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Daguerreotype hallmarks
Some account of the origin and early history of the photography. Daguerreotype manufacturing and historical daguerreotype process. Recognition, identification and classification of hallmarks on daguerreotype plates; tables with images and reference codes for cataloging hallmarks. Hallmarks impressed on daguerreotype plates can provide precious information on the area of origin, on the producer, on the eventual importer and sometimes also on the photographic studio and the date of production. Most daguerreotypes have long been considered anonymous. The hallmarks impressed on the plates tell a different story and open the way to consider signed daguerreotypes by known makers.
Miracles and Sacrilege
Miracles and Sacrilege is the story of the epochal conflict between censorship and freedom in film, recounted through an in-depth analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision striking down a government ban on Roberto Rossellini’s film The Miracle (1950). In this extraordinary case, the Court ultimately chose to abandon its own longstanding determination that film comprised a mere ‘business’ unworthy of free-speech rights, declaring for the first time that the First Amendment barred government from banning any film as ‘sacreligious.’ Using legal briefs, affidavits, and other court records, as well as letters, memoranda, and other archival materials to elucidate what was at issue ...
The Life & Pontificate of Pope Pius XII
“Focuses not just on . . . the pope’s response to the Holocaust, but on [his] life and papacy . . . as a whole . . . A refreshingly balanced approach” (Catholic Courier). Written by one of the foremost historians of Pius XII, this present biographical study—unlike the greater part of the vast and growing historiography of Pope Pius XII—is a balanced and nonreactive account of his life and times. Its focus is not on the pope’s silence during the Holocaust, though it does address the issue in a historical and objective framework. This is a biography of the man before and during his papacy. It probes the roots of his traditionalism and legalism, his approach to modernity and reformi...
Living the Revolution
Italians were the largest group of immigrants to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, and hundreds of thousands led and participated in some of the period's most volatile labor strikes. Jennifer Guglielmo brings to life the Italian working-class women of New York and New Jersey who helped shape the vibrant radical political culture that expanded into the emerging industrial union movement. Tracing two generations of women who worked in the needle and textile trades, she explores the ways immigrant women and their American-born daughters drew on Italian traditions of protest to form new urban female networks of everyday resistance and political activism. She also shows how their commitment to revolutionary and transnational social movements diminished as they became white working-class Americans.
Orientalia christiana periodica
Includes section "Recensiones".
The Scourge of Demons
In 1636, residents at the convent of Santa Chiara in Carpi in northern Italy were struck by an extraordinary illness that provoked bizarre behavior. Eventually numbering fourteen, the afflicted nuns were subject to screaming fits, throwing themselves on the floor, and falling abruptly into a deep sleep. When medical experts' cures proved ineffective, exorcists ministered to the women and concluded that they were possessed by demons and the victims of witchcraft. Catering to women from elite families, the nunnery suffered much turmoil for three years and, remarkably, three of the victims died from their ills. A maverick nun and a former confessor were widely suspected to be responsible, throu...
Gelindo alla Capanna di Betlemme
"Gelindo alla Capanna di Betlemme". La Natività di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo e la strage degli Innocenti, Rappresentazione Sacra con aggiunta di varie Lodi. Si tratta di un testo per il teatro sacro dialettale piemontese, di tradizione popolare medievale ed origine forse monferrina. Se ne ha notizia dal 1300 e venne tramandata in forma orale fino all'Ottocento. L’opera veniva liberamente interpretata inserendo anche riferimenti e rivendicazioni di natura politica, religiosa e sociale dell’epoca e dei luoghi in cui veniva messa in scena. Il pastore Gelindo, primo ad accorrere alla Capanna per adorare Gesù Bambino, si esprime in antico dialetto piemontese, come altri personaggi popolari della sacra rappresentazione. Questa è l'edizione del testo di autore anonimo stampata stampato dall'editore Arneodo, probabilmente nella seconda metà dell'Ottocento, che riprende una precedente edizione del tipografo e libraio Canfabi, Torino 1837.
