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The Masterful Italian by Cordelia Gregory,Arabella Kingsley Pdf
Mastering her to keep her safe. Alessandro is out for revenge. When an explosion ruins his attempt at securing evidence from an informant, he meets Giselle, a beautiful young surgeon. She tries to save his dying informant, unsuccessfully. Unable to locate the evidence on the dying man’s body, he suspects the man passed the tape off to Giselle. Forced on the run, she takes refuge with Alessandro and the Mafia where she must surrender to his dominant control. Giselle finds herself falling quickly for Alessandro who will stop at nothing to get the tape, protect her from his mafia grandfather, Vadala, and take her to his bed.
Mastering Italian Vocabulary by Luciana Feinler-Torriani,Gunter H. Klemm Pdf
This Italian word-power builder presents more than 5,000 words and phrases with translations into English. The feature that makes this vocabulary book distinctive is the way words are divided into themes, grouped together so that the foreign traveler or language student can find words related by subject. The subject themes include business terms, medical terms, household terms, scientific words and phrases, units of measurement, clothing, food and dining, transportation, art and culture&... 24 separate themes in all. The new second edition has been expanded and updated with increased vocabulary.
Italian Fascism's Empire Cinema by Ruth Ben-Ghiat Pdf
Ruth Ben-Ghiat provides the first in-depth study of feature and documentary films produced under the auspices of Mussolini’s government that took as their subjects or settings Italy’s African and Balkan colonies. These "empire films" were Italy's entry into an international market for the exotic. The films engaged its most experienced and cosmopolitan directors (Augusto Genina, Mario Camerini) as well as new filmmakers (Roberto Rossellini) who would make their marks in the postwar years. Ben-Ghiat sees these films as part of the aesthetic development that would lead to neo-realism. Shot in Libya, Somalia, and Ethiopia, these movies reinforced Fascist racial and labor policies and were largely forgotten after the war. Ben-Ghiat restores them to Italian and international film history in this gripping account of empire, war, and the cinema of dictatorship.
A History of Italian Theatre by Joseph Farrell,Paolo Puppa Pdf
A history of Italian theatre from its origins to the the time of this book's publication in 2006. The text discusses the impact of all the elements and figures integral to the collaborative process of theatre-making. The distinctive nature of Italian theatre is expressed in the individual chapters by highly regarded international scholars.
The Lost Italian Renaissance by Christopher S. Celenza Pdf
A groundbreaking work of intellectual history, The Lost Italian Renaissance uncovers a priceless intellectual legacy suggests provocative new avenues of research.
British Romanticism and the Reception of Italian Old Master Art, 1793-1840 by Dr Maureen McCue Pdf
As a result of Napoleon’s campaigns in Italy, Old Master art flooded into Britain and its acquisition became an index of national prestige. Maureen McCue argues that their responses to these works informed the writing of Romantic period authors, enabling them to forge often surprising connections between Italian art, the imagination and the period’s political, social and commercial realities. Dr McCue examines poetry, plays, novels, travel writing, exhibition catalogues, early guidebooks and private experiences recorded in letters and diaries by canonical and noncanonical authors, including Felicia Hemans, William Buchanan, Henry Sass, Pierce Egan, William Hazlitt, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, Anna Jameson, Maria Graham Callcott and Samuel Rogers. Her exploration of the idea of connoisseurship shows the ways in which a knowledge of Italian art became a key marker of cultural standing that was no longer limited to artists and aristocrats, while her chapter on the literary production of post-Waterloo Britain traces the development of a critical vocabulary equally applicable to the visual arts and literature. In offering cultural, historical and literary readings of the responses to Italian art by early nineteenth-century writers, Dr McCue illuminates the important role they played in shaping the themes that are central to our understanding of Romanticism.
New Worlds and the Italian Renaissance by Anonim Pdf
This volume aims to assess the longstanding debate over the role played by the Italian Renaissance in the history of European intellectual culture. The authors engage in an interpretative conversation with thinkers such as Jacob Burckardt, Ernst Cassirer, Eugenio Garin, Paul Oskar Kristeller, whose works have influenced critical discourse on modernity and Renaissance Humanism over the last one hundred and fifty years. The studies presented in this collection contribute to this discussion from a variety of perspectives: scientific, theological, political, and literary. The result is a multifaceted illumination of the intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance.
The Italian Traditions & Puccini by Nicholas Baragwanath Pdf
“A major contribution . . . not only to Puccini studies but also to the study of nineteenth-century Italian opera in general.” —Nineteenth-Century Music Review In this groundbreaking survey of the fundamentals, methods, and formulas that were taught at Italian music conservatories during the 19th Century, Nicholas Baragwanath explores the compositional significance of tradition in Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Boito, and, most importantly, Puccini. Taking account of some 400 primary sources, Baragwanath explains the varying theories and practices of the period in light of current theoretical and analytical conceptions of this music. The Italian Traditions and Puccini offers a guide to an informed interpretation and appreciation of Italian opera by underscoring the proximity of archaic traditions to the music of Puccini. “Dense and challenging in its detail and analysis, this work is an important addition to the growing corpus of Puccini studies. . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice
Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism by Millicent Marcus Pdf
The movement known as neorealism lasted seven years, generated only twenty-one films, failed at the box office, and fell short of its didactic and aesthetic aspirations. Yet it exerted such a profound influence on Italian cinema that all the best postwar directors had to come to terms with it, whether in seeming imitation (the early Olmi), in commercial exploitation (the middle Comencini) or in ostensible rejection (the recent Tavianis). Despite the reactionary pressures of the marketplace and the highly personalized visions of Fellini, Antonioni. And Visconti, Italian cinema has maintained its moral commitment to use the medium in socially responsible ways--if not to change the world, as the first neorealists hoped, then at least to move filmgoers to face the pressing economic, political, and human problems in their midst. From Rossellini's Open City (1945) to the Taviani brothers' Night of the Shooting Stars (1982). The author does close readings of seventeen films that tell the story of neorealism's evolving influence on Italian postwar cinematic expression. Other films discussed are De Sica's Bicycle Thief and Umberto D. De Santis's Bitter Rice, Comencini's Bread, Love, and Fantasy, Fellini's La strada, Visconti's Senso, Antonioni's Red Desert, Olmi's Il Posto, Germi's Seduced and Abandoned, Pasolini's Teorema, Petri's Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion, Bertolucci's The Conformist, Rosi's Christ Stopped at Eboli, and Wertmuller's Love and Anarchy, Scola's We All Loved Each Other So Much provides the occasion for the author's own retrospective consideration of how Italian cinema has fulfilled, or disappointed, the promise of neorealism.
"Renaissance in Italy" is one of the best-known works by John Addington Symonds. This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of contents. Volume 1: The Spirit of the Renaissance Italian History The Age of the Despots The Republics The Florentine Historians 'The Prince' of Machiavelli The Popes of the Renaissance The Church and Morality Savonarola Charles VIII... Volume 2: The Men of the Renaissance First Period of Humanism Second Period of Humanism Third Period of Humanism Fourth Period of Humanism Latin Poetry... Volume 3: The Problem for the Fine Arts Architecture Painting Venetian Painting Life of Michael Angelo Life of Benvenuto Cellini The Epigoni... Volume 4: The Origins The Triumvirate The Transition Popular Secular Poetry Popular Religious Poetry Lorenzo De' Medici and Poliziano Pulci and Boiardo Ariosto... Volume 5: The Orlando Furioso The Novellieri The Drama Pastoral and Didactic Poetry The Purists Burlesque Poetry and Satire Pietro Aretino History and Philosophy... Volume 6-7: The Spanish Hegemony The Papacy and the Tridentine Council The Inquisition and the Index The Company of Jesus Social and Domestic Morals Torquato Tasso The "Gerusalemme Liberata" Giordano Bruno Fra Paolo Sarpi Guarini, Marino, Chiabrera, Tassoni Palestrina and the Origins of Modern Music The Bolognese School of Painters...
The Italian Reformation Outside Italy by Giorgio Caravale Pdf
In The Italian Reformation outside Italy, Giorgio Caravale reconstructs the life and intellectual career of Francesco Pucci (1543-1597), presenting a rich chapter of sixteenth-century European intellectual history.
Twentieth-century Italian Drama: The first fifty years by Jane House,Antonio Attisani Pdf
This volume of Twentieth-Century Italian Drama covers the period spanning from the end of the nineteenth century to that immediately following World War II, displaying the rich breadth of Italian theater in the modern age, from the comedic legacy carried on by such writers as Eduardo De Filippo to the delicate tragedy of playwrights like Federigo Tozzi.Included are seven full-length plays, five one-act plays, one variety sketch, and three futurist sintesi (sketches). Brief introductions preceding each play contextualize the piece within the various movements in Italian theater, and biographies of the editors and translators appear at the end of the volume. An extensive bibliography offers many suggestions for further reading in English.The playwrights included are Gabriele D'Annunzio, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Ettore Petrolini, Raffaele Viviani, Pier Maria Rosso di San Secondo, Federigo Tozzi, Massimo Bontempelli, Achille Campanile, Italo Svevo, Luigi Pirandello, Eduardo De Filippo, and Ugo Betti.
The Italian Piazza Transformed by Areli Marina Pdf
"Explores the history and architecture of two city squares, constructed by rival political parties, in the Italian city of Parma from 1196 to 1300"--Provided by publisher.
