A collection of major critical writings by a founder of the Futurist movement includes the "First Futurist Manifesto" and offers insight into how he endeavored to bridge a gap between art and life whi
Kidwell (American U. of Paris) offers a full biography of Bembo (1470-1547). He was a poet, a historian, a linguist who established a national language for Italy, a courtier, Latin secretary to Leo X,
Elisabetta Caminer Turra (1751-96) was one of the most prominent women in eighteenth-century Italy and a central figure in the international "Republic of Letters." A journalist and publisher, Caminer
Elisabetta Caminer Turra (1751-96) was one of the most prominent women in eighteenth-century Italy and a central figure in the international "Republic of Letters." A journalist and publisher, Caminer
Waddington (English, U. of California-Davis) examines Italian playwright and satirist Pietro Aretino's (1492-1556) use of new media and new literary kinds to project a construct of himself that overwh
A collection of short writings by an Italian scholar in the US, presented in Italian and English on facing pages. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi’s transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew.
"... a keen and brilliant critical account of Pasolini’s films and writings..." —Italica"Rohdie’s personal, idiosyncratic critical style is backed up by serious scholarly research, as the rich bibliog
A Poetics of Resistance: Narrative and the Writings of Pier Paolo Pasolini examines the writings of the Italian poet, novelist, filmmaker, theorist, and dramaturg.Since his murder in 1975 - and especi
The first section of The Via Veneto Papers is an evocation of the Rome of La Dolce Vita, of the early stages in the writing and the realizing of the film itself, and, through a series of brilliant lit
