Biografier

From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, a remarkable journey into the practice of groundbreaking science 'Giorgio Parisi is renowned for his scientific creativity, originality, and power. In this exhilarating little book, he shows his hu...

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'He is skilful. He is outspoken. He is Zlatan' New York Times 'He is an amazing talent, one of the best around' Pep Guardiola Football's most prolific and controversial goalscorer has nothing left to prove on the pitch. Th...

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'Tiepolo: the last breath of happiness in Europe' The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life creating frescoes that are among the glories of Western art, yet he remains shrouded in mystery. Who was he? An...

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Primo Levi's The Periodic Table is a collection of short stories that elegantly interlace the author's experiences in Fascist Italy, and later in Auschwitz, with his passion for scientific knowledge and discovery. This Penguin Modern Cla...

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For fans of Truman Capote and Emmanuel Carrere "Psychogeography at its most perceptive."Financial Times In March 2016, in an apartment on the outskirts of Rome, two ordinary young men brutally tortured and murdered twenty-two-year-old Lu...

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The Cheese and the Worms is an incisive study of popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, the miller known as Menocchio, who was accused of heresy during the Inquisition and sentenced to death. Carlo Ginzburg u...

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Il 5 dicembre 2009 Amanda Knox e Raffaele Sollecito sono stati condannati per il brutale omicidio di Meredith Kercher. Nel 2011 arriva invece la sentenza di appello: assolti per non aver commesso il fatto. Sentenza poi confermata dalla Cassazione....

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Gianni Vattimo, a leading philosopher of the continental school, has always resisted autobiography. But in this intimate memoir, the voice of Vattimo as thinker, political activist, and human being finds its expression on the page. With Piergiorgi...

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A totally unique poetic treatise, La Vita Nuova is an elaborately and symbolically patterned selection of Dante's early poems, interspersed with his own incisive prose commentary. The poems themselves tell the story of his undying love for Be...

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From one of the most daring mountaineers of modern times, Walter Bonatti's The Mountains of My Life is an account of years spent conquering the most intimidating peaks on Earth, translated and with a foreword by Robert Marshall in Penguin Mod...

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Dal ritrovamento di alcuni racconti, nasce postuma una raccolta incompiuta di memorie di un uomo comune della bassa bergamasca, cresciuto a polenta e ave maria ai tempi della Seconda Guerra Mondiale: dai suoi ricordi si apre una catena di vissuti ...

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In his Lives of the Artists of the Italian Renaissance, Vasari demonstrated a literary talent that outshone even his outstanding abilities as a painter and architect. Through character sketches and anecdotes he depicts Piero di Cosimo shut away in...

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Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and their immortal works, are brought vividly to life, as...

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In five elegant autobiographical meditations Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting in the Italian Resistance against the Fascists. He also muses on the ...

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The extraordinary letters of Italo Calvino, one of the great writers of the twentieth century, translated into English for the first time by Martin McLaughlin, with an introduction by Michael Wood. Italo Calvino, novelist, literary critic and edit...

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Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) was one of the most original political thinkers in Western Marxism and an exceptional intellectual. Arrested and imprisoned by the Italian Fascist regime in 1926, Gramsci died before fully regaining his freedom, yet he ...

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When we think of the Italian Mafia, we think of Marlon Brando, Tony Soprano, and the Corleones--iconic actors and characters who give shady dealings a mythical pop presence. Yet these sensational depictions take us only so far. The true story of t...

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When we think of the Italian Mafia, we think of Marlon Brando, Tony Soprano, and the Corleones--iconic actors and characters who give shady dealings a mythical pop presence. Yet these sensational depictions take us only so far. The true story of t...

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Gianni Vattimo, a leading philosopher of the continental school, has always resisted autobiography. But in this intimate memoir, the voice of Vattimo as thinker, political activist, and human being finds its expression on the page. With Piergiorgi...

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'A funny, sad novella about how we got here from there, and how, in our youth, "our eyes saw things differently"' The Times A private meeting, chance encounters and a mysterious tour of Lisbon haunt this moving homage to Tabucc...

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Uno studio d'approfondimento sulla vita e le opere letterarie di Gioconda Belli, straordinaria scrittrice nicaraguense e autrice di toccanti poesie e romanzi che inducono alla riflessione pi profonda. Uno sguardo sul mondo, sulle problematiche del...

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La mia vita attraverso le canzoni di quarant'anni! Emozioni, ricordi, il Tempo, l'Amore...

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Biografia di un sognatore la storia di un uomo che ha affrontato con coraggio i tempi della crisi e vuol donare speranza, attraverso il racconto della propria vita alle nuove generazioni.

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L'artista Roberto Bombassei ha intervistato il maestro del rinascimento Leonardo da Vinci. Tra fantasia e realta' il Maestro ci svela i suoi segreti. Una pubblicazione per amare il genio di Leonardo.

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Questo libro raccoglie le principali pagine di Wikipedia che, sia in italiano che in molte lingue straniere, si occupano dell'attivit scacchistica di Eros Riccio, il quale ha raggiunto altissimi livelli negli Scacchi per Corrispondenza, ma sopratt...

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Storia di un donatore particolare e della collezione delle sue farfalle...

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Dopo la pubblicazione "" In dialogo con Lui"" l'artista Roberto Bombassei incontra nuovamente il Maestro Leonardo Da Vinci. Tra fantasia e realt il Maestro svela nuovi dettagli della sua vita, del suo pensiero e delle sue opere...

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Il Racconto di Mimmo Carlomagno, Cantautore Lucano, al suo terzo libro in cui racconta la sua carriera.

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Che dire del mio paese! Non posso dire di piu, ma i miei disegni valgono di piu di dieci mila parole, perchZ sono diretti descendenti dal mio cuore. Dovuto alla mia vita pellegrina, avendo viaggito intorno al mondo almeno un paio di volte, mi sent...

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Dopo "In dialogo con Lui" e "Nuovo dialogo con Lui" ritorna l'artista e scrittore Roberto Bombassei con una nuova pubblicazione dedicata al Maestro del rinascimento Leonardo Da Vinci. Tra fantasia e realt? il Maestro svela nuov...

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