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The book collects the short papers presented at the 13th Scientific Meeting of the Classification and Data Analysis Group (CLADAG) of the Italian Statistical Society (SIS). The meeting has been organized by the Department of Statistics, Computer Science and Applications of the University of Florence, under the auspices of the Italian Statistical Society and the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS). CLADAG is a member of the IFCS, a federation of national, regional, and linguistically-based classification societies. It is a non-profit, non-political scientific organization, whose aims are to further classification research.
"My behavior is not a Yankee's behavior. It just is not, no matter what. My family was Italian, and different from most other Italian immigrants. We did not need to melt in. We did not need to assimilate, because of who we were and what we came from. While other people were painting themselves red, white, and blue, we talked Italian, absorbed our family's history, and thought of ourselves as being what we always were. In the deepest sense, I was never taught to be a Yankee, which is a fact that comes out in any number of the things that I do and try to accomplish. Some people have the feeling that what I write and say is too subtle, or perhaps manipulative; or that I behave a bit outlandishly; but those people do not put what I do in the context of Italy, in the context of that very old, very subtle, very complicated society, which I come from"--
In questo seguito di "Il papa del mare", Ibáñez ci trascina nella Roma del Quattrocento. Se nel precedente romanzo il ruolo di narratore – alla stregua di una novella Sherazade – era riservato al poeta Claudio Borja, stavolta è suo zio, Baltasar Figueras, a raccontare della turbolenta ascesa della famiglia Borgia in un’Italia rinascimentale. La Città Eterna, dopo un millennio di sonno, sembra essere ritornata ai fasti dell’antichità, inchinandosi nuovamente ai piedi della dea Venere, in un turbine di edonismo e di amore per la vita. Romanzo vivido, movimentato e appassionante, "Ai piedi di Venere" vi conquisterà con la sua prosa brillante e col fascino di una storia immortale.....
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Bimestrale di cultura giuridica diretto da Giulio Perrotta.