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Rome and Latium
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I Saraceni nel Lazio
In questo volumento sono presentati venti documenti scritti, con relativa traduzione in italiano, selezionati tra le cronache d'epoca, gli atti notarili, i contratti, i resoconti di viaggio e gli scritti letterari di un'epoca poco conosciuta ed avvolta spesso da un alone di leggenda che il più delle volte serve a nascondere la realtà. La parola è lasciata direttamente agli stessi protagonisti onde illustrare da diversi punti di vista vicende che altrimenti resterebbero del tutto oscure.
Rome
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Rome Eternal
What does 'Roman' mean? How does the mythical city touch people's identities, values and attitudes? In the long-established and official imaginary of the West, Rome is the citta dell'arte, the city of faith, an heirloom city inspired by the traces of ancient Empire, by the brooding aura of the Church, by Hollywood fairy-tale romance, and by the spicy tang of veiled decadence. But what of its contemporary residents? Are they now merely guides and waiters servicing throngs of tourists indifferent to the city's contemporary charms? Guy Lanoue, a former resident of Rome, explores how Romans live the modern myth of Rome Eternal. Since the 19th century, it has defined an important community, the fatherland, a home-spun society where the rules of everyday life become 'tradition': ways of eating, dressing, making and keeping friends and acquaintances, 'proper' ways of speaking and a hard to define but nonetheless tangible air of composure. Guy Lanoue is a Professor of Anthropology at the Universite de Montreal.
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Giovanni VIII
La nascita delle nazioni europee, i primi contrasti tra cristianesimo ed islamismo, la rivalità tra Occidente ed Oriente costituiscono alcuni temi dell'argomento trattato in questo saggio, che illustra la difficile storia del pontificato di Giovanni VIII. Le vicende sono narrate sulla base della documentazione fornita dal registro delle lettere papali e dalle cronache monastiche dell'epoca.
Andreottiana
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Walls and Memory
The abbey of San Sebastiano, which lies not far from the town of Alatri in Southern Lazio, preserves within its walls almost fifteen hundred years of history. This history is unusually bound to a number of important figures, from Saint Benedict to Pope Nicholas V and his circle of humanists. For the past four years a small team has been investigating the standing structures of the abbey, analyzing the stratigraphy of the standing walls and tracing the various phases through the building.The study has produced some startling discoveries: the plan and preserved walls of one of the oldest monasteries in Europe, and one of the earliest Renaissance villas. The book gives an account of the archite...
Evicted from Eternity
Modern Rome is a city rife with contradictions. Once the seat of ancient glory, it is now often the object of national contempt. It plays a significant part on the world stage, but the concerns of its residents are often deeply parochial. And while they live in the seat of a world religion, Romans can be vehemently anticlerical. These tensions between the past and the present, the global and the local, make Rome fertile ground to study urban social life, the construction of the past, the role of religion in daily life, and how a capital city relates to the rest of the nation. Michael Herzfeld focuses on Rome’s historic Monti district and the wrenching dislocation caused by rapid economical...
