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BOOK OF THE MONTH
La
luce abbagliante di Firenze Susan Hacker Stang Encountering Firenze un incontro
Webster University Press
St. Louis, Missouri
Palombi Editori pp. 48 – Euro 19,00
Susan Hacker Stang è una fotografa
statunitense innamorata di Firenze e dei suoi monumenti, che ha fatto delle
strade, delle piazze e dei palazzi della città il soggetto privilegiato
della sua ricerca artistica; fin qui niente di strano: sono decine i fotografi
americani che arrivano ogni anno a Firenze armati di zoom e cavalletti
per sperimentare nuove strade ed esprimere la propria creatività
anche attraverso tecniche inusuali. Nella ricerca di Susan Hacker si scorge
però la capacità di esprimere un sentimento molto diffuso
tra chi, venendo da molto lontano, osserva attentamente la città:
le foto, realizzate con il sistema Polaroid Emulsion Transfer, che conferisce
all’immagine l’effetto di una tela strappata e lacerata, esprimono tutto
lo struggimento che molti stranieri provano di fronte ai marmi, alle mura
scrostate e alle statue della città, magnifici e antichi manufatti
che suggeriscono l’inesorabilità del tempo e la caducità
dell’esistenza. Le foto sono accompagnate da brani di poesie e scritti
di grandi autori italiani e stranieri, messi a commento dei soggetti ritratti:
da Henry James ad Albert Camus, da Mario Luzi ad Aldo Palazzeschi. Una
città inedita e forse anche un pò inquietante dove ognuno,
come suggerisce la stessa autrice “può dunque provare il proprio
itinerario attraverso le pagine del libro e vivere Firenze in modo unico”.
...the story of a young
immigrant, part of the greatest migration in modern history, the emigration
of four million Italians to the Americas at the beginning of the twentieth
century. In 1946, Genio Basilici, legendary patriarch of an Italian community
near Boston...
Un uomo in fuga. Un sottile dolore
incomprensibile. Una missione. "A volte il pensiero e` cosi pesante da
sembrare un macigno che ti frana adosso e ti lascia stupito davanti alla
violenza della caduta"
The Fabulous Fior - Over
100 Years in an Italian Kitchen is a lively tale of cookery and passion
illuminating the lives of immigrant families who created the Fior d'Italia,
America's oldest Italian restaurant.
Since 1850, Chicago has
felt the benefits of a vital Italian presence. These immigrants formed
much of the unskilled workforce employed to build up this and many other
major U.S. cities. From often meager and humble beginnings, Italians built
and congregated in neighborhoods that came to define the Chicago landscape
Yvonne Cardogna was born
in Messina, Sicily. As a young girl, with her family, she migrated
to Australia. She married and had two children. For a few years,
she worked in the family business and later she entered the university.
She was awarded a scholarship and graduated form the University of Western
Australia.
Growing Up Italian in God's
Country: Stories From the Wilds of Pennsylvania traces four generations
of our family melding cultures in the Allegheny Mountains beginning with
the arrival of my maternal great-grandfather Giuseppe Policastro from San
Gregorio Magno in the province of Salerno in 1891 to find work on the logging
railroads.
Tony DeSales,
self-thought artist, musician, philosopher poet and mathematician.
He was a true son of Italy, a Renaissance Man in Little Italy, in Baltimore,
Maryland
DVD - The historical documentary
film Prisoners Among Us tells the story of Italian ethnicity in
America from several unique and distimctly personal perspectives.
Kathleen went to Venice
with a goal and
a plan. The goal was
to write about the
lives of a cliched group
of men, the
gondoliers. The plan
included a camera,
a notebook, and the perseverance
of a
serious journalist...
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of the proceeds goes to the Italian Cultural Center at Casa Italia, Chicago
And They Came
to Chicago The
Italian American Legacy DVD - Narrated
by Tony Award winner Joe Mantegna it traces an extraordinary chapter of
the Italian American experience in the US
Romano
M. Levante
ISBN 88-88643-31-1
E` la storia di un giovane,
con i suoi fratelli e la famiglia, che agli inizi degli anni '50 parte
da un piccolo paese della montagna abruzzese per le lontane Americhe in
cerca di fortuna. Un romanzo-verita` ispirato a una vicenda reale
i cui sviluppi sono lasciati alla fantasia dell'autore, che se ne allontana
pur mantenendo una sinfonia di fondo con la fonte dell'ispirazione.
Food journalist, cookbook
author and cooking instructor, Janice Therese Mancuso combines all - with
her love of Italian culture - to create her first novel. Italian culture
is also the topic of Tutto Italiano, her e-newsletter that made its debut
in April 2004. It is available through her web site, www.jtmancuso.com
Margherita
Marchione
The story of an eighteenth
century world citizen.
Translated by S. Eugene
Scalia
Edited by Margherita Marchione
The kitchen has always
occupied an important position in Italian culure... Celebrate, Italian
Style is a collection of recipes and stories about Italian life
The food and the culture
of Italy are so interwowen, it's impossible to think of one without the
other. Scattered among the recipes are accounts of life in the villages
As to the true Italy..
he does not even dream of it. The true Italy id only to be found
by patient observation...
Susan Hacker Stang is
a photographer and Professor of Communications at Webster University in
St. Louis. These photographs were made during the years 2003-2006
Vita e Miraculi di
San Franciscu di Paola
La devozione di San Francesco di
Paola, il calabrese se la porta con se ovunque va`. Questi versi in vernacolo
calabrese li offro a voi.
CD, Libretto in Calabrese and
Libretto in Italian are included
Street painting artists have
a long tradition in Europe, starting in Italy in the 16th century. These
artists traveled from town to town creating their images as a source of
their livelihood. These "Madonnari" or "Madonna painters" refer to the
reproduction of icons of the Madonna. Winning international awards
upon its debut, this full color, 12 month wall calendar presents these
temporary masterpieces as never before.
A first hand account of the
earliest
days of military aviation.
Translated by his two children
Camilla Viglino Hurwitz
and Victor Viglino.
Peter
R. Viteritti
A true story that takes place during
the Summer of 2004, when the author and his cousin, Peter Piazza, hiked
for thirteen days through the enchanting mountain range called the Italian
Alps.
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