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The Aeneidby Virgil, James H. MantinbandISBN 0804469520 (0-8044-6952-0)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Lesley Sims, Lewis Carroll, Mauro EvangelistaISBN 0794512399 (0-7945-1239-9)
Hardcover, Edc Pub
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0805205942 (0-8052-0594-2)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Andrea Del Sartoby Antonio Natali, Andrea Del SartoISBN 0789205319 (0-7892-0531-9)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Andrea Del Sarto'Book summary:By returning to original sources, Natali succeeds in introducing a new Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530), one whose brilliant and moving pictures leap off the pages with startling freshness. Since the 16th century, Andrea has been pictured as a "timid soul, " a view first proposed in Vasari's Lives and perpetuated without revision by later writers. According to this view, the artist was so shy and irresolute that he squandered his gift, living in near obscurity and refusing prosperity and worldly honors.
Not so, says Natali, who argues instead that Andrea chose a simple but culturally vibrant life in a circle of like-minded friends -- intellectuals and common folk who practiced material austerity and humility. How can we label as timid an artist who painted a fresco cycle in Florence's most prestigious sacred institution when he was barely twenty years old? asks Natali. How irresolute was the man who accepted an open-ended invitation from French king Francis to join his court in an era when few artists left Florence; who -- amid rigid orthodoxy and accusations of heresy -- filled his sacred paintings with bold theological content; who headed teams of renowned artists in learned artistic debates and in the execution of major commissions? With such provocative insights, this volume is certain to stimulate and delight art historians and nonscholars alike. [via]
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Andrea Palladio : The Architect in His Timeby Bruce Boucher, Paolo MartonISBN 0789203006 (0-7892-0300-6)
Softcover, Abbeville Press, Incorporated
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Art of Italian Regional Cookingby Francesco Antonucci, Marta Pulini, Gianni SalvaterraISBN 0806908491 (0-8069-0849-1)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Artemisiaby Alexandra Lapierre, Liz HeronISBN 0802138578 (0-8021-3857-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Artemisiaby Liz Heron, Alexandra LapierreISBN 0802116728 (0-8021-1672-8)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Artemisia'Book summary:Small wonder that biographer Alexandra Lapierre was drawn to write about Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the first female painters to gain acclaim in the male-dominated 17th-century art world. Her story has all the ingredients of high drama: rape, jealousy, and an infamous court trial set against a backdrop of art and passion. Meticulously researched, framed in a fictional context, Lapierre's treatment applies a painterly touch to a scholarly work. Billed as a biography in the U.K. but as a novel in the U.S., it combines the rigor of one genre with the page-turning immediacy of the other.
Born in Rome to the artist Orazio Gentileschi and his wife Prudenzia, Artemisia's life was turned upside down after the death of her mother. Orazio jealously guarded his only daughter, refusing her outside contact even as he taught her the subtleties of painting. At 17, Artemisia, already a skilled artist, was facing a life of spinsterhood as her father's prisoner. Yet the Gentileschi household was full of the comings and goings of artists whose shifting allegiances were as complex as the politics of the time. When Orazio's friend, arrogant trompe l'oeil master Agostino Tassi, set his sights on young Artemisia, her refusals only stoked his passion. What followed was rape. Tassi kept her quiet through promises of marriage; when marriage was not forthcoming, Tassi found himself in court.
Even under torture, Artemisia's statement never wavered, and eventually Tassi was convicted. The mild sentence scarcely harmed him, yet the experience had a lasting effect on his victim. Touched by scandal, Artemisia was able to marry an inferior painter only by virtue of a substantial dowry. Through an unhappy marriage, the deaths of her first children, and the lives of her daughters, however, she continued to paint, eventually gaining considerable acclaim. Interestingly enough, given her experiences, her paintings of religious allegory often portrayed women in illustrations of strength and dominance. If her depiction of Judith violently decapitating Holofernes elicited the Grand Duchess's repulsion, the Grand Duke Cosimo II was riveted. Others in the room saw the allusion to the artist's own past: "'This face, so close to death, brings someone to mind,' the secretary, Andrea Cioli, interjected insidiously. 'A painter, your Highness...'"
Artemisia blends storytelling and careful detail in a complex rendering that will particularly appeal to readers with an interest in either Baroque art or Italian history. Color plates illustrate the haunting quality of Artemisia's work, and the end notes make clear which portions derive from documentation and which are fictional strokes of color. The uninitiated may have a difficult time unraveling the intricacies of characters and politics, perhaps because Lapierre is more at home with scholarship than with fiction. Worse, her breathless prose sometimes tries too hard, even while doing little to reveal her characters' inner worlds. In the end, it's both the compelling quality of Artemisia's story and the lushness of Lapierre's supporting detail that hold this unusual book together. --Anne DeGrace [via]
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Autobiography of Giambattista Vicoby Giambattista Vico, Thomas Goddard Bergin, Max Harold FischISBN 080149088X (0-8014-9088-X)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Bam Bam Bamby Eve Merriam, Dan YaccarinoISBN 080505796X (0-8050-5796-X)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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The Building of Renaissance Florence: An Economic and Social Historyby Richard GoldthwaiteISBN 0801829771 (0-8018-2977-1)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Callas by Callas : The Secret Writings of la Mariaby Renzo Allegri, Roberto AllegriISBN 0789301350 (0-7893-0135-0)
Hardcover, Universe Publishing
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Captain Bloodby Rafael SabatiniISBN 0786265663 (0-7862-6566-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Catcher in the Ryeby J. D. SalingerISBN 0792715160 (0-7927-1516-0)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer
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The Church of Solitudeby Grazia Deledda, E. Ann MatterISBN 0791454584 (0-7914-5458-4)
Softcover, State Univ of New York Pr
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Classic Art: An Introduction to the Italian Renaissanceby Heinrich WolfflinISBN 0801491932 (0-8014-9193-2)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Clues, Myths, and the Historical Methodby Carlo Ginzburg, John Tedeschi, Anne C. TedeschiISBN 080184388X (0-8018-4388-X)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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The Complete Mushroom Book: Savory Recipes for Wild And Cultivated Varietiesby Antonio Carluccio, Alastair HendyISBN 0789315130 (0-7893-1513-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Cosi Fan Tutte in Full Scoreby Wolfgang MozartISBN 0793511763 (0-7935-1176-3)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Dante Vivoby Giovanni PapiniISBN 0804606978 (0-8046-0697-8)
Hardcover, Gateway/Associated Faculty Pr
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Defensor Pacisby MarsiliusISBN 0802064124 (0-8020-6412-4)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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Don Giovanni: Opera Librettoby W. MozartISBN 0793526094 (0-7935-2609-4)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India And Indonesiaby Elizabeth GilbertISBN 0786288132 (0-7862-8813-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India And Indonesia'Book summary:It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance. So, she travels to Rome, where she learns Italian from handsome, brown-eyed identical twins and gains twenty-five pounds, an ashram in India, where she finds that enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of the night to scrub the temple floor, and Bali where a toothless medicine man of indeterminate age offers her a new path to peace: simply sit still and smile. And slowly happiness begins to creep up on her. [via]
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Eight Philosophers of the Italian Renaissanceby P.O. KristellerISBN 0804701113 (0-8047-0111-3)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Expulsion of the Triumphant Beastby Giordano Bruno, Arthur D. Imerti, Karen Silvia De Leon-JonesISBN 0803262345 (0-8032-6234-5)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Eyewitness Travel Guides Arabic Phrase Bookby Lexus, Mohammad AsfourISBN 0789448653 (0-7894-4865-3)
Softcover, Dk Pub
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Eyewitness Travel Guides Norwegian Phrase Book: Essential Words and Phrases for Every TravelerISBN 0789448688 (0-7894-4868-8)
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Fellowship of the Ringby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0786251786 (0-7862-5178-6)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Part One of The Lord of the Rings
In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins is faced with an immense task as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the One Ring of Sauron to his care. Frodo must make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the all-powerful Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose. [via]
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First Thousand Wordsby Heather Amery, Stephen CartwrightISBN 0794502865 (0-7945-0286-5)
Hardcover, Edc Pub
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Michael HagueISBN 0805002774 (0-8050-0277-4)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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From Paesani to White Ethnics: The Italian Experience in Philadelphiaby Stefano LuconiISBN 0791448584 (0-7914-4858-4)
Softcover, State Univ of New York Pr
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini: The Sculptor of the Roman Baroqueby Rudolf WittkowerISBN 080141430X (0-8014-1430-X)
Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Giovanni Belliniby Anchise TempestiniISBN 0789204339 (0-7892-0433-9)
Hardcover, Abbeville Press, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Giovanni Bellini'Book summary:In his seventies, Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430-1516) was described by the German master Albrecht Durer as "very old, but still the best in painting" and even now art historians agree that he was the most inventive painter Northern Italy produced. Giovanni, the youngest of the three Bellini painters, was the Doge's chief painter and the teacher of Titian, Giorgione, and dozens of others.
He was versatile and imaginative in producing numerous different Madonna paintings for churches and private patrons, exquisitely calibrating his style for a variety of commissions from small devotional works to huge altarpieces. He often included beautifully observed landscapes and natural details in his moving sacred scenes as well as his sensitive and boldly simple portraits.
His paintings -- prized works in the collections of major museums throughout American and Europe -- are presented here in stunning full-color photography to complement Anchise Tempestini's elegant and lucid text. An opening essay placing the painter in his historical and art-historical context is followed by twenty-five short essays on paintings of major importance, illustrated with enlarged details. [via]
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The Grammar of Ornament: Illustrated by Examples from Various Styles of Ornamentby Owen JonesISBN 0789476460 (0-7894-7646-0)
Softcover, Dk Pub
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Housecraft and Statecraft: Domestic Service in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1600by Dennis RomanoISBN 0801852889 (0-8018-5288-9)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Italian Cinema: From Neorealism to the Presentby Peter BondanellaISBN 0804460612 (0-8044-6061-2)
Softcover, F. Ungar Pub Co
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An Italian Education: The Further Adventures of an Expatriate in Veronaby Tim ParksISBN 080211508X (0-8021-1508-X)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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Italian Neighborsby Tim ParksISBN 0802140343 (0-8021-4034-3)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Italian Neighbors: Or, a Lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Veronaby Tim ParksISBN 0802115314 (0-8021-1531-4)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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Italian Phrase BookISBN 0789432366 (0-7894-3236-6)
Softcover, Dk Pub
Find This BookBook summary:Organized by subject, this "Eyewitness Phrase Book" contains everyday phrases, public transportation, shopping, and hotels. Includes an extensive menu guide listing approximately 600 dishes. [via]
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The Italian Renaissanceby Werner L. GundersheimerISBN 0802077358 (0-8020-7735-8)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Ryeby Harold BloomISBN 0791056643 (0-7910-5664-3)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Jack Frusciante Has Left the Bandby Enrico Brizzi, Stash LuczkiwISBN 0802135218 (0-8021-3521-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudiceby Jane AustenISBN 0791094375 (0-7910-9437-5)
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Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americasby Dario Fo, Ron Jenkins, Stefania TavianoISBN 0802137776 (0-8021-3777-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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La Cenerentolaby Gioacchino RossiniISBN 0793583608 (0-7935-8360-8)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Lair of the Lionby Christine FeehanISBN 0786249862 (0-7862-4986-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Impoverished aristocrat Isabella Vernaducci would defy death itself to rescue her imprisoned brother. She'd even brave the haunted, accursed lair of the lion -- legendary, lethal Don Nicolai DeMarco. Rumor said the powerful don could command the heavens and the beasts below . . . and that he was doomed to destroy the woman he took as his wife. [via]
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Life Is Beautiful/(LA Vita E Bella)by Robert Benigni, Vincenzo CeramiISBN 078688469X (0-7868-8469-X)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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The Little Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisiby Louise Bachelder, Abby Langdon AlgerISBN 0802725260 (0-8027-2526-0)
Softcover, Walker Large Print
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Mafia Business: The Mafia Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalismby Pino ArlacchiISBN 0805272852 (0-8052-7285-2)
Hardcover, Verso
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The Manzoni Familyby Natalia Ginzburg, Marie EvansISBN 0805006133 (0-8050-0613-3)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Microhistory and the Lost Peoples of Europeby Edward Muir, Guido RuggieroISBN 0801841836 (0-8018-4183-6)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Mulligan Stewby Gilbert SorrentinoISBN 0802152015 (0-8021-5201-5)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Naked Chefby Jamie OliverISBN 0786866179 (0-7868-6617-9)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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The Naked Chef Takes Offby Jamie OliverISBN 0786867558 (0-7868-6755-8)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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No Need to Knead: Handmade Italian Breads in 90 Minutesby Suzanne DunawayISBN 0786864273 (0-7868-6427-3)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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On Humanistic Educationby Giambattista Vico, Giorgio A. Pinton, Arthur W. Shippee, Donald Phillip VereneISBN 0801480876 (0-8014-8087-6)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Humanistic Education'Book summary:Vico's earliest extant scholarly works, the six orations on humanistic education, offer the first statement of ideas that Vico would continue to refine throughout his life. Delivered between 1699 and 1707 to usher in the new academic year at the University of Naples, the orations are brought together here for the first time in English in an authoritative translation based on Gian Galeazzo Visconti's 1982 Latin/Italian edition.
In the lectures, Vico draws liberally on the classical philosophical and legal traditions as he explores the relationship between the Greek dictum "Know thyself" and liberal education. As he sets forth the values and goals of a humanist curriculum, Vico reveals the beginnings of the anti-Cartesian position he will pursue in On the Study Methods of Our Time (1709). Also found in the orations are glimpses of Vico's later views on the theory of interpretation and on the nature of language, imagination, and human creativity, along with many themes that were to be fully developed in his magnum opus, the New Science (1744).
On Humanistic Education joins a number of translations of Vico's works available in paperback from Cornell-On the Study Methods of Our Time, On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians, the New Science, and The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico. It will be welcomed by Vichians and their students, intellectual historians, and others in the fields of philosophy, literary theory, history and methods of education, classics, and rhetoric.
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On the Study Methods of Our Timeby Giambattista Vico, Elio Gianturco, Donald Phillip VereneISBN 0801497787 (0-8014-9778-7)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Study Methods of Our Time'Book summary:Giambattista Vico's first original work of philosophy, On the Study Methods of Our Time (1708-9) takes up the contemporary "quarrel between the ancients and the moderns" and provides a highly interesting statement of the nature of humanistic education. This edition makes available again Elio Gianturco's superb 1965 English translation of a work generally regarded as the earliest statement by Vico of the fundamentals of his position.
An important contribution to the development of the scientism-versus-humanism debate over the comparative merits of classical and modern culture, this book lays out Vico's powerful arguments against the compartmentalization of knowledge which results from the Cartesian world view. In opposition to the arid logic of Cartesianism, Vico here celebrates the humanistic tradition and posits the need for a comprehensive science of humanity which recognizes the value of memory and imagination.
For this edition, Donald Phillip Verene has written a new preface placing the work in the context of the ongoing renaissance in Vico studies and added a chronology of Vico's major writings. He has also translated into English for the first time Vico's last public statement, The Academies and the Relation between Philosophy and Eloquence (1737), a short oration that presents his final views on wisdom, the unity of knowledge, and rhetoric-themes he had first adumbrated in the Study Methods.
On the Study Methods of Our Time remains a key text for anyone interested in the development's of Vico's thought and serves as a concise introduction to his work. Scholars and students in such disciplines as the history of philosophy, intellectual history, literary theory, rhetoric, and the history and philosophy of education will find this volume helpful and fascinating.
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The Open: Man and Animalby Giorgio Agamben, Kevin AttellISBN 0804747385 (0-8047-4738-5)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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In The Open, contemporary Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben considers the ways in which the human has been thought of as either a distinct and superior type of animal, or a kind of being that is essentially different from animal altogether. In an argument that ranges from ancient Greek, Christian, and Jewish texts to twentieth-century thinkers such as Heidegger, Benjamin, and Kojève, Agamben examines the ways in which the distinction between man and animal has been manufactured by the logical presuppositions of Western thought, and he investigates the profound implications that the man/animal distinction has had for disciplines as seemingly disparate as philosophy, law, anthropology, medicine, and politics.More editions of The Open: Man and Animal:
Painting in Eighteenth-Century Veniceby Michael LeveyISBN 0801413311 (0-8014-1331-1)
Hardcover, Cornell University Press
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Papa Andrea's Sicilian Tableby Vincent SchiavelliISBN 0806522747 (0-8065-2274-7)
Hardcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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Papa Andrea's Sicilian Table: Recipes from a Sicilian Chef as Remembered by His Grandsonby Vincent Schiavelli, Kensington Publishing Corporation StaffISBN 0806517093 (0-8065-1709-3)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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A Passion for Fruitby Lorenza De' Medici StucchiISBN 0789206307 (0-7892-0630-7)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Pastaby Julia Della Croce, Ian O'LearyISBN 0789451182 (0-7894-5118-2)
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Patronage in Renaissance Italy: From 1400 to the Early Sixteenth Centuryby Mary HollingsworthISBN 0801852870 (0-8018-5287-0)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Piero Della Francescaby Piero, Tatjana PauliISBN 078944853X (0-7894-4853-X)
Softcover, Dk Pub
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Pirandello's Henry IVby Tom StoppardISBN 0802141943 (0-8021-4194-3)
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Plato's Republicby PlatoISBN 0804901724 (0-8049-0172-4)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Pride and Prejudiceby Harold BloomISBN 0791081699 (0-7910-8169-9)
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane AustenISBN 0804900019 (0-8049-0001-9)
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Radical Passivity: Levinas, Blanchot and Agambenby Thomas Carl Wall, William FleschISBN 0791440486 (0-7914-4048-6)
Softcover, State University of New York Press
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Revere Beach Boulevard: A Novelby Roland MerulloISBN 0805060057 (0-8050-6005-7)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Revere Beach Elegy: A Memoir of Home and Beyondby Roland MerulloISBN 0807072451 (0-8070-7245-1)
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Romeo and Julietby William Shakespeare, Janie B. Yates-GlandorfISBN 0789160870 (0-7891-6087-0)
Softcover, Perfection Learning
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Romeo And Juliet: Internet Referencedby William Shakespeare, Jana Costa, Anna ClaybourneISBN 0794512402 (0-7945-1240-2)
Hardcover, Edc Pub
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Selected Poems of Giuseppe Ungarettiby Allen Mandelbaum, Giuseppe UngarettiISBN 0801408504 (0-8014-0850-4)
Hardcover, Cornell University Press
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The Silk Industry of Renaissance Veniceby Luca MolaISBN 0801861896 (0-8018-6189-6)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Sonnet of Giuseppe Belliby Giuseppe Gioachino BelliISBN 080710762X (0-8071-0762-X)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Speaking of Slavery: Color, Ethnicity, and Human Bondage in Italyby Steven A. EpsteinISBN 0801438489 (0-8014-3848-9)
Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Tragedy of Macbethby William ShakespeareISBN 0804910022 (0-8049-1002-2)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Julietby William ShakespeareISBN 080491009X (0-8049-1009-X)
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Twentieth-Century Italian Literature in Translation: An Annotated Bibliography, 1929-1997by Robin HealeyISBN 0802008003 (0-8020-0800-3)
Hardcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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The Unknown Internment: An Oral History of the Relocation of Italian Americans During World War IIby Stephen FoxISBN 0805791256 (0-8057-9125-6)
Softcover, Gale / Cengage Learning
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Venice Triumphant: The Horizons Of A Mythby Elisabeth Crouzet-PavanISBN 0801869587 (0-8018-6958-7)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Central to Crouzet-Pavan's discussion is her concept of l'imaginaire, literally translated as "the imaginary" and here meaning the many symbolic terms Venetians created to describe and understand the peculiar space they inhabited and, by extension, themselves. One key example of l'imaginaire is Venetians' use of the term "the continent" to refer, somewhat dismissively, to Italy, Germany, and other lands beyond the lagoon in order to emphasize their own distinctive maritime identity. As Crouzet-Pavan shows, this sense of exceptionalism impacts every aspect of Venetian history: its art and architecture; its involvement with mainland politics; its commercial, civic, and political institutions; and the shape of daily life in its homes, alleys, and courtyards. Elegantly translated by Lydia G. Cochrane, Venice Triumphant offers a bold new perspective on the world's most beautifuland remarkablecity.
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Venice, a Maritime Republicby Frederic Chapin LaneISBN 080181460X (0-8018-1460-X)
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Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of the Worldby Donna R. Gabaccia, Franca IacovettaISBN 0802084621 (0-8020-8462-1)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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