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Vivere a vela
Dalle prime uscite sulle barchette dei pescatori al giro del mondo: la storia di una vita passata in mare. Era fine inverno 1975, una domenica, e andai a Lignano per vedere una barca del centro velico d’altura, niente di programmato, nessun appuntamento, era una gita di piacere. Per puro caso, sul molo, incontrai Enio Nardi e senza pensarci troppo prenotai le vacanze estive a bordo del Lady Samantha. Non sapevo, allora, di aver finalmente trovato ciò che cercavo da lungo tempo. Forse è proprio vero che il maestro arriva quando l’allievo è pronto. Da quell’estate sono passati quarantacinque anni, diluiti in trecentomila miglia di mare, da quell’estate non ho mai smesso di vivere a vela.
Stregato dalla damigella
INCANTESIMO ITALIANO 1/2 Un matrimonio reale annullato. Due ereditiere alla ricerca del vero amore nella città più romantica del mondo. Due dottori la cui esistenza sta per essere stravolta per sempre. L'ultima volta che il chirurgo Luca Montovano ha incrociato lo sguardo della frizzante ereditiera Francesca Martinelli si trovava al matrimonio - naufragato! - del suo migliore amico, dove lei era la damigella. Quel giorno l'attrazione fra loro era stata immediata, e ora che lei si è presentata a sorpresa alla sua clinica Luca ha intenzione di portare a termine ciò che hanno cominciato. Ma Francesca farà bene a non illudersi troppo: non ci può essere alcun futuro per loro, dal momento che l'unica priorità di Luca è prendersi cura della nipote. Le cicatrici che hanno marchiato il suo cuore gli hanno anche insegnato a tenere le persone a distanza. A meno che Fran non lo convinca a guardare il mondo con i suoi occhi...
L'Europeo
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Fairy-tale Science
"Between 1550 and 1650, marvellous stories of women giving birth to animals, young girls growing penises, and valiant men slaying dragons appeared in Europe. Circulated in scientific texts and in the first two collections of fairy tales published on the continent, Giovan Francesco Straparolas Le piacevoli notti and Giambattista Basiles Lo cunto de li cunti, the stories invigorated readers and established a new literary genre. Despite the fact that the printed European fairy tale was born in Italy, however, contemporary readers tend to think of France or Germany as the genres place of origin.Fairy-Tale Science looks at the birth of the literary fairy tale in the context of early modern discou...
Pride in Modesty
Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects created by the agrarian peasantry. Pride in Modesty argues that these ordinary, often anonymous, everyday things inspired and transformed Italian art and architecture from the 1920s through the 1970s. Through in-depth examinations of texts, drawings, and buildings, Michelangelo Sabatino finds that the folk traditions of the pre-industrial countryside have provided formal, practical, and poetic inspiration directly affecting both design and construction practices over a period of sixty years and a number of different political regimes. This surprising continuity allows Sabatino to reject the division of Italian history into sharply delimited periods such as Fascist Interwar and Democratic Postwar and to instead emphasize the long, continuous process that transformed pastoral and urban ideals into a new, modernist Italy.
The Influence of Pre-Raphaelitism on Fin de Siècle Italy
This volume is the first comprehensive study of the influence of English Pre-Raphaelitism on Italian art and culture in the late nineteenth century. Analysis of the cultural relations between Italy and Britain has focused traditionally on the special place that Italy had in the British imagination, but the cultural and artistic exchanges between the two countries have been much misunderstood. This book aims to correct this imbalance by placing Pre-Rapahelitism in its European context. It explores the nature of its influence on Italy, how it was transmitted, and how it was manifested, by focusing on the role of Italian Anglophiles, the English communities in Florence and Rome, the writings of Gabriele D'Annunzio, and a number of Italian artists active in Tuscany and Rome. The works of Cellini, Ricci, Gioja, De Carolis, and Sartorio in particular fully demonstrate the impact of Pre-Raphaelitism on the young Italian school of painting which found in the English movement an ideal link with its glorious past on which it could build a new artistic identity. These artists show that English Pre-Raphaelitism was one of the most powerful single influences on fin-de-siecle Italian culture.
Flavor and Soul
John Gennari sets out on a quest to find tutti, the everythingness that sits on the edgenow smooth, now serratedbetween Italian America and African America. Tutti, a black friend of his says, the unshakeable belief in beauty, in overflow, in everythingness, the bursting, indelible beauty in a world where there is so much suffering and wounding and pain . . . . Frank Sinatra s legend has meanwhile grown through the idolatry of a new hip-hop generation, we see octogenarian Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto) undertaking concert tours with 20-something Lady Gag (Stefani Angelina Germanotta) while Mario Batali continues to imperialize and monetize Italian cuisine, and Rick Pitino and other...
