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The Expansion and Transformations of Courtly Literature
This collection brings together twelve selected papers given at the Second Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society. Because the courtly ethos is the central phenomenon marking medieval vernacular literature, it provides a theme that serves as an ideological guide through the later Middle Ages and on into the Renaissance and as a framework for the essays collected in this volume.
Modern Rome
After fifty years and fifteen editions and reprints in Italy, this classic, groundbreaking work in the field of historical urban studies is now published in English. A masterful, fluent narrative leads the reader through the last two centuries in the history of the Eternal City, capital of the Papal State, then of the united Italy, first under the monarchy and subsequently the republic. Rome’s chaotic growth and often ineffective urban planning, almost invariably overpowered by building speculation, can find an opportunity for future redemption in a vibrant multicultural society and the enhancement of an unequalled archaeological heritage with the ancient Appian Way as its spine. With respect to the last Italian edition of 2011, the volume is updated, enriched in text, indexes, maps and photographs. Historians, urban planners, architects, decision makers, university students, and anyone who is interested in one of the world’s most intriguing cities will enjoy this book.
Mauthausen città ermetica
Un viaggio "oltre i confini dell'umano". Arrestato dalla Gestapo mentre si trovava in Ungheria, tra il 1944 e il 1945 l'italiano Aldo Bizzarri condivise con altri prigionieri da ogni parte d'Europa la vita in uno dei più duri campi di concentramento nazisti. Scritto a caldo dopo la liberazione, "Mauthausen città ermetica" mira non tanto a ricostruire la vicenda personale dell'autore, quanto a mettere assieme i ricordi suoi e degli altri detenuti per dipingere un infernale mondo parallelo, impenetrabile e inimmaginabile dall'esterno. Una volta varcata la soglia delle sue tetre mura di pietra, Mauthausen si rivela come un mondo dalla morale rovesciata, nel quale non hanno valore i più elementari sentimenti umani. Una cronaca breve e senza fronzoli, e per questo ancora più toccante.
Agrarian Elites
Between 1815 and 1861, American slaveholders and southern Italian landowners presided over the economic and social life of two predominantly agricultural regions, the U.S. South and Italy's Mezzogiorno. Enrico Dal Lago ingeniously compares these agrarian elites, demonstrating how the study of each enhances our understanding of the other as well as of their shared nineteenth-century world. Agrarian Elites charts the parallel developments of plantations and latifondi in relation to changes in the world economy. At the same time, it examines the spread of "paternalistic" models of family relations and of slave and free-labor management that accompanied the rise of large groups of American slave...
Stendhal et Balzac
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Rebels and Mafiosi
For centuries, Sicilian "men of honor" have fought the controls of government. Between 1820 and 1860, rebellions shook the island as these men joined with Sicily's intellectuals in the struggle for independence from the Bourbon Kingdom of Naples. This lively account—the first to locate the emergence and evolution of the mafia in historical perspective—describes how those rebellions led to the birth of the modern mafia and traces the increasing influence of organized crime on the island. The alliance between two classes of Sicilians, James Fentress shows, made possible both the revolution and the mafia. Militancy in the ranks of the revolution taught men of honor how to organize political...
The Chautauquan
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