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Carlo Crivelli
Venetian artist Carlo Crivelli (c. 1430–1495) is a painter whose individuality of style and mastery of powerful line have fascinated many, but whose life and art have remained enigmatic. This absorbing book, drawing on extensive research in Venice and the Marches, the region of central Italy that Crivelli dominated artistically from 1468 until his death, examines his paintings in depth and traces the fundamental influences of the Vivarini, of Squarcione and Mantegna, and later of Flemish art. Ronald Lightbown, eminent historian of Italian Renaissance art, interweaves stylistic and iconographical analysis of Crivelli’s work with historical and cultural background. The author uncovers the reasons that led patrons to choose the saints that figured in Crivelli’s altarpieces, discusses the initiations of new cults and the devising of an iconography for them, and demonstrates Crivelli’s independence from clerical dictation in the symbolism of his still-life pictures.
Renaissance Porticoes and Painted Pergolas
This book explores the intersection between architecture, pictorial representation, garden culture, and natural history and proposes the interpretation that the illusionistic pergola was a metaphor for the Renaissance mind as it negotiated a new cognitive topography between an internal rationalism, governed by classical verities, and the perpetually fluctuating outer world of global expansion.
Alessandro Manzoni's The Count of Carmagnola and Adelchis
"Now, translator Federica Brunori Deigan presents lyrical English-language versions of these two tragedies which, taken together, dramatize the first two epochs in Manzoni's "history of Italy." (The Betrothed completes the triptych, illustrating the period of Spanish domination.) Long unavailable in English, The Count of Carmagnola and Adelchis are distinguished by their dramatic power and thematic gravity. Manzoni considers the interactions of Christian morals and Machiavellian politics through deft psychological portraiture, ultimately revealing the course of history as a fabric woven by individuals free will according to a logical pattern of actions and reactions, within the vaster providential plan, that human eyes can only dimly perceive."--BOOK JACKET.
Fratelli di sangue
La 'ndrangheta calabrese non ha certo l'immensa fama di Cosa Nostra o della camorra, ma ha oggi ramificazioni in ogni regione italiana e nei cinque continenti, può vantare rapporti con organizzazioni criminali e terroristiche straniere di primissimo piano...
Le mafie sulle macerie del Muro di Berlino
Le mafie sulle macerie del muro di Berlino tratta in maniera storica-operativa la questione delle mafie in Germania ed è il primo libro a ricostruire il legame tra la fine della Cortina di Ferro e il radicamento delle mafie in terra tedesca. Nella pagine sono approfondite alcune questioni rimaste marginali o inedite, come il testimone tedesco della strage di Duisburg che fece arrestare uno dei responsabili, o il viaggio in Germania di Paolo Borsellino in quell’intervallo di 57 giorni che separano la sua morte da quella di Falcone, fino a dettagli sulla morte del giudice Rosario Livatino. Sono riportati inoltre degli interessi che legano il super latitante Matteo Messina Denaro con personaggi che operano in Germania e hanno legami con la massoneria tedesca.
