Author: Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1446152863
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1446152863
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Postal Culture
Author: Gabriella RomaniPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442667257
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The nationalization of the postal service in Italy transformed post-unification letter writing as a cultural medium. Both a harbinger of progress and an expanded, more efficient means of circulating information, the national postal service served as a bridge between the private world of personal communication and the public arena of information exchange and production of public opinion. As a growing number of people read and wrote letters, they became part of a larger community that regarded the letter not only as an important channel in the process of information exchange, but also as a necessary instrument in the education and modernization of the nation. In Postal Culture, Gabriella Romani examines the role of the letter in Italian literature, cultural production, communication, and politics. She argues that the reading and writing of letters, along with epistolary fiction, epistolary manuals, and correspondence published in newspapers, fostered a sense of community and national identity and thus became a force for social change.
New Italian Grammar
Author: Z. BenelliPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italian language
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Nuova Grammatica Della Lingua Inglese, Ossia Il Vero Modo D'imparare Grammaticalmente a Leggere, Scrivere E Parlare Quella Lingua Con Ispeditezza Di P. L. Rostèri
Author: P. L. RosteriPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Farms, Factories, and Families
Author: Anthony V. RiccioPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438452314
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Documents the rich history of Italian American working women in Connecticut, including the crucial role they played in union organizing. Often treated as background figures throughout their history, Italian women of the lower and working classes have always struggled and toiled alongside men, and this did not change following emigration to America. Through numerous oral history narratives, Farms, Factories, and Families documents the rich history of Italian American working women in Connecticut. As farming women, they could keep up with any man. As entrepreneurs, they started successful businesses. They joined men on production lines in Connecticuts factories and sweatshops, and through the strength of the neighborhood networks they created, they played a crucial role in union organizing. Empowered as foreladies, union officials, and shop stewards, they saved money for future generations of Italian American women to attend college and achieve dreams they themselves could never realize. The book opens with the voices of elderly Italian American women, who reconstruct daily life in Italys southern regions at the turn of the twentieth century. Raised to be caretakers and nurturers of families, these women lived by the culturally claustrophobic dictates of a patriarchal society that offered them few choices. The storytellers of Farms, Factories, and Families reveal the trajectories of immigrant women who arrived in Connecticut with more than dowries in their steam trunks: the ability to face adversity with quiet inner strength, the stamina to work tirelessly from dawn to dusk, the skill to manage the family economy, and adherence to moral principles rooted in the southern Italian code of behavior. Second- and third-generation Italian American women who attended college and achieved professional careers on the wings of their Italian-born mothers and grandmothers have not forgotten their legacy, and though Italian American immigrant women lived by a script they did not write, Farms, Factories, and Families gives them the opportunity to tell their own stories, in their own words. Anthony Riccios collection of womens oral histories is an extremely valuable addition to the growing literature regarding Italian American womens lives. The detail in which these women speak about their work lives as charcoal burners, clay kneaders, cheese makers, union organizersone had her ribs brokenadds a much needed dimension to an understanding of Italian American women. This volume is filled with thoughtful reflections ranging from Mussolini to issues of social justice. Riccio has unleashed from these women dramatic and sometimes harrowing stories never before heard, or perhaps even imagined. Carol Bonomo Albright, Executive Editor of Italian Americana and coeditor of American Woman, Italian Style: Italian-Americanas Best Writings on Women What comes more naturally to the elderly but to reminisce? Riccio helps us eavesdrop on the first-person oral narratives of some of our earliest immigrants. We are grateful to him. Luisa Del Giudice, editor of Oral History, Oral Culture, and Italian Americans I have long awaited a book like this: a history of Italian American women, in which they themselves are the narrators of their own lives. We hear from women without formal education; women who were workers, migrants, and mothers; women whose stories were often not valued enough to enter into the historical record, much less the archives. This beautifully conceived history is both a testament and a tribute to all working-class and im/migrant families and communities. Jennifer Guglielmo, author of Living the Revolution: Italian Womens Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 18801945
Agenzia Amur. 1 dozzina di storie
Author: Leon MalinPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041175004
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Nell’Agenzia, Cupido, che si occupa solo di relazioni amorose, lavorano solo due impiegati: Oleg e Vika. Ma possono fare qualsiasi lavoro. E non esiste una cosa che non possano investigare. Perché sanno cos’è l’amore. O pensano di sapere. Gli indovinelli si stanno sgretolando, l’agenzia è fiorente, ma gli eroi non si fermano qui. Davanti a loro stanno aspettando nuove vette.
Linguist
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indo-European languages
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Il Carroccio
Author: Agostino De BiasiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italians
Languages : it
Pages : 614
Book Description
Colloquial Italian
Author: Sylvia LymberyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131730652X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Colloquial Italian: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Italian as it is written and spoken today. Combining a clear, practical and accessible style with a methodical and thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Italian in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required. Colloquial Italian is exceptional; each unit presents a wealth of grammatical points that are reinforced with a wide range of exercises for regular practice. A full answer key, a grammar summary, bilingual glossaries and English translations of dialogues can be found at the back as well as useful vocabulary lists throughout. Key features include: A clear, user-friendly format designed to help learners progressively build up their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills Jargon-free, succinct and clearly structured explanations of grammar An extensive range of focused and dynamic supportive exercises Realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of narrative situations Helpful cultural points An overview of the sounds of Italian Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Italian is an indispensable resource both for independent learners and students taking courses in Italian. Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.
Carlo Rosselli
Author: Stanislao G. PugliesePublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674000537
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Rosselli (1899-1937) was one of the most influential of European antifascist intellectuals. Born into a wealthy Jewish family, and abandoning a career as a professor of political economics, he devoted his fortune and ultimately his life to the struggle against fascism. Pugliese interweaves strands of heresy, exile, and tragedy in this biography.
