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De Bello Alieno

By: Davide Del Popolo Riolo

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Fantascienza - novel (260 pagine) - What would Rome have been if Julius Caesar had put his genius into the service of technology instead of war? WINNER OF MAJOR ITALIAN AWARDS OF THE SF FIELD 44 B.C.. Rome is the capital of the civilized world, its hegemony stretching from the Ocean to Asia, from Gaul to Egypt. No army can stand against the might of the Roman legions and their guns... Motor chariots speed through the streets, steam trains connect the remotest provinces to the Eternal City. The architect of these conquests has a name: Gaius Julius Caesar, the brilliant scientist and entrepreneur who, forced by Sulla to abandon his political and military career, devoted all his ingenuity to science and its technical application... But far away, beyond the dark and boundless night of space, an aged and dying Race peers, with mute hostility and envy, at planet Earth, scrutinizes Rome and its conquests... From their barren and arid world, buffeted by winds and storms and shaken by earthquakes, alien beings watch, with unmoving hatred, who has what they can no longer have... They see humans grow and multiply, tame animals and cultivate the land... And then they mine coal, ply the seas with motor ships and the earth with mechanical vehicles. And they make a decision: it is necessary to stop the earthlings before they become too dangerous. It is necessary to destroy Rome. Born in Asti in 1968, Davide Del Popolo Riolo lives and works as a lawyer in Cuneo. He made his debut as a writer in 2014 with a science fiction novel set in Caesar's Rome, De Bello Alieno (Delos Digital), with which he won the Odyssey Award and the Vegetti Award from World Science-Fiction Italia. In 2015 he published another sf novel set in the Roman Age, There Are No Gods Beyond Time (Kipple), which won the Kipple Prize, and in 2019 Übermensch (Delos Digital), a novel about a superhero in Nazi Germany, which reached the finals of the Urania Prize and was among the ten books of the year recommended by Tom's Hardware. With the short novel legal-sf, Erasmus (Delos Digital) he won the Cassiopeia Award in 2015 and with the short story Short Manual of Conversation with the Dead, published in Andromeda magazine, the Viviani Award in 2018. His stories have been published by leading genre magazines and in anthologies such as, in 2019 alone, Strange Worlds (Urania) and Other Futures (Delos Digital), which collects the best stories of 2018. In 2020 he won the Urania Prize with the novel The Fist of Man and again in 2023 with the novel For the Ashes of the Fathers.

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8825427735

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9788825427738

Forgotten Paths

Etymology and the Allegorical Mindset

By: Davide Del Bello

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Forgotten Paths

Etymology and the Allegorical Mindset

By: Davide Del Bello

In Forgotten Paths, Davide Del Bello draws on the insights of Giambattista Vico and examines exemplary texts from classical, medieval, and Renaissance culture with the intent to trace the links between etymological and allegorical ways of knowing, writing, thinking, and arguing

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208

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CUA Press

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081321484X

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9780813214849

The Face of Immortality

Physiognomy and Criticism

By: Davide Stimilli

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The Face of Immortality

Physiognomy and Criticism

By: Davide Stimilli

The literature on physiognomy—the art of studying a person's outward appearance, especially the face, in order to determine character and intelligence—has flourished in recent years in the wake of renewed scholarly interest in the history and politics of the body. Virtually no attention, however, has been devoted to the vocabulary and rhetoric of physiognomy. The Face of Immortality addresses this gap, arguing that the trend in Western culture has been to obliterate the face, which is manifested in criticism as a disregard for the letter. Denouncing this trend, Davide Stimilli draws on Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Italian, English, and German sources in order to explore the terminology and historical development of physiognomy. Stimilli takes physiognomy to be the resistance to such an obliteration of the face, and argues that it offers a model for a theory of reading that does not discount the letter as inessential. Elaborating on the work of Walter Benjamin, he defines the task of physiognomical criticism as transliteration (which preserves the letter) rather than translation (which obliterates it). The Face of Immortality is meant to exemplify the method and test the reach of such a criticism, which aims at mediating between philology and philosophy, between literal and allegorical modes of interpretation.

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222

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State University of New York Press

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0791484246

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9780791484241

Pillole di Management di Strada

By: Davide Caocci

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Pillole di Management di Strada

By: Davide Caocci

Queste Pillole di Management di Strada rappresentano il tentativo di declinare per un pubblico attento, e non necessariamente esperto, esperienze vissute e pensieri maturati in anni di lavoro accanto agli imprenditori e dentro le aziende: proprio "sulla strada"!Tutto quello che viene descritto è entrato dai piedi, è stato digerito a livello di pancia, ha attraversato il cuore ed è poi giunto alla testa per trasformarsi dunque in comandi alle mani per operare e, infine, tornare alle gambe per muoversi.Alla luce della nostra esperienza italiana, unica e irripetibile, irriducibile a formule alchemiche di sorta, con queste pagine provo a formalizzare suggerimenti e riflessioni utili da applicare al mondo dell'impresa, agli affari, al lavoro dei "grandi", e far così del mio meglio per "lasciare il mondo un po' migliore di come lo abbiamo trovato" (B.-P.): buona strada a tutti, e buona lettura!

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186

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Lulu.com

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1291757295

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9781291757293

Place-making and Urban Development

New challenges for contemporary planning and design

By: Pier Carlo Palermo,Davide Ponzini

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Place-making and Urban Development

New challenges for contemporary planning and design

By: Pier Carlo Palermo,Davide Ponzini

The regeneration of critical urban areas through the redesign of public space with the intense involvement of local communities seems to be the central focus of place-making according to some widespread practices in academic and professional circles. Recently, new expertise maintains that place-making could be an innovative and potentially autonomous field, competing with more traditional disciplines like urban planning, urban design, architecture and others. This book affirms that the question of 'making better places for people' should be understood in a broader sense, as a symptom of the non-contingent limitations of the urban and spatial disciplines. It maintains that research should not be oriented only towards new technical or merely formal solutions but rather towards the profound rethinking of disciplinary paradigms. In the fields of urban planning, urban design and policy-making, the challenge of place-making provides scholars and practitioners a great opportunity for a much-needed critical review. Only the substantial reappraisal of long-standing (technical, cultural, institutional and social) premises and perspectives can truly improve place-making practices. The pressing need for place-making implies trespassing undue disciplinary boundaries and experimenting a place-based approach that can innovate and integrate planning regulations, strategic spatial visioning and urban development projects. Moreover, the place-making challenge compels urban experts and policy-makers to critically reflect upon the physical and social contexts of their interventions. In this sense, facing place-making today is a way to renew the civic and social role of urban planning and urban design.

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Routledge

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1134632614

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9781134632619

Giovanni Bellini

Landscapes of Faith in Renaissance Venice

By: Davide Gasparotto

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Giovanni Bellini

Landscapes of Faith in Renaissance Venice

By: Davide Gasparotto

Praised by Albrecht Dürer as being “the best in painting,” Giovanni Bellini (ca. 1430– 1516) is unquestionably the supreme Venetian painter of the quattrocento and one of the greatest Italian artists of all time. His landscapes assume a prominence unseen in Western art since classical antiquity. Drawing from a selection of masterpieces that span Bellini's long and successful career, this exhibition catalogue focuses on the main function of landscape in his oeuvre: to enhance the meditational nature of paintings intended for the private devotion of intellectually sophisticated, elite patrons. The subtle doctrinal content of Bellini’s work—the isolated crucifix in a landscape, the “sacred conversation,” the image of Saint Jerome in the wilderness—is always infused with his instinct for natural representation, resulting in extremely personal interpretations of religious subjects immersed in landscapes where the real and the symbolic are inextricably intertwined. This volume includes a biography of the artist, essays by leading authorities in the field explicating the themes of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s exhibition, and detailed discussions and glorious reproductions of the twelve works in the show, including their history and provenance, function, iconography, chronology, and style.

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Getty Publications

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1606065319

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9781606065310

Book's by Davide Del Bello

De Bello Alieno

De Bello Alieno

Forgotten Paths

Forgotten Paths

The Face of Immortality

The Face of Immortality

Pillole di Management di Strada

Pillole di Management di Strada

Place-making and Urban Development

Place-making and Urban Development

Giovanni Bellini

Giovanni Bellini

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