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Machiavelli’s Prince

Traditions, Text and Translations

By: Nicola Gardini,Martin McLaughlin

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Machiavelli’s Prince

Traditions, Text and Translations

By: Nicola Gardini,Martin McLaughlin

One of the high-points of Italian Renaissance humanism, Machiavelli’s The Prince immediately transcended the time and culture from which it had sprung, circulating throughout Europe and paving the road to an astonishing variety of discussions on power and liberty for centuries to come. Indeed, one could hardly think of a literary work whose reception has been more controversial and arguably more crucial to the fashioning of modernity. This volume gathers together the proceedings of a conference held in Oxford, in November 2013, to mark the 500th anniversary of the composition of The Prince. It explores pivotal aspects of the text’s complex identity, focusing on three interrelated areas: 1. The Prince’s own ways of appropriating ancient and modern traditions of political thought and ethics; 2. the textual history and interpretive details of the work; 3. translations of the treatise into foreign languages (including English and other translations), with their cultural adaptations and reconceptualizations of the original. All chapters offer highly original insights by leading experts on The Prince, shedding light on hitherto neglected topics and locating Machiavelli’s masterpiece in an intriguing network of intersecting perspectives.

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Viella Libreria Editrice

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8867289543

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9788867289547

Storie di Angeli : il Terzo Angelo

By: Nicola Mattera

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Storie di Angeli : il Terzo Angelo

By: Nicola Mattera

Gli Angeli: una nuova storia. Da sempre protagonisti discreti della nostra vita.

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Lulu.com

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1291046240

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9781291046243

St. Paul's Outside the Walls

A Roman Basilica, from Antiquity to the Modern Era

By: Nicola Camerlenghi

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St. Paul's Outside the Walls

A Roman Basilica, from Antiquity to the Modern Era

By: Nicola Camerlenghi

The book traces nearly two thousand years of architectural transformations to St Paul's Basilica, one of Rome's principal churches.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108429513

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9781108429511

Bravura

Virtuosity and Ambition in Early Modern European Painting

By: Nicola Suthor

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Bravura

Virtuosity and Ambition in Early Modern European Painting

By: Nicola Suthor

The first major history of the bravura movement in European painting The painterly style known as bravura emerged in sixteenth-century Venice and spread throughout Europe during the seventeenth century. While earlier artistic movements presented a polished image of the artist by downplaying the creative process, bravura celebrated a painter’s distinct materials, virtuosic execution, and theatrical showmanship. This resulted in the further development of innovative techniques and a popular understanding of the artist as a weapon-wielding acrobat, impetuous wunderkind, and daring rebel. In Bravura, Nicola Suthor offers the first in-depth consideration of bravura as an artistic and cultural phenomenon. Through history, etymology, and in-depth analysis of works by such important painters as Franҫois Boucher, Caravaggio, Francisco Goya, Frans Hals, Peter Paul Rubens, Tintoretto, and Diego Velázquez, Suthor explores the key elements defining bravura’s richness and power. Suthor delves into how bravura’s unique and groundbreaking methods—visible brushstrokes, sharp chiaroscuro, severe foreshortening of the body, and other forms of visual emphasis—cause viewers to feel intensely the artist’s touch. Examining bravura’s etymological history, she traces the term’s associations with courage, boldness, spontaneity, imperiousness, and arrogance, as well as its links to fencing, swordsmanship, henchmen, mercenaries, and street thugs. Suthor discusses the personality cult of the transgressive, self-taught, antisocial genius, and the ways in which bravura artists, through their stunning displays of skill, sought applause and admiration. Filled with captivating images by painters testing the traditional boundaries of aesthetic excellence, Bravura raises important questions about artistic performance and what it means to create art.

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Princeton University Press

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0691204586

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9780691204581

The Italian Far Right from 1945 to the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

By: Nicola Guerra

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The Italian Far Right from 1945 to the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

By: Nicola Guerra

The Italian Far Right from 1945 to the Russia–Ukraine Conflict provides a comprehensive account of the postwar parliamentary and extra parliamentary far right in Italy. This book explores the ideology, movements and activism of the extreme right and neo- fascists. The recent victory in the Italian parliamentary elections of the ‘post-fascist’ party Fratelli d’Italia and its leader Giorgia Meloni highlights the importance of such research. The book examines why some of these movements participated with CIA- backing in the ‘Strategy of Tension’ in the years of the Cold War where terrorist actions aimed to keep Italy in NATO and prevent the Communist Party from coming to power, while other extreme- right groups vehemently opposed this and what they considered the dangerous ‘Americanization’ of the country. It debunks the myth that there was a unified postwar fascist movement in Italy, but instead excavates the complex battles within the extreme right as well as with their opponents from the left, and the authorities. This study is necessary to clarify the history and ideological dynamics of a political area still too often shrouded in mystery and whose geopolitical role is still poorly understood and generally underestimated. The analysis is contextualized in the present day by looking at the different perspectives of the Italian far right on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The book will be of interest to researchers of political history, the Cold War and Italian history and politics.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003828973

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9781003828976

Manuale del bianco e nero analogico

By: Nicola Focci

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Manuale del bianco e nero analogico

By: Nicola Focci

TERZA EDIZIONE RIVISTA ED ARRICCHITA! "Manuale del bianco e nero analogico" è una guida completa per la gestione del bianco e nero su pellicola: dalla realizzazione della camera oscura alla stampa finale, passando per i tipi di fotocamera e le problematiche di esposizione.

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Lulu.com

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1326012584

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9781326012588

Ishtar 2

By: Nicola Smigliani

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Ishtar 2

By: Nicola Smigliani

Il ricchissimo capo di una multinazionale farmaceutica, sua figlia, il suo compare, tanto misterioso quanto spietato. Un giovane ricercatore italiano che scopre una formula che può cambiare le sorti dell'umanità, una ragazza a cui è legato da un sentimento profondo, un narcotrafficante senza scrupoli, tra i più potenti del mondo. Sono questi i personaggi di un'avventura che si svolge in una parte remota del pianeta dove gli interessi economici sono l'unico valore morale.Riuscirà Anna a salvare Brando? Riuscirà Ann a salvare Anna e a risolvere i suoi problemi con il padre, Ishtar?Riuscirà Ishtar a diventare l'uomo più ricco del mondo?Una storia all'insegna dell'intrigo, delle false alleanze, dei tradimenti, in cui porsi un solo scrupolo potrebbe rivelarsi fatale.Una storia in cui ogni personaggio è costretto a fare i conti con se stesso ed il proprio passato e dove la "coscienza" giocherà un ruolo determinante per ognuno di loro.

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356

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1471009610

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9781471009617

Long Live Latin

The Pleasures of a Useless Language

By: Nicola Gardini

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Long Live Latin

The Pleasures of a Useless Language

By: Nicola Gardini

A “fascinating” meditation on the joys of a not-so-dead language (Los Angeles Review of Books). From acclaimed novelist and Oxford professor Nicola Gardini, this is a personal and passionate look at the Latin language: its history, its authors, its essential role in education, and its enduring impact on modern life—whether we call it “dead” or not. What use is Latin? It’s a question we’re often asked by those who see the language of Cicero as no more than a cumbersome heap of ruins, something to remove from the curriculum. In this sustained meditation, Gardini gives us his sincere and brilliant reply: Latin is, quite simply, the means of expression that made us—and continues to make us—who we are. In Latin, the rigorous and inventive thinker Lucretius examined the nature of our world; the poet Propertius told of love and emotion in a dizzying variety of registers; Caesar affirmed man’s capacity to shape reality through reason; Virgil composed the Aeneid, without which we’d see all of Western history in a different light. In Long Live Latin, Gardini shares his deep love for the language—enriched by his tireless intellectual curiosity—and warmly encourages us to engage with a civilization that has never ceased to exist, because it’s here with us now, whether we know it or not. Thanks to his careful guidance, even without a single lick of Latin grammar, readers can discover how this language is still capable of restoring our sense of identity, with a power that only useless things can miraculously express. “Gardini gives another reason for studying classical languages: ‘The story of our lives is just a fraction of all history . . . life began long before we were born.’ This is the very opposite of a practical argument—it is a meditative, even self-effacing one. To learn a language because it was spoken by some brilliant people 2,000 years ago is to celebrate the world; not a way to optimize yourself, but to get over yourself.” —The Economist “Nicola Gardini’s paean to Latin belongs on the shelf alongside Nabokov’s Lectures on Literature. With a similar blend of erudition, reverence, and impeccable close reading, he connects the dots between etymology and poetry, between syntax and society. And he proves, in the process, that a mysterious and magnificent language, born in ancient Rome, is still relevant to each and every one of us.” —Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times–bestselling author of Roman Stories

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Macmillan + ORM

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0374717044

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9780374717049

The Pragmatics of Academic Writing

A Relevance Approach to the Analysis of Research Article Introductions

By: Nicola T. Owtram

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The Pragmatics of Academic Writing

A Relevance Approach to the Analysis of Research Article Introductions

By: Nicola T. Owtram

This volume investigates to what extent existing approaches to pragmatics and discourse shed light on how the form of a text creates stylistic effects. Taking a cross-cultural perspective, this book focuses on five key stylistic features of writing - paragraph structure, length and construction of sentences, organisation of information in sentences, relative formality of vocabulary, amount of nominalisation - widely seen as partly responsible for the different impressions created by academic writing in English and Italian. The author develops a theoretical framework for the investigation of intuitions about stylistic differences from a contrastive point of view. To this end, the book gives an overview of recent scholarly approaches to writing and reading, genre studies, contrastive rhetoric and the notions of style and stylistics, together with an assessment of several individual approaches.

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Peter Lang

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3034300603

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9783034300605

The Wooden Carpentry of Roofs in Mediterranean Antiquity

At the Origins of the Trusses

By: Nicola Ruggieri

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The Wooden Carpentry of Roofs in Mediterranean Antiquity

At the Origins of the Trusses

By: Nicola Ruggieri

The truss adopts the rational configuration of the non-deformable triangle, optimizing the exploitation of the wooden members’ resistance resources. It is an extremely efficient structural typology that has gone through the centuries in its almost primitive configuration without substantial modifications, for which finding comparisons in the history of construction is difficult. But when was the truss born? This is the first general-interest book to address this question. Using scant but precious ancient literary documentation, the archaeological finds and the iconography of the figurative products that reproduce roofs, the book traces the gradual evolution process of the roof carpentry that led to such an invention. New hypotheses are advanced on the technical achievements of the main Mediterranean civilizations – Egyptian, Minoan and Mycenaean, Phrygian, Etruscan, Greek and Roman – in a broad and ambitious excursion that crosses the whole of Antiquity. The book is accompanied by a rich illustrative apparatus that includes historical and original photographs as well as numerous explanatory drawings.

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177

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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103640238X

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9781036402389

The Relationship between the Italian Leftist Parties and the Conflict in the Middle East

The Parliamentarian Left and the Israeli - Arab Palestinian Question

By: Nicola Seu

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The Relationship between the Italian Leftist Parties and the Conflict in the Middle East

The Parliamentarian Left and the Israeli - Arab Palestinian Question

By: Nicola Seu

Israel went from being a symbol of the success of the labour movement to the personification of Western imperialism almost overnight. How was this possible? How could such a radical change occur in such a short length of time? Was it because of negligence within the Italian left resulting from a complex of excessive friendship towards the Jews and Israel? Has the analytical power within leftist political thought grown to shed new light on what was before veiled? It is difficult to believe that the presumed colonialist nature of Israel was not evident before the outbreak of the Six-Day War, just as it is not possible that the real nature of Zionism and the situation of the Palestinian victims were invisible prior to this event. Through an historical, political, and ideological investigation, this book explores this extraordinary, and multifaceted, phenomenon.

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165

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443889997

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9781443889995

Rediscovering Economic Policy as a Discipline

By: Nicola Acocella

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Rediscovering Economic Policy as a Discipline

By: Nicola Acocella

A leading expert on economic policy makes the convincing case for the foundation, coordination and reach of government action through economic policy. Presenting justifications for government intervention in coping with market failures, Acocella applies the theory of economic policy to current global issues.

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425

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Cambridge University Press

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1108470491

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9781108470490

Accadde a Napoli

By: Nicola Calemme

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Accadde a Napoli

By: Nicola Calemme

Dieci racconti, dieci storie di vita ambientate in una Napoli romantica e malinconica di varie epoche. Dieci storie che esprimono chiaramente l’autoironia e il calore tipici del popolo napoletano.

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Booksprint

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882493157X

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9788824931571

1 + 0 non è uguale a 1, l'aspetto irragionevole della logica

By: Nicola Smigliani

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1 + 0 non è uguale a 1, l'aspetto irragionevole della logica

By: Nicola Smigliani

ipotesi di funzionamento del DNA quale "pianoforte energetico"; ipotesi di modifica del concetto dello zero in algebra

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144

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1291508848

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9781291508840

Anthropotes

2023 / XXXIX / 2

By: Nicola Reali,Philippe Bordeyne,Orietta Rachele Grazioli,Daniele Menozzi,Agostino Giovagnoli,Maurizio Chiodi,Simona Segoloni Ruta,Jaime Rodriguez Diaz,Cyril Pasquier

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Anthropotes

2023 / XXXIX / 2

By: Nicola Reali,Philippe Bordeyne,Orietta Rachele Grazioli,Daniele Menozzi,Agostino Giovagnoli,Maurizio Chiodi,Simona Segoloni Ruta,Jaime Rodriguez Diaz,Cyril Pasquier

DANIELE MENOZZI, Tra “cambiamento d’epoca” e “cambiamenti epocali”. le radici di un giudizio sul presente di papa Francesco / Between “epochal Change” and “epochal Changes”. The Roots of a Judgement on the Pre- sent by Pope Francis AGOSTINO GIOVAGNOLI, Papa Francesco e la storia della Chiesa dopo il vati- cano II / Pope Francis and the History of the Church after vatican II PHILIPPE BORDEYNE, le courage de l’incomplétude dans une Église syno- dale / The Courage of Incompleteness in a synodal Church ORIETTA RACHELE GRAZIOLI, Donne, sinodo e sinodalità / Women, synod and synodality MAURIZIO CHIODI, gender studies e teologia / genders studies and Theology SIMONA SEGOLONI RUTA, Il gender come categoria euristica in teologia. alcune linee di sviluppo / gender as a Heuristic Category in Theology. some lines of Development JAIME RODRIGUEZ DÍAZ , la “Recíproca complementariedad”: interpretación de efesios 5 desde las Catequesis sobre el amor Humano de Juan Pa- blo II / The “Mutual Complementarity”: Interpretation of ephesians 5 from John Paul II’s Catechesis on Human love CYRIL PASQUIER, Toothing-stones in Irenaeus of lyon to apprehend Mar- riage Today / addentellati in Ireneo di lione per comprendere oggi il matrimonio NICOLA REALI, Per una teologia pastorale del sacramento della penitenza / For a Pastoral Theology of the sacrament of Penance

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346

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Edizioni Studium S.r.l.

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8838254338

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9788838254338

Modi Di Dire del Popolo Gaetano

By: Nicola Tarallo,Jon Hayton

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Modi Di Dire del Popolo Gaetano

By: Nicola Tarallo,Jon Hayton

Oltre 400 modi dire del popolo gaetano raccontati e commentati da Nicola Magliocca e pubblicati a cura del nipote Nicola Tarallo.

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101

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eBookIt.com

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1456604570

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9781456604578

Young People’s Voting Behaviour in Europe

A Comparative Perspective

By: Nicola Maggini

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Young People’s Voting Behaviour in Europe

A Comparative Perspective

By: Nicola Maggini

This book uses various concepts of ‘age’ to examine young people’s voting behaviour in six European countries between 1981 and 2000. It addresses questions such as: what are the determinants of voting choices among young people, and to what extent are these factors different from those of adults? Through an innovative approach aimed at studying party choice with a strong empirical orientation, the author argues that age is less important in influencing voting choices than having been young and socialized to politics in a given historical period. Ultimately, values and political factors explain young people’s voting choices more than social identities, which marks a change from previous generations. This book will appeal to students and scholars in comparative politics, electoral behaviour, party politics, and political sociology.

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Springer

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1137592435

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9781137592439

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