Archeologia e calcolatori (1996). Ediz. italiana, inglese, francese e spagnola
Author: Paola Moscati
Publisher: All’Insegna del Giglio
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 764
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Author: Paola Moscati
Publisher: All’Insegna del Giglio
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 764
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Brian Richardson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-03-26
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1108477690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comprehensive guide to women's promotion and use of textual culture, in manuscript and print, in Renaissance Italy.
Author: Simone Luzzatto
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-07-08
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 3110528231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1638, a small book of no more than 92 pages in octavo was published “appresso Gioanne Calleoni” under the title “Discourse on the State of the Jews and in particular those dwelling in the illustrious city of Venice.” It was dedicated to the Doge of Venice and his counsellors, who are labelled “lovers of Truth.” The author of the book was a certain Simone (Simḥa) Luzzatto, a native of Venice, where he lived and died, serving as rabbi for over fifty years during the course of the seventeenth century. Luzzatto’s political thesis is simple and, at the same time, temerarious, if not revolutionary: Venice can put an end to its political decline, he argues, by offering the Jews a monopoly on overseas commercial activity. This plan is highly recommendable because the Jews are “wellsuited for trade,” much more so than others (such as “foreigners,” for example). The rabbi opens his argument by recalling that trade and usury are the only occupations permitted to Jews. Within the confines of their historical situation, the Venetian Jews became particularly skilled at trade with partners from the Eastern Mediterranean countries. Luzzatto’s argument is that this talent could be put at the service of the Venetian government in order to maintain – or, more accurately, recover – its political importance as an intermediary between East and West. He was the first to define the role of the Jews on the basis of their economic and social functions, disregarding the classic categorisation of Judaism’s alleged privileged religious status in world history. Nonetheless, going beyond the socio-economic arguments of the book, it is essential to point out Luzzatto’s resort to sceptical strategies in order to plead in defence of the Venetian Jews. It is precisely his philosophical and political scepticism that makes Luzzatto’s texts so unique. This edition aims to grant access to his works and thought to English-speaking readers and scholars. By approaching his texts from this point of view, the editors hope to open a new path in research into Jewish culture and philosophy that will enable other scholars to develop new directions and new perspectives, stressing the interpenetration between Jews and the surrounding Christian and secular cultures.
Author: Richard E. Moon
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Published: 2021-08-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781947239166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince its first appearance in 1977, the UHMS Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Indications has served as a guide for practitioners and scientists interested in hyperbaric and undersea medicine.
Author: Jenny Ponzo
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-03-18
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 311049602X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a semiotic study of the re-elaboration of Christian narratives and values in a corpus of Italian novels published after the Second Vatican Council (1960s). It tackles the complex set of ideas expressed by Italian writers about the biblical narration of human origins and traditional religious language and ritual, the perceived clash between the immanent and transcendent nature and role of the Church, and the problematic notion of sanctity emerging from contemporary narrative.
Author: Blake Wilson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-11-21
Total Pages: 487
ISBN-13: 1108488072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comprehensive study of the dominant form of solo singing in Renaissance Italy prior to the mid-sixteenth century.
Author: Emilio Salgari
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Published: 2006-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780595382644
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA captivating mix of adventure, romance and comedy, The Son of the Red Corsair is the story of Enrico of Ventimiglia, an Italian gentleman disguised as a corsair who fights his way through the Spanish conquests of Central America in search of the half-sister he has never met, the child of his father's second wife, the daughter of Darien's Grand Cacique. In his adventures he is accompanied by a handful of colorful characters including the ever-faithful Mendoza, the French gentleman-turned-buccaneer Buttafuoco, and the boisterous Don Barrejo, as well as the beautiful Marquise of Montelimar and various bands of the Pirates of the Caribbean." simple characters and vivid action that have changed the panorama of literature for young readers." -El Poder de La Palabra
Author: Federico De Roberto
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2016-01-19
Total Pages: 641
ISBN-13: 1784782572
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA lost literary classic, written in 1894, The Viceroys is one of the most acclaimed masterworks of Italian realism. The novel follows three generations of the aristocratic Uzeda family as it struggles to hold on to power in the face of the cataclysmic changes rocking Sicily. As Garibaldi’s triumphs move Italy toward unification, the Uzedas try every means to retain their position. De Roberto’s satirical and mordant pen depicts a cast of upper-class schemers, headed by the old matriarch, Donna Teresa, and exemplified by her arrogant and totally unscrupulous son, Consalvo, who rises to political eminence through lip service, double-dealing, and hypocrisy. The Viceroys is a vast dramatic panorama: a new world fighting to shrug off the viciousness and iniquities of the old.
Author: Roberto M. Dainotto
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2007-01-09
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 0822389622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEurope (in Theory) is an innovative analysis of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ideas about Europe that continue to inform thinking about culture, politics, and identity today. Drawing on insights from subaltern and postcolonial studies, Roberto M. Dainotto deconstructs imperialism not from the so-called periphery but from within Europe itself. He proposes a genealogy of Eurocentrism that accounts for the way modern theories of Europe have marginalized the continent’s own southern region, portraying countries including Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal as irrational, corrupt, and clan-based in comparison to the rational, civic-minded nations of northern Europe. Dainotto argues that beginning with Montesquieu’s The Spirit of Laws (1748), Europe not only defined itself against an “Oriental” other but also against elements within its own borders: its South. He locates the roots of Eurocentrism in this disavowal; internalizing the other made it possible to understand and explain Europe without reference to anything beyond its boundaries. Dainotto synthesizes a vast array of literary, philosophical, and historical works by authors from different parts of Europe. He scrutinizes theories that came to dominate thinking about the continent, including Montesquieu’s invention of Europe’s north-south divide, Hegel’s “two Europes,” and Madame de Staël’s idea of opposing European literatures: a modern one from the North, and a pre-modern one from the South. At the same time, Dainotto brings to light counter-narratives written from Europe’s margins, such as the Spanish Jesuit Juan Andrés’s suggestion that the origins of modern European culture were eastern rather than northern and the Italian Orientalist Michele Amari’s assertion that the South was the cradle of a social democracy brought to Europe via Islam.