Values, Virtues, and Vices, Italian Style is an interdisciplinary study that examines the lives and work of four historical figures: Caesar, Dante, Machiavelli, or Garibaldi, as well as Italian culture and the moral psychology of pride, arrogance, justification, excuse, repentance, and the concept of honor.
Trevignano Romano, A Biography of an Adoptive Home
Deep past and lively present intertwine in this captivating story of Trevignano Romano, a prize-winning resort village on the shores of the glimmering lake whose waters spurt from the fountains of Rome. The town history is unique, from Stone Age dwellers to Roman emperors, barbarian invaders, a medieval miracle worker and Renaissance warlords.
Interpretazioni is an intermediate- to advanced-level Italian textbook that aims to teach language through film, focusing on Italian movies from 2010 to 2017. Teaching language through cinema is a widespread and proven practice that engages all four main language skills (speaking, listening, reading, writing), and Interpretazioni utilizes the ......
Since 1970, based in an isolated building situated on the peninsula of Posillipo, Pica Ciamarra Associati (www.pcaint.eu) has acted as a laboratory of architectural and urban design which has gradually incorporated new members and new energies over the time: using a multidisciplinary approach, the roots of the architectural practice lie in the ......
The Special Air Service (SAS) is Britain's elite special force unit, with the famous `who dares wins' motto. This is the story of the SAS's activities in Italy during the Second World War. Parachute troops operated behind enemy lines to gain intelligence, destroy aircraft, and attack strategic targets-in the process winning many battle honours.
Let Secret Venice guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Venice guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of this amazing city. Ideal for local inhabitants and curious visitors alike.
Jack Bevan's remarkable translation of Quasimodo's entire poetic oeuvre (Anvil, 1983), redesigned and reissued in 2017. Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968) was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1959 for `his lyrical poetry which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our time'. Jack Bevan's remarkable translation of Quasimodo's entire ......
Scholars of early Christianity are awakening to the potential of Pompeii's treasures for casting light on the situations that were commonplace and conventional for the first urban Christians. The essays explore different dimensions of Pompeii's potential to refine our lenses for interpreting the texts and situations of early Christianity.
The remarkable story of the foreigners who volunteered to join the guerrilla war against Germans and Fascists in World War II Italy. The fighters included Britons, Australians, Canadians, New Zealanders, South Africans, Americans, Russians and Yugoslavs. Most were escaped prisoners of war. The book is a celebration of brave men and great events.
Archaeologists have disputed evidence of Christian presence in Pompeii before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Bruce W. Longenecker reviews that evidence with other data of first-century Christian presence elsewhere in the Mediterranean. The Crosses of Pompeii presents an elegant case for their presence, with illustrations of the evidence.
9 day tour in Switzerland and Italy and Tour of Italy's Valmalenco
This guidebook describes two treks in the Bernina region of the Swiss-Italian Alps. The Tour of the Bernina covers 119km in nine stages circling the Piz Bernina massif. Five days are spent in Switzerland and four in Italy, however a number of inviting extensions and detours are also described which add at least two days to the total. The tour is ......
From Ernest and Julio Gallo to Francis Ford Coppola, Italians have shaped the history of California wine. This book demonstrates that the Italian visionaries were not skilled winemakers transplanting an immemorial agricultural tradition, even if California did resemble the rolling Italian countryside of their native Piedmont.
The Idealism of the Sovversivi in the United States, 1890-1940
Compellingly documents the wide spectrum of this oppositional culture and examines the many cultural and artistic forms it took, from newspapers to literature and poetry to theater and visual art.
Explores the cultural construction of ethnic economies and markets, the social dynamics of American race, and the fully transnational history of American wine
The Idealism of the Sovversivi in the United States, 1890-1940
Compellingly documents the wide spectrum of this oppositional culture and examines the many cultural and artistic forms it took, from newspapers to literature and poetry to theater and visual art.
