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Author | : Pietro Pinti |
Publisher | : Skyhorse |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2012-01-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 161145980X |
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Pietro Pinti, born as he says 'in the Middle Ages,' worked the land with hoe and plow from his earliest youth. Growing up under Mussolini's Fascist regime on a farm near Florence, he and his family lived under conditions of extreme poverty, as sharecroppers to generally unscrupulous landowners. But during World War II, when millions in towns and cities suffered untold hardships, the hardy Tuscan peasants were well equipped to face the rigors of the era: war or no war, work on the land went on, and Pietro describes month by month a typical year in their lives: how they made wine and olive oil, planted and harvested the wheat by hand, made baskets and ladders from chestnut wood-skills now lost. With sly wit and salty wisdom, Pietro, a natural storyteller who played the trumpet, wrote poetry, and grew famous for his tales of peasants, knights, and brigands, recreates in colorful detail a world and peasant culture that is fast disappearing. Jenny Bawtree, an Englishwoman long settled in Tuscany, was so fascinated by Pietro's stories that she helped shape them into this autobiography, full of color and humor, hardship and nostalgia.
Author | : Robin Healey |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 1104 |
Release | : 2019-03-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1487502923 |
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Providing the most complete record possible of texts by Italian writers active after 1900, this annotated bibliography covers over 4,800 distinct editions of writings by some 1,700 Italian authors. Many entries are accompanied by useful notes that provide information on the authors, works, translators, and the reception of the translations. This book includes the works of Pirandello, Calvino, Eco, and more recently, Andrea Camilleri and Valerio Manfredi. Together with Robin Healey's Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation, also published by University of Toronto Press in 2011, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations from Italian accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature.
Author | : Jeffrey Bailey |
Publisher | : Matador |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2018-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1784626082 |
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Interpreting Italians is a socio-cultural travel guide designed for people whose interest in Italy goes beyond the readymade impression or the hackneyed cliché.
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Total Pages | : 974 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : John Ruskin |
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Total Pages | : 694 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Art critics |
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Volume 1-35, works. Volume 36-37, letters. Volume 38 provides an extensive bibliography of Ruskin's writings and a catalogue of his drawings, with corrections to earlier volumes in George Allen's Library Edition of the Works of John Ruskin. Volume 39, general index.
Author | : Arthur James Wells |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1926 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Bibliography, National |
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Author | : Melvil Dewey |
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Total Pages | : 1032 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Electronic journals |
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Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.
Author | : Ed Bowker Staff |
Publisher | : R. R. Bowker |
Total Pages | : 3274 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780835246422 |
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Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Libraries |
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Release | : 2003 |
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