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Umberto Di Cristina
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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.
Reversible Destiny
Reversible Destiny traces the history of the Sicilian mafia to its nineteenth-century roots and examines its late twentieth-century involvement in urban real estate and construction as well as drugs. Based on research in the regional capital of Palermo, this book suggests lessons regarding secretive organized crime: its capacity to reproduce a subculture of violence through time, its acquisition of a dense connective web of political and financial protectors during the Cold War era, and the sad reality that repressing it easily risks harming vulnerable people and communities. Charting the efforts of both the judiciary and a citizen's social movement to reverse the mafia's economic, political, and cultural power, the authors establish a framework for understanding both the difficulties and the accomplishments of Sicily's multifaceted antimafia efforts.
L'uomo cane
Un uomo parte e viaggia. Realizzare il suo sogno di diventare un avanzo della società non è infine possibile. La ricerca e il ritrovo dell'essere umano vince sul desiderio di solitudine.
Echoes of Opera in Modern Italian Poetry
Twentieth-century Italian poetry is haunted by countless ghosts and shadows from opera. Echoes of Opera in Modern Italian Poetry reveals their presence and sheds light on their role in shaping that great poetic tradition. This is the first work in English to analyze the influence of opera on modern Italian poetry, uncovering a fundamental but neglected relationship between the two art forms. A group of Italian poets, from Gabriele D’Annunzio to Giorgio Caproni, by way of Umberto Saba and Eugenio Montale, made opera a cornerstone of their artistic craft. More than an occasional stylistic influence, opera is rather analyzed as a fundamental facet of these poets’ intellectual quest to overcome the expressive limitations of lyrical poetry. This book reframes modern Italian poetry in a truly interdisciplinary perspective, broadening our understanding of its prominence within the humanities, in the twentieth century and beyond.
Il mondo di carta
Succedeva intorno al 1450, a Magonza. Toccò a Johannes Gensfleisch, detto Gutenberg, un geniale cinquantenne, il merito dell’invenzione dei caratteri tipografici mobili. Il debutto avvenne con un libro che resterà per sempre nella storia dell’editoria, una Bibbia stampata (tra il 1452 e il 1456) in due volumi. La stampa si diffuse rapidamente. Da allora all’era digitale il libro e il giornale hanno vissuto una straordinaria avventura. Il mondo di carta presenta il profilo di editori di libri, riviste e quotidiani, che hanno resistito alle mutazioni dei mercati e, passati attraverso ristrutturazioni societarie, sono arrivati fino ai nostri giorni.
Da grande farò l'Archeologo
Andrea, nel lontano 1932, affinchè il figlio Biagio nascesse siciliano, mandò la moglie a partorire a Palermo, nonostante vivessero a Milano per lavoro. Da questa città si trasferirono a Roma nel 1935 per poi approdare definitivamente nella loro terra natìa molti anni dopo, spinti da una grave malattia di Andrea. Biagio descrive le difficoltà di un periodo di guerra e di dopoguerra, vissute nel quartiere di Monteverde Vecchio a Roma, dove ognuno si arrangiava come poteva, tra il contrabbando di sigarette o di qualsivoglia merce. Mentre le truppe tedesche lasciavano Roma verso nord, lungo la Via Aurelia, quelle americane entravano dalla Via Appia, passando sotto l'Arco di Costantino, com...
Storia universale
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