Author: Robert Matteson Johnston
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Category : Naples (Kingdom)
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Author: Robert Matteson Johnston
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Category : Naples (Kingdom)
Languages : en
Pages : 470

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 726

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Author: Martin Shaw Briggs
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Category : Lecce (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 498

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Author: Michael A. Ledeen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351297260
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Savvy Italians will tell you that Neapolitans are considered the cleverest, most imaginative, most romantic, and the most entertaining people in the country. The world's finest men's fashions are Neapolitan, Italy's most celebrated popular songs and a high proportion of popular and operatic singers are Neapolitan—starting with Enrico Caruso. Sophia Loren and Toto are famously Neapolitan. Divorce Italian Style and Marriage Italian Style were based on plays written by the great Neapolitan Eduardo de Filippo. If you check the Italian literary awards year after year, you will find an amazingly high proportion of Neapolitans walking off with the highest honors. Naples has been a great creative center for hundreds of years. Neapolitan creativity has survived centuries of foreign occupation, widespread misery, the end of its role as a great capital city, repeated natural catastrophes, and terrible epidemics. What accounts for the creativity of Naples? The sorcerer Virgil is said to have created a Golden Egg, inside a crystal sphere, to save Naples from natural catastrophe. The egg, locked in an iron cage, was buried beneath a castle—still known as the "Egg Castle"—to give it stability and to give eternal life to Naples. Michael Ledeen suggests some surprising answers in a highly original exploration of Neapolitan life and death that ranges from religion to organized crime, war and violence. His deep affection for this remarkable city and its people is evident on every page.

Author: John Franklin Jameson
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 956

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American Historical Review is the oldest scholarly journal of history in the United States and the largest in the world. Published by the American Historical Association, it covers all areas of historical research.

Author: William Forbes Gray
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Author: Owen Chadwick
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198269196
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 657

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This book describes the change from the Catholic Church of the ancien regime to the church of the early nineteenth century as it affected the institution of the Papacy and through it the Church at large.

Author: Salvatore DiMaria
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319907662
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Since unification in 1860, Italy has remained bitterly divided between the rich North and the underdeveloped South. This book examines the historical, literary, and cultural contexts that have informed and inflamed the debate on the Southern Question for over a century. It brings together analysis of cinema, literature, and newspaper archives to reconsider the myths and stereotypes that both Northerners and Southerners deploy in their narratives. Salvatore DiMaria offers a masterful assessment of the entangled issues that have produced the South’s image as impoverished and backwards, such as organized crime, illiteracy, and mass emigration. Documenting the state’s largely failed efforts to bring the South into its socio-economic fold, DiMaria also points to the future, arguing that the European Union and globalization are transformative forces that may finally produce a unified Italy.

Author: McClurg, Firm, Booksellers, Chicago
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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