Italy: The Enduring Culture
Product description This volume studies cultural evolution through several different ages in the formation of modern Italy. From Publishers Weekly From Siena's 1330s frescoes depicting good and bad government to a photo of Catherine Malfitano's suicidal leap in a TV version of Tosca, Italy: The Enduring Culture examines literature, art history, opera, television, architecture, film, economics, sexuality, the mob and demographics in Italy, from the rise of commerce and cities in Dante's time to the present. Jonathan White, a literature lecturer at the University of Essex, also explores the effect of Italian emigration on urban culture what exactly is "Italian" about the espresso bars that blanket the globe?
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346 pages, 3 editions
English edition · First published 2000 by Leicester University Press · ISBN 9780718502577
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Editions
3 editions
English
- Italy: The Enduring Culture · Leicester University Press · 2000 · ISBN 9780718502577 This page
- Italy: The Enduring Culture · Continuum · 2005 · ISBN 9780826489425
- Italy: The Enduring Culture · Leicester University Press · 2000 · ISBN 9780718502584
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