Luigi Ballerini - Böcker

Maestro Martino of Como has been called the first celebrity chef, and his extraordinary treatise on Renaissance cookery, The Art of Cooking, is the first known culinary guide to specify ingredients, cooking times and techniques, utensils, and amounts. This vibrant document is also essential to understanding the forms of conviviality developed in Central Italy during the Renaissance, as well as their sociopolitical implications. In addition to the original text, this first complete English translation of the work includes a historical essay by Luigi Ballerini and fifty modernized recipes by acclaimed Italian chef Stefania Barzini. The Art of Cooking, unlike the culinary manuals of the time, is a true gastronomic lexicon, surprisingly like a modern cookbook in identifying the quantity and kinds of ingredients in each dish, the proper procedure for cooking them, and the time required, as well as including many of the secrets of a culinary expert. In his lively introduction, Luigi Ballerini places Maestro Martino in the complicated context of his time and place and guides the reader through the complexities of Italian and papal politics.Stefania Barzini's modernized recipes that follow the text bring the tastes of the original dishes into line with modern tastes. Her knowledgeable explanations of how she has adapted the recipes to the contemporary palate are models of their kind and will inspire readers to recreate these classic dishes in their own kitchens. Jeremy Parzen's translation is the first to gather the entire corpus of Martino's legacy.

Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies is an anthology of poems and essays that aims to provide an organic profile of the evolution of Italian poetry after World War II. Beginning with the birth of Officina and Il Verri, and culminating with the crisis of the mid-seventies, this tome features works by such poets as Pasolini, Pagliarani, Rosselli, Sanguineti and Zanzotto, as well as such forerunners as Villa and Cacciatore.Each section of this anthology, organized chronologically, is preceded by an introductory note and documents every stylistic or substantial change in the poetics of a group or individual. For each poet, critic, and translator a short biography and bibliography is also provided.

Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies is an anthology of poems, informative essays and statements on poetics that aim to provide an organic profile of the evolution of Italian poetry after World War II.Picking up in the mid-1970s and culminating in present-day, the book refutes the decline of Italian poetry caused by the urgency of the era’s political disarray. Documenting, among others, the works of Balestrini, Giuliani, Pagliarani, Pasolini, Rosselli, Sanguineti, Villa, and Zanzotto, the second volume of Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies is a collection of poems and essays organized in a series of connected sections where stylistic or substantial changes in intent in the poetics of a group or an individual poet are documented. Offering an extensive, chronological exploration, authors whose stylistic developments underwent significant changes appear more than once. This volume proves how Italian research poetry developed and advanced and elaborates upon the legacy of the historical avant-garde and of the neo-avant-garde. Authorities on Italian literature Luigi Ballerini and Beppe Cavatorta argue against the notion that in the mid-1970s experimental poetry ceased to be a viable social activity and demonstrate instead the resurgence and enhancement of the literary art form.