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ULTIMA EDIZIONE. Contiene gli eventi dello spostamento della Biblioteca a Segrate, con numerosi inserti audio-video. Formato epub3. La Biblioteca e la Collezione di Mario ed Ada De Micheli, donazione al Comune di Trezzo, sono state oggetto, nel corso del 2010, di una diatriba tra gli eredi De Micheli, Gioxe ed Anna, ed il Comune. Spada, non senza una punta di ironia, descrive i fatti accaduti, con il distacco di una libera cronaca. Il ricavato della vendita va a Associazione Arte Trezzo, per la divulgazione del lascito De Micheli.
Despite the fact that, if only by number, small and peripheral cities played an important role in fifteenth and sixteenth-century European print culture, book history has mainly been dominated by monographs on individual big book centres. Through a number of specific case studies, which deploy a variety of methods and a wide range of sources, this volume seeks to enhance our understanding of printing and the book trade in small and peripheral European cities in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and to emphasize the necessity of new research for the study of print culture in such cities.
This is the first volume of a series of commented reprints, featuring re-discovered music-archaeological works from the 1860s to the 1920s, which are difficult available, but highly relevant for the history of science and contemporary research in the study field. Each volume features the reprinted work and comments by distinguished scholars, highlighting and discussing the scholarly achievements in the light of today.
The fascinating story of a century-old automobile dynasty Fiat is one of the world's largest automakers, but when it made headlines by grabbing control of a bankrupt Chrysler in 2009 it was unknown in the U.S. Fiat’s against-all-odds swoop on Chrysler---masterminded by Sergio Marchionne, the Houdini-like manager who saved Fiat from its own near-collapse in 2005 – has made the automaker one of the most unlikely winners of the financial crisis. Mondo Agnelli is a new book that looks at the chain of unpredictable events triggered by the death of Gianni Agnelli in 2003. Gianni, the charismatic, silver-haired power broker and style icon, was the patriarch who had lead the company founded by h...
This collection of essays, commissioned in honour of Andrew Pettegree, presents original contributions on the Reformation, communication and the book in early modern Europe. Together, the essays reflect on Pettegree’s ground-breaking influence on these fields, and offer a comprehensive survey of the state of current scholarship.
A study of the role of 'little magazines' and their contribution to the making of artistic modernism and the avant-garde across Europe, this volume is a major scholarly achievement of immense value to those interested in material culture of the 20th century.
In Transcending Patterns: Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textiles, Mariachiara Gasparini investigates the origin and effects of a textile-mediated visual culture that developed at the heart of the Silk Road between the seventh and fourteenth centuries. Through the analysis of the Turfan Textile Collection in the Museum of Asian Art in Berlin and more than a thousand textiles held in collections worldwide, Gasparini discloses and reconstructs the rich cultural entanglements along the Silk Road, between the coming of Islam and the rise of the Mongol Empire, from the Tarim to Mediterranean Basin. Exploring in detail the iconographic transfer between different...
The long-awaited second volume of A. David Moody's acclaimed three-part biography. The Epic Years examines Pound's middle years, a period which was also his most productive.