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Author: Areli Marina
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 0271050705
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Explores the history and architecture of two city squares, constructed by rival political parties, in the Italian city of Parma from 1196 to 1300"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Areli Marina
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780271053974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Simona Storchi
Publisher: P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques Internationales
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9782875740427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays focussing on the cultural construction, perception and representation of public and private spaces in 20th and 21st century Italian culture.It offers a variety of approaches, ranging from literature, to history, art history, film and cultural studies.
Author: Tiffany Parks
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2018-03-06
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0062644548
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMysteries abound in this exciting race through Rome! Beatrice Archer may love history, and Rome may be chock-full of it, but that doesn’t mean she wants to move there! Too bad Beatrice’s father got a job as the head of the history department at the American Academy in Rome—now, Beatrice has no choice but to get used to the idea. When she arrives in Rome she explores her new city as much as she can, but it isn’t until she hears talk of a strange neighborhood legend that Beatrice perks up. A centuries-old unsolved mystery about the beautiful turtle fountain outside her window? Sounds like fun! Before Beatrice has a chance to explore, though, she sees a dark figure emerge from the shadows of the square in the middle of the night—and steal the famous turtle sculptures that give the fountain its name. When no one believes her story, Beatrice knows that it’s up to her to solve the crime and restore the turtles to their rightful place. With the help of her new friend Marco, she navigates a world of unscrupulous ambassadors, tricky tutors, and international art thieves to unravel one of Roman history’s greatest dramas—before another priceless work of art is stolen.
Author: Elizabeth Spencer
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780878058372
DOWNLOAD EBOOKElizabeth Spencer is captivated by Italy. Collected in this volume are The Light in the Piazza, which is her signature piece, and six other Italian tales in which her American characters encounter and respond to the mysteries of Italian mores.
Author: Carlos A. Berenstein
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 1998-04-16
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9783540642077
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains the notes of five short courses delivered at the "Centro Internazionale Matematico Estivo" session "Integral Geometry, Radon Transforms and Complex Analysis" held in Venice (Italy) in June 1996: three of them deal with various aspects of integral geometry, with a common emphasis on several kinds of Radon transforms, their properties and applications, the other two share a stress on CR manifolds and related problems. All lectures are accessible to a wide audience, and provide self-contained introductions and short surveys on the subjects, as well as detailed expositions of selected results.
Author: Zygmunt G. Barański
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-09-29
Total Pages: 993
ISBN-13: 1316412113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the past seven centuries Dante has become world renowned, with his works translated into multiple languages and read by people of all ages and cultural backgrounds. This volume brings together interdisciplinary essays by leading, international scholars to provide a comprehensive account of the historical, cultural and intellectual context in which Dante lived and worked: from the economic, social and political scene to the feel of daily life; from education and religion to the administration of justice; from medicine to philosophy and science; from classical antiquity to popular culture; and from the dramatic transformation of urban spaces to the explosion of visual arts and music. This book, while locating Dante in relation to each of these topics, offers readers a clear and reliable idea of what life was like for Dante as an outstanding poet and intellectual in the Italy of the late Middle Ages.
Author: Timothy McCall
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2013-04-01
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 0271091142
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSecrets in all their variety permeated early modern Europe, from the whispers of ambassadors at court to the emphatically publicized books of home remedies that flew from presses and booksellers’ shops. This interdisciplinary volume draws on approaches from art history and cultural studies to investigate the manifestations of secrecy in printed books and drawings, staircases and narrative paintings, ecclesiastical furnishings and engravers’ tools. Topics include how patrons of art and architecture deployed secrets to construct meanings and distinguish audiences, and how artists and patrons manipulated the content and display of the subject matter of artworks to create an aura of exclusive access and privilege. Essays examine the ways in which popes and princes skillfully deployed secrets in works of art to maximize social control, and how artists, printers, and folk healers promoted their wares through the impression of valuable, mysterious knowledge. The authors contributing to the volume represent both established authorities in their field as well as emerging voices. This volume will have wide appeal for historians, art historians, and literary scholars, introducing readers to a fascinating and often unexplored component of early modern culture.
Author: Dana E. Katz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-08-18
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 1107165148
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores how the Jewish ghetto engaged the sensory imagination of Venice in complex and contradictory ways to shape urban space and reshape Christian-Jewish relations.
Author: Lester Little
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2015-11-01
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1526101777
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndispensable immigrants recreates the world of peasants who streamed into the cities of late medieval and early modern northern Italy to carry crushingly heavy containers of wine. Written in an easily accessible and unassuming style, it is solidly grounded in previously untapped archival and visual sources. In this first-ever reconstruction of the forgotten metier of wine porter, topography plays a key role in forming the labour market; in the scramble to distinguish professionals from manual labourers the term artist gets divorced from lowly artisan, and wretched diet is invoked to explain why workers are so unintelligent; the wine porters make one of their own their patron saint in thirteenth-century Cremona and other interest groups scheme successfully to get him canonised in Rome five centuries later; and when enlightened despots abolish the guilds, the wine porters’ trade fades away just as the candles on their patron’s altars sputter and die out.
