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Football, Power, and Politics in Argentina

By: Eugenio Paradiso

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Football, Power, and Politics in Argentina

By: Eugenio Paradiso

This book examines the interplay between football, politics, violence, passion, and morality in Argentina. Drawing on original ethnographic research, it considers the role of fans, club officials, politicians, and others in the spread and perpetuation of corruption and violence within football and in wider Argentinian society. Argentina’s triumph in the 2022 World Cup brought millions onto the streets of Buenos Aires in celebration, but this book argues that beneath the veneer of sporting success lie networks of power and practices that have naturalized corruption and violence within Argentinian football and, by extension, in Argentinian society as a whole. It shows how the actions of club officials, politicians, barras (groups of organized, violent fans), and the police, which together represent a system of clientelism, exemplify in the world of football the system of organized chaos that habitually defines Argentinian politics. With the barras given licence to engage in violent behaviours linked not only to sporting passion but also to economic and political interests, this book argues that football, politics, and violence have become entangled in a web of social relations that illustrate Argentina’s struggle to break the vicious cycle of corruption and impunity. Shining new light on the significance of sport in wider society and the centrality of football in one of the world’s greatest footballing nations, this book is essential reading for anybody with an interest in the anthropology, sociology, politics, or history of sport, or in political science, corruption, or Latin American studies.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040012957

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9781040012956

Darkening the Italian Screen II

Interviews with Genre and Exploitation Directors Who Debuted in the 1970s

By: Eugenio Ercolani

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Darkening the Italian Screen II

Interviews with Genre and Exploitation Directors Who Debuted in the 1970s

By: Eugenio Ercolani

This work is a detailed portrait of one of the most important, bustling and absurd industries that cinema has ever known: colorful essays and nine career-spanning interviews with Italian genre directors of the 1970s, such as Luigi Cozzi, Francesco Barilli, Lamberto Bava and more. The directors reflect on their successes, failures and experiences directing films in the Italian westerns, sci-fi and horror genres. Following the anecdotes, gossip and controversies of the industry, the essays employ critical analyses to fully unveil the Italian genre cinema, as well as its impact on films across the world.

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253

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McFarland

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1476690367

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9781476690360

The Vernacular Aristotle

Translation as Reception in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

By: Eugenio Refini

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The Vernacular Aristotle

Translation as Reception in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

By: Eugenio Refini

The first study of the reception of Aristotle in Medieval and Renaissance Italy that considers the ethical dimension of translation.

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297

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Cambridge University Press

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1108481817

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9781108481816

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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Rodopi

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904202321X

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9789042023215

Butterfly of Dinard

By: Eugenio Montale

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Butterfly of Dinard

By: Eugenio Montale

The great poet Eugenio Montale was also a remarkable writer of prose whose stories appeared regularly in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. Butterfly of Dinard is a collection of fifty of those stories, pieces about “silly and trivial things which are at the same time important,” whose sprightliness, subtle irony, and conversational ease defy the limits of traditional fiction. Taken together, they form a sort of autobiographical novel, evoking people, objects, and animals dear to the poet, while simultaneously shedding light on the social, cultural, and political events of the day. The book begins with Montale’s childhood in Liguria and goes on to explore his adult life in pre-Fascist Florence and the onset of Fascism. The last part of the book, focusing on his final years in Milan, forms what Jonathan Galassi in his introduction calls “a mosaic self-portrait of the writer himself, a bumbling yet proud, memory-obsessed Chaplinesque antihero, who sees himself as the only surviving, if unwilling, witness to a disappearing world.” The stories were first published in book form in 1956; Montale added further stories to subsequent editions, culminating in the final 1973 edition. Butterfly of Dinard is the first complete translation of this edition and includes five stories never before translated into English.

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233

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New York Review of Books

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1681378167

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9781681378169

Paroimia: Brusantino, Florio, Sarnelli, and Italian Proverbs From the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

By: Daniela D’Eugenio

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Paroimia: Brusantino, Florio, Sarnelli, and Italian Proverbs From the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

By: Daniela D’Eugenio

Proverbs constitute a rich archive of historical, cultural, and linguistic significance that affect genres and linguistics codes. They circulate through writers, texts, and communities in a process that ultimately results in modifications in their structure and meanings. Hence, context plays a crucial role in defining proverbs as well as in determining their interpretation. Vincenzo Brusantino’s Le cento novella (1554), John Florio’s Firste Fruites (1578) and Second Frutes (1591), and Pompeo Sarnelli’s Posilecheata (1684) offer clear representations of how traditional wisdom and communal knowledge reflect the authors’ personal perspectives on society, culture, and literature. The analysis of the three authors’ proverbs through comparisons with classical, medieval, and early modern collections of maxims and sententiae provides insights on the fluidity of such expressions, and illustrates the tight relationship between proverbs and sociocultural factors. Brusantino’s proverbs introduce ethical interpretations to the one hundred novellas of Boccaccio’s The Decameron, which he rewrites in octaves of hendecasyllables. His text appeals to Counter-Reformation society and its demand for a comprehensible and immediately applicable morality. In Florio’s two bilingual manuals, proverbs fulfill a need for language education in Elizabethan England through authentic and communicative instruction. Florio manipulates the proverbs’ vocabulary and syntax to fit the context of his dialogues, best demonstrating the value of learning Italian in a foreign country. Sarnelli’s proverbs exemplify the inherent creative and expressive potentialities of the Neapolitan dialect vis-à-vis languages with a more robust literary tradition. As moral maxims, ironic assessments, or witty insertions, these proverbs characterize the Neapolitan community in which the fables take place.

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623

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Purdue University Press

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1612496733

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9781612496733

Darkening the Italian Screen

Interviews with Genre and Exploitation Directors Who Debuted in the 1950s and 1960s

By: Eugenio Ercolani

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Darkening the Italian Screen

Interviews with Genre and Exploitation Directors Who Debuted in the 1950s and 1960s

By: Eugenio Ercolani

The birth and rise of popular Italian cinema since the early 1950s can be attributed purely to necessity. The vast number of genres, sub-genres, currents and crossovers and the way they have overlapped, died out or replaced each other has been an attempt, in postwar years, to contain the invasion of U.S. product while satisfying the demands the American industry had created in Italy. The author explores one of the most multi-faceted and contradictory industries cinema has ever known through the careers of those most closely associated with it. His recorded interviews were conducted with directors and actors both well-known and upcoming.

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335

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McFarland

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1476635382

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9781476635385

Pot Pourri

Whistlings of an Idler

By: Eugenio Cambaceres

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Pot Pourri

Whistlings of an Idler

By: Eugenio Cambaceres

Eugenio Cambaceres was the first to introduce the naturalist manner of Emile Zola to Argentinean literature in the late nineteenth century. The work of Cambaceres, a precursor to the contemporary Argentinean novel, is crucial for an understanding of the period of consolidation of Argentina, the formation of a national identity, and especially for the role of the intellectual during that transition. This gereation theoretically and methodically built up a literature with features of its own, stressing the cultural primacy of Buenos Aires par excellence, to enhance the evolution of the cosmopolitan metropolis. A rich dandy narrates Pot Pourri, relating a story of marriage and adultery during the carnival celebrations. The volume editor, Josefina Ludmer, describes the dandy as an ambiguous protagonist who acts both as a reflection and a critic of the liberal state. As a new addition to the already-acclaimed Library of Latin America, Pot Pourri should find its rightful place with the ever-growing audience for Latin American literature.

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187

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Oxford University Press

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019993892X

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9780199938926

Late Montale

By: Eugenio Montale

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Late Montale

By: Eugenio Montale

Late Montale is a generous selection of the poems that the Nobel laureate Eugenio Montale wrote in the last decade of his life, including many drawn from notebooks he entrusted to his housekeeper, which appear here in English for the first time. In new translations by the American poet George Bradley that carry over all the wit and lucidity of the originals, each poem takes on a fresh immediacy. Together, they form an ideal introduction for readers unfamiliar with these late works, and for readers who have long admired them, a sparkling reminder of their subtle art of disillusion and surprise.

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New York Review of Books

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168137837X

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Afro-Cuban Religious Experience

Cultural Reflections in Narrative

By: Eugenio Matibag

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Afro-Cuban Religious Experience

Cultural Reflections in Narrative

By: Eugenio Matibag

The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic. They examine topics critical to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, and tourism. They look at the growth of Florida and the Caribbean and the attendant pressures on the environment, culture, urban development, and the movement of peoples, both forced and voluntary. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series gathers the rich data available in these architectural, archaeological, cultural, and historical works, as well as the travelogues and naturalists’ sketches of the area in prior to the twentieth century, making it accessible for scholars and the general public alike. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series is made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, under the Humanities Open Books program.

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University Press of Florida

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1947372610

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9781947372610

Gladstone

By: Eugenio F. Biagini

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Gladstone

By: Eugenio F. Biagini

Gladstone focuses on the public side of the statesman's life and on those aspects of his private life - such as his religious beliefs and family life - which most affected his career. Besides reflecting the current state of the debate, this study draws on the author's own work in progress on various aspects of Victorian liberalism, including political charisma and nationalism. With its thematic approach, Dr Biagini's short, clear analysis offers an exciting introduction and a flexible teaching aid, with a guide to further reading. Gladstone focuses on the public side of the statesman's life and on those aspects of his private life - such as his religious beliefs and family life - which most affected his career. Besides reflecting the current state of the debate, this study draws on the author's own work in progress on various aspects of Victorian liberalism, including political charisma and nationalism. With its thematic approach, Dr Biagini's short, clear analysis offers an exciting introduction and a flexible teaching aid, with a guide to further reading. A new biographical study of the quintessential Victorian statesman The book has an unusual thematic approach making it easy to look up specific questions Uses a wide range of source material to shed light on Gladstone's life and work

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152

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1349878677

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9781349878673

Il Sole nella Testa

By: EUGENIO CONTATORE

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Il Sole nella Testa

By: EUGENIO CONTATORE

Il mio primo romanzo sui pensieri, illusioni e disillusioni di un giovane 52-enne alle soglie della maturità. Musica, Filosofia, arte, amore, dolore, passioni, e gioie danzano nella storia di Paolo e dei suoi cari.

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Lulu.com

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1300675810

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Football, Power, and Politics in Argentina

By: Eugenio Paradiso

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Football, Power, and Politics in Argentina

By: Eugenio Paradiso

This book examines the interplay between football, politics, violence, passion and morality in Argentina. Drawing on original ethnographic research, it considers the role of fans, club officials, politicians and others in the spread and perpetuation of corruption and violence within football and in wider Argentinian society.

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Football, Power, and Politics in Argentina

Football, Power, and Politics in Argentina

Darkening the Italian Screen II

Darkening the Italian Screen II

The Vernacular Aristotle

The Vernacular Aristotle

History of Italian Philosophy

History of Italian Philosophy

Butterfly of Dinard

Butterfly of Dinard

Paroimia: Brusantino, Florio, Sarnelli, and Italian Proverbs From the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Paroimia: Brusantino, Florio, Sarnelli, and Italian Proverbs From the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Darkening the Italian Screen

Darkening the Italian Screen

Pot Pourri

Pot Pourri

Late Montale

Late Montale

Afro-Cuban Religious Experience

Afro-Cuban Religious Experience

Gladstone

Gladstone

Il Sole nella Testa

Il Sole nella Testa

Football, Power, and Politics in Argentina

Football, Power, and Politics in Argentina

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