The Light Of Italy
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Author |
: Jane Stevenson |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 530 |
Release |
: 2021-10-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781800241992 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1800241992 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Light of Italy by : Jane Stevenson
The story of the Renaissance city and palace of Urbino, and the life of the extraordinary man who created it: Federico da Montefeltro. 'Painstakingly researched and yet unfailingly readable' Ross King 'An insight into one of Renaissance Italy's most glamorous courts' Catherine Fletcher 'The perfect tour guide to the past' Literary Review 'A fabulous merging of seductive design with bravura scholarship' Alexandra Harris 'A superior study... Packed with detail' TLS The one-eyed mercenary soldier Federico da Montefeltro, lord of Urbino between 1444 and 1482, was one of the most successful condottiere of the Italian Renaissance: renowned humanist, patron of the artist Piero della Francesca, and creator of one of the most celebrated libraries in Italy outside the Vatican. From 1460 until her early death in 1472 he was married to Battista, of the formidable Sforza family, their partnership apparently blissful. In the fine palace he built overlooking Urbino, Federico assembled a court regarded by many as representing a high point of Renaissance culture. For Baldassare Castiglione, Federico was la luce dell'Italia – 'the light of Italy'. Jane Stevenson's affectionate account of Urbino's flowering and decline casts revelatory light on patronage, politics and humanism in fifteenth-century Italy. As well as recounting the gripping stories of Federico and his Montefeltro and della Rovere successors, Stevenson considers in details Federico's cultural legacy – investigating the palace itself, the splendours of the ducal library, and his other architectural projects in Gubbio and elsewhere.
Author |
: Philip Conisbee |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1075342386 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis IN THE LIGHT OF ITALY. by : Philip Conisbee
Author |
: Anthony Doerr |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2008-06-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781416573166 |
ISBN-13 |
: 141657316X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Four Seasons in Rome by : Anthony Doerr
Documents the award-winning writer's experiences of living, working, and raising twin sons in Rome during the year following his receipt of a prestigious Rome Prize stipend, a period during which he attended the vigil of the dying John Paul II, brought his children on a snowy visit to the Pantheon, and befriended numerous locals. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.
Author |
: Simonetta Fraquelli |
Publisher |
: National Gallery Publications |
Total Pages |
: 200 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015077659111 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Radical Light by : Simonetta Fraquelli
A comprehensive survey of Italy's Divisionist painters, the most significant group of avant-garde artists in 19th century Italy.
Author |
: Jamie Mackay |
Publisher |
: Verso Books |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2021-07-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781786637765 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1786637766 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Invention of Sicily by : Jamie Mackay
Whether you’re vacationing in Italy or simply an armchair traveler, this guide to the Mediterranean island of Sicily is a dazzling introduction to the region’s rich 3,000-year history and culture. A rich and fascinating cultural history of the Mediterranean’s enigmatic heart Sicily is at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, and for over 2000 years has been the gateway between Europe, Africa and the East. It has long been seen as the frontier between Western Civilization and the rest, but never definitively part of either. Despite being conquered by empires—Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, Hapsburg Spain—it remains uniquely apart. The island’s story maps a mosaic that mixes the story of myth and wars, maritime empires and reckless crusades, and a people who refuse to be ruled. In this riveting, rich history Jamie Mackay peels away the layers of this most mysterious of islands. This story finds its origins in ancient myth but has been reinventing itself across centuries: in conquest and resistance. Inseparable from these political and social developments are the artefacts of the nation’s cultural patrimony—ancient amphitheaters, Arab gardens, Baroque Cathedrals, as well as great literature such as Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s masterpiece The Leopard, and the novels and plays of Luigi Pirandello. In its modern era, Sicily has been the site of revolution, Cosa Nostra and, in the twenty-first century, the epicenter of the refugee crisis.
Author |
: Lynette Bowring |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 318 |
Release |
: 2022-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780253060082 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0253060087 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy by : Lynette Bowring
Musical culture in Jewish communities in early modern Italy was much more diverse than researchers originally thought. An interdisciplinary reassessment, Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy evaluates the social, cultural, political, economic, and religious circumstances that shaped this community, especially in light of the need to recognize individual experiences within minority populations. Contributors draw from rich materials, topics, and approaches as they explore the inherently diverse understandings of music in daily life, the many ways that Jewish communities conceived of music, and the reception of and responses to Jewish musical culture. Highlighting the multifaceted experience of music within Jewish communities, Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy sheds new light on the place of music in complex, previously misunderstood environments.
Author |
: Elizabeth Spencer |
Publisher |
: Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2010-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781617030727 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1617030724 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales by : Elizabeth Spencer
Elizabeth Spencer is captivated by Italy. For her it has been a second home. A one-time resident who returns there, this native-born Mississippian has found Italy to be an enchanting land whose culture lends itself powerfully to her artistic vision. Some of her most acclaimed work is set there. Her American characters encounter but never quite wholly adjust to the mysteries of the Italian mores. Collected here in one volume are Spencer's six Italian tales. Their plots are so alluring and enigmatic that Boccaccio would have been charmed by their delightful ironies and their sinister contrasts of dark and light. Spencer is grounded in two bases—Italy and the American South. Her characters too, mostly southerners, rove in search of connection and fulfillment. In The Light in the Piazza (a novella which has become both Spencer's signature piece and a Hollywood film) a stranger from North Carolina, traveling with her beautiful daughter, encounters the intoxicating beauty of sunlit Florence and discovers a deep conflict in the moral dilemma it presents. “I think this work has great charm,” Spencer has said, “and it probably is the real thing, a work written under great compulsion, while I was under the spell of Italy. But it took me, all told, about a month to write.” In Knights and Dragons (another novella and a companion piece to The Light in the Piazza) an American woman in Rome and Venice struggles for release from her husband's sinister control over her. Spencer sets this tale in the cold and wintry dark and here portrays the other face of Italy. In “The Cousins,” “The Pincian Gate,” “The White Azalea,” and “The Visit,” Spencer shows the exceptional artistry that has merited acclaim for her as one of America's first-class writers of the short story. The Light in the Piazza may long be the work for which she is most recognized. In 2005, the Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater in New York City staged a musical adaptation of this novella. The production brought together the talents of Adam Guettel (music and lyrics) and Craig Lucas (book), while director Bartlett Sher made his Lincoln Center debut. That year the musical won six of the eleven Tony awards it was nominated for. It was thereafter produced on stages across the globe and eventually returned to Lincoln Center in 2016 for a reunion of its original cast as a benefit concert.
Author |
: Peter Galassi |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 1996-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0300067100 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780300067101 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Corot in Italy by : Peter Galassi
Drawing on the diverse efforts of scholars, dealers, and collectors, Galassi establishes here for the first time the coherence and significance of early outdoor painting in Italy. Building on this foundation, he explores in depth Corot's magnificent landscapes.
Author |
: Mark Sullivan |
Publisher |
: Lake Union Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1503902374 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781503902374 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beneath a Scarlet Sky by : Mark Sullivan
A teenage boy in 1940s Italy becomes part of an underground railroad that helps Jews escape through the Alps, but when he is recruited to be the personal driver for a powerful Third Reich commander, he begins to spy for the Allies.
Author |
: Frances Mayes |
Publisher |
: Crown |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2003-08-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780767917452 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0767917456 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Under the Tuscan Sun by : Frances Mayes
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved memoir of self-discovery set against the spectacular Tuscan countryside that inspired the major motion picture starring Diane Lane—now in a twentieth-anniversary edition featuring a new afterword “This beautifully written memoir about taking chances, living in Italy, loving a house and, always, the pleasures of food, would make a perfect gift for a loved one. But it’s so delicious, read it first yourself.”—USA Today For more Frances Mayes, including a tour of her now iconic Cortona home, Bramasole, watch PBS’s Dream of Italy: Tuscan Sun Special! More than twenty years ago, Frances Mayes—widely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writer—introduced readers to a wondrous new world when she bought and restored an abandoned Tuscan villa called Bramasole. Under the Tuscan Sun inspired generations to embark on their own journeys—whether that be flying to a foreign country in search of themselves, savoring one of the book’s dozens of delicious seasonal recipes, or simply being transported by Mayes’s signature evocative, sensory language. Now with a new afterword from Frances Mayes, the twentieth-anniversary edition of Under the Tuscan Sun revisits the book’s most popular characters.