Author: New York Public Library. Dance CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dance
Languages : en
Pages : 714
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Dictionary Catalog of the Dance Collection
Author: New York Public Library. Dance CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dance
Languages : en
Pages : 714
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STORIE DI CAFFE' ovvero il caffè nella letteratura italiana
Author: Duilio ChiarlePublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291469044
Category :
Languages : it
Pages : 399
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General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Goldoni and the Venice of His Time
Author: Joseph Spencer KennardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Pescara Tales (1902)
Author: Gabriele D'AnnunzioPublisher:
ISBN: 9780987463784
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The setting for his collection of eighteen stories by Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938) was the Adriatic seaport of Pescara and its hinterland in the Italian region of Abruzzo, the author depicting events and personalities from the time of his youth, but also drawing from bygone incidents that were yet memorable in the area's folk history. Pescara may not have had the cachet of celebrated cities such as Venice or Florence, but sympathetically and wryly revealed here by the pen of one of Italy's great writers it lives and breathes with a vitality probably best compared to that of James Joyce's 'dear dirty Dublin'. Indeed Joyce, who admired D'Annunzio, may well have been inspired by the Italian's cameos of small-town life, his parade of saints, voluptuaries and reprobates, their repressions, obsessions, individual dissolutions, collective explosions of anarchy, and their aptness for bizarre behavior that extended from the catatonic to the manic. D'Annunzio came to recognize just how exotic his native region was after he had left it for Rome, where he worked for some years as a journalist and essay writer in the employ of various literary magazines. His Abruzzo articles, and especially those in which he records examples of extraordinary devotional behavior (akin to what Mark Twain was witnessing at that time on the banks of the Ganges), became the basis of the stories in this collection. D'Annunzio was a published poet at the age of sixteen, and his verse has never been absent from the Western Canon since. Something of his painterly style, the layered brushwork of his descriptions, the gorgeous romantic renderings of rural scenes and the moods of the sea, his celebrations of sensuality, his aesthete's fascination with all the possible bodily conditions, from the virginal-voluptuous to the decayed and moribund (he has been hailed as 'the body's poet'), will amaze and delight the reader even in the blandest and most dictionary-dependent translation. The present one is no such, however. Vladislav Zhukov is an experienced translator who has rendered works from four languages into English, including a substantial book of poetry, three volumes of short stories, and a novel (all available on Amazon.com). His knowledge of Italian is that of someone who acquired the language while living in Italy during his youth.
Cronologia
Author: Giampiero TintoriPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballet
Languages : it
Pages : 504
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The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Chinese Religions
Author: Randall L. NadeauPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 144436197X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Comprising the most up-to-date, interdisciplinary research on the study of Chinese religious beliefs and cultural practices, this volume explores the rich and complex religious and philosophical traditions that have developed and flourished in one of the world's oldest civilizations. Covers the main Chinese traditions of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism as well as Christianity and Islam Features a unique organizational structure, with groups of readings focused on historical, traditions-based, and topical elements of Chinese religion Explores a number of contemporary religious topics, including gender, nature, asceticism, material culture, and gods and spirits Brings together a team of authors who are experts in their sub-fields, providing readers with the latest research in a rapidly growing discipline
A New Dictionary of the English and Italian Languages
Author: Arthur EnenkelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
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Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy
Author: Vernon LeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italian drama (Comedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Dante's Italy, and Other Essays
Author: Charles Till DavisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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