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Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well
Häftad, 2003
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
676 kr
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First published in 1891, Pellegrino Artusi's La scienza in cucina e l'arte di mangier bene has come to be recognized as the most significant Italian cookbook of modern times. It was reprinted thirteen times and had sold more than 52,000 copies in the years before Artusi's death in 1910, with the …
Republic of Venice
De Magistratibus Et Republica Venetorum
Av Gasparo Contarini, Filippo Sabetti
E-bok, 2019
332 kr
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At a time when social scientists are increasingly focusing on the reasons why nations fail and democracies die, Filippo Sabetti turns to the opposite issue, asking instead why institutions endure. To do so, he presents Gasparo Contarini’s sixteenth-century description of the Republic of Venice to …
On the Causes of the Greatness and Magnificence of Cities
Inbunden, 2012
557 kr
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The first treatise ever written on the sociology of cities, On the Causes of the Greatness and Magnificence of Cities (1588) marked a radical departure from previous literature on urban centres. It provided a revolutionary analysis of how cities function, and of the political, economic, demographic …
Writings on the Sober Life
The Art and Grace of Living Long
Inbunden, 2014
702 kr
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Alvise Cornaro (c.1484–1566) was the son of a Paduan innkeeper with presumed ties to the patrician Cornaro family of Venice. Highly ambitious, he acquired a name for himself as a businessman, architect, and patron of the arts. Critically ill around age 40 – likely with diabetes and gout – he …
Republic of Venice
De Magistratibus Et Republica Venetorum
Av Gasparo Contarini, Filippo Sabetti
E-bok, 2019
333 kr
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At a time when social scientists are increasingly focusing on the reasons why nations fail and democracies die, Filippo Sabetti turns to the opposite issue, asking instead why institutions endure. To do so, he presents Gasparo Contarini’s sixteenth-century description of the Republic of Venice to …
On the Heroic Frenzies
A Translation of De Gli Eroici Furori(1585)
Av Giordano Bruno, Eugenio Canone
Inbunden, 2013
1551 kr
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Italian astronomer and Dominican friar Giordano Bruno (1548–1600), found guilty of heresy by the Roman Inquisition and burned at the stake, has long been an enigma of early modern European philosophy. His central 1586 work On the Heroic Frenzies has shown a particular need for a fresh examination. …
Aretino's Dialogues
Häftad, 2005
539 kr
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Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) was one of the most important figures in Italian Renaissance literature, and certainly the most controversial. Condemned by some as a pornographer, his infamy was due largely to his use of explicit sexuality and the vulgar tongue of ordinary speech in much of his …
Italian Renaissance Sextet
Six Tales in Historical Context
Häftad, 2004
475 kr
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An Italian Renaissance Sextet is a collection of six tales offering a unique view of the history of Renaissance Italy, with fiction and fictional modes becoming gateways to a real, historical world. All written between 1400 and 1500 - among them a rare gem by Lorenzo the Magnificent and a famous …
Civilization and Democracy
The Salvernini Anthology of Cattaneo's Writings
Av Carlo Cattaneo, Carlo Lacaita m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
829 kr
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Nineteenth-century Italy is a vast, unexplored territory in the history of modern political thought and liberal democratic theory. Apart from Mazzini, Pareto, and Mosca, the authors of this period are little read, even though their central concerns – the riddle of human liberation, progress, and …
Physiology of Love and Other Writings
Inbunden, 2008
1215 kr
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Physician, anthropologist, travel writer, novelist, politician, Paolo Mantegazza (1831-1910) was probably the most eclectic figure in late-nineteenth century Italian culture. A prolific writer, Mantegazza can be seen as a forerunner of what has come to be known as cultural studies on account of his …
Renaissance Comedy
The Italian Masters - Volume 1
Inbunden, 2008
1279 kr
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A rich and multi-faceted aspect of the Italian Renaissance, the comedy has been largely overlooked as a cultural force during the period. In Renaissance Comedy, editor Donald Beecher corrects this oversight with a collection of eleven comedies representative of the principal styles of writing that …
First Voyage Around the World, 1519-1522
An Account of Magellan's Expedition
Av Antonio Pigafetta, Theodore Cachey Jr.
Inbunden, 2007
627 kr
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On 10 August 1519, five ships departed from Seville for what was to become the first circumnavigation of the globe. Linked by fame to the name of its captain, Magellan, much of the expedition is known through the travelogue of one of the few crew members who returned to Spain, Antonio Pigafetta. A …
Renaissance Comedy
The Italian Masters - Volume 2
Häftad, 2009
571 kr
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In this second volume of Renaissance Comedy, Donald Beecher presents six more of the best-known plays of the period, each with its own introduction, reading notes, and annotations. Beecher's general introduction, though stand-alone, complements and extends the historical and critical essay …
Boccaccio's Expositions on Dante's Comedy
Inbunden, 2009
1843 kr
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In the fall of 1373, the city of Florence commissioned Giovanni Boccaccio to give lectures on Dante for the general population. These lectures, undeniably the most learned of all the early commentaries, came to be known as the Expositions on Dante's Divine Comedy. Though interrupted at Inferno …
Renaissance Comedy
The Italian Masters - Volume 2
Inbunden, 2009
1247 kr
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In this second volume of Renaissance Comedy, Donald Beecher presents six more of the best-known plays of the period, each with its own introduction, reading notes, and annotations. Beecher's general introduction, though stand-alone, complements and extends the historical and critical essay …
Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well
Inbunden, 2026
537 kr
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Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well is a celebration of Italian life, culture, and culinary tradition. Originally published in Italian in 1891, Pellegrino Artusi's beloved classic helped define a national cuisine, gathering recipes from across Italy and presenting them with warmth, …
On Crimes and Punishments and Other Writings
Av Cesare Beccaria, Aaron Thomas
Häftad, 2009
398 kr
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Published in 1764, On Crimes and Punishments by Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794) courted both success and controversy in Europe and North America. Enlightenment luminaries and enlightened monarchs alike lauded the text and looked to it for ideas that might help guide the various reform projects of the …
Opera of Bartolomeo Scappi (1570)
L'arte Et Prudenza D'un Maestro Cuoco (the Art and Craft of a Master Cook)
Häftad, 2011
527 kr
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Bartolomeo Scappi (c. 1500-1577) was arguably the most famous chef of the Italian Renaissance. He oversaw the preparation of meals for several Cardinals and was such a master of his profession that he became the personal cook for two Popes. At the culmination of his prolific career he compiled the …
Raffaello Borghini's Il Riposo
Häftad, 2008
460 kr
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Raffaello Borghini's Il Riposo (1584) is the most widely known Florentine document on the subject of the Counter-Reformation content of religious paintings. Despite its reputation as an art-historical text, this is the first English-language translation of Il Riposo to be published. A distillation …
Dante's Lyric Poetry
Poems of Youth and of the 'Vita Nuova'
E-bok, 2014
600 kr
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The first comprehensive English translation and commentary on Dante’s early verse to be published in almost fifty years, Dante’s Lyric Poetry includes all the poems written by the young Dante Aligheri between c. 1283 and c. 1292. Essays by Teodolinda Barolini guide the reader through the new verse …
Dante's Lyric Poetry
Poems of Youth and of the 'Vita Nuova'
E-bok, 2014
587 kr
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The first comprehensive English translation and commentary on Dante’s early verse to be published in almost fifty years, Dante’s Lyric Poetry includes all the poems written by the young Dante Aligheri between c. 1283 and c. 1292. Essays by Teodolinda Barolini guide the reader through the new verse …
Historical Essay on the Neapolitan Revolution of 1799
Av Vincenzo Cuoco, Bruce Haddock m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
936 kr
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Deeply influenced by Enlightenment writers from Naples and France, Vincenzo Cuoco (1770–1823) was forced into exile for his involvement in the failed Neapolitan revolution of 1799. Living in Milan, he wrote what became one of the nineteenth century’s most important treatises on political …
Historical Essay on the Neapolitan Revolution of 1799
Av Vincenzo Cuoco, Bruce Haddock m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
1074 kr
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Deeply influenced by Enlightenment writers from Naples and France, Vincenzo Cuoco (1770–1823) was forced into exile for his involvement in the failed Neapolitan revolution of 1799. Living in Milan, he wrote what became one of the nineteenth century’s most important treatises on political …
Five Comedies
Av Carlo Goldoni, Gianluca Rizzo m. fl.
E-bok, 2016
1174 kr
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One of the first and most important Italian playwrights to move away from the commedia dell’arte tradition of improvisation, Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793) wrote more naturalistic “comedies of character” that featured the dialect and situations of everyday life in Venice.Five Comedies collects a …
Five Comedies
Av Carlo Goldoni, Gianluca Rizzo m. fl.
E-bok, 2016
1312 kr
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One of the first and most important Italian playwrights to move away from the commedia dell’arte tradition of improvisation, Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793) wrote more naturalistic “comedies of character” that featured the dialect and situations of everyday life in Venice.Five Comedies collects a …
Merchant Writers
Florentine Memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Av Vittore Branca, Massimo Ciavolella/Luigi Ballerini m. fl.
E-bok, 2015
957 kr
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The birthplace of Boccaccio, Machiavelli, and the powerful Medici family, Florence was also the first great banking and commercial centre of continental Europe. The city’s middle-class merchants, though lacking the literary virtuosity of its most famous sons, were no less prolific as writers of …
Merchant Writers
Florentine Memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Av Vittore Branca, Massimo Ciavolella/Luigi Ballerini
E-bok, 2015
1074 kr
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The birthplace of Boccaccio, Machiavelli, and the powerful Medici family, Florence was also the first great banking and commercial centre of continental Europe. The city’s middle-class merchants, though lacking the literary virtuosity of its most famous sons, were no less prolific as writers of …
Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies
An Anthology of Italian Poetry from Pasolini to the Present, Tome 1, 1956-1975
Av Luigi Ballerini, Giuseppe Cavatorta
E-bok, 2017
2942 kr
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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 …
Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies
An Anthology of Italian Poetry from Pasolini to the Present, Tome 1, 1956-1975
Av Luigi Ballerini, Giuseppe Cavatorta
E-bok, 2017
2942 kr
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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 …
Dante's Lyric Poetry
Poems of Youth and of the 'Vita Nuova'
Häftad, 2014
541 kr
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The first comprehensive English translation and commentary on Dante’s early verse to be published in almost fifty years, Dante’s Lyric Poetry includes all the poems written by the young Dante Aligheri between c. 1283 and c. 1292. Essays by Teodolinda Barolini guide the reader through the new verse …
