Italian category: 1892 books

Elena Ferrante’s fiction covers the psychic landscape of women who come of age in post-WWII Italy, who struggle to escape poverty and juggle the demands of career and family. Her narrator’s voice is at once ferocious, intimate, and uncensored. Most remarkable for our media-obsessed age is that...

Stages an encounter, at once critical and celebratory, with historical and contemporary Naples, a city that presents itself as an irresolvable paradox for its ability to remain intellectually and culturally animated (“delirious”), even in the face of its recurring economic and political crises.

A small masterpiece, Pea’s lyrical autobiographical novel paints a fiery and intimate portrait of an old man through the bold brushstrokes of his grandson. The passions and tensions between the old eccentric and his brothers play themselves out in mythical sketches before a vivid backdrop of the...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis À Naples, dans les années 1620, les réformes culturelles lancées par le vice-roi visent à l’hispanisation des milieux culturels locaux. Quelles voies sont alors offertes aux artistes et aux intellectuels napolitains ? Une...

La littérature italienne est d'un abord difficile et exige toujours un effort particulier du lecteur. Parmi les plus grands écrivains, on n'en trouve que très peu qu'on puisse prendre à livre ouvert, et lire pour le plaisir de lire …

Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince remains an influential book more than five centuries after he wrote his timeless classic. However, the political philosophy expressed by Machiavelli in his tome is often misunderstood. Although he thought humans to be rational, self-interested creatures, and even...

En este libro se lleva a cabo un estudio de la entera trayectoria de Tommaso Campanella como pensador político. Frente a la tradicional polarización de la crítica especializada, se emplea un enfoque dirigido a poner de manifiesto el núcleo conceptual común a todos sus escritos y a dar detallada...

Primo Levi is best known as a memoirist of Auschwitz, but he was also a scientist, fiction writer, and poet: in short, a Renaissance man. Primo Levi's Universe offers a multi-faceted portrait of the heroic man who turned the concentration camp experience into beautiful yet terrifying literature. Over...

In this book, the author presents that although various Old Romance grammars can be traced back to the common Latin ancestor, the functional domain of reciprocity shows divergent paths of development. In this regard, each of the languages have worked up their unique solutions, with grammatical and semantic mechanisms underlying their diversity.

Noch mehr Paralleltext!Italienisch lernen mit Paralleltext (Bilingual, Zweisprachig) ist eine sehr lohnenswerte und effektive Art um eine neue Sprache zu erlernen. Ihr Wortschatz wird aufgefrischt, während neues Vokabular sofort in die Praxis angewendet und verstanden wird. Unsere speziell...

Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although...

Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although...

The original essays gathered in this book make a beginning at exploring the cultural significance of The Name of the Rose in terms of its backgrounds and literary contexts. Eco's novel is examined in the light of several of the traditions from which it draws: theories of detective fiction, comedy,...

Making peace is just as easy as making pizza. In this book, Chef Tomato delivers delicious pizza recipes and shares peaceful messages throughout his journey. The book contains simple recipes for all ages to enjoy. The book shares easy to make pizza dough and sauce recipes. Also, in the chapter. "A...