Gabriella Romani: 2 books
Postal Culture
Writing and Reading Letters in Post-Unification Italy
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
The nationalization of the postal service in Italy transformed post-unification letter writing as a cultural medium. Both a harbinger of progress and an expanded, more efficient means of circulating information, the national postal service served as a bridge between the private world of personal communication...
Delirious Naples
A Cultural History of the City of the Sun
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Stages an encounter, at once critical and celebratory, with historical and contemporary Naples, a city that presents itself as an irresolvable paradox for its ability to remain intellectually and culturally animated (“delirious”), even in the face of its recurring economic and political crises.