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Part of a remarkably talented family, Henry James is regarded as one of the most important American writers of the nineteenth century. Although he is best known for novels such as The Wings of the Dove and The Portrait of a Lady, James was also a renowned essayist. This volume collects a series of essays about James' extensive travels in Italy, which were written and revised by the author over a period of 40 years.
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"From the Strega Prize-winning author of Story of My People, an astute, multifaceted essay on the seismic shifts of 2020 and how he and people from all walks of life are adapting. Attempting to make sense of the incredible upheaval of 2020-from the devastating impact of COVID-19 to the sudden loss of his father-Edoardo Nesi considers the changing global economy and its effect on our lives. He shares the stories of Alberto Magelli, a small textile...
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Venice Reconsidered offers a dynamic portrait of Venice from the establishment of the Republic at the end of the thirteenth century to its fall to Napoleon in 1797. In contrast to earlier efforts to categorize Venice's politics as strictly republican and its society as rigidly tripartite and hierarchical, the scholars in this volume present a more fluid and complex interpretation of Venetian culture.
Drawing on a variety of disciplines-history, art...
4) Gondola
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The international bestselling author delivers "a delightful look at the gondola as cultural icon, marvel of construction and object of romance and mystery" (Judith Malafronte, Opera News).
Of all the trademarks of Venice—and there are many, from the gilded Basilica of San Marco to the melancholy Bridge of Sighs—none is more ubiquitous than the gondola. In Gondola, the acclaimed "American with the Venetian heart," tells...
Of all the trademarks of Venice—and there are many, from the gilded Basilica of San Marco to the melancholy Bridge of Sighs—none is more ubiquitous than the gondola. In Gondola, the acclaimed "American with the Venetian heart," tells...
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"Is it possible to identify a starting point in history from which everything else unfolds--a single moment that can explain the present and reveal the essence of our identities? According to Massimo Montanari, this is just a myth: by themselves, origins explain very little and historical phenomena can only be understood dynamically--by looking at how events and identities develop and change as a result of encounters and combinations that are often...
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A celebration of the character and style of one of the world's most spectacular cities! This vibrant insider's view of the most mature city on earth is the perfect companion for anyone who loves anything Italian. In 1995, after a twenty-year love affair with Italy, Alan Epstein fulfilled his dream to live in Rome. In As the Romans Do, he celebrates the spirit of this stylish, dramatic, ancient city that formed the hub of a far-flung empire and introduced...
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Parce que pour connaître les peuples, il faut d'abord les comprendre
Vous êtes en Italie et vous arpentez les travées de l'Exposition universelle de Milan 2015. Pavillons et nouveaux quartiers respirent la vocation architecturale de cette métropole o le design et la mode sont un art de vivre. Ici s'affichent les influences espagnoles, autrichiennes, françaises. La Lombardie est une autre Italie. Audacieuse, orgueilleuse, mais toujours ouverte...
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Parce que pour connaître les peuples, il faut d'abord les comprendre
Il n'y a pas une Italie. Les Italiens eux-mêmes se définissent d'abord par leur ville, leur région d'origine, leurs racines locales sur ce territoire tardivement unifié. C'est cette mosaïque de tempéraments, d'influences, de cuisines et de traditions que cette balade nous permet de découvrir, dans les pas d'un auteur installé de longue date dans la péninsule.
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La catastrophe de Marcinelle du 8 août 1956 a provoqué un deuil national sans équivalent dans l'histoire de la Belgique et suscité un mouvement de solidarité dans l'Europe entière.
Cinquante ans après, le souvenir demeure vivace pour celles et ceux qui ont vécu l'événement. Un double message s'impose à nous pour les nouvelles générations, il s'agit avant tout de comprendre pour mieux construire le présent et le futur.
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11) Rome
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The best new writing, photography, art, and reportage from and about Rome-in the series that's "like a literary vacation" (Publishers Weekly).
If you believe recent chatter about Rome-in the media and by its residents-the city is on the verge of collapse. Each year, it slips further down the ranking of the world's most livable cities. To the problems faced by all large capitals-hit-and-run tourism, traffic, the divide between elegant, Airbnb-dominated...
12) Garibaldi
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Extrait : "Dans une petite maison basse, simple, modeste, charmante, pittoresquement située sur le rivage niçois et don’t la blanche façade tout ensoleillée regardait gaîment les flots d'azur, naquit, le 4 juillet 1807, un enfant qu'on appela Giuseppe. Son père, Domenico Garibaldi, honnête capitaine au cabotage, descendait d'une vieille famille ligure qui comptait plusieurs générations de braves marins."
À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARAN...
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Extrait : Quand l'opinion publique a fait son siège à propos d'un point capital de l'histoire de l'art, c'est véritablement entreprendre une tâche ingrate que de vouloir lui apporter de nouveaux éléments d'information. Aussi inexorable que le bon abbé de Vertot, elle oppose longtemps une fin de non-recevoir au chercheur désireux d'agiter encore le problème que, résignée ou satisfaite, elle proclame insoluble ou à tout jamais résolu."
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En estas páginas el lector encontrará personajes siniestros -matones ceñudos que atemorizaban a sus vecinos en el siglo XIX- y otros aún más siniestros -sí, hay muchos políticos
Este recorrido desde Sicilia a Little Italy, con muchas idas y venidas, permitirá al lector conocer a héroes anónimos y la dramática manera en que la Mafia se entrecruza y se enreda, una y otra vez, en la historia italiana, a la manera de un hilo negro. Por otro...
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Douze mille femmes ont été violées pendant la guerre de 39-45 en Italie du sud... Des pères, des frères, des voisins, des prêtres et des inconnus ont été sauvagement assassinés pour avoir tenté de s'interposer. Seulement, même si le Sénat italien en 1990, après une enquête aux lenteurs toutes sénatoriales et politiques, a conclu à la réalité de ces drames, jamais il n'a été reconnu le statut de victimes à toutes ces femmes et...
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Les dessous de la Mafia italienne
Caterina Bartoldi qui a vécu plusieurs années en Sicile est devenue une spécialiste incontournable de la Mafia. Dans ce livre passionnant qui nous entraîne de la Sicile aux Etats-Unis et en bien d'autres lieux, elle nous raconte une histoire cachée, difficile à appréhender. Elle nous décrit les structures secrètes, les symboles, les manières de communiquer et de fonctionner, ainsi que les grandes figures...
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Is Italy a united country, or a loose affiliation of warring states? Is Italian football (which we Americans know as "soccer") a sport, or an ill-disguised protraction of ancient enmities? After twenty years in the bel paese, Tim Parks goes on the road to follow the fortunes of his hometown soccer club, Hellas Verona, to pay a different kind of visit to some of the world's most beautiful cities, and to get a fresh take on the conundrum that is national...
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“The Traces” is a ranging inquiry into the seductions of memory and travel, the fragile paradox of desire, and the art of making meaning from a life.
Mairead Small Stead's debut, “The Traces” is a work of memoir and criticism that explores the nature of happiness in art, literature, and philosophy, structured around a season spent in Italy and a reading of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities.
Poised between plummeting depressions, the author...
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An Angle on the World is a brilliant tribute to Bill Barich's extraordinary range as a writer. Gathering together more than thirty years of work, this book addresses such diverse subjects as a murder trial in the Caribbean, a visit to a juju doctor in Nigeria, and the author's youthful escapades in Italy and the Haight-Ashbury. As the New York Times put it, "An easy, fluid stylist, Barich writes entertainingly about anything."
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The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.
IN THIS VOLUME:
- Rome doesn't judge you by Nicola Lagioia
- The soul of the city by Matteo Nucci
- 39 memos for a book about Rome by Francesco Piccolo
- Plus: a guide to the sounds of Rome by Letizia Muratori, the feigned unrest and real malaise of the suburbs, the influence of the Vatican, the excessive power of real estate speculators and the rule...
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