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The Baroque Libretto

Italian Operas and Oratorios in the Thomas Fisher Library at the University of Toronto

By: Domenico Pietropaolo,Mary Ann Parker

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The Baroque Libretto

Italian Operas and Oratorios in the Thomas Fisher Library at the University of Toronto

By: Domenico Pietropaolo,Mary Ann Parker

The Baroque Libretto catalogues the Baroque Italian operas and oratorios in the Thomas Fisher Library at the University of Toronto and offers an analysis of how the study of libretto can inform the understanding of opera.

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1442641630

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Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Upsaliensis

By: ALEJANDRO COROLEU,DOMENICO DEFILIPPIS

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Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Upsaliensis

By: ALEJANDRO COROLEU,DOMENICO DEFILIPPIS

Since 1971, the International Congress for Neo-Latin Studies has been organised every three years in various cities in Europe and North America. In August 2009, Uppsala in Sweden was the venue of the fourteenth Neo-Latin conference, held by the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies. The proceedings of the Uppsala conference have been collected in this volume under the motto Litteras et artes nobis traditas excolere Reception and Innovation. Ninety-nine individual and five plenary papers spanning the period from the Renaissance to the present offer a variety of themes covering a range of genres such as history, literature, philology, art history, and religion. The contributions will be of relevance not only for scholarly readers, but also for an interested non-professional audience.

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9004226478

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9789004226470

Thinking with Objects

The Transformation of Mechanics in the Seventeenth Century

By: Domenico Bertoloni Meli

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Thinking with Objects

The Transformation of Mechanics in the Seventeenth Century

By: Domenico Bertoloni Meli

Thinking with Objects offers a fresh view of the transformation that took place in mechanics during the 17th century. By giving center stage to objects—levers, inclined planes, beams, pendulums, springs, and falling and projected bodies—Domenico Bertoloni Meli provides a unique and comprehensive portrayal of mechanics as practitioners understood it at the time. Bertoloni Meli reexamines such major texts as Galileo’s Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences, Descartes’ Principles of Philosophy, and Newton’s Principia, and in them finds a reliance on objects that has escaped proper understanding. From Pappus of Alexandria to Guidobaldo dal Monte, Bertoloni Meli sees significant developments in the history of mechanical experimentation, all of them crucial for understanding Galileo. Bertoloni Meli uses similarities and tensions between dal Monte and Galileo as a springboard for exploring the revolutionary nature of seventeenth-century mechanics. Examining objects helps us appreciate the shift from the study to the practice of mechanics and challenges artificial dichotomies among practical and conceptual pursuits, mathematics, and experiment.

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JHU Press

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0801889448

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Remaking Italy in the Twentieth Century

By: Roy Palmer Domenico

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Remaking Italy in the Twentieth Century

By: Roy Palmer Domenico

Although the unification of Italy in 1870 initially defined the nation's geographical boundaries, Italians faced challenges of determining their nation's social, political and cultural identity. This volume examines the struggle to recast the nation according to their visions.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0847696375

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The Complete Works, Volume IV

For Piano

By: Domenico Scarlatti

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The Complete Works, Volume IV

For Piano

By: Domenico Scarlatti

Expertly arranged Piano music by Domenico Scarlatti from the Kalmus Edition series. This volume includes 10 suites (Longo 151-200) from the Baroque era.

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Alfred Music

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1457486695

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Domenico Corri's Treatises on Singing: Domenico Corri's A select collection of the most admired songs, duetts, &c., volumes 1-3

By: Domenico Corri

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Domenico Corri's Treatises on Singing: Domenico Corri's A select collection of the most admired songs, duetts, &c., volumes 1-3

By: Domenico Corri

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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0815306792

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9780815306795

Luigi Cardillo: vita, sogni e visioni

By: Attilio Domenico Cardillo

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Luigi Cardillo: vita, sogni e visioni

By: Attilio Domenico Cardillo

Non è frutto di fantasia né mera biografia ma il racconto dell'odissea di una vita decisamente inconsueta ed a tratti straordinaria dettata dalla scioccante presenza del soprannaturale: 72 sogni-visioni, 13 apparizioni, 35 miracoli ...e molto altro. Leggere per credere! Booktrailer ed altri contestuali video: http: //goo.gl/pEzube Fanpage: https: //www.facebook.com/pages/Luigi-Cardillo/743192692411291 Pagina di riferimento per consultare contenuti extra: http: //goo.gl/ZRYmxR Il libro è acquistabile anche in versione eBook!

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1291981810

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Democracy or Bonapartism

Two Centuries of War on Democracy

By: Domenico Losurdo

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Democracy or Bonapartism

Two Centuries of War on Democracy

By: Domenico Losurdo

HOW AN IRON FIST DONNED DEMOCRACY’S VELVET GLOVE The history of universal suffrage is best understood as a conflict between liberal elites and democractic workers’ movements, according to Domenico Losurdo. John Stuart Mill, for example, argued that electoral influence should be more pronounced among the educated – and wealthy – than among those working with their hands. Every vote ought not to be counted the same. Countries with deep liberal roots have historically been quick to restrain the spread of the franchise, persisting in discrimination based on property, race, and gender. In this context, the rise of popular presidents and premiers, vested with extraordinary powers, has served to stimy attempts to associate politically and mobilize for meaningful change. This is modern Bonapartism, a soft authoritarianism in which popularity, stirred up by a news media dominated by the interests of the rich, replaces true democratic expression. As alternatives to this system drift toward the horizon, Bonapartism is set to become the dominant political regime of our era. Understanding the history of its development and the contradictory forces behind it may permit us to move towards true democracy. Praise for LIBERALISM: A COUNTER-HISTORY ‘Losurdo is almost unbelievably well-read’ - JACOBIN ‘A brilliant exercise in unmasking liberal pretensions, surveying over three centuries with magisterial command of the sources’ - FINANCIAL TIMES ‘Stimulatingly uncovers the contradictions of an ideology that is much too self-righteously invoked’ - PANKAJ MISHRA, GUARDIAN ‘A book of wide reference and real erudition’ - TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ‘The book is a historically grounded, very accessible critique of liberalism, complementing a growing literature critical of liberalism’ - CHOICE Praise for WAR AND REVOLUTION: RETHINKING THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ‘War and Revolution is a relentless document. It is dense and disconcerting. This is precisely why it should be considered one of the most important history books written since 9/11’ - RON JACOBS, COUNTERPUNCH

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1784787337

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Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel

Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet

By: Domenico Losurdo

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Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel

Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet

By: Domenico Losurdo

Perhaps no philosopher is more of a conundrum than Nietzsche, the solitary rebel, poet, wayfarer, anti-revolutionary Aufklärer and theorist of aristocratic radicalism. His accusers identify in his ‘superman’ the origins of Nazism, and thus issue an irrevocable condemnation; his defenders pursue a hermeneutics of innocence founded ultimately in allegory. In a work that constitutes the most important contribution to Nietzschean studies in recent decades, Domenico Losurdo instead pursues a less reductive strategy. Taking literally the ruthless implications of Nietzsche's anti-democratic thinking – his celebration of slavery, of war and colonial expansion, and eugenics – he nevertheless refuses to treat these from the perspective of the mid-twentieth century. In doing so, he restores Nietzsche’s works to their complex nineteenth-century context, and presents a more compelling account of the importance of Nietzsche as philosopher than can be expected from his many contemporary apologists. Translated by Gregor Benton. With an Introduction by Harrison Fluss. Originally published in Italian by Bollati Boringhieri Editore as Domenico Losurdo, Nietzsche, il ribelle aristocratico: Biografia intellettuale e bilancio critico, Turin, 2002.

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9004270957

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The Complete Works, Volume V

For Piano

By: Domenico Scarlatti

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The Complete Works, Volume V

For Piano

By: Domenico Scarlatti

10 Suites (Longo 201-250)

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1457486709

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The Complete Works, Volume VII (In Eleven Volumes and Thematic Index)

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By: Domenico Scarlatti

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The Complete Works, Volume VII (In Eleven Volumes and Thematic Index)

For Piano

By: Domenico Scarlatti

10 Suites (Longo 301-350)

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1457486725

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War and Revolution

Rethinking the Twentieth Century

By: Domenico Losurdo

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War and Revolution

Rethinking the Twentieth Century

By: Domenico Losurdo

War and Revolution identifies and takes to task a reactionary trend among contemporary historians, one that’s grown increasingly apparent in recent years. It’s a revisionist tendency discernible in the work of authors such as Ernst Nolte, who traces the impetus behind the Holocaust to the excesses of the Russian Revolution; or François Furet, who links the Stalinist purges to an “illness” originating with the French Revolution. The intention of these revisionists is to eradicate the revolutionary tradition. Their true motives have little to do with the quest for a greater understanding of the past, but lie in the climate of the present day and the ideological needs of the political classes, as is most clearly seen now in the work of the Anglophone imperial revivalists Paul Johnson and Niall Ferguson. In this vigorous riposte to those who would denigrate the history of emancipatory struggle, Losurdo captivates the reader with a tour de force account of modern revolt, providing a new perspective on the English, American, French and twentieth-century revolutions.

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1781686173

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The Regions of Italy

A Reference Guide to History and Culture

By: Roy P. Domenico

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The Regions of Italy

A Reference Guide to History and Culture

By: Roy P. Domenico

Through most of their history, Italians have identified more with their own locales than with what is now known as Italy. This comprehensive reference allows readers to view the land as its denizens have for centuries--regionally. Domenico superbly surveys the regional and provincial characteristics and culture of the 20 regions, including economy, cuisine, history, recent politics, and arts. This is the only single general reference volume in English on Italy's regions and will be highly in demand by teachers, students of Italian language and culture, and travelers. Italy's enormous contributions to western civilization continue to make it a cultural and economic powerhouse and a top tourist destination. The Regions of Italy succinctly conveys the formidable richness of the whole through its parts, with a user-friendly format that makes it easy to glean the important information on the area of interest. A chronology, glossary, and wide selection of photos accompany the text.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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031301650X

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Trade and Industry in Early Modern Italy

By: Domenico Sella

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Trade and Industry in Early Modern Italy

By: Domenico Sella

This volume brings together a set of classic essays by Domenico Sella in which he reassesses the economic fortunes of Northern Italy, in particular Lombardy and Venice, during the 16th and 17th centuries. In addition, the literature on the economics and society of northern Italy had hitherto dealt primarily with the major cities, Milan, Florence and Venice, and their celebrated manufactures, extensive commercial activities and banking. By contrast their countryside was largely neglected and its population dismissed as an undifferentiated mass of peasants fully engaged in farming. The essays in this volume represent as many soundings into this "long forgotten" rural world. As it turns out, rural communities often harbored handicraft industries, and the latter appear to have avoided the debacle that hit the urban economies and their celebrated manufactures, highly regulated as they were by the guilds, in the face of international competition.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000944816

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Leonardo's Machines

Secrets and Inventions in the Da Vinci Codices

By: Domenico Laurenza

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Leonardo's Machines

Secrets and Inventions in the Da Vinci Codices

By: Domenico Laurenza

Leonardo nasconde un segreto? In realtà ne nasconde molti, basta cercare nelle pagine dei suoi codici, nelle migliaia di disegni di macchine o di parti di esse che quei codici contengono. Misteri e segreti che in questo libro vengono alla luce nella loro realtà progettuale. Dalle descrizioni e dai disegni dello scienziato, attraverso la rielaborazione digitale riemergono nella loro compiutezza e funzionalità imbarcazioni corazzate, argani e macchinari destinati al volo, alla guerra, al lavoro, alle imprese idrauliche. Un'operazione di ricostruzione virtuale che ha richiesto anni di studi e di applicazione e ha ottenuto il risultato di rendere accessibili le invenzioni nascoste tra le pagine dei codici leonardeschi.

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8809043634

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9788809043633

Semiotics of the Christian Imagination

Signs of the Fall and Redemption

By: Domenico Pietropaolo

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Semiotics of the Christian Imagination

Signs of the Fall and Redemption

By: Domenico Pietropaolo

The semiotics of the Christian imagination describes the repository of signs and the logic of signification through which a community of faith envisions spiritual truths. This book analyses various examples in text, images, music, art and scientific treatise of the imaginative semiotisation of the fall of Man and the Church's semiotic perception of the Divine plan for Redemption. The book includes a chapter detailing the theory of signs, based on a close reading of primary sources, and has nine further chapters on the meaning-making inherent in ideas of the Fall and Redemption of mankind. These are filtered through and given material representation by the semiotic paradigms of various cultural fields, including philology, verbal arts and science. Central to this practice - and to the book's message - are two themes of theological semiotics fundamental to man's understanding of himself in the larger scheme of things. Two of these include the theology of the Fall and a sacramental theory of signs. The theory is grounded in the doctrine of analogy, and this is the only reliable cognitive link between the immanence of the thinking subject and the transcendence that is the object of thought.

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1350064130

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9781350064133

Raffaele Pettazzoni and Herbert Jennings Rose, Correspondence 1927–1958

The Long Friendship between the Author and the Translator of The All-Knowing God. With an Appendix of Documents

By: Domenico Accorinti

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Raffaele Pettazzoni and Herbert Jennings Rose, Correspondence 1927–1958

The Long Friendship between the Author and the Translator of The All-Knowing God. With an Appendix of Documents

By: Domenico Accorinti

Raffaele Pettazzoni (1883–1959), Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Rome and one of the leading historians of religions in the twentieth century, maintained a long correspondence with Herbert Jennings Rose (1883–1961), the gifted Canadian scholar who was Professor of Greek at St Andrews and is best known for his work in the field of ancient religion and folklore. These letters, spanning the years 1927 to 1958, bear witness to the close relationship between the two scholars and focus on two of Pettazzoni’s books, both translated by Rose: Essays on the History of Religions (1954) and The All-Knowing God (1956). They also shed light on Pettazzoni’s initiative to the foundation of the journal NVMEN (1954), and reveal Rose’s brilliant personality.

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9004272240

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9789004272248

Italy in the Seventeenth Century

By: Domenico Sella

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Italy in the Seventeenth Century

By: Domenico Sella

In his comprehensive overview of 17th century Italy, Professor Sella challenges the old view that Italy was in general decline, instead he shows it to have been a time of sharp contrasts and shifts in fortune. He starts with a balanced and critical analysis of political developments (placing the Italian states in their wider European context) before assessing the state of the economy. He then looks in depth at society, religion, and culture and science and in particular reassesses the influence of the Counter Reformation on Italian life. His book ends with an engrossing account of the life and work of Galileo as well as an overview of the important and often neglected contributions made by other scientists in the later part of the century. This rich and balanced volume is an ideal introduction to early modern Italy, and provides a critical revaluation of a much misunderstood period in the country's history.

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Routledge

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131790074X

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Mechanism, Experiment, Disease

Marcello Malpighi and Seventeenth-Century Anatomy

By: Domenico Bertoloni Meli

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Mechanism, Experiment, Disease

Marcello Malpighi and Seventeenth-Century Anatomy

By: Domenico Bertoloni Meli

A leading early modern anatomist and physician, Marcello Malpighi often compared himself to that period’s other great mind—Galileo. Domenico Bertoloni Meli here explores Malpighi’s work and places it in the context of seventeenth-century intellectual life. Malpighi’s interests were wide and varied. As a professor at the University of Bologna, he confirmed William Harvey’s theory of the circulation of blood; published groundbreaking studies of human organs; made important discoveries about the anatomy of silkworms; and examined the properties of plants. He sought to apply his findings to medical practice. By analyzing Malpighi’s work, the author provides novel perspectives not only on the history of anatomy but also on the histories of science, philosophy, and medicine. Through the lens of Malpighi and his work, Bertoloni Meli investigates a range of important themes, from sense perception to the meaning of Galenism in the seventeenth century. Bertoloni Meli contends that to study science and medicine in the seventeenth century one needs to understand how scholars and ideas crossed disciplinary boundaries. He examines Malpighi’s work within this context, describing how anatomical knowledge was achieved and transmitted and how those processes interacted with the experimental and mechanical philosophies, natural history, and medical practice. Malpighi was central in all of these developments, and his work helped redefine the intellectual horizon of the time. Bertoloni Meli’s critical study of this key figure and the works of his contemporaries—including Borelli, Swammerdam, Redi, and Ruysch—opens a wonderful window onto the scientific and medical worlds of the seventeenth century.

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JHU Press

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080189980X

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The Complete Works, Volume VIII (In Eleven Volumes and Thematic Index)

For Piano

By: Domenico Scarlatti

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The Complete Works, Volume VIII (In Eleven Volumes and Thematic Index)

For Piano

By: Domenico Scarlatti

Expertly arranged Piano music by Domenico Scarlatti from the Kalmus Edition series. This volume includes 10 suites (Longo 351-400) from the Baroque era.

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Alfred Music

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1457486733

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Viaggio da fermo

By: Domenico Adonini

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Viaggio da fermo

By: Domenico Adonini

Non è sperimentare maggiormente dubitare? Scrivere da sempre e sempre non saper come scrivere...

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1291135200

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The Complete Works, Volume III

For Piano

By: Domenico Scarlatti

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The Complete Works, Volume III

For Piano

By: Domenico Scarlatti

Expertly arranged Piano music by Domenico Scarlatti from the Kalmus Edition series. This volume includes 10 suites (Longo 101-150) from the Baroque era.

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1457486687

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The Devil and the Dolce Vita

Catholic Attempts to Save Italy's Soul, 1948-1974

By: Roy Domenico

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The Devil and the Dolce Vita

Catholic Attempts to Save Italy's Soul, 1948-1974

By: Roy Domenico

Italy’s economic expansion after World War Two triggered significant social and cultural change. Secularization accompanied this development and triggered alarm bells across the nation’s immense Catholic community. The Devil and the Dolce Vita is the story of that community – the church of Popes Pius XII, John XXIII and Paul VI, the lay Catholic Action association, and the Christian Democratic Party – and their efforts in a series of culture wars to preserve a traditional way of life and to engage and tame the challenges of a rapidly modernizing society. Roy Domenico begins this study during the heady days of the April 1948 Christian Democratic electoral triumph and ends when pro-divorce forces dealt the Catholics a defeat in the referendum of May 1974 where their hopes crashed and probably ended. Between those two dates Catholics engaged secularists in a number of battles – many over film and television censorship, encountering such figures as Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. The Venice Film Festival became a locus in the fight as did places like Pozzonovo, near Padua, where the Catholics directed their energies against a Communist youth organization; and Prato in Tuscany where the bishop led a fight to preserve church weddings. Concern with proper decorum led to more skirmishes on beaches and at resorts over modest attire and beauty pageants. By the 1960s and 1970s other issues, such as feminism, a new frankness about sexual relations, and the youth rebellion emerged to contribute to a perfect storm that led to the divorce referendum and widespread despair in the Catholic camp.

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CUA Press

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0813234336

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Vergil in the Middle Ages

By: Domenico Comparetti

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Vergil in the Middle Ages

By: Domenico Comparetti

From its first complete Italian printing in 1872 up to the present day, Domenico Comparetti's Vergil in the Middle Ages has been acknowledged as a masterpiece, regarded by some critics as "a true and proper history of European consciousness from antiquity to Dante." Treating Vergil's poetry as a foundation of Latin European identity, Comparetti seeks to give a complete history of the medieval conception of the preeminent poet. Scholars of the time had transformed Vergil into a sage and a seer, a type of universal philosopher--even a Christian poet and a guide of a Christian poet. In the mid-twelfth century, there surfaced legends that converted Vergil into a magician, endowing him with supernatural powers. Comparetti explores the ongoing interest in Vergil's poetry as it appeared in popular folklore and legends as well as in medieval classical scholarship. This great synthesizing work, which has been unavailable for over twenty years, is now back in print, based on E.F.M. Benecke's 1895 translation of the Italian second edition. Comparetti begins with the period in which Vergil lived and goes on to evaluate how the later images, particularly the legends, of Vergil coincide with the more scholarly accounts of his life. The result is a grand sweep of literary history from the first century B.C.E. through the end of the Middle Ages, with implications for the nineteenth century and the rise of Italian nationalism.

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Princeton University Press

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0691231249

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9780691231242

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