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Spiritual Interview with the Guardian Spirit of New South Korean President Moon Jae-In
The True Intentions Behind His Korean Unification (Spiritual Interview Series)
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
In May 2017, the day after Moon Jae-in was elected as president of South Korea, Ryuho Okawa used his extraordinary spiritual power (similar to but surpassing Shakyamuni Buddha’s) and summoned Moon’s guardian spirit, namely his subconscious mind, to have him speak his opinion. In a subsequent spiritual...
by Charles Godfrey Leland
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
This book is a classic study of the folklore of the Tuscan region of Italy (to the northwest of Rome, around Florence). It ties these traditions to ancient Etruscan and Roman pagan practices. The central focus is the ideology and practice of Stregheria, Italian traditional witchcraft.
This...
by Elizabeth Robins
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Lavishly illustrated to bring the glories of Europe into the readers world, sharing the wonders of the Continent with those who haven’t travelled there yet.
Visit four romantic European cities – Rome, Venice, London, and Paris – with travel writer Liz Pennell and her artist husband...
After La Dolce Vita
A Cultural Prehistory of Berlusconi's Italy
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
This book chronicles the demise of the supposedly leftist Italian cultural establishment during the long 1980s. During that time, the nation's literary and intellectual vanguard managed to lose the prominence handed it after the end of World War II and the defeat of Fascism. What emerged instead was...
The Unpolitical
On the Radical Critique of Political Reason
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
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...
Hollow Men
Writing, Objects, and Public Image in Renaissance Italy
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
This book relates developments in the visual arts and printing to humanist theories of literary and bodily imitation, bringing together fifteenth- and sixteenth-century frescoes, statues, coins, letters, dialogues, epic poems, personal emblems, and printed collections of portraits. Its interdisciplinary...
The White War
Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire. Nearly 750,000 Italian troops were killed in savage, hopeless fighting on the stony hills north of Trieste and in the snows of the Dolomites. To maintain discipline, General Luigi Cadorna restored the Roman practice of decimation, executing random...
The Battle for Rome
The Germans, the Allies, the Partisans, and the Pope, September 1943-June 1944
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
In September 1943, the German army marched into Rome, beginning an occupation that would last nine months until Allied forces liberated the ancient city. During those 270 days, clashing factions -- the occupying Germans, the Allies, the growing resistance movement, and the Pope -- contended for control...
My Cousin the Saint
A Story of Love, Miracles, and an Italian Family Reunited
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
An inspiring story of faith and family across two continents
Like millions of other Italians in the early twentieth century, Justin Catanoso's grandfather immigrated to America to escape poverty and hardship. Nearly a hundred years later, Justin, born and raised in New Jersey, knows little...
by John Dickie
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
The Italian-American mafia has its roots in a mysterious and powerful criminal network in Sicily. While the mythology of the mafia has been widely celebrated in American culture, the true origins of its rituals, laws, and methods have never actually been revealed. John Dickie uses startling new research...
by Lucy M. Maulsby
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Fascism, Architecture, and the Claiming of Modern Milan, 1922*–1943* chronicles the dramatic architectural and urban transformation of Milan during the nearly twenty years of fascist rule. The commercial and financial centre of Italy and the birthplace of fascism, Milan played a central role in...
Economic Fascism
Primary Sources on Mussolini's Crony Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
It may be argued that Mussolini (1883–1945, dictator of Italy 1922–1943) invented modern crony capitalism. Although he described himself as a socialist, he rejected the Marxist version. As he saw it, the state would not own the economy. Ownership would nominally remain in private hands, although...
by Doug West
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Galileo Galilei grew up in a time when nearly everyone thought the Earth was the center of the universe and the Sun and the planets revolved around the Earth. His intellectual world was dominated by the work of the ancient philosopher Aristotle. Science as we know it today was just starting to emerge...
by Donald Sassoon
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
In this fascinating look at the unique conjuncture of factors surrounding Il Duce’s seizure of power, eminent historian Donald Sassoon traces the political circumstances that sent Italy on a collision course with the most destructive war of the century. On the morning of 30 October 1922, Mussolini...