gospel musical and more. The myth has been famously deployed in psychology by Sigmund Freud. It may not be too bold to claim that Oedipus is the name from Greco-Roman mythology best known beyond the academy at the present ... Leer más

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  • The Hills of Chianti

    The Story of a Tuscan Winemaking Family, in Seven Bottles

    Traducido por Natalie Danford ...
    The head of Italy’s "first family" of winemaking reflects on the Antinoris’ six-hundred-year legacy and a life of good food and drink in the hills of Tuscany. If you know wine, you know the name Antinori. Since 1385, this noble Florentine family has produced some of Italy’s finest wines. The Hills of Chianti tells the story of the Antinoris and the Tuscany they call home, through seven iconic ... Leer más

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  • The Age of Robert Guiscard

    Southern Italy and the Northern Conquest

    de Graham Loud ...
    Series series The Medieval World
    Founded upon an unrivalled knowledge of the original sources for the conquest, this is a cogent and lucid analysis of a key medieval subject hitherto largely ignored by historians. ... Leer más

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  • A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek Theater

    de Graham Ley ...
    Contemporary productions on stage and film, and the development of theater studies, continue to draw new audiences to ancient Greek drama. With observations on all aspects of performance, this volume fills their need for a clear, concise account of what is known about the original conditions of such productions in the age of Pericles.Reexamining the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, ... Leer más

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  • Aristotle

    Poetics

    de Aristotle ...
    Traducido por S. H. Butcher ...
    A timeless cornerstone of literary criticism, Aristotle: Poetics delves into the essence of what he termed 'poetry,' encompassing lyric, epic, and drama. With precision, Aristotle dissects the art form through its foundational principles, exploring its genres, structural elements, and their emotive power.His profound analysis of tragedy forms the heart of this work, providing enduring insights ... Leer más

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  • Aristophanes & the Cloak of Comedy

    Affect, Aesthetics, and the Canon

    de Mario Telò ...
    The Greek playwright Aristophanes (active 427–386 BCE) is often portrayed as the poet who brought stability, discipline, and sophistication to the rowdy theatrical genre of Old Comedy. In this groundbreaking book, situated within the affective turn in the humanities, Mario Telò explores a vital yet understudied question: how did this view of Aristophanes arise, and why did his popularity ... Leer más

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  • Pompeii

    An Archaeological Guide

    The resonant ruins of Pompeii are perhaps the most direct route back to the living, breathing world of the ancient Romans. Two million visitors annually now walk the paved streets which re-emerged, miraculously preserved, from their layers of volcanic ash. Yet for all the fame and unique importance of the site, there is a surprising lack of a handy archaeological guide in English to reveal and ... Leer más

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  • Dante's Idea of Friendship

    The Transformation of a Classical Concept

    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    In the ancient world, friendship was a virtue of great philosophical importance. Aristotle wrote extensively about it, as did Cicero. Their conception of friendship as a relationship based on reason and virtue was transformed by Christianity into a connection based on the mutual love of an individual and God.In Dante’s Idea of Friendship, Filippa Modesto offers sharp readings of the Commedia, Vita ... Leer más

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  • New Theatre in Italy

    1963–2013

    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    New Theatre in Italy 1963-2013 makes the case for the centrality of late-millennium Italian avant-garde theatre in the development of the new forms of performance that have emerged in the 21st Century. Starting in the Sixties, young artists and militants in Italy reacted to the violence in their streets and ruptures in the family unit that are now recognized as having been harbingers of the end of ... Leer más

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