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The Venetians

Author : Paul Strathern
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1639361251
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book The Venetians written by Paul Strathern and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Republic of Venice was the first great economic, cultural, and naval power of the modern Western world. After winning the struggle for ascendency in the late 13th century, the Republic enjoyed centuries of unprecedented glory and built a trading empire which at its apogee reached as far afield as China, Syria, and West Africa. This golden period only drew to an end with the Republic’s eventual surrender to Napoleon. The Venetians illuminates the character of the Republic during these illustrious years by shining a light on some of the most celebrated personalities of European history—Petrarch, Marco Polo, Galileo, Titian, Vivaldi, Casanova... Frequently, though, these emblems of the city found themselves at odds with the Venetian authorities, who prized stability above all else and were notoriously suspicious of any "cult of personality." Was this very tension perhaps the engine for the Republic’s unprecedented rise? Rich with biographies of some of the most exalted characters who have ever lived, The Venetians is a refreshing and authoritative new look at the history of the most evocative of city-states.

Big Fish

Author : Daniel Wallace
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616201649
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Big Fish written by Daniel Wallace and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his attempts to get to know his dying father fail, William Bloom makes up stories that recreate his father's life in heroic proportions.

The Bishop's Bedroom

Author : Piero Chiara
Publisher : New Vessel Press
ISBN 13 : 1939931770
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book The Bishop's Bedroom written by Piero Chiara and published by New Vessel Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Piero Chiara’s novel is at once a murder mystery and a lyrical study of desire, greed, and deception. The ending is simply stunning." —André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name Summer 1946. World War Two has just come to an end and there’s a yearning for renewal. A man in his thirties is sailing on Lake Maggiore in northern Italy, hoping to put off the inevitable return to work. Dropping anchor in a small, fashionable port, he meets the enigmatic owner of a nearby villa who invites him home for dinner with his older wife and beautiful widowed sister-in-law. The sailor is intrigued by the elegant waterside mansion, staffed with servants and imbued with mystery, and stays in a guest room previously occupied by a now deceased bishop related to his host. The two men form an uneasy bond, recognizing in each other a shared taste for idling and erotic adventure. They soon set sail together, encountering old flames and making new conquests. But tragedy puts an abrupt halt to their revels and shatters the tranquility of the villa. What really happened on the dock? And who was the figure glimpsed cycling around the shore in the dark? A sultry, stylish psychological thriller executed with supreme literary finesse.

The Decameron - Volume I

Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781519646255
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book The Decameron - Volume I written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Decameron - Volume I" from Giovanni Boccaccio. Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch (1313 - 1375).

Religious Narratives in Italian Literature after the Second Vatican Council

Author : Jenny Ponzo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311049602X
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Religious Narratives in Italian Literature after the Second Vatican Council written by Jenny Ponzo and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a semiotic study of the re-elaboration of Christian narratives and values in a corpus of Italian novels published after the Second Vatican Council (1960s). It tackles the complex set of ideas expressed by Italian writers about the biblical narration of human origins and traditional religious language and ritual, the perceived clash between the immanent and transcendent nature and role of the Church, and the problematic notion of sanctity emerging from contemporary narrative.

Little Novels of Sicily

Author : Giovanni Verga
Publisher : Steerforth
ISBN 13 : 1581952414
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Little Novels of Sicily written by Giovanni Verga and published by Steerforth. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in a single volume in 1883, the stories collected in Little Novels of Sicily are drawn from the Sicily of Giovanni Verga's childhood, reported at the time to be the poorest place in Europe. Verga's style is swift, sure, and implacable; he plunges into his stories almost in midbreath, and tells them with a stark economy of words. There's something dark and tightly coiled at the heart of each story, an ironic, bitter resolution that is belied by the deceptive simplicity of Verga's prose, and Verga strikes just when the reader's not expecting it. Translator D. H. Lawrence surely found echoes of his own upbringing in Verga's sketches of Sicilian life: the class struggle between property owners and tenants, the relationship between men and the land, and the unsentimental, sometimes startlingly lyric evocation of the landscape. Just as Lawrence veers between loving and despising the industrial North and its people, so too Verga shifts between affection for and ironic detachment from the superstitious, uneducated, downtrodden working poor of Sicily. If Verga reserves pity for anyone or anything, it is the children and the animals, but he doesn't spare them. In his experience, it is the innocents who suffer first and last and always.

The Ruin of Kasch

Author : Roberto Calasso
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674780262
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book The Ruin of Kasch written by Roberto Calasso and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical novel about the ruin of an imaginary country called Kasch, set in the context of true events.

Echoing Voices in Italian Literature

Author : Teresa Franco
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527524558
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Echoing Voices in Italian Literature written by Teresa Franco and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores the reception of classics and translation from modern languages as two different, yet synergic, ways of engaging with literary canons and established traditions in 20th-century Italy. These two areas complement each other and equally contribute to shape several kinds of identities: authorial, literary, national and cultural. Foregrounding the transnational aspects of key concepts such as poetics, literary voice, canon and tradition, the book is intended for scholars and students of Italian literature and culture, classical reception and translation studies. With its two shifting focuses, on forms of classical tradition and forms of literary translation, the volume brings to the fore new configurations of 20th-century literature, culture and thought.

Traffic and Congestion in the Roman Empire

Author : Cornelis van Tilburg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134129750
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Traffic and Congestion in the Roman Empire written by Cornelis van Tilburg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Dosso's Fate

Author : Dosso Dossi
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892365050
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Dosso's Fate written by Dosso Dossi and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dosso Dossi has long been considered one of Renaissance Italy's most intriguing artists. Although a wealth of documents chronicles his life, he remains, in many ways, an enigma, and his art continues to be as elusive as it is compelling. In Dosso's Fate, leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines examine the social, intellectual, and historical contexts of his art, focusing on the development of new genres of painting, questions of style and chronology, the influence of courtly culture, and the work of his collaborators, as well as his visual and literary sources and his painting technique. The result is an important and original contribution not only to literature on Dosso Dossi but also to the study of cultural history in early modern Italy.

Hieroglyph, Emblem, and Renaissance Pictography

Author : Ludwig Volkmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789004360938
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Hieroglyph, Emblem, and Renaissance Pictography written by Ludwig Volkmann and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English translation of Volkmann's Bilderschriften der Renaissance, the pioneering review of the influence of the hieroglyph on Renaissance culture, focused on the literature of emblem and device in Germany and France.

Catalogues of the Berenson Library of the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti, Florence, Italy

Author : Berenson Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Catalogues of the Berenson Library of the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti, Florence, Italy written by Berenson Library and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting

Author : Raimond van Marle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting written by Raimond van Marle and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Pastoral

Author : Philip Roth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780676538694
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book American Pastoral written by Philip Roth and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ordinary man finds that his life has been made extraordinary by the catastrophic intrusion of history when, in 1968 his adored daughter plants a bomb that kills a stranger, hurling her father out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk.

Buongiorno Italia! Course Book (new Edition)

Author : Joseph Cremona
Publisher : BBC Active
ISBN 13 : 9780563519454
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Buongiorno Italia! Course Book (new Edition) written by Joseph Cremona and published by BBC Active. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BBC course for beginners.

Via Della Grammatica for English Speakers

Author : Mina Ricci
Publisher : Edizioni Edilingua
ISBN 13 : 9789606930508
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Via Della Grammatica for English Speakers written by Mina Ricci and published by Edizioni Edilingua. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Via della Grammatica for English speakers è la versione per studenti anglofoni di Via della Grammatica. Infatti, le consegne delle attività e le spiegazioni grammaticali sono in lingua inglese. Un glossario online (in preparazione) offre la traduzione dei termini incontrati nelle attività. Via della Grammatica for English speaker è una grammatica pratica ed essenziale, interamente a colori, di 40 unità, ognuna delle quali affronta uno o più argomenti grammaticali seguiti da attività stimolanti e divertenti. Ogni 5 unità segue un test di revisione e di autovalutazione. Le strutture morfosintattiche sono presentate attraverso delle schede, chiare e concise, le quali si riferiscono soprattutto all'uso comune e pratico delle regole grammaticali. Il lessico è introdotto gradualmente e rispecchia l'uso dell'italiano corrente. A volte, nuovi gruppi semantici sono presentati uniti alla loro immagine visiva, che ne facilita l'acquisizione. Testi autentici su diversi aspetti culturali, letterari e della vita quotidiana offrono agli studenti la possibilità di arricchire e approfondire il proprio patrimonio di conoscenze sulla società, la storia e la civiltà italiana.

Bulgari. Serpenti. Il potere delle metamorfosi-The power of metamorphosis. Ediz. illustrata

Author : Alba Cappellieri
Publisher : Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 13 : 9788836649471
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Bulgari. Serpenti. Il potere delle metamorfosi-The power of metamorphosis. Ediz. illustrata written by Alba Cappellieri and published by Silvana Editoriale. This book was released on 2021 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metamorphosis is a central theme of contemporary creativity, investigated by artists, stylists, designers, philosophers and craftsmen who have crossed the rigid fences of their respective disciplines in search of their changing inclusiveness. With a pioneering spirit, Bulgari also explores them in their different meanings: symbolic, creative and artistic. The protagonist of the narration is the snake, an emblem of regeneration in all cultures and an icon of the goldsmith mastery of the Rome maison from the 1940s to today.0In symbolic metamorphoses, the reptile embodies the archetype of transformation and renewal that refers to the dualism of life, while in the creative ones its seductive spell has deeply inspired material culture, from ancient clothing to contemporary fashion, from primitive jewelry to the Bulgari collections which celebrate it as a symbol, myth, creative theme, and personal ornament.0Lastly, on the artistic side, Bulgari asked five artists to represent their own idea of ??metamorphosis: Refik Anadol, Ann Veronica Janssens, Azuma Makoto, Daan Roosegaard, and Vincent Van Duysen have thus interpreted them through the poetics of their respective artistic languages, with surprising, heterogeneous and powerful results, further proof of their being the most revolutionary and profound act in the life of a person, a society or a culture. 00Exhibition: Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan, Italy (04.-10.092.2021).