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  • Fictions of Youth

    Pier Paolo Pasolini, Adolescence, Fascisms

    by Simona Bondavalli ...
    Fictions of Youth is a comprehensive examination of adolescence as an aesthetic, sociological, and ideological category in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s prose, poetry, and cinema. Simona Bondavalli’s book explores the multiple ways in which youth, real and imagined, shaped Pasolini’s poetics and critical positions and shows how Pasolini’s works became the basis for representations of contemporary young ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

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    Italy Travel Guide

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's Explore the World Books
    Italia - the land of pizza and pasta. But do you know that there's more this delightful place than all the delicious food? This picture book features the must-see places in Italy. It defines great activities that you can do and what to expect the moment you arrive. Picture books are essential in encouraging participation, which is the foundation of active and effective learning. Grab a copy today! ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

  • Federico Fellini

    Painting in Film, Painting on Film

    by Hava Aldouby ...
    Federico Fellini professed a desire to create “an entire film made of immobile pictures.” In this study, Hava Aldouby uses this quotation as a launching point to analyze Fellini’s films as sequences of “pictures” that draw extensively on art history, and particularly painting, as a reservoir of visual imagery. Aldouby employs an innovative pictorial approach that allows her to uncover a wealth of ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Dante's Tenzone with Forese Donati

    The Reprehension of Vice

    by Fabian Alfie ...
    ‘And by now, mind, it’s too late to redeem your debts by giving up guzzling.’Dante's poetic correspondence (or tenzone) with Forese Donati, a relative of his wife, was rife with crude insults: the two men derided one another on topics ranging from sexual dysfunction and cowardice to poverty and thievery. But in his Commedia, rather than denying this correspondence, Dante repeatedly acknowledged ... Read more

    $57.59 CAD

  • Ladies Errant

    Wayward Women and Social Order in Early Modern Italy

    by Deanna Shemek ...
    The issue of a woman’s place—and the possibility that she might stray from it—was one of early modern Italy’s most persistent social concerns. Ladies Errant takes as its starting point the vast literature of this era devoted to the proper conduct and education of women. Deanna Shemek uses this foundation to present the problem of wayward feminine behavior as it was perceived to threaten male ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • The Unpolitical

    On the Radical Critique of Political Reason

    by Massimo Cacciari ...
    Translated by Massimo Verdicchio ...
    Massimo Cacciari is one of the leading public intellectuals in today's Italy, both as an outstanding philosopher and political thinker and as now three times (and currently) the mayor of Venice. This collection of essays on political topics provides the best introduction in English to his thought to date. The political focus does not, however, prevent these essays from being an introduction to the ... Read more

    $48.79 CAD

  • Italian Futurism and the First World War

    by Selena Daly ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    Selena Daly’s work is the first comprehensive study of Futurism during the First World War period. In this book, she examines the cultural, political, and military engagement of the Futurists with the war effort, both on the battlefields and on the home front.Beginning with the outbreak of war in 1914, Italian Futurism and the First World War provides vivid accounts of Futurist experiences through ... Read more

    $62.39 CAD

  • The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction

    A Bloody Journey

    by Barbara Pezzotti ...
    By taking as its point of departure the privileged relationship between the crime novel and its setting, this book is the most wide-ranging examination of the way in which Italian detective fiction in the last twenty years has become a means to articulate the changes in the social landscape of the country. Nowadays there is a general acknowledgment of the importance of place in Italian crime ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Giorgio Scerbanenco

    Urban Space, Violence and Gender Identity in Post-War Italian Crime Fiction

    by Marco Paoli ...
    Series Book 8 - Moving Texts / Testi mobili
    The works of Giorgio Scerbanenco repeatedly articulate and explore the implications of new forms of criminality that emerged in Italy’s post-war transformation towards its «economic miracle». An indepth analysis of Scerbanenco’s Duca Lamberti series constitutes the critical focus of this study, and in particular the psychological resonances of the role played by the author’s controversial ... Read more

    $72.69 CAD

  • Measured Words

    Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy

    by Arielle Saiber ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    Measured Words explores the rich commerce between computation and writing that proliferated in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy. In this captivating and generously illustrated work, Arielle Saiber studies the relationship between number, shape, and the written word in the works of four exceptional thinkers of the time: Leon Battista Alberti, Luca Pacioli, Niccolò Tartaglia, and Giambattista ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • The Merits of Women

    Wherein Is Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men

    by Moderata Fonte ...
    "Among the great classics of early feminist thought . . . challenging, witty . . . a sometimes startlingly original discussion of women's status." — Literary HubYou would as well look for blood in a corpse as for the least shred of decency in a man . . .Without help from their wives, men are just like unlit lamps . . .Just think of them as an unreliable clock that tells you it's ten o'clock when ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Textual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice

    by Courtney Quaintance ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    Textual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice is a provocative analysis of the pornographic poetry written in patrician poet Domenico Venier’s social circle. While Venier and his salon were renowned for elegant love sonnets featuring unattainable female beloveds, among themselves they wrote and circulated poems in Venetian dialect in which women were prostitutes whose defiled ... Read more

    $68.79 CAD