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The Renaissance in Italy

A Social and Cultural History of the Rinascimento

By: Guido Ruggiero

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The Renaissance in Italy

A Social and Cultural History of the Rinascimento

By: Guido Ruggiero

This book offers a rich and exciting new way of thinking about the Italian Renaissance as both a historical period and a historical movement. Guido Ruggiero's work is based on archival research and new insights of social and cultural history and literary criticism, with a special emphasis on everyday culture, gender, violence, and sexuality. The book offers a vibrant and relevant critical study of a period too long burdened by anachronistic and outdated ways of thinking about the past. Familiar, yet alien; pre-modern, but suggestively post-modern; attractive and troubling, this book returns the Italian Renaissance to center stage in our past and in our historical analysis.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521895200

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Binding Passions

Tales of Magic, Marriage, and Power at the End of the Renaissance

By: Guido Ruggiero

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Tales of Magic, Marriage, and Power at the End of the Renaissance

By: Guido Ruggiero

Mining the rich Venetian archives, especially the unusually detailed records of Venice's own branch of the Roman Inquisition, Guido Ruggiero provides a strikingly new and provocative interpretation of the end of the Renaissance in Italy. In this boldly structured work, he develops five narrative accounts of individual encounters with the Inquisition that illustrate the double-edged metaphor of how passions were both bound by late Renaissance society and were seen in turn as binding people. In this way new perspectives are opened on magic, witchcraft, love, marriage, gender, and discipline at the level of the community and beyond. Witches, courtesans, prostitutes, women healers, nobles, Cardinals, and renegade priests and monks speak from these pages describing their lives, beliefs, hopes, fears, and lies. With an imaginative flair for storytelling and impeccable scholarship, Ruggiero exposes the rich complexity of the culture and poetics of the everyday at the end of the Renaissance and illuminates a previously unexplored chapter in Italian history.

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6610526524

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9786610526529

Binding Passions

Tales of Magic, Marriage, and Power at the End of the Renaissance

By: Guido Ruggiero

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Tales of Magic, Marriage, and Power at the End of the Renaissance

By: Guido Ruggiero

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Oxford University Press

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0190282053

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9780190282059

The "Divine" Guido

Religion, Sex, Money, and Art in the World of Guido Reni

By: Richard E. Spear,Guido Reni

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The "Divine" Guido

Religion, Sex, Money, and Art in the World of Guido Reni

By: Richard E. Spear,Guido Reni

In this highly original study of Italian baroque master Guido Reni (1575-1642), Richard Spear paints a compelling portrait of the artist - his complexities, his formative experiences, his cultural surroundings, and his unique sensibilities. Spear views Reni's career from a wide variety of perspectives and sets his life and works in social, economic, historical, artistic, religious, and psychological contexts. The author focuses first on Reni's peculiar character: a man at once deeply religious, rabidly misogynist, reportedly virginal, neurotically fearful of witches, and addicted to gambling. The author considers the enduring charisma of Reni's Crucifixions, weeping Marys, and repentant saints in the light of the Catholic doctrinal meaning of grace in Reni's time, the Church's attitude toward Mary and women, and the gendered implications of visual grace. Chapters on Reni's pricing policies, selling strategies, use of assistants, and attitude toward what constituted an "original", expose the motivating importance of money for Reni, and the concerns, even among seventeenth-century collectors, about how to distinguish original paintings from studio replicas or copies. The book investigates the ways renaissance and baroque attitudes toward art-making affected Reni and closes with a fresh view of Reni's unfinished canvases and last style, including the Divine Love, the beautiful and unusual painting that remained in Reni's studio at the time of his death.

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454

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Yale University Press

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0300070357

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9780300070354

The Right to be Oneself

By: Guido Alpa

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The Right to be Oneself

By: Guido Alpa

What does the right to be oneself entail? And how is it manifest in our understanding of the law? The leading commentator on this subject explores these questions, taking an ambitious and multi-faceted approach. To answer them, he draws on private law, jurisprudence, constitutional law, as well as history, art and literature. This treatise, translated from the Italian original and expanded to give a more international perspective, is the seminal work on the development of identity-protection through law.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1509972463

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9781509972463

America in Italian Culture

The Rise of a New Model of Modernity, 1861-1943

By: Guido Bonsaver

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America in Italian Culture

The Rise of a New Model of Modernity, 1861-1943

By: Guido Bonsaver

When America began to emerge as a world power at the end of the nineteenth century, Italy was a young nation, recently unified. The technological advances brought about by electricity and the combustion engine were vastly speeding up the capacity of news, ideas, and artefacts to travel internationally. Furthermore, improved literacy and social reforms had produced an Italian working class with increased time, money, and education. At the turn of the century, if Italy's ruling elite continued the tradition of viewing Paris as a model of sophistication and good taste, millions of lowly-educated Italians began to dream of America, and many bought a transatlantic ticket to migrate there. By the 1920s, Italians were encountering America through Hollywood films and, thanks to illustrated magazines, they were mesmerised by the sight of Manhattan's futuristic skyline and by news of American lifestyle. The USA offered a model of modernity which flouted national borders and spoke to all. It could be snubbed, adored, or transformed for one's personal use, but it could not be ignored. Perversely, Italy was by then in the hands of a totalitarian dictatorship, Mussolini's Fascism. What were the effects of the nationalistic policies and campaigns aimed at protecting Italians from this supposedly pernicious foreign influence? What did Mussolini think of America? Why were jazz, American literature, and comics so popular, even as the USA became Italy's political enemy? America in Italian Culture provides a scholarly and captivating narrative of this epochal shift in Italian culture.

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Oxford University Press

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019884946X

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9780198849469

Insurance in Elizabethan England

The London Code

By: Guido Rossi

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Insurance in Elizabethan England

The London Code

By: Guido Rossi

Examines the origins of English insurance, focusing on the first English insurance code and its proximity to continental mercantile practice.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107112281

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9781107112285

The Economics of Tourism Destinations

By: Guido Candela,Paolo Figini

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The Economics of Tourism Destinations

By: Guido Candela,Paolo Figini

The book aims at providing an overview of the main economic issues related to tourism activities. While tourism is an important sector, contributing to more than 10% of the European Union’s GDP, research and teaching at the university level has only recently grown to a considerable level, and the field still lacks a firm research methodology. This book approaches tourism economics as an applied field of study in which tourism markets are represented as imperfect markets, with asymmetric and incomplete information among agents, bounded rationality, and with a strong presence of externalities and public goods. The economic issues studied in the book are approached both intuitively, largely using examples and case studies, and formally, with mathematical formalizations in text boxes.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642208738

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9783642208737

Culture, Censorship and the State in Twentieth-century Italy

By: Guido Bonsaver

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Culture, Censorship and the State in Twentieth-century Italy

By: Guido Bonsaver

This book brings together literary critics, political historians, historians of literature, cinema and theatre and cultural sociologists, to elucidate a fundamental area of enquiry into modern Italian history: the nature and scope of relations between the state and the cultural sphere.

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263

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Taylor & Francis

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1040289282

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9781040289280

Primary Adrenal Malignancies

By: Guido A. M. Tiberio

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Primary Adrenal Malignancies

By: Guido A. M. Tiberio

Zusammenfassung: Dissemination of knowledge is the best and only strategy capable of improving clinical management in rare and ultra-rare malignancies, including primary adrenal malignancies. It is preliminary to any further healthcare policy such as, for example, the centralization of cases in referral institutions. Adrenal primary malignancies are probably the rarest among rare pathologies. This epidemiological consideration is at the origin of a vicious circle: the lack of preoperative diagnosis leads to inappropriate surgical procedures and to inadequate follow-up and systemic therapy strategies. Furthermore, when malignancy is recognized, the relative role of systemic, surgical, or other local ablative techniques is often misinterpreted. All this produces a negative impact on survival, also in patients who could have been cured with a correct therapeutic strategy. This open access book provides a user-friendly exploration of these rare conditions, using a transversal approach common in modern precision medicine. The text covers various clinical aspects, including epidemiology, genetics, molecular medicine, imaging, and surgery. Guidelines for managing syndromic situations are provided. The book thoroughly addresses all the different surgical issues and emphasizes the importance of pathology in assessing prognosis. The pivotal role of medical oncologists in managing these patients is explored, along with alternative treatments such as nuclear medicine and radiotherapy. Finally, the book highlights the latest preclinical research and its implications for translational medicine

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Springer Nature

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3031623010

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9783031623011

Heterogeneous Catalytic Materials

Solid State Chemistry, Surface Chemistry and Catalytic Behaviour

By: Guido Busca

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Heterogeneous Catalytic Materials

Solid State Chemistry, Surface Chemistry and Catalytic Behaviour

By: Guido Busca

Heterogeneous Catalytic Materials discusses experimental methods and the latest developments in three areas of research: heterogeneous catalysis; surface chemistry; and the chemistry of catalysts. Catalytic materials are those solids that allow the chemical reaction to occur efficiently and cost-effectively. This book provides you with all necessary information to synthesize, characterize, and relate the properties of a catalyst to its behavior, enabling you to select the appropriate catalyst for the process and reactor system. Oxides (used both as catalysts and as supports for catalysts), mixed and complex oxides and salts, halides, sulfides, carbides, and unsupported and supported metals are all considered. The book encompasses applications in industrial chemistry, refinery, petrochemistry, biomass conversion, energy production, and environmental protection technologies. - Provides a systematic and clear approach of the synthesis, solid state chemistry and surface chemistry of all solid state catalysts - Covers widely used instrumental techniques for catalyst characterization, such as x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and more - Includes characterization methods and lists all catalytic behavior of the solid state catalysts - Discusses new developments in nanocatalysts and their advantages over conventional catalysts

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Newnes

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044459521X

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9780444595218

Gramsci's Pathways

By: Guido Liguori

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Gramsci's Pathways

By: Guido Liguori

Gramsci's works, in particular his Prison Notebooks, are a real 'workshop' of activity. Even though these texts were the product of a great mind and an organic conception of the world, the particular context in which they are written poses challenges for their interpreters. This philological 'excavation' of the pathways of Gramsci's thinking brings us closer to an author who is more 'widely-known' than he is understood. The first part of the volume deals with central themes of Gramsci's worldview such as the concepts of the state, civil society, ideology, common sense, morality and conformism. The second part deals with Gramsci’s relations with thinkers as diverse as Machiavelli, Marx, Engels, Labriola, Togliatti, whereas the third part offers some reflections on the metaphors used by Gramsci as well as contemporary views of the Sardinian Communist. First published in Italian by Carocci Editore as Sentieri gramsciani, 2006.

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BRILL

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9004303693

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9789004303690

The Renaissance in Italy

A Social and Cultural History of the Rinascimento

By: Guido Ruggiero

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The Renaissance in Italy

A Social and Cultural History of the Rinascimento

By: Guido Ruggiero

This book offers a rich and exciting new way of thinking about the Italian Renaissance as both a historical period and a historical movement. Guido Ruggiero's work is based on archival research and new insights of social and cultural history and literary criticism, with a special emphasis on everyday culture, gender, violence and sexuality. The book offers a vibrant and relevant critical study of a period too long burdened by anachronistic and outdated ways of thinking about the past. Familiar, yet alien; pre-modern, but suggestively post-modern; attractive and troubling, this book returns the Italian Renaissance to center stage in our past and in our historical analysis.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316123278

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9781316123270

Love and Sex in the Time of Plague

A Decameron Renaissance

By: Guido Ruggiero

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Love and Sex in the Time of Plague

A Decameron Renaissance

By: Guido Ruggiero

As a pandemic swept across fourteenth-century Europe, the Decameron offered the ill and grieving a symphony of life and love. For Florentines, the world seemed to be coming to an end. In 1348 the first wave of the Black Death swept across the Italian city, reducing its population from more than 100,000 to less than 40,000. The disease would eventually kill at least half of the population of Europe. Amid the devastation, Giovanni BoccaccioÕs Decameron was born. One of the masterpieces of world literature, the Decameron has captivated centuries of readers with its vivid tales of love, loyalty, betrayal, and sex. Despite the death that overwhelmed Florence, BoccaccioÕs collection of novelle was, in Guido RuggieroÕs words, a Òsymphony of life.Ó Love and Sex in the Time of Plague guides twenty-first-century readers back to BoccaccioÕs world to recapture how his work sounded to fourteenth-century ears. Through insightful discussions of the DecameronÕs cherished stories and deep portraits of Florentine culture, Ruggiero explores love and sexual relations in a society undergoing convulsive change. In the century before the plague arrived, Florence had become one of the richest and most powerful cities in Europe. With the medieval nobility in decline, a new polity was emerging, driven by Il PopoloÑthe people, fractious and enterprising. BoccaccioÕs stories had a special resonance in this age of upheaval, as Florentines sought new notions of truth and virtue to meet both the despair and the possibility of the moment.

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Harvard University Press

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0674257820

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9780674257825

The USA TODAY College Football Encyclopedia 2009-2010

By: Bob Boyles,Paul Guido

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The USA TODAY College Football Encyclopedia 2009-2010

By: Bob Boyles,Paul Guido

The most comprehensive resource on college football ever published.

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Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

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1602396779

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9781602396777

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The Renaissance in Italy

The Renaissance in Italy

Binding Passions

Binding Passions

Binding Passions

Binding Passions

The "Divine" Guido

The "Divine" Guido

The Right to be Oneself

The Right to be Oneself

America in Italian Culture

America in Italian Culture

Insurance in Elizabethan England

Insurance in Elizabethan England

The Economics of Tourism Destinations

The Economics of Tourism Destinations

Culture, Censorship and the State in Twentieth-century Italy

Culture, Censorship and the State in Twentieth-century Italy

Primary Adrenal Malignancies

Primary Adrenal Malignancies

Heterogeneous Catalytic Materials

Heterogeneous Catalytic Materials

Gramsci's Pathways

Gramsci's Pathways

The Renaissance in Italy

The Renaissance in Italy

Love and Sex in the Time of Plague

Love and Sex in the Time of Plague

The USA TODAY College Football Encyclopedia 2009-2010

The USA TODAY College Football Encyclopedia 2009-2010

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