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ECOTONOS URBANOS
En más de una ocasión, en México me he encontrado con reacciones de incredulidad y escepticismo con respecto de la implementabilidad de propuestas urbanas que reconcilian el medio construido con el natural. Pero el ecotono urbano planteado en esta obra no es una transición entre dos condiciones prístinas, la urbana y la natural, sino un producto híbrido, resultado de un proceso de mutuo acompañamiento e impacto, "coevolutivo". Este acompañamiento es, digamos, un diálogo continuo en el cual existe una constante influencia en ambos sentidos y es específico al lugar. Al serlo, es también sensible a su cultura, a su sociedad, a su economía, a su forma de hacer y deshacer ciudad y ter...
La Civiltà cattolica
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The Befana Is Returning
On the night of January 5, in certain areas of southern Tuscany, a costumed, singing troupe of characters visits residents' homes, expecting to be fed and feted. This is the Befanata, a mumming tradition centered in Tuscany, whose main character--the Befana--is a kindly old woman or grandmotherly witch who delivers toys, candies, and gifts. The Befana Is Returning is a deeply researched, deftly insightful presentation of this living tradition that adds a large missing piece to the array of contemporary ethnographic scholarship on mumming.
Dizionario biografico degli Italiani: Boccadibue-Bonetti
This scholarly biographical encyclopedia is the standard source for information on prominent men and women from Italian history.
Fortuny
Uncovers the extraordinary breadth of designer Mariano Fortuny, including and beyond his fashion output, alongside the personal and political catalysts that inspired him Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo (1871-1949) was a polymath who experimented in a variety of media including electric lighting, stage design, photography, the development of pigments, and textile and garment design. Yet his vision as a painter, persistently attuned to light and color, shaped all his artistic endeavors. Fortuny: Time, Space, Light examines Fortuny's Venetian workspaces, clothing designs, stage lighting inventions, and paintings to find unifying themes of revivalism, memory, light, magic, and secrecy that run through...
