The Worlds Of Neapolitan Arts And Crafts

Author : Raffaella Antinucci
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527537080
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wor(l)ds of Neapolitan Arts and Crafts written by Raffaella Antinucci and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-19 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays investigates the terminology of traditional Neapolitan arts and crafts analyzed from a novel linguistic and cultural perspective. With some exceptions, the trades examined in the contributions—including pizza and pastry making, the art of presepio (crib), lute-making and coral dealing, among others—still exist in Naples and in the Campania region. They represent an important component of the cultural heritage of the area that this volume brings to light by furthering current research in the fields of terminology, history and cultural anthropology. The book is divided into two sections, corresponding to the two languages in which the articles are written (English and French), although the terminological analyses also focus on Italian, Neapolitan and Spanish. This choice is expressly demanded by the political legacy of Naples, which for six centuries was alternately dominated by French, Spanish and Austrian rulers whose lasting influence on the city’s traditions and language the essays explore.

Author : Bonnie Alberts
Publisher : Self Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9780990805106
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Napoli Unplugged Guide to Naples written by Bonnie Alberts and published by Self Publisher. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Napoli Unplugged Guide to Naples is not your typical guidebook. Written for the intrepid traveller seeking a more profound experience, the NU Guide delves deep - deep enough to catch the cultural heartbeat of the city. It's a must-have for anyone with more than just a passing interest in Naples and you'll want to revisit the book again and again, long after your return home. There's also plenty here to satisfy the wanderlust of armchair travellers. Written by four women united by a common passion - Napoli - who love to wax lyrical about their adoptive city, it makes you feel you're seeing Naples through the eyes of your best friends. Their own enthusiasms are multiple: art, archaeology and architecture; history and mythology; music, dance and theatre; food and wine, the islands and the beach - even shopping - and each subject has its narrative moment in the spotlight. The prose is embellished by many beautiful photographs, urban sketches and plein-air paintings by artists who couldn't resist the siren call of Parthenope. From the parallel city hidden below Naples' bustling streets to the summit of Vesuvius, the authors explore the city - one of the oldest in the Western world, the bay - surely the most stunning, and a little further afield in Campania. Rambles Through the City explores Naples by the neighbourhood - its historic and municipal centres as well as its hill districts and is enhanced by creative cartography to orient the reader; Outings in the Outskirts dives into the Bay of Naples and a bit beyond - the Vesuvius Excavations, the Phlegraean Fields and the glories of the Amalfi Coast; Ventures in a Different Vein feeds the mind and delights the senses with a section dedicated entirely to Naples' history, and finally, the authors outline an immersion course in the city's music, theatre and food and wine cultures. Each section is equipped with practical advice on transport, opening hours, essential numbers - and the book is topped off with a thematic index offering the reader other pathways of discovery into the city. Visit Naples, discover Napoli!

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Museums of the World written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John A. Marino
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801899397
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming Neapolitan written by John A. Marino and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-01-03 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2011 Winner of the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize of the Renaissance Society of America Naples in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries managed to maintain a distinct social character while under Spanish rule. John A. Marino's study explores how the population of the city of Naples constructed their identity in the face of Spanish domination. As Western Europe’s largest city, early modern Naples was a world unto itself. Its politics were decentralized and its neighborhoods diverse. Clergy, nobles, and commoners struggled to assert political and cultural power. Looking at these three groups, Marino unravels their complex interplay to show how such civic rituals as parades and festival days fostered a unified Neapolitan identity through the assimilation of Aragonese customs, Burgundian models, and Spanish governance. He discusses why the relationship between mythical and religious representations in ritual practices allowed Naples's inhabitants to identify themselves as citizens of an illustrious and powerful sovereignty and explains how this semblance of stability and harmony hid the city's political, cultural, and social fissures. In the process, Marino finds that being and becoming Neapolitan meant manipulating the city's rituals until their original content and meaning were lost. The consequent widening of divisions between rich and poor led Naples's vying castes to turn on one another as the Spanish monarchy weakened. Rich in source material and tightly integrated, this nuanced, synthetic overview of the disciplining of ritual life in early modern Naples digs deep into the construction of Neapolitan identity. Scholars of early modern Italy and of Italian and European history in general will find much to ponder in Marino's keen insights and compelling arguments.

Author : Pellegrino D'Acierno
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823280004
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Delirious Naples written by Pellegrino D'Acierno and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is addressed to “lovers of paradoxes” and we have done our utmost to assemble a stellar cast of Neapolitan and American scholars, intellectuals, and artists/writers who are strong and open-minded enough to wrestle with and illuminate the paradoxes through which Naples presents itself. Naples is a mysterious metropolis. Difficult to understand, it is an enigma to outsiders, and also to the Neapolitans themselves. Its very impenetrableness is what makes it so deliriously and irresistibly attractive. The essays attempt to give some hints to the answer of the enigma, without parsing it into neat scholastic formulas. In doing this, the book will be an important means of opening Naples to students, scholars and members of the community at large who are engaged in “identity-work.” A primary goal has been to establish a dialogue with leading Neapolitan intellectuals and artists, and, ultimately, ensure that the “deliriously Neapolitan” dance continues.

Author : Bettina Bartz
Publisher : K. G. Saur
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Museums of the World written by Bettina Bartz and published by K. G. Saur. This book was released on 1997 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely updated with information supplied by administrators and staff, the sixth edition of Museums of the World provides valuable research and professional information for some 27,000 museums in 192 nations. Organized by country and city within individual nations, entries include address ... telephone, fax, and e-mail numbers ... description of holdings and facilities ... museum director's name ... and more.

Author : Joseph P. Byrne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 843 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World of Renaissance Italy [2 volumes] written by Joseph P. Byrne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 843 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students of the Italian Renaissance who wish to go beyond the standard names and subjects will find in this text abundant information on the lives, customs, beliefs, and practices of those who lived during this exciting time period. The World of Renaissance Italy: A Daily Life Encyclopedia engages all of the Italian peninsula from the Black Death (1347–1352) to 1600. Unlike other encyclopedic works about the Renaissance era, this book deals exclusively with Italy, revealing the ways common Italian people lived and experienced the events and technological developments that marked the Renaissance era. The coverage specifically spotlights marginal or traditionally marginalized groups, including women, homosexuals, Jews, the elderly, and foreign communities in Italian cities. The entries in this two-volume set are organized into 10 sections of 25 alphabetically listed entries each. Among the broad sections are art, fashion, family and gender, food and drink, housing and community, politics, recreation and social customs, and war. The "See Also" sources for each article are listed by section for easy reference, a feature that students and researchers will greatly appreciate. The extensive collection of contemporary documents include selections from a diary, letters, a travel journal, a merchant's inventory, Inquisition testimony, a metallurgical handbook, and text by an artist that describes what the author feels constitutes great work. Each of the primary source documents accompanies a specific article and provides an added dimension and degree of insight to the material.

Author : Konrad Stimmel
Publisher : München ; New York : K.G. Saur
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Museums of the World written by Konrad Stimmel and published by München ; New York : K.G. Saur. This book was released on 1995 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...This guide should greatly assist public & academic librarians & their users."--JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIANSHIP. "...MUSEUMS OF THE WORLD is an essential tool..."--AMERICAN REFERENCE BOOKS ANNUAL. Completely updated with information supplied by administrators & staff, this edition of MUSEUMS OF THE WORLD provides valuable research & professional information for some 24,000 museums worldwide. Organized by country & city within individual nations, entries include address...telephone & fax numbers...description of holdings & facilities...museum director's name...& more. The latest edition of this indispensable resource also includes three indexes--Name Index for museums, Name Index for persons, & a Subject Index--to make searching easier. The Subject Index is especially comprehensive & offers 250 cross-referenced headings for such diverse areas as Aeronautics, Arms & Armor, Graphic Arts, Indian Artifacts, Jewelry, Painted & Stained Glass, & Railroads.

Author : Enzo Esposito
Publisher : Youcanprint
ISBN 13 : 8891119245
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Messer Gianni Caracciolo written by Enzo Esposito and published by Youcanprint. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is the report of a research study on the historical figure of Ser Gianni Caracciolo, who lived in Naples at the turn of 1300 and 1400, and who was the protagonist of the political events of the Kingdom of Naples, in a period of turmoil and controversial. Following these events, richs of adventurous and knighthoods aspects, the book does not fail to cast an eye on the customs and cultural experiences, developed in the Neapolitan court. The reconstruction accomplished, offers a cross-section of one of the most enigmatic European capitals, with a journalistic style that can make reading, also available as a narrative work.Biographic Notes About the Author.Enzo Esposito, born in Terni ( I ) in 1943, he spent his working life as Dott. Engineer in Mechanics, traveling between Europe, the U.S.A. and Asia, gratified by his company, 3M Company of St. Paul Minnesota, always very generous with her employees.After retirement, he devoted himself to the studies of Anthropology and Medieval History; currency he is a promoter and founder member of an Association named Italian Committee of Philology, History and Arts ( CIFAS), based in Naples.In a recent radio interview he declared: I want a story that precedes me, with setting arguments that push the eyes and the genius to stay with courage in our times. A story that teaches to readily distinguish precious items from trinkets, and enabling us to move over some easy beauties, but attempting more inaccessible others.

Author : Lonely Planet
Publisher : Lonely Planet
ISBN 13 : 1787019624
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lonely Planet Experience Italy written by Lonely Planet and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tour the wineries of northern Italy. Explore the cave houses of Matera. Search out mindblowing gelato. Experience Italy unveils new aspects of the Italy you know and showcases the Italy you're yet to encounter.