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The Last Soldiers of the King

Wartime Italy, 1943-1945

By: Eugenio Corti

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The Last Soldiers of the King

Wartime Italy, 1943-1945

By: Eugenio Corti

Of the remnant of Italian officers and men, as they sought to reestablish themselves as Italian soldiers. The Last Soldiers of the King tells the story of a proud people forced to endure death, poverty, and the virtual destruction of their nation." --Book Jacket.

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0826264379

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The Red Horse

A Novel

By: Eugenio Corti

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The Red Horse

A Novel

By: Eugenio Corti

A literary phenomenon in Italy, this European best-seller was voted the best Italian novel of the decade in a public survey. Its success has gone way beyond Italy, having been translated into Spanish, French, Japanese and 3 other languages. This epic historical novel about World War II and after, written from the author's own personal experiences as an Italian Freedom Fighter, is a profoundly moving account of the war, those who fought in it on both sides, and the effects the war had on families in the author's hometown in northern Italy. On a wider scale, it is a faithful witness to the actual events of the war-including the historic personages who appear, the Russian campaign, the Nazi barbarism, the Communist gulag, the North Italian resistance, and beyond to the political life in the two decades after the war. This world, filled with powerful personalities, drama and clashing armies, bathes in the complex light of the truth. A truly great historical novel with its epic scope, what makes this a masterpiece is the underlying spiritual dimensions of the protagonist, his family and friends, which illuminates the ongoing tragedy of the war and its aftermath. In the end, it is a story of faith and hope in a world reduced to barbarism and cruelty. Born in 1921 in Lombardy, Eugenio Corti joined the Italian Freedom Fighters. From his experiences of the tragic retreat from Russia, Corti wrote a fascinating chronicle, Most Did Not Return, and a book about the Italian Freedom Fighters, The Last Soldiers of the King.

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Ignatius Press

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1681495384

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9781681495385

Few Returned

Twenty-eight Days on the Russian Front, Winter 1942-1943

By: Eugenio Corti

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Few Returned

Twenty-eight Days on the Russian Front, Winter 1942-1943

By: Eugenio Corti

Don by enemy forces who far outnumbered them. To break out of this encirclement, these men undertook a desperate march across the snow, with constant engagements and in temperatures ranging from -20 to -30 degrees Fahrenheit. Whereas supplies were air-dropped to the Germans, the predicament of the Italians was far more difficult: lacking gasoline, they were compelled to abandon their vehicles and to proceed without heavy arms, equipment, ammunition, or provisions. Even.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826211151

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9780826211156

The Renaissance courtesan in words, letters and images

Social amphibology and moral framing (A diachronic perspective)

By: Eugenio Giusti

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The Renaissance courtesan in words, letters and images

Social amphibology and moral framing (A diachronic perspective)

By: Eugenio Giusti

Although throughout history women had been confined to enclosed spaces, the advent of courtly life and culture required that men and women would share and interact in public arenas like the princely courts, intellectual salons, or gambling houses. But also in all of these public spaces behavioral rules and regulations aimed to control women’s body by equating honesty with chastity. In this monograph I analyze how in the XVI, XVII, and XVIII centuries women in general, and in particular prostitutes and courtesans, repeatedly challenged those rules in the attempt to affirm their individual freedom. I call this behavior «social amphibology », as just like amphibians these women were able to cross class boundaries and thrive in different social environments. My analysis has three complementary approaches. First, an historical approach where census documents and sumptuary laws are investigated in order to describe the ways in which the political establishment unsuccessfully attempts to enforce its rules over women’s behavior. Second, a literary approach where works by Castigione, Aretino, Bandello, and Veronica Franco are analyzed in order to emphasize the terminological proximity between the legal and the literary languages, and the evolution of the term «courtesan» with its attribute «honest». A third – visual – approach looks at prints of women’s clothing, made by XVI and XVII century artists.The iconographic similarity of all of the images requires a set of rubrics or labels, as a way to control such visual amphibology. In the last segment of this monograph I apply a diachronic perspective to these visual representations as I show how contemporary art historians use the same means of categorization, used in previous centuries, to identify – without any definite proof – paintings and prints included in two recent art exhibitions.

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LED Edizioni Universitarie

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8879167049

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9788879167048

The Paper Canoe

A Guide to Theatre Anthropology

By: Eugenio Barba

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The Paper Canoe

A Guide to Theatre Anthropology

By: Eugenio Barba

An enormously exciting, beautifully written and very moving work. The Paper Canoe comprises a fascinating dialogue with such masters of theatre as Stanislavski, Meyerhold, Craig, Copeau, Brecht, Artand and Decroux.

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Routledge

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113481819X

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9781134818198

Mozart Transcriptions for Organ

By: Eugenio Maria Fagiani

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Mozart Transcriptions for Organ

By: Eugenio Maria Fagiani

Transcriptions are essentially a way to teach and to introduce people to the great symphonic and opera music. It is also an ancient musical practice which consist of modelling on one's owninstrument a music page which was intended for another one (or, more often, other ones), in order to create thus the impression that the page was written since the very beginning for that instrument.This Transcriptions Collection was born from my desire to extend to a greater audience those compositions which, even though they are well known, are seldom presented during live performances. Together with this, it is a music project deploying within the tradition of the great transcriptions by Edwin Lemare and David Briggs.Contents: Allegro con brio (I, Symphony nÂ° 25, g minor, K. 183); Adagio (III, Gran Partita, K. 361, Eb major); Allegro Moderato (I, Symphony nÂ° 29, A major, K. 201); Symphony nÂ° 35, Haffner (D major, K. 385, Complete); The Magic Flute, Ouverture; The Abduction from the Seraglio, Ouverture.

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142

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Lulu.com

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1445281856

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9781445281858

La Gazza Ladra Ouverture Rossini Transcription for Organ

By: Eugenio Maria Fagiani

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La Gazza Ladra Ouverture Rossini Transcription for Organ

By: Eugenio Maria Fagiani

The Ouvertures by Gioacchino Rossini are a milestone of the Italian instrumental music production of all times. They are not only an introduction to an opera, but also a sort of small symphonic poems that illustrate the spirit of the opera they open.The ouverture of "La Gazza Ladra" presents all the Rossini's characteristics: melodic invention, brilliant and shining instrumentation; spontaneousness and exuberance; insistent rhythmics; the use of the famous "Crescendo Rossiniano"; closed form. The main themes that appear in this composition are two of the most famous in Rossini's production, and this success is testified by the huge use of these themes made by the media.

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1445283336

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Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literature

By: Eugenio Bolongaro

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Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literature

By: Eugenio Bolongaro

Looking at five of Italo Calvino's often neglected early novels: The Young People of Po, The Cloven Viscount, The Baron in the Trees, The Non-Existent Knight, and The Watcher, Eugenio Bolongaro argues that these works, written between 1948 and 1963, contain a sustained meditation on the role of the intellectual and on the irreducible ethical and political dimension of literature. This meditation provides an insight into a crucial moment in Calvino's development as a writer, and allows Bolongaro to lay the groundwork for a more 'political' reading of Calvino's later work. Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literature firmly situates Calvino within his historical context - the cultural revival of post-World War II Italy - by relating these early novels to Calvino's political and critical writings which played an important role in the cultural debates of the time. This approach provides a key to understanding Calvino's work in a new light, ably demonstrating that Calvino's full literary significance cannot be understood in isolation from the politics and cultural movements of the period. One of the few book-length English-language works on Calvino's early writings, Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literatur will prove to be an indispensable tool to Italianists and literary studies scholars.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802087639

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Consciousness

Theories in Neuroscience and Philosophy of Mind

By: Andrea Eugenio Cavanna,Andrea Nani

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Consciousness

Theories in Neuroscience and Philosophy of Mind

By: Andrea Eugenio Cavanna,Andrea Nani

This book reviews some of the most important scientific and philosophical theories concerning the nature of mind and consciousness. Current theories on the mind-body problem and the neural correlates of consciousness are presented through a series of biographical sketches of the most influential thinkers across the fields of philosophy of mind, psychology and neuroscience. The book is divided into two parts: the first is dedicated to philosophers of mind and the second, to neuroscientists/experimental psychologists. Each part comprises twenty short chapters, with each chapter being dedicated to one author. A brief introduction is given on his or her life and most important works and influences. The most influential theory/ies developed by each author are then carefully explained and examined with the aim of scrutinizing the strengths and weaknesses of the different approaches to the nature of consciousness.

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Springer

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3662440881

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9783662440889

A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology

The Secret Art of the Performer

By: Eugenio Barba,Nicola Savarese

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A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology

The Secret Art of the Performer

By: Eugenio Barba,Nicola Savarese

First Published in 2005. A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology subtly juxtaposes visual demonstrations of the performer’s craft, from a wealth of Eastern and Western sources. More than just a dictionary, this is a handbook for theatre practitioners and a guide for students and scholars of transcultural performance. It is the result of many years of research conducted by Eugenio Barba and the International School of Theatre Anthropology (ISTA) based in Denmark, and is now a classic foundational text. Whereas most Western research is concerned with naturalism and psychological realism in acting, the Dictionary focuses on the actor’s arduous and eclectic craft. The Dictionary aims to expand our knowledge of the possibilities of the scenic body, and of the spectator’s response to the dynamics of performance. The Dictionary has practical sections on balance, opposition and montage among other techniques, and discusses issues including The Text and the Stage, The Dilated Body and Energetic Language. This revised edition includes: three new chapters on Eurasian Theatre, Exercises and Organicity; 50 new photographs showing the performer’s craft in black and white and colour; and, for the first time, a useful bibliography and index.

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1135176345

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9781135176341

Developments in Tryptophan and Serotonin Metabolism

By: Graziella Allegri,Carlo V.L. Costa,Eugenio Ragazzi,Hans Steinhart,Luigi Laresio

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Developments in Tryptophan and Serotonin Metabolism

By: Graziella Allegri,Carlo V.L. Costa,Eugenio Ragazzi,Hans Steinhart,Luigi Laresio

This volume contains the proceedings of the Tenth International Meeting of the International Study Group for Tryptophan Research (ISTR V), held at the University of Padova, Padova, Italy, from 25-29 June, 2002 under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) in Roma, the University of Padova, the Italian Chemical Society - Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, the Veneto Region and the City of Padova. The meeting was organized to cover the recent developments in the field of tryptophan research. Weare very honoured that so many speakers accepted our invitation to give plenary lectures which, with the other communications, demonstrated the high scientific value of the Meeting. The publications in this volume are subdivided into nine main chapters, and cover all the major aspects in immunology, neurobiology, psychiatry, pathology, clinics, metabolism, enzymology, pharmacology, toxicology, melatonin, exercise and analytical chemistry. The volume includes the contributions of 325 scientists from 24 countries, and the Musajo Memorial Lecture delivered by Prof. Osamu Hayaishi during the Opening Ceremony.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461501350

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History of Italian Philosophy

By: Eugenio Garin

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History of Italian Philosophy

By: Eugenio Garin

This book is a treasure house of Italian philosophy. Narrating and explaining the history of Italian philosophers from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, the author identifies the specificity, peculiarity, originality, and novelty of Italian philosophical thought in the men and women of the Renaissance. The vast intellectual output of the Renaissance can be traced back to a single philosophical stream beginning in Florence and fed by numerous converging human factors. This work offers historians and philosophers a vast survey and penetrating analysis of an intellectual tradition which has heretofore remained virtually unknown to the Anglophonic world of scholarship.

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9401205221

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9789401205221

The Last Soldiers of the King

Wartime Italy, 1943-1945

By: Eugenio Corti

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Wartime Italy, 1943-1945

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The Red Horse

A Novel

By: Eugenio Corti

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A Novel

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Red Horse

By: Eugenio Corti

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Red Horse

By: Eugenio Corti

A literary phenomenon in Italy, The Red Horse, a European bestseller, was voted the best Italian novel of the decade in a public survey. This epic historical novel about WW2 & after, written from the author's own personal experiences as an Italian Freedom Fighter, is a moving account of the war, those who fought in it on both sides, & the effects the war had on families in the author's hometown in Italy. On a wider scale, it is a faithful witness to the actual events of the war -- including the role of historic personages who appear, the Russian campaign, the Nazi barbarism, the Communist gulag, the North Italian resistance, & political life in the two decades following the war. It is a story of faith & hope in a world reduced to barbarism & cruelty.

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0756766699

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The Three Astronauts

By: Umberto Eco,Eugenio Carmi

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The Three Astronauts

By: Umberto Eco,Eugenio Carmi

Each wants to be the first on Mars, but they all land at the same time.

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Harvill Secker

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The Last Soldiers of the King

The Last Soldiers of the King

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The Red Horse

Few Returned

Few Returned

The Renaissance courtesan in words, letters and images

The Renaissance courtesan in words, letters and images

The Paper Canoe

The Paper Canoe

Mozart Transcriptions for Organ

Mozart Transcriptions for Organ

La Gazza Ladra Ouverture Rossini Transcription for Organ

La Gazza Ladra Ouverture Rossini Transcription for Organ

Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literature

Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literature

Consciousness

Consciousness

A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology

A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology

Developments in Tryptophan and Serotonin Metabolism

Developments in Tryptophan and Serotonin Metabolism

History of Italian Philosophy

History of Italian Philosophy

The Last Soldiers of the King

The Last Soldiers of the King

The Red Horse

The Red Horse

Red Horse

Red Horse

The Three Astronauts

The Three Astronauts

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