Gabriele: 823 books

Composed during a period of extended bed rest, Gabriele D'Annunzio's Notturno is a moving prose poem in which imagination, experience, and remembrance intertwine. The somber atmosphere of the poem reflects the circumstances of its creation. With his vision threatened and his eyes completely bandaged,...

Lawrence Grassi was a trailblazer in every sense of the word. A working-class man of humble Italian origins who worked as a labourer and a coal miner for most of his life, Grassi had a deep passion for the Rocky Mountains. He was famous in the region for his commitment as a guide, a mountain climber,...

Viktor Frankl es conocido como el fundador de la Tercera Escuela Vienesa de Psicoterapia , a la que designó con el binomio de logoterapia y análisis existencial . Sin embargo, es menos conocida su actividad pionera, entre las décadas de 1920 y 1930, en el asesoramiento juvenil y la prevención...

“The solution isn’t to do away with dreaming and positive thinking. Rather, it’s making the most of our fantasies by brushing them up against the very thing most of us are taught to ignore or diminish: the obstacles that stand in our way.” So often in our day-to-day lives we’re inundated...

Io vidi con questi occhi mortali in breve tempo schiudersi e splendere e poi sfiorire e l'una dopo l'altra perire tre anime senza pari: le più belle e le più ardenti e le più misere che siano mai apparse nell'estrema discendenza d'una razza imperiosa. Su i luoghi dove la loro desolazione, la loro...

New Jersey shaped folk revival music into an art form. The saga began with the bawdy tunes sung in colonial-era taverns and continued with the folk songs that echoed through the Pine Barrens. "Guitar Mania" became a phenomenon in the 1800s, and twentieth-century studio recordings in Camden were monumental....

Pur risentendo della prospettiva positivista e della volontà dell’autore di collegare l’alchimia alla scienza medica o farmaceutica, vi sono degli aspetti che non possiamo non prendere in considerazione. Tra i vari insegnamenti e riflessioni che questa dissertazione offrono all’attenzione dei...

Frauen sehen die Welt mit anderen Augen als Männer. Sie fühlen anders, sie lieben anders und sie leiden anders. Trotzdem ist die Zahl der von Frauen geschriebenen Gedichte in deutschen Lyriksammlungen meist verschwindend klein. Dabei haben Dichterinnen im Laufe der deutschen Geschichte durchaus...

Luca ormai adulto decide di trascorrere le sue vacanze estive a Zadina, il luogo delle vacanze da bambino quando ogni estate si tornava lì, con la famiglia, con gli zii, stesso albergo e stesso ombrellone. Dopo tanti anni decide di tornare e si rende conto di aver stranamente accantonato in una parte...

Bertolt Brecht ist einer der einflussreichsten Dramatiker und Lyriker des 20. Jahrhunderts. Carl Zuckmayer war zeitgleich der bekannteste deutsche Dramatiker. Gerhart Hauptmann erhielt 1912 den Nobelpreis für Literatur. Der österreichische Schriftsteller Karl Heinrich Waggerl war ein Volksschriftsteller....

Though industrialized countries are usually the ones indicted when environmental pollution is discussed, over the few last years the rate of emissions in developing countries has increased by a startling amount. The fallout from this increase is evidenced by the struggle of cities like Beijing to...

When it was first published in Germany in 1995, Poetics of Dance was already seen as a path-breaking publication, the first to explore the relationships between the birth of modern dance, new developments in the visual arts, and the renewal of literature and drama in the form of avant-garde theatrical...

From plasma screens to smartphones, today moving images are everywhere. How have films adapted to this new environment? And how has the experience of the spectator changed because of this proliferation? In Broad Daylight investigates one of the decisive shifts in the history of Western aesthetics,...

“Si tratta di un dizionario umoristico basato sulla scomposizione alfabetica (non anagrammi) dei vocaboli italiani, in grado di trasformare completamente il significato di ogni singola parola”. Alcuni esempi: BARCAMENARSI = MENARSI sulla BARCA CASAMATTA = MATTA in CASA CIRCOSTANZA = STANZA del...