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25 results for "Italy"

Tastes and Temptations: Food and Art in Renaissance Italy

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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...

Italia reloaded. Ripartire con la cultura

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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...

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

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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...

La conversazione. Un modello italiano

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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...

Bernini: His Life and His Rome

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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...

Open Ye the Gates by Francesco Erspamer

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Harvard should remain (or return to be) a place where unhindered passage is granted to those who seek knowledge, truth, and social justice. Harvard news office writer Ken Gewertz died a few months ago, in September. He did not see his university lock and...

CONFESSIONI DI UN BRADIPO 

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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...

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Romance Sphere presently accepts submissions only from members of the Harvard community, including visiting lecturers, visiting scholars, and alumni, as well as faculty and students from institutions with whom the department has reciprocal agreements.