Calabrian Tales
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Download Calabrian Tales PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Calabrian Tales book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Calabrian Tales
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Peter Chiarella
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Calabrian Tales written by Peter Chiarella and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Calabria (Italy) categories.
Calabrian Tales is a unique story of inexplicable injustice and poverty, avarice and survival based on true family incidents that were revealed to the author in his youth. The book's chief character is the author's great aunt, Marianna, who became the mistress of a wealthy noble. The lifestyle she adopted repeatedly shamed her relatives until living in Italy became unbearable for them. Eventually, the author's father, Raffaele, fled his beloved Italy in the face of constant shame, and settled in the U.S. His son, author Peter Chiarella, grew up in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. There he heard the stories about life in Calabria from his grandmother, a principal character in the book. After her death, the stories kept coming, both from his father, also a character in Calabrian Tales, and from his mother, who had listened in on Nonna's recollections over a period of fifteen years. The stories of people who lived in what may have been Italy's poorest region, blend with the historical struggles of the times in a combination reminiscent of certain aspects of The Godfather and the ignoble humanity of Angela's Ashes. "Twenty-two unforgettable personalities interplay in this picaresque page turner. Each one will fascinate you uniquely." -- Anthony Kilgallin, author of Napa Valley Picture Perfect "Calabrian Tales evokes the memory of stories I heard growing up among elder Italian immigrants." -- James L. D'Adamo, author of The D'Adamo Diet "A most intriguing and compelling read." -- Joseph D. Sabella, MD
Calabrian Tales
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Peter Chiarella
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-12
Calabrian Tales written by Peter Chiarella and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Calabrian Tales is a unique story of inexplicable injustice and poverty, avarice and survival based on true family incidents that were revealed to the author in his youth. The book's chief character is the author's great aunt, Marianna, who became the mistress of a wealthy noble. The lifestyle she adopted repeatedly shamed her relatives until living in Italy became unbearable for them. Eventually, the author's father, Raffaele, fled his beloved Italy in the face of constant shame, and settled in the U.S. His son, author Peter Chiarella, grew up in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. There he heard the stories about life in Calabria from his grandmother, a principal character in the book. After her death, the stories kept coming, both from his father, also a character in Calabrian Tales, and from his mother, who had listened in on Nonna's recollections over a period of fifteen years. The stories of people who lived in what may have been Italy's poorest region, blend with the historical struggles of the times in a combination reminiscent of certain aspects of The Godfather and the ignoble humanity of Angela's Ashes. "Twenty-two unforgettable personalities interplay in this picaresque page turner. Each one will fascinate you uniquely." -- Anthony Kilgallin, author of Napa Valley Picture Perfect "Calabrian Tales evokes the memory of stories I heard growing up among elder Italian immigrants." -- James L. D'Adamo, author of The D'Adamo Diet "A most intriguing and compelling read." -- Joseph D. Sabella, MD
Don Finimondone
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Elisabeth Cavazza
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-09-19
Don Finimondone written by Elisabeth Cavazza and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-19 with categories.
The readers of The Literary World, who often have the pleasure of reading her appreciative criticisms of current literature, will especially welcome the incidental personal information which Mr. Stedman gives concerning the brilliant and accomplished writer of these six stories. Though bearing the Italian name of her husband, of whom she was very soon bereaved after marriage, Mrs. Cavazza is a native and resident of Portland, Maine. The impression which these most sympathetic stories of Calabrian humble life will undoubtedly make is that their author has studied the Italian peasantry on the spot. It is, however, a very striking testimony to Mrs. Cavazza's imaginative power that she has written these stories, which seem to breathe the very atmosphere of Italy and to enter into the very heart of Calabrian peasant life, without having set foot on Italian soil. Of the six tales here included, "A Calabrian Penelope " was printed some years ago in the New Princeton Review, and, if we mistake not, was the first story from Mrs. Cavazza's pen to be printed in any of the larger periodicals. "A Trumpet Call" appeared in the Atlantic a few months since, and "The Story of Cirillo" more recently in Two Tales; the other three, "Don Finimondone," "The Tree of the Bride," and "Princess Hummingbird" -- a story of Italian patrician life -- are, we believe, here printed for the first time. Each one of these sketches shows the sure touch and the constructive instinct of a born artist in letters. They begin firmly, go on attractively, and end in no lame or impotent conclusion. The choice of particulars in the descriptive passages, the very lifelike conversations, and the occasional epigrammatic sayings remind one of the best work of the most finished short story tellers of the day in France and America. Mrs. Cavazza has worked in this very readable volume a new field which neither Hawthorne, Mr. Marion Crawford, nor Mr. H. B. Fuller has occupied. Whether she writes of Don Finimondone, the old miser who was never happy unless he were predicting evil, and so gained the name of Don End-of-the-world; or of Comare Pina, the Penelope of Calabria, who had such faith in her long-absent Andrea's sureness of aim; tells the deeply touching story of Cirillo, the peasant-baron; relates Compare Girolamo's unfortunate wedding experience; describes Tonio's "Trumpet Call," which could raise his dear Rosina even from the bier; or lightly tells the international episode of the Princess Hummingbird, poisoned too long by her cruel bird-dress -- Mrs. Cavazza carries steadily along with her the interest and admiration of her readers, who will hope to enjoy much more such excellent work from her pen. --The Literary World, Volume 23
Don Finimodone
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Elisabeth Cavazza
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2019-06-27
Don Finimodone written by Elisabeth Cavazza and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-27 with categories.
The readers of "The Literary World," who often have the pleasure of reading her appreciative criticisms of current literature, will especially welcome the incidental personal information which Mr. Stedman gives concerning the brilliant and accomplished writer of these six stories. Though bearing the Italian name of her husband, of whom she was very soon bereaved after marriage, Mrs. Cavazza is a native and resident of Portland, Maine. The impression which these most sympathetic stories of Calabrian humble life will undoubtedly make is that their author has studied the Italian peasantry on the spot. It is, however, a very striking testimony to Mrs. Cavazza's imaginative power that she has written these stories, which seem to breathe the very atmosphere of Italy and to enter into the very heart of Calabrian peasant life, without having set foot on Italian soil. Of the six tales here included, "A Calabrian Penelope " was printed some years ago in the New Princeton Review, and, if we mistake not, was the first story from Mrs. Cavazza's pen to be printed in any of the larger periodicals. "A Trumpet Call" appeared in the Atlantic a few months since, and "The Story of Cirillo" more recently in Two Tales; the other three, "Don Finimondone," "The Tree of the Bride," and "Princess Hummingbird" -- a story of Italian patrician life -- are, we believe, here printed for the first time.Each one of these sketches shows the sure touch and the constructive instinct of a born artist in letters. They begin firmly, go on attractively, and end in no lame or impotent conclusion. The choice of particulars in the descriptive passages, the very lifelike conversations, and the occasional epigrammatic sayings remind one of the best work of the most finished short story tellers of the day in France and America. Mrs. Cavazza has worked in this very readable volume a new field which neither Hawthorne, Mr. Marion Crawford, nor Mr. H. B. Fuller has occupied. Whether she writes of Don Finimondone, the old miser who was never happy unless he were predicting evil, and so gained the name of Don End-of-the-world; or of Comare Pina, the Penelope of Calabria, who had such faith in her long-absent Andrea's sureness of aim; tells the deeply touching story of Cirillo, the peasant-baron; relates Compare Girolamo's unfortunate wedding experience; describes Tonio's "Trumpet Call," which could raise his dear Rosina even from the bier; or lightly tells the international episode of the Princess Hummingbird, poisoned too long by her cruel bird-dress -- Mrs. Cavazza carries steadily along with her the interest and admiration of her readers, who will hope to enjoy much more such excellent work from her pen.--"The Literary World," Volume 23
Growing Up Calabrese And Other Stories
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Steven Sacco
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-06-14
Growing Up Calabrese And Other Stories written by Steven Sacco and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-14 with categories.
Growing Up Calabrese is the life story of a third-generation Calabrian-American seeking to reconnect with his Calabrian roots. Despite growing up in an Italian neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago, the author grew up monolingual because of assimilation. Growing Up Calabrese tells the story of his ethnic struggle and determination to be an American and a Calabrian at the same time. Little by little, the author learns Italian, conducts family research, visits his family's ancestral village, re-establishes contacts with his Calabrian family, and teaches Italian during the last ten years of his university career. To this day, he still cannot speak the Calabrian dialect of his grandparents and my ancestral family, but is determined to master it before his death.
The Collected Sicilian Folk And Fairy Tales Of Giuseppe Pitr
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Jack Zipes
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-01-11
The Collected Sicilian Folk And Fairy Tales Of Giuseppe Pitr written by Jack Zipes and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-11 with Fiction categories.
This two-volume set collects 300 of the most entertaining and important folk and fairy tales of Giuseppe Pitré, a nineteenth century Sicilian folklorist whose significance ranks alongside the Brothers Grimm. In stark contrast to the more literary ambitions of the Grimms' tales, Pitré’s possess a charming, earthy quality that reflect the customs, beliefs, and superstitions of the common people more clearly than any other European folklore collection of the 19th century. Edited, translated, and with a critical introduction by world-renowned folk and fairy tale experts Jack Zipes and Joseph Russo, this is the first collection of Pitré’s tales available in English. Carmelo Letterer's illustrations throughout the volume are as lively and vivid as the stories themselves, illuminating the remarkable imagination captured in the tales.
Out Of Calabria
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Peter Chiarella
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2007-12-20
Out Of Calabria written by Peter Chiarella and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-20 with Fiction categories.
Out of Calabria is the story of a privileged Calabrian family that emerged from poverty by a circumstance of war and the unswerving fortitude of one man; and of how the young women of his family refused to bend to the mores and traditions of the times, pitting them against their social order and their own father. Caterina and Concetta Zinzi each rebelled against their famed and highly esteemed father when he attempted to force the traditions of the times upon them, arranging their marriages to men of his choosing, based on dowry and family background. Raised as high spirited and independent women, both daughters sought out the men of their own preference and forced their will upon their controlling father. The doggedness of their pursuits resulted in their decline in social status and their eventual emigration to the United States. Caterina's attraction to a handsome field hand leads her into heated disagreement with her father, who is bent on marrying her to a man of wealth and promise. Moreover, he harbors a secret about the man she loves that would never allow him to be accepted into the Zinzi family. Concetta's man, also of very modest means, is required by his greedy family to marry an elderly rich woman, forcing him into an unhappy and faithless marriage; and, eventually, to a bigamous relationship with Concetta. To escape the influence and outmoded customs of Calabrian society, both women find that they must leave Italy. There, they experience the travails and attainments of Italian immigrants in turn-of-the-century America. It is a story of contradiction, of rebellion by women in a society that presumed their obedience and adherence to tradition. And, it is a story of the enormous love that is possible between a man and woman, when they forsake everything to be together, flouting tradition in the face of disgrace and family disharmony. It is a story from out of the past that is relevant even today. Taken from real life occurrences in the author's ancestral maternal family, it is reminiscent at times of aspects of Melania Mazzucco's Vita and the coarse brutality of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.
Old Calabria
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Norman Douglas
language : en
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Release Date : 2007-04-01
Old Calabria written by Norman Douglas and has been published by Cosimo, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-01 with History categories.
At the time when southern Italy was an isolated and underdeveloped region, Douglas wrote this 1915 travel guide to bring the beauty that he found in Calabria to the reading public. Inspired by the landscape, unique cultural traditions, and proximity to history, he found even traveling on long mule trails to be an enjoyable part of the journey rather than an inconvenience. Written in a chatty, conversational tone, Old Calabria will be of interest to armchair travelers and to anyone who enjoys stories of everyday adventure. British writer NORMAN DOUGLAS (1868-1952) wrote a number of books, including South Wind (1917).
The North American Italian Renaissance
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Kenneth Scambray
language : en
Publisher: Guernica Editions
Release Date : 2000
The North American Italian Renaissance written by Kenneth Scambray and has been published by Guernica Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with American literature categories.
Kenneth Scrambray offers the reader a critical analysis of the wide range of Italianese literature written over the last thirty years in North America. These last three decades in both Canada and America can justifiably be termed a renaissance in Italian writing.
The Collected Sicilian Folk And Fairy Tales Of Giuseppe Pitr
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Giuseppe Pitrè
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009
The Collected Sicilian Folk And Fairy Tales Of Giuseppe Pitr written by Giuseppe Pitrè and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Fiction categories.
First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.