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Italian Humanist Photography from Fascism to the Cold War

By: Martina Caruso

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Italian Humanist Photography from Fascism to the Cold War

By: Martina Caruso

Spanning four decades of radical political and social change in Italy, this interdisciplinary study explores photography’s relationship with Italian painting, film, literature, anthropological research and international photography. Evocative and powerful, Italian social documentary photography from the 1930s to the 1960s is a rich source of cultural history, reflecting a time of dramatic change. This book shows, through a wide range of images (some published for the first time) that to fully understand the photography of this period we must take a more expansive view than scholars have applied to date, considering issues of propaganda, aesthetics, religion, national identity and international influences. By setting Italian photography against a backdrop of social documentary and giving it a distinctive place in the global history of photography, this exciting volume of original research is of interest to art historians and scholars of Italian and visual culture studies.

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Routledge

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1000211460

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9781000211467

Casa Cabana

By: Martina Mondadori

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Casa Cabana

By: Martina Mondadori

An immersive visual anthology on home decorating and entertaining from cult interiors magazine Cabana Each copy is bound in one of four Cabana fabrics created in collaboration with Schumacher--Sasha Diamond Ikat, Daria Paisley, Floral Sisal, or Saz Paisley. Orders will be fulfilled with one of the fabrics available, selected at random. This sumptuous volume of stunning photographs, personal essays, and Italian recipes shows readers how to achieve the look made famous in interior-design circles by the groundbreaking and effortlessly cool Cabana magazine. Casa Cabana presents the publication's distinctive aesthetic, drawing on some of the world's most stylish interiors as the backdrop for the Casa Cabana Accessories collections, with iconic Renzo Mongiardino fabrics featured throughout. Revel in the details and accents capable of transforming any home into a Cabana-worthy abode, including tablecloths, china, glasses, cushions, and more, as author and Cabana founder Martina Mondadori introduces us to her coterie of tastemakers who share their secrets on entertaining, lifestyle, and design. Discover Vogue polymath Patrick Kinmonth's thoughts on country living, design gallerist Jamie Creel's tricks for creating an unusual table setting, and acclaimed cook Skye McAlpine's mouthwatering recipe for peach and saffron crostata, as you step behind the glossy pages and immerse yourself in Cabana's singular joie de vivre.

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0865653917

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9780865653917

Le Corps dans le roman des écrivaines syriennes contemporaines

Dire, écrire, inscrire la différence

By: Martina Censi

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Le Corps dans le roman des écrivaines syriennes contemporaines

Dire, écrire, inscrire la différence

By: Martina Censi

Le Corps dans le roman des écrivaines syriennes contemporaines, de Martina Censi, explore les représentations du corps dans un corpus de romans en arabe publiés (entre 2004 et 2011) par six écrivaines syriennes. L’auteure conjugue l'analyse du texte littéraire avec la critique féministe et les études de genre. Par cette approche interdisciplinaire, Censi démontre que l'attention reservée par ces écrivaines aux représentations du corps féminin et masculin témoigne de leurs engagements dans la lutte pour l'émancipation des femmes, mais aussi, et surtout, dans celle pour l'affirmation de l'individu dans la société syrienne contemporaine. Les corps des personnages, marqués par leur différence unique, sont le lieu symbolique de la négociation entre les instances individuelles et collectives. In Le Corps dans le roman des écrivaines syriennes contemporaines, Martina Censi explores the representation of the body in a selection of Arabic novels published (between 2004 and 2011) by six Syrian women authors. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, which combines analysis of the literary texts with Feminist Criticism and Gender Studies, Censi demonstrates that, by focusing on the representation of female and male bodies, these novelists deal not only with feminist issues related to women's emancipation. The author reveals that they also engage in a broader analysis concerning the status of the individual in contemporary Syrian society. Marked by their unique difference, the characters’ bodies become the symbolic location for the negotiation between individual and collective claims.

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210

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BRILL

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900431525X

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9789004315259

Living under the Evil Pope

The Hebrew Chronicle of Pope Paul IV by Benjamin Neḥemiah ben Elnathan from Civitanova Marche (16th cent.)

By: Martina Mampieri

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Living under the Evil Pope

The Hebrew Chronicle of Pope Paul IV by Benjamin Neḥemiah ben Elnathan from Civitanova Marche (16th cent.)

By: Martina Mampieri

In Living under the Evil Pope, Martina Mampieri presents the Hebrew Chronicle of Pope Paul IV, written in the second half of the sixteenth century by the Italian Jewish moneylender Benjamin Neḥemiah ben Elnathan (alias Guglielmo di Diodato) from Civitanova Marche. The text remained in manuscript for about four centuries until the Galician scholar Isaiah Sonne (1887-1960) published a Hebrew annotated edition of the chronicle in the 1930s. This remarkable source offers an account of the events of the Papal States during Paul IV’s pontificate (1555-59). Making use of broad archival materials, Martina Mampieri reflects on the nature of this work, its historical background, and contents, providing a revised edition of the Hebrew text as well as the first unabridged English translation and commentary. Martina Mampieri has been granted a special mention of excellence in the Alberigo Award 2021 by the European Academy of Religion and Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose (https://www.europeanacademyofreligion.org/alberigo-award) and a special mention of excellence in the Pirovano Award 2022 by the Istituto Luigi Sturzo in Rome (http://sturzo.it/blog/2023/06/12/lassegnazione-del-premio-desiderio-pirovano-2022/). "Martina Mampieri provides scholars with a source of great interest, which helps better understand the complex period following the election of Pope Paul IV Carafa from a Jewish perspective. This is undoubtedly an important book that contributes to the advancement of our knowledge regarding that historical moment." -Alessandra Veronese, AJS Review 45/1 (2021) "This valuable source is now available to the many – the many including, and this is no small thing, those who study the history of historical writing for itself as that writing began emerging from the shadows at just this time. We are deeply indebted." -Kenneth Stow, University of Haifa, Emeritus, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 20/1 (2021) "By triangulating important themes in early modern history with a rich and lengthy narrative source, Mampieri has produced an outstanding contribution to the ever-growing literature on interreligious and intercultural relations in the Papal States." -Frank Lacopo, Sixteenth Century Journal LIII/2 (2022)

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BRILL

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9004415157

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9789004415157

The Evolution of Made in Italy

Case studies on the Italian Food and Beverage Industry

By: Vittoria Veronesi,Martina Schiavello

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The Evolution of Made in Italy

Case studies on the Italian Food and Beverage Industry

By: Vittoria Veronesi,Martina Schiavello

This book deep dives into emerging consumer trends in the food and beverage industry in Italy, particularly in light of the COVID-19 crisis, and explores how firms have evolved to meet consumer needs and succeed in this challenging context. Through a series of case studies, the authors explore the food and beverage industry’s defining characteristics and how each particular sector has become so important to the Italian economy. Drawing on cases that feature small, medium and large enterprises, the authors reveal how firms have adapted their business strategies to meet new customer demands and market trends, highlighting the winning characteristics of the ever-evolving ‘Made in Italy’ brand, concluding with a recommended strategy of best practices for future implementation. Providing examples that can be studied, applied and analyzed by researchers, students, and practitioners, this unique book offers a detailed understanding of the different innovations and adaptations that companies in the food and beverage sector have put in place in response to ever evolving markets and trends, and how innovation becomes the key to success.

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145

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Springer Nature

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3031156676

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9783031156670

Nietzsche, Freud, Benn, and the Azure Spell of Liguria

By: Martina Kolb

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Nietzsche, Freud, Benn, and the Azure Spell of Liguria

By: Martina Kolb

The Mediterranean region of Liguria, where the Maritime Alps sweep down to the coasts of northwest Italy and southeast France, the Riviera, marks the intersection of two of Europe's major cultural landscapes. Remote, liminal, compact, and steep, the terrain has influenced many international authors and artists. In this study, Martina Kolb traces Liguria's specific impact on the works of three seminal German-writing modernists Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and Gottfried Benn whose encounters with Ligurian lands and seas led to an innovative geopoetic fusion of word and world. Kolb examines each of these authors' acquired affinities with Ligurian and Provençal landscapes and seascapes, revisiting and reassessing the long tradition of northern longing for a Mediterranean south. She also shows how Freud and Benn followed in the footsteps of Nietzsche in his most prolific years, a topic which has received little critical attention to date. Nietzsche, Freud, Benn, and the Azure Spell of Liguria offers a fresh approach to these writers' groundbreaking literary achievements and profound interest in poetic expression as cathartic self-liberation.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442643293

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9781442643291

Migration Landing Spaces

Processes and Infrastructures in Italy

By: Martina Bovo

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Migration Landing Spaces

Processes and Infrastructures in Italy

By: Martina Bovo

This book looks at migrant landing spaces, exploring the processes and infrastructures which people encounter as they navigate urban spaces along the central Mediterranean route. The book argues that there remains a theoretical and practical difficulty in grasping the complexity of migrant arrivals. Migrants are often unsure whether they will stay or leave, their mobility is uncertain. Despite this, they face rigid binaries and categories within administrative policy and planning which tries to pin them down as either permanent or temporary. Drawing on extensive original research in southern Italy, this book suggests that we should instead think of ‘landing spaces’: parts of the city that work as infrastructures for landing, that allow for an open and dynamic use of the urban space and provide opportunities for encounter and information exchange as migrants consider their next steps. Combining an ethnographic gaze with insights from urban planning, architecture, geography, social sciences and migration studies, this book invites us to look closer at the interactions between people, practices and places as migrants land in Europe.

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131

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Taylor & Francis

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1040090052

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9781040090053

Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale

By: Martina Zamparo

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Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale

By: Martina Zamparo

This book explores the role of alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Hermetic philosophy in one of Shakespeare’s last plays, The Winter’s Tale. A perusal of the vast literary and iconographic repertory of Renaissance alchemy reveals that this late play is imbued with several topoi, myths, and emblematic symbols coming from coeval alchemical, Paracelsian, and Hermetic sources. It also discusses the alchemical significance of water and time in the play’s circular and regenerative pattern and the healing role of women. All the major symbols of alchemy are present in Shakespeare’s play: the intertwined serpents of the caduceus, the chemical wedding, the filius philosophorum, and the so-called rex chymicus. This book also provides an in-depth survey of late Renaissance alchemy, Paracelsian medicine, and Hermetic culture in the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages. Importantly, it contends that The Winter’s Tale, in symbolically retracing the healing pattern of the rota alchemica and in emphasising the Hermetic principles of unity and concord, glorifies King James’s conciliatory attitude.

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Springer Nature

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303105167X

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9783031051678

Bernardo Bellotto and the Capitals of Europe

By: Bernardo Bellotto,Irina Artemʹeva,Irina Artemieva,Museo Correr,Andrzej Rottermund,Martina Frank,Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,Gregor J.M. Weber

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Bernardo Bellotto and the Capitals of Europe

By: Bernardo Bellotto,Irina Artemʹeva,Irina Artemieva,Museo Correr,Andrzej Rottermund,Martina Frank,Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,Gregor J.M. Weber

Bernardo Bellotto is considered to be one of the greatest topographical and landscape painters of the eighteenth century. Trained as a painter of cityscapes, he produced vivid and memorable images of many of the greatest cities of Europe, including Venice, Florence, Rome, Dresden, Munich, Vienna, and Warsaw. He also ventured successfully into genre, portraiture, allegory, and history painting. This beautiful book, written by leading specialists on Bellotto, examines his career and artistic development, places his work in the context of the political needs of central European monarchs, and presents a selection of his major paintings from each of his principal periods and genres. Bellotto began as a painter of conventional views of Venice in the manner of his more famous uncle, Canaletto. However, his quest for new subject matter led him to visit half a dozen cities in northern and central Italy in the early 1740s, and at twenty-five he left Italy for northern Europe, where he spent the rest of his life working for royal and aristocratic patrons. In Dresden he was engaged in the service of Augustus III, where he created many glorious canvases and was awarded the title of Court Painter. He then moved to Vienna and recorded its attractions for Empress Maria Theresa. He ended his career as Court Painter in Warsaw, and his detailed paintings of the city played an important role in its reconstruction after the Second World War. The book demonstrates that in each of the places Bellotto lived, he was able to capture the particular light and life with sensitivity and imagination.

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Yale University Press

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0300091818

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9780300091816

Scorci Improvvisi Di Altri Orizzonti

By: Giovanna Manzato, Mario Faraone, Martina Bertazzon, Roberta Tommasi,Mario Faraone

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Scorci Improvvisi Di Altri Orizzonti

By: Giovanna Manzato, Mario Faraone, Martina Bertazzon, Roberta Tommasi,Mario Faraone

Un volume di studi critici sulle letterature e sulle civiltÃ dei paesi di lingua inglese, scritto e curato da chi ha partecipato al Corso di Studi in âScienze e Tecniche dellâInterculturalitÃ â, Lettere e Filosofia, UniversitÃ di Trieste.I saggi spaziano tra argomenti e ambiti culturali e letterari eterogenei: dal confronto fra culture, sistemi di pensiero, classi sociali; al viaggio come descrizione d'incontri e stupore di fronte alla "alteritÃ "; alla letteratura per l'infanzia come veicolo della cultura di un popolo e base formativa per le sue prossime generazioni; ai sistemi economici e politici dell'imperialismo e del colonialismo in ambito anglofono e al loro impatto con le culture autoctone; alle influenze di elementi letterari nei media tradizionali e moderni. I temi, afferenti ai cultural studies, rientrano in cinque ambiti di studio: etÃ Vittoriana; letteratura di viaggio; letterature post-coloniali africane; diaspora indiana; multimedialitÃ nella comunicazione di massa.

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Lulu.com

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1409236927

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9781409236924

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Italian Humanist Photography from Fascism to the Cold War

Italian Humanist Photography from Fascism to the Cold War

Casa Cabana

Casa Cabana

Le Corps dans le roman des écrivaines syriennes contemporaines

Le Corps dans le roman des écrivaines syriennes contemporaines

Living under the Evil Pope

Living under the Evil Pope

The Evolution of Made in Italy

The Evolution of Made in Italy

Nietzsche, Freud, Benn, and the Azure Spell of Liguria

Nietzsche, Freud, Benn, and the Azure Spell of Liguria

Migration Landing Spaces

Migration Landing Spaces

Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale

Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale

Bernardo Bellotto and the Capitals of Europe

Bernardo Bellotto and the Capitals of Europe

Scorci Improvvisi Di Altri Orizzonti

Scorci Improvvisi Di Altri Orizzonti

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