Author: Massimo Salvadori
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
A Pictorial History of the Italian People
Author: Massimo Salvadori
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
The Secrets of Italy
Author: Corrado Augias
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847842754
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
One of Italy's best-known writers takes a Grand Tour through her cities, history, and literature in search of the true character of this contradictory nation. There is Michelangelo, but also the mafia. Pavarotti, but also Berlusconi. The debonair Milanese, but also the infamous captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship. This is Italy, admired and reviled, a country that has guarded her secrets and confounded outsiders. Now, when this "Italian paradox" is more evident than ever, cultural authority Corrado Augias poses the puzzling questions: how did it get this way? How can this peninsula be simultaneously the home of geniuses and criminals, the cradle of beauty and the butt of jokes? An instant #1 bestseller in Italy, Augias's latest sets out to rediscover the story-different from the history-of this country. Beginning with how Italy is seen from the outside and from the inside, he weaves a geo-historical narrative, passing through principal cities and rereading the classics and the biographies of the people that have, for better or worse, made Italians who they are. From the gloomy atmosphere of Cagliostro's Palermo to the elegant court of Maria Luigia in Parma, from the ghetto of Venice to the heroic Neapolitan uprising against the Nazis, Augias sheds light on the Italian character, explaining it to outsiders and to Italians themselves. The result is a "novel of a nation," whose protagonists are both the figures we know from history and literature and characters long hidden between the cracks of historical narrative and memory.
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847842754
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
One of Italy's best-known writers takes a Grand Tour through her cities, history, and literature in search of the true character of this contradictory nation. There is Michelangelo, but also the mafia. Pavarotti, but also Berlusconi. The debonair Milanese, but also the infamous captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship. This is Italy, admired and reviled, a country that has guarded her secrets and confounded outsiders. Now, when this "Italian paradox" is more evident than ever, cultural authority Corrado Augias poses the puzzling questions: how did it get this way? How can this peninsula be simultaneously the home of geniuses and criminals, the cradle of beauty and the butt of jokes? An instant #1 bestseller in Italy, Augias's latest sets out to rediscover the story-different from the history-of this country. Beginning with how Italy is seen from the outside and from the inside, he weaves a geo-historical narrative, passing through principal cities and rereading the classics and the biographies of the people that have, for better or worse, made Italians who they are. From the gloomy atmosphere of Cagliostro's Palermo to the elegant court of Maria Luigia in Parma, from the ghetto of Venice to the heroic Neapolitan uprising against the Nazis, Augias sheds light on the Italian character, explaining it to outsiders and to Italians themselves. The result is a "novel of a nation," whose protagonists are both the figures we know from history and literature and characters long hidden between the cracks of historical narrative and memory.
Italians of Philadelphia
Author: Donna J. Di Giacomo
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738550206
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
A pictorial survey of the history of the Italian presence in Philadelphia, organized by geographical areas of the city.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738550206
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
A pictorial survey of the history of the Italian presence in Philadelphia, organized by geographical areas of the city.
Italian Emigrants, Italian Immigrants
Author: Tina Woetzel
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595317006
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595317006
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Regia Aeronautica
Author: Christopher F. Shores
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780897470605
Category : Aeronautics, Military
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780897470605
Category : Aeronautics, Military
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Journey of the Italians in America
Author: Scarpaci, Vincenza
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455606832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The influence of Italians in American cuisine, industry, sports, entertainment, and language is profound. Using photographs to illustrate more than a century of Italian experiences in the United States, the author provides an intimate and informed glimpse into the history of prejudice, hardship, celebration, and success faced by this rich Mediterranean people. A celebration of common men and women alongside notable Italian American celebrities and public figures, this book is a cultural photo album.--From publisher description.
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455606832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The influence of Italians in American cuisine, industry, sports, entertainment, and language is profound. Using photographs to illustrate more than a century of Italian experiences in the United States, the author provides an intimate and informed glimpse into the history of prejudice, hardship, celebration, and success faced by this rich Mediterranean people. A celebration of common men and women alongside notable Italian American celebrities and public figures, this book is a cultural photo album.--From publisher description.
History's Greatest War
Author: Samuel John Duncan-Clark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dummies (Bookselling)
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dummies (Bookselling)
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The People's War Book
Author: James Martin Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
ABE: History, cyclopaedia and chronology of the Great World War. Frontis has autographed picture of W. A. Bishop, one of Canada's greatest surviving aces of World War I. Roll of Honor page filled in by Eugene D. Reeves of McClelland, Alabama who served in the 116th Infantry Regiment. Binding shaken. Bookseller Inventory # 014980.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
ABE: History, cyclopaedia and chronology of the Great World War. Frontis has autographed picture of W. A. Bishop, one of Canada's greatest surviving aces of World War I. Roll of Honor page filled in by Eugene D. Reeves of McClelland, Alabama who served in the 116th Infantry Regiment. Binding shaken. Bookseller Inventory # 014980.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2600
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2600
Book Description
Universal Hunks
Author: David L.
Publisher: arsenal pulp press
ISBN: 1551525100
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A lively, wide-ranging pictorial history of muscular men around the world from the nineteenth century to the 1970s.
Publisher: arsenal pulp press
ISBN: 1551525100
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A lively, wide-ranging pictorial history of muscular men around the world from the nineteenth century to the 1970s.