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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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Rientra nelle prerogative professionali di un docente la necessit di non essere mai lontano dalle scienze umane, quelle che, ancor pi delle scienze fisiche, sono in grado di penetrare l'anima dell'uomo e smontarla nei mille misteriosi frammenti di...

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Among the features of this guide to La Cenerentola, Philip Gossett throws new light on the remarkable story of the operas composition, while Colin Graham, ENO producer, argues that it is the most sympathetic of all Rossinis comic masterpieces, and...

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Aida is, for most of us, the quintessence of Ancient Egypt but it is certainly not just for archaeologists. Michael Rose points out that it is really about patriotism - an issue of burning importance to Verdi and his contemporaries. Music critic W...

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A lyric comedy unlike any other, wrote Verdi about his last opera. That the last work of a composer who was almost notorious for his preference for tragic and gloomy subjects should be a brilliant human comedy was and remains one of the wonders of...

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Rigoletto was first produced at the Teatro La Fenice, Venice, in 1851, and is generally seen as marking the beginning of Giuseppe Verdis extraordinary middle period. It was followed in quick succession by Il trovatore and La traviata, and even aft...

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In this guide to Verdis popular opera, Marcello Conati of the Institute for Verdi Studies points out that, although audiences have always adored it, critics are only now coming to see that it represents a step forward, not back, from the revolutio...

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Verdis War and Peace, writes Peter Conrad of this epic opera composed in 1862. It encompasses the extremes of a religious and secular existence the worlds of the lovers pursued by an uncompromising fate and of the people in the scenes at the inn a...

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Madama Butterfly is one of the most popular operas of all time, despite its disastrous premiere, after which it was immediately withdrawn and revised. This guide explores how and why the libretto was softened to suit the tastes of European opera-g...

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A Turandot filtered through a modern brain, wrote Puccini, describing his plans to rework the eighteenth-century fable by Carlo Gozzi. According to Mosco Carner, Puccinis last and supreme work is an advanced score which, with an orchestration that...

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Rossini is one of the great operatic composers and a major innovator in the field of serious and comic operas. Moise et Pharaon is a score which he revised for Paris ten years after it had been composed for Naples; the result shows the evolution o...

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'See how the drama is turned into laughter,' comment the chorus, as they witness the destruction of a marriage and a friendship. Here Pierluigi Petrobelli shows how the irony woven into the tragedy (which strikes listeners today as so mo...

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Verdi came to Shakespeare through Italian translation and had never seen Macbeth on stage when he wrote his first version of the opera in 1847. Giorgio Melchiori draws a parallel between the conditions in which the playwright and the composer were...

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Monteverdis 1607 version of the legend of Orpheus is arguably the first masterpiece of opera. Composed for the court of Mantua, where Monteverdi was employed, it is very different from his two other surviving operas, which he wrote more than thirt...

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It used to be thought that Verdi miscalculated with this attempt at a grand opera in the French style. This guide demonstrates that Don Carlos was and remains an extraordinary achievement in melding two opposing visions of opera: the spectacular p...

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Questo dizionario presenta una descrizione dettagliata delle condizioni geografiche, storiche e fisiche della Toscana, compreso il Granducato, il Ducato di Lucca, la Garfagnana e la Lunigiana. Data la vastità del territorio trattato, è un'opera di...

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Descrizione del libro: In Grano e Non Zizzania si potrÿ vedere che, nonostante i progressi della scienza e della tecnologia, e nonostante tutte le esperienze riportate, l''umanitÿ si sta muovendo verso la ripetizione di vecchi errori. Si potrÿ ...

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These editions of reports sent back by Venetian ambassadors to the Great Council of the Republic in the sixteenth century were edited by Eugenio Albri (1807-78) and published between 1839 and 1863. As Albri notes in his preface, a law of 1296 decr...

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Giovanni Bernardo De Rossi (1742-1831) first studied Hebrew in Turin as a requirement for his theology degree. Having swiftly mastered several Semitic languages and been ordained a priest, he was appointed professor of oriental languages at the Un...

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Aimed at anyone who wants to increase their chance of getting a top grade in Italian exams. Upgrade your Italian offers a thirty-day revision programme that is guaranteed to improve results. Spending between 30 minutes and an hour each day with th...

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La parola ecologia viene usata spesso per definire qualcosa che rispetti la natura, che si incastri alla perfezione con l'equilibrio degli elementi. Questo breve saggio rappresenta il desiderio di manifestare gli equilibri di un pianeta fatto di i...

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Alba Zeta. Letteratura, cinema e curiosita per sopravvivere all'apocalisse zombie di Barbara de Carolis e Maria Teresa de Carolis Edizioni Imperium - collana saggistica Se un giorno il mondo soccombesse a causa di un virus inarrestabile, ogni uman...

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Questo testo e destinato a chi abbia acquistato la prima o la seconda edizione de "L'Uomo dell'Impossibile". Si tratta infatti delle aggiunte e delle integrazioni apportate con la terza edizione pubblicata nel 2015, che ha raggiunto quas...

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Italians military contribution began immediately after the first French occupation of Lombardy (1796) and the creation of the Cisalpine Republic whit the constitution of the Lombard Legion. This Legion went on growing bigger until reaching in 1797...

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Aimed at anyone who wants to increase their chance of getting a top grade in Italian exams. Upgrade your Italian offers a thirty-day revision programme that is guaranteed to improve results. Spending between 30 minutes and an hour each day with th...

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