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Book An American Professor in Italy

Download or read book An American Professor in Italy written by Tony Tripodi and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American Professor in Italy is about an American professor of Italian descent who recounts his travels in Italy as a Fulbright Scholar, program evaluator for the European Common Market, tourist, and owner of an Italian timeshare. He reflects on Italian Culture and its stereotypes, and shares impressions of Italians in poignant and humorous anecdotes. Throughout the book he conveys a strong sense of pride and love for Italy and its Italians. Dr. Tripodi discovers his Italian roots and describes a wide range of experiences in 52 vignettes and several poems concerned with topics such as these: his mother's house in Italy, the church his grandfather built, a conversation with Anna Maria Levi, sister of world-famous author Primo Levi, an Italian lover, the seductive city of Venice, the Jewish Ghetto, the University of Padova, Michelangelo in Rome and Florence, La Scala di Milano, and Juliet's balcony in Verona.

Book An American Professor in Italy

Download or read book An American Professor in Italy written by Tony Tripodi and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American Professor in Italy is about an American professor of Italian descent who recounts his travels in Italy as a Fulbright Scholar, program evaluator for the European Common Market, tourist, and owner of an Italian timeshare. He reflects on Italian Culture and its stereotypes, and shares impressions of Italians in poignant and humorous anecdotes. Throughout the book he conveys a strong sense of pride and love for Italy and its Italians. Dr. Tripodi discovers his Italian roots and describes a wide range of experiences in 52 vignettes and several poems concerned with topics such as these: his mother's house in Italy, the church his grandfather built, a conversation with Anna Maria Levi, sister of world-famous author Primo Levi, an Italian lover, the seductive city of Venice, the Jewish Ghetto, the University of Padova, Michelangelo in Rome and Florence, La Scala di Milano, and Juliet's balcony in Verona.

Book Autumn in Venice

Download or read book Autumn in Venice written by Andrea Di Robilant and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The illuminating story of writer and muse—which also examines the cost to a young woman of her association with a larger-than-life literary celebrity—Autumn in Venice is an intimate look at Hemingway’s final years. In the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway and his fourth wife traveled for the first time to Venice, which Hemingway called “absolutely god-damned wonderful.” A year shy of his fiftieth birthday, Hemingway hadn’t published a novel in nearly a decade when he met and fell in love with Adriana Ivancich, a striking Venetian girl just out of finishing school. Here Andrea di Robilant re-creates with sparkling clarity this surprising, years-long relationship, during which Adriana inspired a man thirty years her senior to complete his great final work. Hemingway used Adriana as the model for Renata in Across the River and into the Trees, and continued to visit Venice to see her; when the Ivanciches traveled to Cuba, Adriana was there as he wrote The Old Man and the Sea.

Book Italica

Download or read book Italica written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bibliography of Italian studies in America" in each number, 1924-1948.

Book An Unlikely Union

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Moses
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2015-07-03
  • ISBN : 1479871303
  • Pages : 395 pages

Download or read book An Unlikely Union written by Paul Moses and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They came from the poorest parts of Ireland and Italy, and met as rivals on the sidewalks of New York. In the nineteenth century and for long after, the Irish and Italians fought in the Catholic Church, on the waterfront, at construction sites, and in the streets. Then they made peace through romance, marrying each other on a large scale in the years after World War II. An Unlikely Union unfolds the dramatic story of how two of America's largest ethnic groups learned to love and laugh with each other in the wake of decades of animosity. The vibrant cast of characters features saints such as

Book American Journal of Archaeology

Download or read book American Journal of Archaeology written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book My Two Italies

Download or read book My Two Italies written by Joseph Luzzi and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A child of Italian immigrants and scholar of Italian literature paints an intimate portrait that blends together history and the unusual to show how his 'two Italies' join and clash in unexpected ways.

Book The Professor of Secrets

Download or read book The Professor of Secrets written by William Eamon and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Galileo's Daughter and Brunelleschi's Dome, this exciting story illuminates the captivating world of the late Renaissance—in this case its plagues, remedies, and alchemy—through the life of Leonardo Fioravanti, a brilliant, remarkably forward-thinking, and utterly unconventional doctor. Fioravanti's marvelous cures and talent for self-aggrandizement earned him the adoration of the people, the scorn of the medical establishment, and a reputation as one of the age's most colorful, combative figures. Written by Pulitzer-prize nominated historian William Eamon, The Professor of Secrets entices readers into a dangerous scientific underworld of sorcerers and surgeons. Meticulously researched and engagingly written, this gripping narrative will appeal to those interested in Renaissance history, the development of science, and the historical thrillers so popular today.

Book The Teaching of Italian in the United States

Download or read book The Teaching of Italian in the United States written by Joseph Guerin Fucilla and published by New Brunswick, N.J : American Association of Teachers of Italian. This book was released on 1967 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin

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  • Author : Institute of International Education (New York, N.Y.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1920
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by Institute of International Education (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Current Opinion

Download or read book Current Opinion written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book People s Cyclopaedia of Universal Knowledge

Download or read book People s Cyclopaedia of Universal Knowledge written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The People s Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge

Download or read book The People s Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge written by William Harrison De Puy and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Philadelphia

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  • Author : Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1924
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 644 pages

Download or read book Philadelphia written by Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New People s Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge

Download or read book The New People s Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge written by William Harrison De Puy and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In a Dark Wood  What Dante Taught Me About Grief  Healing  and the Mysteries of Love

Download or read book In a Dark Wood What Dante Taught Me About Grief Healing and the Mysteries of Love written by Joseph Luzzi and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of love and grief. ‘I became a widower and a father on the same day’ says Joseph Luzzi. His book tells how Dante’s ‘The Divine Comedy’ helped him to endure his grief, raise their infant daughter, and rediscover love.

Book The Refugee Diplomat

    Book Details:
  • Author : Diego Pirillo
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2018-12-15
  • ISBN : 1501715321
  • Pages : 205 pages

Download or read book The Refugee Diplomat written by Diego Pirillo and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The establishment of permanent embassies in fifteenth-century Italy has traditionally been regarded as the moment of transition between medieval and modern diplomacy. In The Refugee-Diplomat, Diego Pirillo offers an alternative history of early modern diplomacy, centered not on states and their official representatives but around the figure of "the refugee-diplomat" and, more specifically, Italian religious dissidents who forged ties with English and northern European Protestants in the hope of inspiring an Italian Reformation. Pirillo reconsiders how diplomacy worked, not only within but also outside of formal state channels, through underground networks of individuals who were able to move across confessional and linguistic borders, often adapting their own identities to the changing political conditions they encountered. Through a trove of diplomatic and mercantile letters, inquisitorial records, literary texts, marginalia, and visual material, The Refugee-Diplomat recovers the agency of religious refugees in international affairs, revealing their profound impact on the emergence of early modern diplomatic culture and practice.