The masterpiece of Baroque cooking and household management, and first book to publish recipes using tomatoes and chili peppers, translated in full into English for the first time.
Building on extensive archival research and important scholarly analysis, Galeazzo Ciano: The Fascist Pretender examines the life of Galeazzo Ciano, foreign minister of fascist Italy from 1936 to ...1943 and Benito Mussolini’s son-in-law. Ciano’s life serves as a lens through which to gain a better understanding of crucial issues of Italian and European fascism, including the fascistization of society and politics, foreign relations, and the problem of succession. The biography follows an innovative thematic structure that focuses on major aspects of Ciano’s life, including his family, his political career, his diplomacy, and his desire to succeed Mussolini.
Filling a substantial gap in the existing literature on the history of fascism, this book is the first comprehensive analysis of a key player of Italian fascism other than Mussolini; it also offers a long overdue critical assessment of Ciano’s famous diary, one of the most important texts from the period. Using visual materials such as photographs and films as sources and not just as illustrative material, Tobias Hof allows us to rethink our understanding of fascism and offers a new perspective on the history of fascist Italy.
The beautiful country Hom, Stephanie Malia
The beautiful country,
2015, 20150203, 2015, 2015-02-03, 2015-02-05
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Using an interdisciplinary methodology that includes archival research, ethnographic fieldwork, literary criticism, and spatial analysis,The Beautiful Countryreveals destination Italy's paramount ...role in the creation of modern mass tourism.
Developing a knowledge of the Spanish-Italian connection between right-wing extremist groups is crucial to any detailed understanding of the history of fascism. Transnational Fascism in the Twentieth ...Century allows us to consider the global fascist network that built up over the course of the 20th century by exploring one of the significant links that existed within that network. It distinguishes and analyses the relationship between the fascists of Spain and Italy at three interrelated levels - that of the individual, political organisations and the state - whilst examining the world relations and contacts of both fascist factions, from Buenos Aires to Washington and Berlin to Montevideo, in what is a genuinely transnational history of the fascist movement. Incorporating research carried out in archives around the world, this book delivers key insights to further the historical study of right-wing political violence in modern Europe.
Ezra Pound lived in Italy spanning six decades (1920s to 1970s) and composed here most of his ambitious American and international epic,The Cantos. He largely employed Italian materials: landscapes, ...artworks, politics, history, people. Bacigalupo's study approaches Pound's poetry through its principal physical and cultural background proposing a new and rewarding reading ofThe Cantos as an account of things seen and noted with a poet's eye for the striking detail and telling phrase. We visit with Pound his favorite cities and landscapes (Rome, Venice, Rapallo) and encounter some of his foremost Italian peers, associates and translators. Bacigalupo offers readings of important and neglected writings by Pound and shows how he created an autobiographical myth out of his multifarious experience. We get to see the poet at work and are provided with new essential keys to a nuanced understanding of Pound's lively, tantalizing and contradictory poetic world. This is the first time that so much material concerning a central aspect of Pound's life and writing has been gathered in one volume.
For much of the twentieth century the Mediterranean was a colonized
sea. Italy's Sea: Empire and Nation in the Mediterranean
(1895-1945) reintegrates Italy, one of the least studied
imperial states, ...into the history of European colonialism. It takes
a critical approach to the concept of the Mediterranean in the
period of Italian expansion and examines how within and through the
Mediterranean Italians navigated issues of race, nation and
migration troubling them at home as well as transnational questions
about sovereignty, identity, and national belonging created by the
decline and collapse of the Ottoman empire in North Africa, the
Balkans, and the eastern Mediterranean, or Levant. While most
studies of Italian colonialism center on the encounter in Africa,
Italy's Sea describes another set of colonial identities
that accrued in and around the Aegean region of the Mediterranean,
ones linked not to resettlement projects or to the rhetoric of
reclaiming Roman empire, but to cosmopolitan imaginaries of Magna
Graecia, the medieval Christian crusades, the Venetian and Genoese
maritime empires, and finally, of religious diversity and
transnational Levantine Jewish communities that could help render
cultural and political connections between the Italian nation at
home and the overseas empire in the Mediterranean. Using
postcolonial critique to interpret local archival and oral sources
as well as Italian colonial literature, film, architecture, and
urban planning, the book brings to life a history of
mediterraneità or Mediterraneanness in Italian culture,
one with both liberal and fascist associations, and enriches our
understanding of how contemporary Italy-as well as Greece-may
imagine their relationships to Europe and the Mediterranean today.
Italian neorealism Leavitt IV, Charles L
Italian neorealism,
2020, 2020, 2020-05-26
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"Neorealism emerged as a cultural exchange and a field of discourse that served to shift the confines of creativity and revise the terms of artistic expression not only in Italy but worldwide. If ...neorealism was thus a global phenomenon, it is because of its revolutionary portrayal of a transformative moment in the local, regional, and national histories of Italy. At once guiding and guided by that transformative moment, neorealist texts took up, reflected, and performed the contentious conditions of their creation, not just at the level of narrative content but also in their form, language, and structure. Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History demonstrates how they did so through a series of representative case studies. Recounting the history of a generation of artists, this study offers fundamental insights into one of the most innovative and influential cultural moments of the twentieth century."--
Jurists and jurisprudence in medieval Italy Cavallar, Osvaldo; Kirshner, Julius
Jurists and jurisprudence in medieval Italy,
2020, 20200925, 2020, 2020-09-25, 2020-10-01, Volume:
4, 4.
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"Jurists and Jurisprudence in Medieval Italy is an original collection of texts exemplifying medieval Italian jurisprudence, known as the ius commune. Translated for the first time into English, many ...of the texts exist only in early printed editions and manuscripts. Featuring commentaries by leading medieval civil law jurists, notably Azo Portius, Accursius, Albertus Gandinus, Bartolus of Sassoferrato, and Baldus de Ubaldis, this book covers a wide range of topics, including how to teach and study law, the production of legal texts, the ethical norms guiding practitioners, civil and criminal procedures, and family matters. The translations, together with context-setting introductions, highlight fundamental legal concepts and practices and the milieu in which jurists operated. They offer entry points for exploring perennial subjects, such as the professionalization of lawyers, the tangled relationship between law and morality, the role of gender in the socio-legal order, and the extent to which the ius commune can be considered an autonomous system of law."--
