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Ricordo di Siena
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Le novelle - Tomo I
La presente edizione raccoglie, per la prima volta, le cinque raccolte novellistiche palazzeschiane, riproposte nella loro interezza: Il Re bello (1921), Il palio dei buffi (1937), Bestie del 900 (1951), Tutte le novelle (1957), Il buffo integrale (1966). Si aggiungono sette novelle disperse, mai riunite in volume. Il corpus novellistico finora noto riunisce 82 pezzi, mentre qui se ne offrono 98 (e tanti in redazioni multiple). Ma al di là dell'incremento quantitativo, l'edizione si distingue per il fatto di documentare la diacronia e, insieme, la sincronia dell'attività novellistica di Palazzeschi. Consente infatti di seguire le linee di svolgimento dinamico che scandiscono il laborioso iter che dal 1911 (data delle prime novelle) arriva al 1974. In pari tempo consente, con la riproposta integrale della summa d'autore di Tutte le novelle (1957), di fotografare la complessiva produzione del novelliere alla luce di quella che doveva considerarsi (al momento) la sua ultima volontà. L'attenzione per la diacronia e l'attenzione per la sincronia permettono due differenti angolature conoscitive, entrambe irrinunciabili.
Roma
Novelli Don Chisciotte e Sancio Panza, i protagonisti di questo romanzo - il principe Filippo di Santo Stefano, nobile papalino decaduto, e il suo servo Checco, ciociaro analfabeta - sono impermeabili all'avanzare dei tempi nuovi. Dal giorno di Santo Stefano del 1942 all'Anno Santo del 1950 Roma attraversa uno dei suoi momenti di transizione più delicati, segnato da una borghesia avida e conformista, cui i due oppongono la serenità di chi resiste finché sarà possibile. Palazzeschi, che a Roma arriva nel 1941 e vi trascorre gli anni della guerra e dell'occupazione nazista, e poi il periodo della ricostruzione, il boom, fino a morirvi nel 1974, dedica alla Città Eterna molte poesie, ma l'omaggio più sentito è indubbiamente questo romanzo del 1953, paragonato da Arbasino ai «disegni milanesi» dell'Adalgisa di Carlo Emilio Gadda. Con grande intensità poetica e al contempo un energico senso della realtà, Palazzeschi ci lascia in queste pagine un ritratto sociologico acutissimo di due mondi - quello dell'aristocrazia e quello della plebe - ugualmente destinati a una rapida sparizione, narrati con il suo inimitabile sguardo carico di ironia e di umanissima pietà.
Brokering Empire
"Explores how diplomatic interpreters, converts, and commercial brokers mediated and helped define political, linguistic, and religious boundaries between the Venetian and Ottoman empires in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries."--Author's Web site.
A Sudden Frenzy
In Renaissance Italy there existed a rich interplay between two cultural practices frequently regarded as entirely separate and mutually antagonistic: the humanistic study of the ancient world and ancient literature, and the oral and improvisational performance of poetry, which constituted one of the most popular forms of entertainment. A Sudden Frenzy explores the development and impact of these Renaissance practices of improvisation and oral poetry. James K. Coleman shows how the confluence of humanist culture and the art of oral poetry resulted in an extraordinary turn toward improvisation and spontaneity that profoundly influenced poetry, music, and politics. By examining the culture of improvisation, this book reveals the ways in which Renaissance thinkers transcended cultural dichotomies, both in theory and in practice. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including letters, poetry, visual art, and philosophical texts, A Sudden Frenzy reveals the far-reaching and sometimes surprising ways that these phenomena shaped cultural developments in the Italian Renaissance and beyond.
Culture, Power and Education
Employing Gramscian conceptions of hegemony, this book demonstrates the inextricable links between politics, education, culture and power. Based upon in-depth analyses of the theories of Antonio Gramsci, Lorenzo Milani, Paulo Freire, Henry Giroux, and bell hooks among others, this book shows how many hegemonic social relationships are fundamentally educational relationships. In doing so, Mayo demonstrates how popular culture, education, museums, and fine art are both sites of hegemony and contestation. This thought-provoking work will be of interest to students and scholars with an interest in sociology of art and culture, sociology of education, critical pedagogy, cultural studies, museum studies and social theory.
Niccol Di Lorenzo Della Magna and the Social World of Florentine Printing, Ca. 1470Ð1493
A new history of one of the foremost printers of the Renaissance explores how the Age of Print came to Italy. Lorenz Bninger offers a fresh history of the birth of print in Italy through the story of one of its most important figures, Niccol di Lorenzo della Magna. After having worked for several years for a judicial court in Florence, Niccol established his business there and published a number of influential books. Among these were Marsilio FicinoÕs De christiana religione, Leon Battista AlbertiÕs De re aedificatoria, Cristoforo LandinoÕs commentaries on DanteÕs Commedia, and Francesco BerlinghieriÕs Septe giornate della geographia. Many of these books were printed in vernacular...
Fairy-Tale Science
Between 1550 and 1650, Europe was swept by a fascination with wondrous accounts of monsters and other marvels - of valiant men slaying dragons, women giving birth to animals, young girls growing penises, and all manner of fantastic phenomena. Known as 'fairy tales,' these stories had many guises and inhabited a variety of literary texts. The first two collections of such fairy tales published on the continent, Giovan Francesco Straparola's Le piacevoli notti and Giambattista Basile's Lo cunto de li cunti, were greeted with much enthusiasm at home and abroad and essentially established a new literary genre. Contrary to popular thought, Italy, not Germany or France, was the birthplace of the l...
A Voice in the Fire
Piero Bigongiari (1914-1997) was among the most prolific and consistent Italian poets of the last century. He was central to the ‘third generation’ of ermetismo – the movement that voiced the mysterious, the hidden and the abstract. Bigongiari was a poet of origins, exploring the grounding of cultures in landscape and myth, the depths and limitations of home, and the symbols and narratives that sustain an individual’s bond to places. His poetic technique was based on the elaboration of motifs, tracing evolving ideas in a web of verbal themes and variations. Bigongiari’s was a voice of memory, dreams and the surprises of the psyche, speaking beyond politics or ideology to express an...
