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Harvard canto-by-canto commentary of Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata Julianne VanWagenen CANTO X Abstract (click here to read the full essay): Canto 10 of Jerusalem Delivered is a fruitful place to examine Tasso’s sometimes tense and always complex...

Bruno Pischedda CONFESSIONI DI UN BRADIPO Come e perché è nato Scrittori polemisti Riassunto: Nel periodo che va dal 1970 ai primi anni ’80, nessuno in Italia si sarebbe immaginato una ripresa massiccia dell’impegno tra gli intellettuali letterati. Invece...

by Amedeo Quondam Donzelli, 347 pp., € 28.00 CECELIA OLIVERIO “Would you care to bestow the grace of your dancing upon the gathered company?” asks the perfect courtier to his advisee. “Why, most absolutely not, my dear friend,” a slightly less than...

by Francesco Erspamer Donzelli, 169 pp., € 16.00 JOHN WELSH - The Invention of Culture It is a conversation all too familiar for anyone involved in the humanities. It happens most frequently in situations of involuntary socialization—parties, receptions...

by John Varriano University of California Press, 282 pp., $19.50 PETER LIEBERMAN In 1505 the Florentine painter Andrea del Sarto, at a banquet held by the artistic and gastronomic confraternity known as ‘the Company of the Cauldron,’ presented a scale...

by Franco Mormando University of Chicago Press, 456 pp., € 35.00 JULIANNE VANWAGENEN In a Gian Lorenzo Bernini stream-of-consciousness word-association game one might come up with Rome, marble fountain, St. Peter’s, baroque, post-Reformation Catholicism...

by Raymond Jonas Harvard University Press, 413 pp., $29.95 JOHN WELSH - Empire defeated Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army marched a remarkable 135 miles from Chancellorsville, Virginia to the battle of Gettysburg. Napoleon’s Russian Campaign, an arduous...

by Jeffrey Schnapp and Adam Michaels Princeton Architectural Press, 216 pp., $19.95 JULIANNE VANWAGENEN What do The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Electric Information Age Book have in common? They both have Tom Wolfe, the Grateful Dead, Allen...

by Benedetta Palmieri Feltrinelli, 140 pp., € 14.00 ELENA CAMPANI Abituati a vedere artisti e scrittori trattare il tema della morte in maniere piuttosto estreme, dal pulp allo spiritualismo olistico passando per gli psicodrammi stucchevoli, questo libro...