Romance
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All Over [Paperback]
Gabriele Tinti (Author); Nicholas Benson (Translator)
£6.00ISBN: 9788857519951
Published by : Mimesis International
All over is a collection of epic songs, of epinician odes for our day. The heroes praised are boxers, men the author identifies as the last able to truly astound, to induce awe. These epinician odes on Pindaric models are transformed in the making... .... Learn More -
Le Français [Paperback]
Jacqueline de La Chapelle Skubly (Author); John Rassias (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9781584655978
Published by : Dartmouth College Press
The newly revised Le Français: Départ-Arrivée, Fourth Edition, is a complete introductory and early intermediate program that teaches the basic structures and vocabulary of French language and culture, includi... .... Learn More -
Le Français [Paperback]
Jacqueline de La Chapelle Skubly (Author); John Rassias (Author)
£12.00ISBN: 9781584656104
Published by : Dartmouth College Press
The newly revised Le Français: Départ-Arrivée, Fourth Edition, is a complete introductory and early intermediate program that teaches the basic structures and vocabulary of French language and culture, includi... .... Learn More -
Dante's Poetry of Donati [Paperback]
Piero Boitani (Author); John Lindon (Editor)
£10.00ISBN: 9780952590170
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: Society for Italian Studies Occasional Papers
Volume: 7
Members of the Florentine family of the Donati feature prominently in Dante's Divine Comedy . Their presence is explored by Piero Boitani, as a 'comedy' within the Comedy, in close readings of the three major episodes in which they appear, one fo... .... Learn More -
Camorristi, Politicians and Businessmen: The Transformation of Organized Crime in Post-war Naples [Paperback]
Felia Allum (Author)
£39.00ISBN: 9781904350057
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: Legenda Italian Perspectives
Volume: 11
This work presents a detailed study of the political role of a criminal organization, the Neapolitan Camorra, in its historical context, that of Naples over the last fifty years. In Campania, until 1991, the population tacitly acc... .... Learn More -
Contesting the Monument: The Anti-illusionist Italian Historical Novel [Paperback]
Ruth Glynn (Editor)
£36.00ISBN: 9781904350040
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: Legenda Italian Perspectives
Volume: 10
In the second half of the twentieth century, the Italian historical novel provided an unrivalled number of best sellers and publishing 'phenomena'. The success of the genre is closely related to a more general interest in revisiti... .... Learn More -
Fragments of 'impegno': Interpretations of Commitment in Contemporary Italian Narrative 1980-2000 [Paperback]
Jennifer Burns (Author)
£36.00ISBN: 9781902653372
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: Legenda Italian Perspectives
Volume: 9
With the Tangentopoli corruption scandals of the early 1990s, Italy is purported recently to have experienced a period of political change comparable to the period immediately following World War II. This latter being the socio-po... .... Learn More -
Playing With Gender: The Comedies of Goldoni [Paperback]
Maggie Günsberg (Author)
£38.00ISBN: 9781902653242
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: Legenda Italian Perspectives
Volume: 7
This book takes gender as its point of entry into the comedies of Carlo Goldoni. The dramatization of femininity and masculinity is explored in conjunction with that of other social categories (class, the family, age). The plays r... .... Learn More -
Elio Vittorini: The Writer and The Written [Paperback]
Guido Bonsaver (Author)
£29.50ISBN: 9781902653143
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: Legenda Italian Perspectives
Volume: 4
Elio Vittorini holds a major position in twentieth-century Italian literature thanks to both his narrative production and his activity as editor and militant intellectual. The aim of this book is to present the English-speaking re... .... Learn More -
Italo Calvino and the Landscape of Childhood [Paperback]
Claudia Nocentini (Author)
£21.00ISBN: 9781902653235
Published by : Maney Publishing
Series: Legenda Italian Perspectives
Volume: 6
Although never named as such, the landscape of Sanremo was a constant visual source for Calvino's fiction. In its recognizable pattern of sea-city-hills, it appears in sixteen works written over a period of thirty two years. This recurring them... .... Learn More
