Italian category: 1892 books
Le cento novelle contro la morte
Giovanni Boccaccio e la rifondazione cavalleresca del mondo
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 17, 2015
Nelle dense pagine del Decameron si intrecciano vari e importanti livelli di lettura: la definizione del quadro storico di riferimento, dominato, a livello europeo, da una grande crisi demografica, sociale, culturale e religiosa, determinata in buona parte dal terribile flagello della Peste nera;...
by Andrea Conti
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 23, 2015
La bellezza della lingua italiana nell'uso popolare e colloquiale.
In Italiano si contano migliaia di proverbi, detti, adagi, massime e motti, cioè tutte quelle espressioni della saggezza popolare tramandate di generazione in generazione ed entrate ormai a far parte del bagaglio culturale...
by Torquato Tasso, grandi Classici
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 10, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 10, 2016
Gerusalemme liberata
opera completa di Torquato Tasso in versione integrale
lettura agevolata in formato ebook
Come non scrivere
Consigli ed esempi da seguire, trappole e scemenze da evitare quando si scrive in italiano
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Al lavoro: schede, memorandum, presentazioni. A scuola: temi, tesine, relazioni. Nel privato: post su Facebook, email personali, chat sul cellulare. Sarà anche l’epoca degli audiovisivi e della comunicazione in tempo reale, ma non abbiamo mai scritto tanto. E più dobbiamo scrivere, meno sembriamo...
by Ellen Brown
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Here is the definitive cookbook for preparing and cooking meatballs. This is the ultimate collection, which includes the classic Italian meatball, Swedish meatballs, gourmet meatballs, and even vegetarian meatballs.
Eccentricity and Sameness
Discourses on Lesbianism and Desire between Women in Italy, 1860s1930s
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Dispelling widespread views that female same-sex desire is virtually absent from Italian literature and cultural production in the modern era, this groundbreaking study demonstrates that narratives of lesbianism are significantly more numerous than has been previously asserted. Focusing on texts published...
Giacomo Leopardi’s Search For a Common Life Through Poetry
A Different Nobility, A Different Love
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
This book traces the life of Giacomo Leopardi by examining four different yet interrelated aspects: his social origins and class in relation to his evolving conception of nobility; the mixture of idealism and misogynism in his attitude toward women and in his conception of love; his poems and prose...
A Croce Reader
Aesthetics, Philosophy, History, and Literary Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Benedetto Crocewas a historian, humanist, political figure, and the foremost Italian philosopher of the early twentieth-century.
A Croce Reader brings together the author’s most important works across the fields of aesthetics, philosophy, history, literary criticism, and the Baroque and presents...
The Best of Meatballs: 50 Recipes You Can Delight In With Meatballs
Italian-Inspired Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
The Best of Meatballs: 50 Recipes You Can Delight in With Meatballs!
Are your tired of your old boring meatball recipes? Or are you preparing food for game day or a fun sleepover with your friends and loved ones? If you are then this book is definitely the one that you are looking for. Reading...
La Cazzaria
The Book of the Prick
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
La Cazzaria is the most outspoken erotic text of the Italian Renaissance-a ribald dialogue about politics, sex, and desire. The book is remarkable for its frank discussions of sexuality and explicit homoeroticism-especially when compared to other writings of the period-and for its sophisticated treatment of sexual and political power.
I Love My Mom Ti voglio bene, mamma
English Italian Bilingual Collection
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Everybody loves their Mom, no matter what their age. In this bedtime story, the little bunny Jimmy and his older brothers try to find a perfect present for Mom’s birthday. They want to show how much they love her.
Tutti amano la propria mamma, a qualsiasi età. In questo racconto della buonanotte,...
by Francesco Ciabattoni
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
In Dante's Journey to Polyphony, Francesco Ciabattoni's erudite analysis sheds light on Dante's use of music in the Divine Comedy. Following the work's musical evolution, Ciabattoni moves from the cacophony of Inferno through the monophony of Purgatory, to the polyphony of Paradise and argues that...
On Friendship and Freedom
The Correspondence of Ignazio Silone and Marcel Fleischmann
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Ignazio Silone, the anti-fascist, Italian author and political activist, continues to intrigue readers and stimulate their minds nearly four decades after his death. On Friendship and Freedom contains the first published collection of correspondence between Silone and his longtime friend the philanthropist...
by Elisabetta Carli
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 16, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 16, 2016
L'idea che sta alla base di questo ricettario ragionato è che, già nel Medioevo, esisteva un'estetica della cucina; i cuochi erano molto attenti alla presentazione dei loro piatti e la parte scenografica era fondamentale per stupire gli ospiti e, immagino, per mantenere un posto di lavoro ben remunerato....