Italian 7

Da Andrea Carlo Cappi, già autore di numerosi thriller e dei romanzi di Diabolik & Eva Kant, il libro che rivela i segreti dei personaggi e dell’universo creato dalle sorelle Giussani: non solo le f……続きを見る

È il 1980 quando Il nome della rosa esce in libreria e si impone all’attenzione di tutto il mondo. Si tratta di un romanzo avvincente, ricco di questioni sottili, per intendere le quali occorre uno ……続きを見る

Dal ’43 al ’57 lo scrittore, giornalista ed editore Leo Longanesi, nato nel 1905, visse l’ultimo e febbrile spicchio della sua breve esistenza. Presto affiancato da Indro Montanelli, Giuseppe Prezzo……続きを見る

Dedicato a una delle opere più singolari della letteratura italiana, il volume fornisce un primo approccio al Pasticciaccio e nuove suggestioni esegetiche. Dopo una sintetica presentazione di dati e……続きを見る

Protagonista della vita intellettuale del secondo Novecento, impegnato su più fronti come traduttore, recensore, corsivista, consulente editoriale, ma per alcuni anni anche professore di una discipl……続きを見る

Guittone d’Arezzo (ca. 1230-1294) was the most important, prolific, and influential poet and prose writer of the thirteenth century. Unfortunately, his work has been overshadowed by his successor; t……続きを見る

The past two decades have witnessed increasing opposition to mafia influence and activities in Italy. Community organizations such as Libera, founded in 1995, and Addiopizzo, originating in 2004, ex……続きを見る

Exploring the diverse factors that persuaded Christopher Columbus that he could reach the fabled "East" by sailing west, Dante, Columbus and the Prophetic Tradition considers, first, the impact of D……続きを見る

In questa edizione completamente rinnovata di Letterati editori – a un tempo saggio di storia della cultura letteraria e fortunata incursione teorica nei meccanismi dell’editoria – Alberto Cadioli r……続きを見る

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–75) was one of the most important Italian intellectuals of the post–World War II era. An astonishing polymathーpoet, novelist, literary critic, political polemicist, screen……続きを見る

Für Liebhaber von anspruchsvoller Literatur und historischer Satire sind die 'Gespräche des göttlichen Pietro Aretino' ein absolutes Muss. Das Buch bietet nicht nur einen faszinierenden Einblick in ……続きを見る

Unlock the more straightforward side of The Leopard with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, ……続きを見る

This interdisciplinary, transhistorical collection brings together international scholars from English literature, Italian studies, performance history, and comparative literature to offer new persp……続きを見る

This book chronicles the demise of the supposedly leftist Italian cultural establishment during the long 1980s. During that time, the nation's literary and intellectual vanguard managed to lose the ……続きを見る

Benedetto Crocewas a historian, humanist, political figure, and the foremost Italian philosopher of the early twentieth-century. A Croce Reader brings together the author’s most important works acro……続きを見る

David Dean Brockman connects spirituality with psychoanalysis throughout this book as he looks at Dante’s early writings, his life story and his "polysemous" classical poem The Divine Comedy. Dante ……続きを見る

Más que una extraña singularidad atribuida al catolicismo, el Purgatorio –el "tercer estado", como lo llamaba Luteroー podría considerarse como una invariante existencial de lo humano, que se aparec……続きを見る

In The Sword and the Pen: Women, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Siena, Konrad Eisenbichler analyzes the work of Sienese women poets, in particular, Aurelia Petrucci, Laudomia Forteguerri,……続きを見る

In Dante's Commedia: Theology as Poetry, an international group of theologians and Dante scholars provide a uniquely rich set of perspectives focused on the relationship between theology and poetry ……続きを見る

First published in 1972, this book provides an overview of Classicism in literature. After an informative introduction to the term, it explores some of the periods and places in which Classicism has……続きを見る

Sixteenth-century Italy witnessed the rebirth of comedy, tragedy, and tragicomedy in the pastoral mode. Traditionally, we think of comedy and tragedy as remakes of ancient models, and tragicomedy al……続きを見る

This book bridges the fields of Children’s Literature and Italian Studies by examining how turn-of-the-century children’s books forged a unified national identity for the new Italian State. Through ……続きを見る

Dante put Muhammad in one of the lowest circles of Hell. At the same time, the medieval Christian poet placed several Islamic philosophers much more honorably in Limbo. Furthermore, it has long been……続きを見る

Waking to find himself shipwrecked on a strange shore before a dark wood, the pilgrim of the Divine Comedy realizes he must set his sights higher and guide his ship to a radically different port. St……続きを見る

Massimo Cacciari is one of the leading public intellectuals in today's Italy, both as an outstanding philosopher and political thinker and as now three times (and currently) the mayor of Venice. Thi……続きを見る

Runner Up Winner of the Edinburgh Gadda Prize - Established Scholars, Cultural Studies Category Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize (20th & 21st Centuries) Honorable Me……続きを見る

This book highlights the centrality of the autobiographical enterprise to Italian women’s writing through the twentieth centuryーa century that has frequently been referred to as the century of the ……続きを見る

This book is a comparative study of six Italian American and Greek American literary works written in the three last decades of the 20th century and examined in pairs. Based on the common theme of t……続きを見る

Motherhood, Fatherland and Primo Levi: The Hidden Groundwork of Agency in his Auschwitz Writings offers major new insights into the political dimensions of Levi’s thought by using those texts conven……続きを見る

Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies is an anthology of poems and essays that aims to provide an organic profile of the evolution of Italian poetry after World War II. Beginning with the birth of Off……続きを見る