Italy category: 3604 books
by Amy Finley
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
A detailed guide to every aspect of Genoa: history, culture, foods, restaurants, hotels, sightseeing, things to do - written by an author who knows the place intimately. Two marble-carved lions crouch flanking the stairs leading to the entrance of Genoa's monumental cathedral of San Lorenzo. Their proud...
The Manly Masquerade
Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2003
The Manly Masquerade unravels the complex ways men were defined as men in Renaissance Italy through readings of a vast array of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century evidence: medical and travel literature; theology; law; myth; conduct books; and plays, chivalric romances, and novellas by authors including...
Worldly Consumers
The Demand for Maps in Renaissance Italy
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Though the practical value of maps during the sixteenth century is well documented, their personal and cultural importance has been relatively underexamined. In Worldly Consumers, Genevieve Carlton explores the growing availability of maps to private consumers during the Italian Renaissance and shows...
Trekking in the Apennines
The Grande Escursione Appenninica
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This guidebook describes the Grande Escursione Appenninica (GEA), a nearly 400km long, three week trek crossing the Apenines in 23 stages, from Bocca Trabaria to Passo Due Santi on the edge of Liguria. The route dips in and out of Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna, never dropping below 400 metres. Best walked...
by William Dean Howells
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Italian Journeys by the American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright,William Dean Howells.This book is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's report on his travels to Italy from 1786–88, published in 1816–17. The book is based on Goethe's diaries. It is smoothed in style, lacking the spontaneity of his diary report, and augmented with the addition of afterthoughts and reminiscences.
by Barbara Athanassiadis
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
About the book Feeling ROME
"An intimate portrait of the Eternal City"
Visiting a city and then describing it in a guide book is very different than living it, breathing in the atmosphere, enjoying its surprises, discovering its details and recounting its hidden personality...
Believe, Obey, Fight
Political Socialization of Youth in Fascist Italy, 1922-1943
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
The Fascist regime under Mussolini regarded its youth as its best hope for the future. Young people were courted more assiduously than any other group in the society and their political socialization became a central concern of the government. Believe, Obey, Fight discusses the various tools used...
Italian Renaissance, The
The Origins of Intellectual and Artistic Change Before the Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
In this fascinating study, John Stephens inteprets the significance of the immense cultural change which took place in Italy from the time of Petrarch to the Reformation, and considers its wider contribution to Europe beyond the Alps. His important analysis (which is designed for students and serious...
Giorgio Scerbanenco
Urban Space, Violence and Gender Identity in Post-War Italian Crime Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
The works of Giorgio Scerbanenco repeatedly articulate and explore the implications of new forms of criminality that emerged in Italy’s post-war transformation towards its «economic miracle». An indepth analysis of Scerbanenco’s Duca Lamberti series constitutes the critical focus of this study,...
The Merchant of Prato's Wife
Margherita Datini and Her World, 1360-1423
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Although the fourteenth-century Italian merchant Francesco Datini has received attention from business historians, there has previously been no full study of his wife, Margherita Datini. Drawing on a sizable trove of Margherita’s correspondence held in the Archivio di Stato di Prato, including hundreds...
Landscapes in Between
Environmental Change in Modern Italian Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Since its economic boom in the late 1950s, Italy has grappled with the environmental legacy of rapid industrial growth and haphazard urban planning. One notable effect is a preponderance of interstitial landscapes such as abandoned fields, polluted riverbanks, and makeshift urban gardens. Landscapes...
What You Need to Know Before You Travel to Rome
Rome Traveler’s Guide to Make the Most Out of Your Trip
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Rome was once the seat of a vast and powerful empire known for its conquering armies, grand architecture, ahead of its time engineering, and lavish lifestyles of the ruling elite. Today’s modern Rome has all of the elegant, ancient history of its past life mixed with the modern feel of a city at...
Mad Tuscans and Their Families
A History of Mental Disorder in Early Modern Italy
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Based on three hundred civil and criminal cases over four centuries, Elizabeth W. Mellyn reconstructs the myriad ways families, communities, and civic and medical authorities met in the dynamic arena of Tuscan law courts to forge pragmatic solutions to the problems that madness brought to their households...
Possible Lives
Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2005
Possible Lives uses the saints'lives written by humanists of the Italian Renaissance to explore the intertwining of classical and religious cultures on the eve of the European Reformation. The lives of saints were among the most reproduced and widely distributed literatures of medieval and early modern...