Neapolitan (Napulitano), a Romance language derived from Latin, is spoken by upwards of 7,000,000 persons in and around Naples and the greater Campania region of southern Italy, as well as by members all around the world of the southern Italian diaspora. This "A Buon 'Ntennitore . Proverbs of Naples" offers a generous selection of the most widely recognized proverbs in the Napulitano language. In it, one will find wit and wisdom for nearly every occasion, circumstance, and station. In Napulitano (Neapolitan) language with Italian and English translations.
Neapolitanisch (Napulitano), eine romanische Sprache lateinischen Ursprungs, wird von mehr als 7.000.000 Personen in und um Neapel, in der Region Kampanien in Suditalien und von den suditalienischen Auswanderern und deren Nachkommen in aller Welt gesprochen. Diese A Buon 'Ntennitore . Neapel und seine Sprichworter bietet eine reichhaltige Auswahl der gebrauchlichsten Sprichworter in neapolitanischer Sprache, so dass der Leser in ihr Witz und Weisheit fur fast alle Situationen, Umstande und Lebenslagen finden kann. Neapolitanisch mit italienischer, englischer und deutscher Aubersetzung.
In a passionate and polemical manner, Pino Aprile's "Terroni" examines the effect that the unification of Italy has had on Southern Italy and analyzes what some of the ramifications are today. A bestseller in Italy, the book sold more than 200,000 copies in its first year of print.
In November 1532, a group of 168 Spaniards seized the Inca emperor Atahuallpa in the town of Cajamarca, in the northern Peruvian highlands. Their act, quickly taken as a symbol of the conquest of a vast empire, brought them unprecedented rewards in gold and silver; it made them celebrities, gave them first choice of positions of honor and power in the new Peru of the Spaniards, and opened up the possibility of a splendid life at home in Spain, if they so desired. Thus they became men of consequence, at the epicenter of a swift and irrevocable transformation of the Andean region. Yet before that memorable day in Cajamarca they had been quite unexceptional, a reasonable sampling of Spaniards on expeditions all over the Indies at the time of the great conquests. The Men of Cajamarca is perhaps the fullest treatment yet published of any group of early Spaniards in America. Part I examines general types, characteristics, and processes visible in the group as representative Spanish immigrants, central to the establishment of a Spanish presence in the New World’s richest land. The intention is to contribute to a changing image of the Spanish conqueror, a man motivated more by pragmatic self-interest than by any love of adventure, capable and versatile as often as illiterate and rough. Aiming at permanence more than new landfalls, these men created the governmental units and settlement distribution of much of Spanish America and set lasting patterns for a new society. Part II contains the men’s individual biographies, ranging from a few lines for the most obscure to many pages of analysis for the best-documented figures. The author traces the lives of the men to their beginnings in Spain and follows their careers after the episode in Cajamarca.
What is the role of literature in the formation of the state? Anthony J. Cascardi takes up this fundamental question in Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics, a comprehensive analysis of the presence of politics in Don Quixote. Cascardi argues that when public speech is constrained, as it was in seventeenth-century Spain, politics must be addressed through indirect forms including comedy, myth, and travellers' tales. Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics convincingly re-engages the ancient roots of political theory in modern literature by situating Cervantes within a long line of political thinkers. Cascardi notably connects Cervantes's political theory to Plato's, much as the writer's literary criticism has been firmly linked to Aristotle's. He also shows how Cervantes's view of literature provided a compelling alternative to the modern, scientific politics of Machiavelli and Hobbes, highlighting the potential interplay of literature and politics in an ideal state.
Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (1405-1464, elected Pope Pius II in 1458) was an important and enigmatic figure of the Renaissance as well as one of the most prolific writers and gifted stylists ever to occupy the papacy
The Laughter of the Saints examines this rich carnivalesque tradition of parodied holy men and women and traces their influence to the anti-heroes and picaresque roots of early modern novels such as Don Quixote.
