Virgilio Colombo

Reflections on the Gulag

• Author(s): Elena Dundovich, Francesca Gori, Emanuela Guercetti

• Categories: Social Science

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2003
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• Publisher: Feltrinelli Editore

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British Museum Catalogue of printed Books

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1881
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The History of Modern Painting

• Author(s): Richard Muther

• Categories: Painting

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1896
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• Publisher: Unknown

Translated from the German.

The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints

• Author(s): Library of Congress, American Library Association. Committee on Resources of American Libraries. National Union Catalog Subcommittee

• Categories: Catalogs, Union

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1970
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Disguising Disease in Italian Political and Visual Culture

• Author(s): Sharon Hecker, Arianna Arisi Rota

• Categories: History

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2024-08-30
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• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Although considered an isolated event, the Italian government’s initial resistant response to COVID-19 has deep historical roots. This is the first interdisciplinary book to critically examine the ongoing phenomenon of disguising contagious disease in Italy from Unification to the present. The book explores how governments, public opinion, social entities and cultural production have avoided or sublimated contagion during cholera, typhoid, syphilis, malaria, HIV and COVID-19 to impose narratives of the nation’s healthy body in Italy and its colonies. Examples range from a tuberculosis sanatorium in Capri that masked as a luxury hotel and hideaway for queer couples to an obscure but talen...