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  • Venice Tales

    Series series City Tales
    Venice Tales is the first comprehensive collection of short-stories on Venice by Italian authors. The book encompasses a broad chronological span, beginning from the Middle Ages (Boccaccio), through to the early modern period (Sansovino), the Enlightenment (Casanova, Goldoni), to the modern and contemporary eras (Marinetti, Montale, Calvino, Scarpa and others). A dream-like city uniquely built on ... Leer más

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  • Rethinking Peripheral Modernisms

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection of essays reappraises the contributions made by modernist movements from regions generally regarded as peripheral or semi-peripheral to a global aesthetic of Modernism. It particularly focuses on European semi-peripheries, combining theoretical chapters and individual case studies to examine the cultural and aesthetic complexities of so-called peripheral modernisms. Contributing to ... Leer más

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  • Italian futurism and the machine

    de Katia Pizzi ...
    This is the first interdisciplinary exploration of machine culture in Italian futurism after the First World War. The machine was a primary concern for the futuristi. As well as being a material tool in the factory it was a social and political agent, an aesthetic emblem, a metonymy of modernity and international circulation and a living symbol of past crafts and technologies. Exploring literature ... Leer más

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  • Transmissions of Memory

    Echoes, Traumas, and Nostalgia in Post–World War II Italian Culture

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    Transmissions of Memory: Echoes, Traumas and Nostalgia in Post-World War II Italian Culture discusses cultural products—films, poetry, fiction, architectural buildings, autobiographical writing, and social media—to individuate through them the dynamics of memory. The field of analysis is Italian culture from World War II to the contemporary times, and the volume has in a gendered approach one of ... Leer más

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    In "Leonardo Da Vinci," Maurice W. Brockwell delves into the intricate life and multifaceted genius of the Renaissance polymath. The book artfully weaves together biographical sketches, analyses of Da Vinci's seminal works, and reflections on his enduring influence in various fields including art, science, and engineering. Brockwell'Äôs prose is characterized by its clarity and elegance, making ... Leer más

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  • The Stones of Florence

    de Mary McCarthy ...
    Eloquent and assured, Mary McCarthy's The Stones of Florence beckons the reader on a brisk but sweeping tour of the birthplace of the Renaissance and the legendary home of the Medici, Dante, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, and other giants of the age. Her keen observations of this famously alluring city speak to Florence's persistent character and magnetism-and the attraction it exerted over the first ... Leer más

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  • A Little History of Art

    Series series Little Histories
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  • Mary McCarthy's Italy

    The Stones of Florence and Venice Observed

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  • Venice Observed

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  • The Savage Garden

    A Thriller

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    Young Cambridge scholar Adam Banting is in Tuscany, assigned to write a scholarly monograph about the famous Docci garden—a mysterious world of statues, grottoes, meandering rills, and classical inscriptions. As his research deepens, Adam comes to suspect that buried in the garden’s strange iconography is the key to uncovering a long-ago murder. But the ancient house holds its own secrets as well. ... Leer más

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  • 149 Paintings You Really Need to See in Europe

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  • No Vulgar Hotel: The Desire and Pursuit of Venice

    The Desire and Pursuit of Venice

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