Italian Chronicles
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Italian Chronicles
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Author : Stendhal
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2017-05-02
Italian Chronicles written by Stendhal and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-02 with Fiction categories.
Nineteenth-century French writer Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, is one of the earliest leading practitioners of realism, his stories filled with sharp analyses of his characters’ psychology. This translation of Stendhal’s Chroniques italiennes is a collection of nine tales written between 1829 and 1840, many of which were published only after his death. Together these collected tales reveal a great novelist working with highly dramatic subject matter to forge a vision of life lived at its most intense. The setting for these tales is a romanticized Italy, a place Stendhal viewed as unpolluted by bourgeois inhibitions and conformism. From the hothouse atmosphere of aristocratic convents to the horrors of the Cenci family, the tales in Italian Chronicles all feature passionate, transgressive characters engaged in “la chasse au bonheur”—the quest for happiness. Most of the tragic, violent tales are based on historical events, with Stendhal using history to validate his characters’ extreme behaviors as they battle literal and figurative oppression and try to break through to freedom. Complete with revenge, bloody daggers, poisonings, and thick-walled nunneries, this new translation of Italian Chronicles includes four never-before-translated stories and a fascinating introduction detailing the origins of the book. It is sure to gratify established Stendhal fans as well as readers new to the writer.
Three Italian Chronicles
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Author : Stendhal
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 1991
Three Italian Chronicles written by Stendhal and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Fiction categories.
Three novellas of Italian passion by the great French author tell of the infamous trial of a young Roman noblewoman for the murder of her father, the illicit liaison and subsequent trial of an abbess, and the fortunes of a Roman aristocrats daughter who falls in love with a wounded soldier.
A Sicilian Farewell
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Author : MaryAnn Diorio
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
A Sicilian Farewell written by MaryAnn Diorio and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
The Italian Chronicles Of A Rogue Tourist
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Author : Paul Monico
language : en
Publisher: Riverside Press
Release Date : 2015-05-24
The Italian Chronicles Of A Rogue Tourist written by Paul Monico and has been published by Riverside Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-24 with categories.
The Italian Chronicles of a Rogue Tourist, Volume I: Discovering Calitri, is a collection of travel essays written during the years 2006 through 2008. This first volume recounts the initial adventures of an American couple who purchase a home in the southern Italian town of Calitri. Lofty, medieval Calitri cascades down the side of a bluff, halfway between Naples, on Italy's left coast, and Bari to the right. On the day of their arrival in the medieval Borgo, a curious town official approached them and asked, "Why you come here?" The answer to that question resides in the fact that Calitri is the real face of Italy, as yet untouched by tourism. It is a place punctuated by genuine friendships, a Mediterranean lifestyle of slow food and slow living, and the eye contact of a sincere buongiorno in the morning and buonasera during a twilight stroll. The roots of Calitri are apparent in its medieval village. Its cobbled hallway-like streets, once restricted to the passage of pedestrians, horses and pack animals of old, today remain too narrow for automobiles to negotiate. Their home away, Casa della Feritoia is nestled among these winding lanes in the heart of Calitri's Borgo. Through his creative and descriptive passages, Monico takes you on a singular and enticing journey, from rarely tourist-traveled villages to spectacular and famed landmarks. Paolo's insight and wit draw the reader into a beautifully crafted series of essays. Become a tourist yourself, as you imagine sampling classic Italian cuisine, harvesting grapes, exploring caverns beneath Calitri, or meeting its quirky and charming inhabitants. Traverse Italy with the author and his wife, Maria Elena, as they venture farther afield, to places like a Lake Como Villa, the water kingdom of Venice, and to Rome and the Vatican's Lantern. Share in their Italian experiences and gain a sense of Italy and its people. The Italian Chronicles of a Rogue Tourist will transport both the armchair and seasoned traveler to a land and people so out-of-the-ordinary, so beautiful in fact, that it had to be christened "Bella."
A Sicilian Farewell
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Author : Maryann Diorio
language : en
Publisher: Topnotch Press
Release Date : 2016-12
A Sicilian Farewell written by Maryann Diorio and has been published by Topnotch Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12 with categories.
A young woman, a new land, and a dream that threatens to shatter all she holds dear . . .
Chronicling History
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Author : Sharon Dale
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Chronicling History written by Sharon Dale and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with History categories.
Literally thousands of annals, chronicles, and histories were produced in Italy during the Middle Ages, ranging from fragments to polished humanist treatises. This book is composed of a set of case studies exploring the kinds of historical writing most characteristic of the period. We might expect a typical medieval chronicler to be a monk or cleric, but the chroniclers of communal and Renaissance Italy were overwhelmingly secular. Many were jurists or notaries whose professions granted them access to political institutions and public debate. The mix of the anecdotal and the cosmic, of portents and politics, makes these writers engaging to read. While chroniclers may have had different reasons to write and often very different points of view, they shared the belief that knowing the past might explain the present. Moreover, their audiences usually shared the worldview and civic identity of the historians, so these texts are glimpses into deeper cultural and intellectual contexts. Seen more broadly, chronicles are far more entertaining and informative than narratives. They become part of the very history they are describing.
The Madonna Of Pisano
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Author : Maryann Diorio
language : en
Publisher: Topnotch Press
Release Date : 2015-12
The Madonna Of Pisano written by Maryann Diorio and has been published by Topnotch Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12 with Fiction categories.
A young woman, a priest, and a secret that keeps them bitterly bound to each other . . .
Nuns Chronicles And Convent Culture In Renaissance And Counter Reformation Italy
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Author : K. J. P. Lowe
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-12-04
Nuns Chronicles And Convent Culture In Renaissance And Counter Reformation Italy written by K. J. P. Lowe and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-04 with Art categories.
This well-illustrated and innovative book analyses convent culture in sixteenth-century Italy through the medium of three unpublished nuns' chronicles. It uses a comparative methodology of 'connected differences' to examine the intellectual and imaginative achievement of these nuns, and to investigate how they fashioned and preserved individual and convent identities by writing chronicles. The chronicles themselves reveal many examples of nuns' agency, especially with regard to cultural creativity, and show that convent traditions determined cultural priorities and specialisms, and dictated the contours of convent ceremonial life.
Chronicles Of Old Rome
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Author : Tamara Thiessen
language : en
Publisher: Museyon
Release Date : 2012-08-01
Chronicles Of Old Rome written by Tamara Thiessen and has been published by Museyon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-01 with History categories.
Discover la dolce vita on this grand tour of !--?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /--Italy's historic capital told through 30 dramatic true stories spanning nearly 3,000 years, plus detailed walking tours complete with easy-to-read maps. From the Curia Pompei, site of Julius Caesar's assassination in 44 BC, to the Borgia Apartments in the Vatican, see the real-life places where history happened in this richly illustrated guide. Along with infamous power games between heroes and villains, you will find Rome's smart and powerful women, such as Agrippina, St. Agnes, Margherita, Artemisia, and more. Then relax like Goethe and Keats at the Café Greco, Rome's chicest coffee bar since 1760, or visit the Palazzo Colonna, the site of Audrey Hepburn's Roman Holiday.
Chronicling History
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Author : Sharon Dale
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Chronicling History written by Sharon Dale and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with History categories.
Literally thousands of annals, chronicles, and histories were produced in Italy during the Middle Ages, ranging from fragments to polished humanist treatises. This book is composed of a set of case studies exploring the kinds of historical writing most characteristic of the period. We might expect a typical medieval chronicler to be a monk or cleric, but the chroniclers of communal and Renaissance Italy were overwhelmingly secular. Many were jurists or notaries whose professions granted them access to political institutions and public debate. The mix of the anecdotal and the cosmic, of portents and politics, makes these writers engaging to read. While chroniclers may have had different reasons to write and often very different points of view, they shared the belief that knowing the past might explain the present. Moreover, their audiences usually shared the worldview and civic identity of the historians, so these texts are glimpses into deeper cultural and intellectual contexts. Seen more broadly, chronicles are far more entertaining and informative than narratives. They become part of the very history they are describing.