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The Italians
Author | : John Hooper |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2015-01-29 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780698183643 |
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Washington Post bestseller Los Angeles Times bestseller A vivid and surprising portrait of the Italian people from an admired foreign correspondent How did a nation that spawned the Renaissance also produce the Mafia? And why does Italian have twelve words for coat hanger but none for hangover? John Hooper’s entertaining and perceptive new book is the ideal companion for anyone seeking to understand contemporary Italy and the unique character of the Italians. Fifteen years as a foreign correspondent based in Rome have sharpened Hooper’s observations, and he looks at the facts that lie behind the stereotypes, shedding new light on everything from the Italians’ bewildering politics to their love of life and beauty. Hooper persuasively demonstrates the impact of geography, history, and tradition on many aspects of Italian life, including football and Freemasonry, sex, food, and opera. Brimming with the kind of fascinating—and often hilarious—insights unavailable in guidebooks, The Italians will surprise even the most die-hard Italophile.
The Italian Dream
Author | : Gelasio Gaetani d’Aragona Lovatelli |
Publsiher | : Assouline Publishing |
Total Pages | : 6 |
Release | : 2016-10-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781614285199 |
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For more than three years, Aline Coquelle, the well-known globe-trotting photographer, and Count Gelasio Gaetani d’Aragona Lovatelli, a member of one of the oldest aristocratic Italian families, have followed the map of Italy’s best wines. Guided by Gelasio, readers are introduced to a tribe of artistic and wine-loving amici who share their passion for their country’s heritage and bounty. The Italian Dream: Wine, Heritage, Soul is an escape into the effortlessly elegant Italian lifestyle, savoring wine behind the private gates of family castles and vineyards, from the foothills of the Alps to the hill towns of Tuscany to the relaxed southern seasides.
Italian Chic
Author | : Andrea Ferolla,Daria Reina |
Publsiher | : Assouline Publishing |
Total Pages | : 6 |
Release | : 2018-07-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781614286806 |
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Italy is a country synonymous with style and beauty in all aspects of life: the rich history of Rome, Renaissance art of Florence, graceful canals of Venice, high fashion of Milan, signature pasta alla bolognese of Bologna, colorful architecture of Portofino and winking blue waters of Capri and the Amalfi Coast, among many others. Italians themselves live effortlessly amid all this splendor, knowing instinctively just the type of outfit to throw on, design element to balance, or delectable ingredient to add.
Italian Mobilities
Author | : Ruth Ben-Ghiat,Stephanie Malia Hom |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2015-07-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781317677710 |
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The Italian nation-state has been defined by practices of mobility. Tourists have flowed in from the era of the Grand Tour to the present, and Italians flowed out in massive numbers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: Italians made up the largest voluntary emigration in recorded world history. As a bridge from Africa to Europe, Italy has more recently been a destination of choice for immigrants whose tragic stories of shipwreck and confinement are often in the news. This first-of-its-kind edited volume offers a critical accounting of those histories and practices, shedding new light on modern Italy as a flashpoint for mobilities as they relate to nationalism, imperialism, globalization, and consumer, leisure, and labor practices. The book’s eight essays reveal how a country often appreciated for what seems immutable - its classical and Renaissance patrimony - has in fact been shaped by movement and transit.
Britain Ireland and the Italian Risorgimento
Author | : N. Carter |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2015-04-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781137297723 |
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This book offers a unique and fascinating examination of British and Irish responses to Italian independence and unification in the mid-nineteenth century. Chapters explore the interplay of religion, politics, exile, feminism, colonialism and romanticism in fuelling impassioned debates on the 'Italian question' on both sides of the Irish Sea.
Citizens and Subjects of the Italian Colonies
Author | : Simona Berhe,Olindo De Napoli |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2021-12-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781000517408 |
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This is the first book on Italian colonialism that specifically deals with the question of citizenship/subjecthood. Such a topic is crucial for understanding both Italian imperial rule and the complex dynamics of the different colonial societies where several actors, like notables, political leaders, minorities, etc., were involved. The chapters gathered in the book constitute an unprecedented account of a heterogeneous geographical area. The cases of Eritrea, Libya, Dodecanese, Ethiopia, and Albania confirm that citizenship and subjecthood in the colonial context were ductile political tools, which were structured according to the orientations of the Metropole and the challenges that came from the colonial societies, often swinging between submission, cooptation to the colonial power, and resistance. On one hand, the book offers an account of the different policies of citizenship implemented in the Italian colonies, in particular the construction of gradated forms of citizenship, the repression and expulsion of dissidents, the systems of endearment of local people and cooptation of the elites, and the racialization of legal status. On the other, it deals with the various answers coming from the local populations in terms of resistance, negotiation, and construction of social identity.
The Xenophobe s Guide to the Italians
Author | : Martin Solly |
Publsiher | : Oval Projects |
Total Pages | : 79 |
Release | : 2008-07-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781908120601 |
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A guide to understanding the Italians which reveals their cultural curiosities and defining characteristics.
On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians
Author | : Giambattista Vico |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Metaphysics |
ISBN | : 0801412803 |
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On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians, originally published in 1710, is widely regarded as Vico's most significant work after the New Science and the Autobiography. Subtitled "The Book of Metaphysics," it was one of three planned volumes of a larger work that was never published, and it marks Vico's transition from rhetorician to philosopher of historical knowledge. This edition incorporates translations from the Italian of a contemporary review and Vico's responses, published in 1711 and 1712. L. M. Palmer's translation helps make more accessible a treatise of vital importance for an understanding of Vico's epistemology, psychology, and philosophy of mathematics.