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Artemisia

By: Anna Banti

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Artemisia Gentileschi, born in 1598, the daughter of an esteemed painter, taught art in Naples and painted the great women of Roman and biblical history: Esther, Judith, Cleopatra, Bathsheba. She also painted the rich and royal, but her wealthy male patrons wanted admiration while her women models wanted disguise. This woman, who had been violated in her youth and reviled as a rap victim in a public trial before going off to heretical England, who was rejected by her father and later abandoned by her husband and misunderstood by her daughter, who could not read or write but who could only paint—this woman was one of the first modern times to uphold through her work and deeds the right of women to pursue careers compatible with their talents and on an equal footing with men. Artemisia lives again in Anna Banti's novel, which was first published to critical acclaim in Italy in 1947 (Banti was the pseudonym of Lucia Lopresti, 1895-1978). Recognized as a consummate stylist, she was one of the most successful women writers in Italy before the resurgence of the feminist movement. Although Artemisia describes life in seventeenth-century Rome, Florence, and Naples, the time setting of the novel is, in a deeper sense, a historical, merging as it does the experience of a woman dead for three centuries with the terrors of World War II experienced by the author. Shirley D'Ardia Caracciolo's English translation of Banti's novel skillfully renders its complexity and poignancy as a study of courage.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803261195

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The Signorina and Other Stories

By: Anna Banti

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The Signorina and Other Stories

By: Anna Banti

In the futuristic "The Women Are Dying," men acquire a new evolutionary ability; women, lacking that ability, are consigned to the status of an inferior race. "Joveta of Betania," set in the time of the Crusades, follows the daughter of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem as she escapes to a life of seclusion as an abbess - a life that becomes for her a source of proud freedom and deep bitterness.

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Modern Language Assn of Amer

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0873527925

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9780873527927

Broken Time, Fragmented Space

A Cultural Map for Postwar Italy

By: Anna Maria Torriglia

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Broken Time, Fragmented Space

A Cultural Map for Postwar Italy

By: Anna Maria Torriglia

Examines how the artists and intellectuals of post-war Italy dealt with the 'shameful' heritage of their fascist upbringing and education by trying to craft a new cultural identity for themselves and the country.

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University of Toronto Press

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080203604X

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Artemisia

By: Anna Banti

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Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference, Sensors and Microsystems, Firenze, Italy, 15-17 February 2005

By: Anna Grazia Mignani

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Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference, Sensors and Microsystems, Firenze, Italy, 15-17 February 2005

By: Anna Grazia Mignani

This book contains a selection of papers presented at the 10th Italian Conference on Sensors and Microsystems. It provides a unique perspective on the research and development of sensors, microsystems and related technologies in Italy. The scientific values of the papers also offers an invaluable source to analysts intending to survey the Italian situation about sensors and microsystems. In an interdisciplinary approach, many aspects of the disciplines are covered, ranging from materials science, chemistry, applied physics, electronic engineering and biotechnologies.

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World Scientific

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9812833536

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9789812833532

Studies in Byzantine, Islamic and Near Eastern Silk Weaving

By: Anna Muthesius

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Studies in Byzantine, Islamic and Near Eastern Silk Weaving

By: Anna Muthesius

This volume complements Anna Muthesius' two earlier ground-breaking volumes in the field of silk as material culture: Studies in Byzantine and Islamic Silk Weaving and Studies in Silk in Byzantium. The publication highlights the fact that similar patterns of selection were at work in the acquisition of silks by secular and ecclesiastical bodies. These patterns of selection were governed not only by fashions of the time, but by access to international trade routes leading to the Great Silk Road linking the Near East to the Mediterranean. The surviving silks prove that Mediterranean/Near Eastern silk trade flourished continuously and for centuries prior to the thirteenth century, contrary to what has previously widely been assumed. It also highlights the crucial role of the Caucasian silk routes in accessing the Great Silk Road in the early period, and the contribution of Georgian (and Armenian) silk weaving after the thirteenth century. Above all, the book demonstrates how important it is to assess the impact of Near Eastern silk manufacture and distribution in relation to Byzantine and Islamic Mediterranean silk production and trade.

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Pindar Press

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1915837235

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9781915837233

Modern Italy: A Very Short Introduction

By: Anna Cento Bull

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Modern Italy: A Very Short Introduction

By: Anna Cento Bull

The history of modern Italy is characterized by recurrent cultural and political projects of modernity, rejuvenation, and regeneration; projects which often had their roots in a widespread dissatisfaction with social and political reality, and perceived moral corruption. The Risorgimento, the movement leading to Italian Unification in 1861, explicitly linked the quest for national unity to a process of moral regeneration and progress. Later forms of nationalism and the rise of fascism in the first two decades of the twentieth century advocated a spiritual revolution and the moulding of new Italians through war and violence. The tragic outcome of Italian fascism led to the emergence of new visions of progress during the post-war First Republic, in which European integration was embraced with conviction. In the last 25 years a project of of modernization epitomized by Silvio Berlusconi has characterized Italian politics, invoking a mixture of nationalist themes and an uncritical embracing of consumer and media culture. In this Very Short Introduction Anna Cento Bull addresses the question of what modernity means to Italy, and asks what modern Italy stands for. She considers Italy's political system and style of government, and looks at its economic modernisation and issues with emigration, internal migration and immigration. Bull concludes by looking at the Italian culture and lifestyle, including modern art and architecture, cinema, literature, gastronomy, fashion and sport. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

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161

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Oxford University Press

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0191039985

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9780191039980

Evolution and Innovation in Wildlife Conservation

Parks and Game Ranches to Transfrontier Conservation Areas

By: Brian Child,Helen Suich,Spenceley Anna

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Evolution and Innovation in Wildlife Conservation

Parks and Game Ranches to Transfrontier Conservation Areas

By: Brian Child,Helen Suich,Spenceley Anna

The crucible of innovation in wildlife and habitat conservation is in southern Africa where it has co-evolved with decolonization, political transformation and the rise of development, ownership, management and livelihood debates. Charting this innovation, early chapters deal with the traditional 'fines and fences' conservation that occurred in the colonial and early post-independence period, with subsequent sections focussing on the experimentation and innovation that occurred on private and communal land as a result of the break from these traditional methods. The final section deals with more recent innovations in the sector, focussing on building and strengthening the relationships between parks and society. Importantly, the book provides a data-rich summary of experimentation with more inclusive models of conservation in terms of ecological, social, political and economic indicators. Published with the Southern African Sustainable Use Specialist Group (SASUSG) of IUCN

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Routledge

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1136566090

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9781136566097

Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age

A Poetics of the Bystander

By: Maria Anna Mariani

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Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age

A Poetics of the Bystander

By: Maria Anna Mariani

Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age: A Poetics of the Bystander explores the overlooked position of the bystander in the Nuclear Age by focusing on the Italian situation as a paradigmatic case. Host to hundreds of American atomic weapons while lacking a nuclear arsenal of its own, Italy's status was an ambiguous one: that of an unwilling—and in many ways passive—accomplice. Inspired by Seamus Heaney's dictum that "there is no such thing as innocent by-standing," the book frames Italy's fraught mix of implication and powerlessness not only as a geopolitical question, but as a way to rethink the role of the sidelined intellectual in the face of mass extinction. Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age includes discrete chapters on the major Italian intellectuals of the time: Italo Calvino, Alberto Moravia, Elsa Morante, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Leonardo Sciascia. Conscious of their own political marginalization, these authors address the atomic question through a wide range of experimental forms, approaching the nearly unthinkable theme in allusive and oblique ways. Often dismissed as disengaged, inconsistent, or merely playful, these works demand instead a political reading capable of recognizing their confrontation with the paradoxes of the nuclear age.

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Oxford University Press

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0192695363

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9780192695369

The Roman Port and Fishery of Cosa

A Center of Ancient Trade

By: Anna Marguerite McCann

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The Roman Port and Fishery of Cosa

A Center of Ancient Trade

By: Anna Marguerite McCann

The excavation of the earliest Roman port and fishery known establishes Cosa as the center for the flourishing commercial activities of the powerful Sestius family and extends the international trading picture of the Romans back to at least the early second century B.C. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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1400886686

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Broken Time, Fragmented Space

A Cultural Map of Postwar Italy

By: Anna Maria Torriglia

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Broken Time, Fragmented Space

A Cultural Map of Postwar Italy

By: Anna Maria Torriglia

Broken Time, Fragmented Space: A Cultural Map for Post-war Italy examines how the artists and intellectuals of post-war Italy dealt with the 'shameful' heritage of their fascist upbringing and education by trying to craft a new cultural identity for themselves and the country. The continuities between the culture of the fascist and post-fascist periods were, however, far greater than what intellectuals were ready to admit, creating an uncomfortable, sometimes schizophrenic relation to time, as a painful urge to erase the past. Drawing on a variety of critical approaches, Torriglia investigates the efforts to reconstruct a personal as well as a collective self by analyzing both canonical and lesser-known cinematic and literary texts. Organized around four main themes - the use of language, the interaction between personal and public spheres, the perceptual categories of history and memory, and the reconstruction of the female identity - the study also includes historical introductions and sociological commentary that provides an extensive and captivating picture of the cultural production in 1950s Italy, a period that has not yet been extensively studied.

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148758668X

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Agatha and Marie Antoinette

By: Anna Pignataro

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Agatha and Marie Antoinette

By: Anna Pignataro

Agatha's cousin Marie Antoinette has come to stay. She can speak two languages, has lovely manners and wears a stylish blue beret. Agatha thinks Marie Antoinette is perfect. So why does Agatha have a stormy feeling in her tummy? This is a story about overcoming jealousy and gaining empathy (because nobody is perfect, not even glamorous little cousins!) The third title in the popular Agatha series with be enjoyed by children and parents alike. Beautifully illustrated by Anna Pignataro

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Book's by Anna Banti

Artemisia

Artemisia

The Signorina and Other Stories

The Signorina and Other Stories

Broken Time, Fragmented Space

Broken Time, Fragmented Space

Artemisia

Artemisia

Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference, Sensors and Microsystems, Firenze, Italy, 15-17 February 2005

Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference, Sensors and Microsystems, Firenze, Italy, 15-17 February 2005

Studies in Byzantine, Islamic and Near Eastern Silk Weaving

Studies in Byzantine, Islamic and Near Eastern Silk Weaving

Modern Italy: A Very Short Introduction

Modern Italy: A Very Short Introduction

Evolution and Innovation in Wildlife Conservation

Evolution and Innovation in Wildlife Conservation

Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age

Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age

The Roman Port and Fishery of Cosa

The Roman Port and Fishery of Cosa

Broken Time, Fragmented Space

Broken Time, Fragmented Space

Agatha and Marie Antoinette

Agatha and Marie Antoinette

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