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Paura di cambiare. Crisi e critica del concetto di cultura

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...
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Tastes and Temptations: Food and Art in Renaissance Italy

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...
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Bernini: His Life and His Rome

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...
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The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire

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...
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I funeracconti

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...
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Scrittori polemisti: Pasolini, Sciascia, Arbasino, Testori, Eco 
di Bruno Pischedda Bollati Boringhieri, 338 pp., € 18.50 DALILA COLUCCI- La scommessa dell'impegno “Lo scrittore è ‘in situazione’ nella sua epoca: ogni parola ha i suoi echi. Ogni silenzio anche”: è una suggestione di natura sartriana quella che si...
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Italia reloaded. Ripartire con la cultura
by Christian Caliandro and Pier Luigi Sacco Il Mulino, 146 pp., 13.50 € JULIANNE VANWAGENEN - Culture as investment In the book’s premise, authors Christian Caliandro and Pier Luigi Sacco clearly state their goals for the work: (1) distinguish between...
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Galileo's Muse: Renaissance Mathematics and the Arts

by Mark Peterson Harvard University Press, 338 pp., $28.95 PETER LIEBERMAN Very often it takes the work of an outsider, with a fresh pair of eyes, to make an original contribution to any academic field—especially a field such as Italian Studies, whose...
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All'ombra dell'altra lingua: Per una poetica della traduzione

by Antonio Prete Bollati Boringhieri, 131 pp., € 16.00 JULIANNE VAN WAGENEN Antonio Prete, professor of comparative literature at the University of Siena, begins his book: “To translate is to transmute one language into another language. One text into...
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