From Dante to Da Vinci, from Boccaccio to Brunelleschi, from the Romans to Roberto Rossellini, Italy has enriched the way we live. In these fascinating and information-packed essays, Sprezzatura offers an irresistible anatomy of Italian know-how, as expressed through its greatest cultural achievements.
This is the first multi-disciplinary study of the dissemination of Italian culture in northern Europe during the long eighteenth century (1689-1815). The book covers a diverse range of artists, actors and musicians who left Italy during the eighteenth century to seek work beyond the Alps in locations such as London, St Petersburg, Dresden, ...
Tracing the history of confession from the Desert Fathers through the Lateran decree (1215) and the Council of Trent (1543-63), Matthew Senior examines the significance of these events and the role of confessional discourse in works by Dante, Corneille, and Racine. Using a multidisciplinary approach, Senior focuses his study on Minos, the ...
"Italy: The Enduring Culture" offers an insightful and fascinating look at the history, culture and society of this bewitching country. Jonathan White charts the formation of modern Italy, from the rapid rise of powerful merchant cities in Dante's time to millennial change in the present technological age, exploring how modern culture and society ...
This text suggests that James Joyce's famous experiments with style and technique throughout "Ulysses" constitute a series of attempts to find a language adequate to his purposes - a language capable of representing an ideal of behaviour for the modern world.
Using semiotics as a theoretical foundation, this book reexamines the notion of the hyphenate writer. It argues for an analogous set of categories no longer chronologically or generationally based, but cognitively based, so that the traditionally considered "first-stage" or first generation hyphenate writer now figures as an "expressive" writer ...
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: church. His gentler nature, with its grain of selfishness and perhaps of scholarly reserve, felt out of touch with the world of the unlearned. He remained content ...
Since 1987, writer and critic Fred Gardaphe has regularly reviewed Italian/North American literature in Fra Noi, an Italian/American monthly newspaper based in Chicago. This volume features the best of 'Parole Scritte', his monthly columns. Introduced by an essay from which the collection gets its title, Dagoes Read is the first publication of its ...
In this indispensible introductory study of the sonnet, Michael R.G. Spiller takes the reader on an illuminating guided tour. He begins with the invention of the sonnet in thirteenth-century Italy and traces its progress through to the time of Milton, showing how the form has developed and acquired the capacity to express lyrically 'the nature of ...
"A Circular Journey" collects for the first time in one book the essays that most powerfully define the unique gifts of one of America's most distinctive voices. These fifteen pieces, tracking some thirty years of a writer's life, come together to illuminate the stages and themes and places that mark Helen Barolini's art. Divided into three ...
In "Trompe L'Oeil Italy", Ursula E. and Martin Benad paint a visually inspiring picture of a land where antiquity and modernity, history, art and landscape merge with elegance. They provide a treasure trove of ideas for creating striking interiors encompassing Pompeian motifs for stylish entrance halls, Venetian vistas for luxurious hotel ...
Dante: Beyond the Commedia brings together three unusual works featuring Dante. A Question of the Water and of the Land is attributed to Dante, and was translated by Charles Hamilton Bromby in 1897. "Dante's Influence on American Writers: 1776-1976" includes papers read at the 1976 annual meeting of the Dante Society of America. The third work, ...
Petrarch was Italy's second most famous writer (after Dante), and indeed from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries he was much better known and more influential in English literature than Dante. His Italian love lyrics constituted the major influence on European love poetry for at least two centuries from 1400 to 1600, and in Britain he was ...
The small but influential community of Italians that took shape in England in the fifteenth century initially consisted of ecclesiastics, humanists, merchants, bankers, and artists. However, in the wake of the English Reformation, Italian Protestants joined other continental religious refugees in finding Tudor England to be a hospitable and ...
Intended as a reference source for school projects, this book which is part of a multicultural series explores the foods, words, inventions, tools, customs and religions of Italy. It also describes the sports, animals, dance and crafts that originated tmhere.
In Italian Cultural Lineages, Jonathan White seeks answers to the elusive questions: what is Italian culture and what is the Italian identity? By tracing Italian life and art through several themes - viewing and spectatorship, fantasy, passion, justice, reputation, and lifestyles - White offers new ways of perceiving an ancient cultural tradition ...
The cities of Florence, Venice and Rome have each acquired a distinctive tradition of literary representation involving characteristic, recurrent motifs and symbolic signatures. Writing on each is examined here through the fiction and poetry of 19th- and 20th-century British and American authors.
The Renaissance, both as a concept and a period, continues to generate lively controversy not only among academics but also among the general public. Ever since the publication, in 1860, of Jacob Burckhardt's classic study of the Renaissance in Italy, scholars have disputed the origins of the movement and its subsequent influence on European ...
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