New Acquisitions leaflet Autumn 2008-Winter2009

Ruggiero, Guido, A companion to the worlds of the
Renaissance, 940.2 RUG
Salmon, Frank, Building on ruins: the rediscovery of Rome and
English architecture, 720.942 SAL
Saviano, Roberto, Gomorra: viaggio nell'impero economico e nel
sogno di dominio della camorra, 364.106 SAV
Sebregondi, Ludovica, Giotto at Santa Croce, 759.5 GIO d
Sebregondi, Ludovica, The Arno in Santa Croce, 708.551 SAN d
Smith, Emma, The Cambridge introduction to Shakespeare,
820.33 D SMI d
Spike, John T., Dissimilar revelations: essays on Neolithic art, Fra
Angelico, Velasquez, Goya, and Cezanne, 701.18 SPI d
Syson, Luke; Thornton, Dora, Objects of virtue: art in
renaissance Italy, 709.45 SYS
Unger-Hamilton, Clive, Music of the Baroque era, 780.903 UNG
Walsh, Michael John, The Popes: 50 celebrated occupants of the
throne of St. Peter, 270 WAL
Warburg, Aby, The renewal of pagan antiquity: contributions to the
cultural history of the European Renaissance, 709.024 WAR
Waugh, Evelyn, Waugh abroad: collected travel writing,
820.9 WAU
Welsh, Clement William, St. James Church: a history of the
American church in Florence, 283.45 WEL d
Wilson, Arline, William Roscoe, 942.08 ROS d
Witting, Félix; Patrizi, M.L., Caravaggio, 759.5 CAR
Woods, Kim W., Making Renaissance art, 709.024 WOO
Zuffi, Stefano, Gospel figures in art, 704.948 ZUF
Fiction
By author, title, location
Adiga, Aravind, The white tiger, 820.92 ADI
Arnold, Gaynor, Girl in a new dress, 820.9 ARN
Baker, Nicholson, Vox, 810 BAK
Berger, John, From A to X: a story in letters, 820.9
BER
Baricco, Alessandro, An Iliad, 850 BAR
Barry, Sebastian, The secret scripture, 820.9 BAR
Blackburn, Simon, Truth: a guide for the per
plexed, 820.92 BLA d
Cusk, Rachel, Arlington Park, 820.92 CUS d
De Bernières, Louis, A partisan's daughter, 820.9 DEB d
Enright, Anne, Taking pictures, 820.9 ENR
Faulks, Sebastian, Devil may care, 823 FAU
Gee, Sue , Reading in bed, 820.9 GEE
Gellhorn, Martha, The view from the ground, 810 GEL d
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Ghosh, Amitav, Sea of poppies, 820.9 GHO
Giordano, Paolo, La solitudine dei numeri primi, 850 GIO
Gordimer, Nadine, The conservationist, 820.9 GOR
Hensher, Philip, The northern clemency, 820.9 HEN
Hill, Susan, The man in the picture, 820.9 HIL d
Hustvedt, Siri, The sorrows of an American, 810 HUS
Hustvedt, Siri, What I loved, 810 HUS
James, P. D., The private patient, 823 JAM d
Just, Ward, Forgetfulness, 810 JUS d
Kneale, Matthew, When we were romans, 820.9 KNE
Leon, Donna, Doctored evidence, 823 LEO d
Lessing, Doris, Alfred and Emily, 820.9 LES
Levi, Primo, Se questo è un uomo, 850 LEV d
McDermott, Alice, After this, 810 MCD d
Messud, Claire, The Emperor's children, 810 MED d
O'Hagan, Andrew, Be near me, 820.92 OHA d
Powers, Richard, The echo maker, 810 POW d
Preston, John, The dig, 820.9 PRE
Rossi, Elino, Frammenti di versi, 850 ROS d
Sanvitale, Francesca, L'inizio è in autunno, 850 SAN
Self, Will, The butt: an exit strategy, 820.9 SEL
Sereni, Vittorio, The selected poetry and prose, 850 SER d
Smith, Zadie, The autograph man, 820.92 SMI d
Watson, Winifred, Miss Pettigrew lives for a day, 820.9 WAT
New Acquisitions
Winter 2009
DVD
By title, director, location
L’albero degli zoccoli, Olmi, Ermanno,
ALB
L'avventura, Antonioni, Michelangelo,
AVV
Boogie nights, Anderson, Paul Thomas,
BOO d
Batman returns, Burton, Tim, BAT d
Bulletproof monk, Hunter, Paul BUL d
Il conformista, Bertolucci, Bernardo, CON
Divorzio all'italiana, Germi, Pietro, DIV
La dolce vita, Fellini, Federico, DOL
Fourplay, Binder, Mike, FOU d
In the cut, Campion, Jane, INT d
Ladri di biciclette, De Sica Vittorio, LAD
Rocco e i suoi fratelli, Visconti, Luchino, ROC
Saving Grace, Cole, Nigel, SAV d
I soliti ignoti, Monicelli, Mario, SOL
L'uomo in più, Sorrentino, Paolo, UOM
La vita è bella, Benigni, Roberto, LIF
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Non Fiction
By author, title, location
Ajmar-Wollheim, Marta, At home in Renaissance Italy, 945.05
AJM
Aleardi, Andrea … [et al.], Firenze, verso la città moderna:
itinerari urbanistici nella città estesa tra Ottocento e Novecento,
914.551 ALE d
Allan, Michael, Dear Doug! Letters to Norman Douglas from
Eric Wolton… [et al.], 820.9 DOU d
Baetjer, Katharine… [et al.], Canaletto, 759.5 CAN d
Barolsky, Paul, The faun in the garden: Michelangelo and the
poetic origins of Italian Renaissance art, 709.45 MIC
Barolsky, Paul, Michelangelo's nose: a
myth and its maker, 709.45 MIC
Beadle, Richard, The Cambridge
companion to medieval English theatre,
792.0942 BEA
Benton, Janetta Rebold, Art of the Middle
Ages, 709.02 BEN
Bossi, Maurizio; Sartoni, Enrico
Encounters: the Chinese in Florence since
the 1930s, 945.5109 BOS d
Brooks, Julian… [et. al.], Taddeo and
Federico Zuccaro, 741.0945 ZUC
Brotton, Jeremy, The Renaissance bazaar: from the silk road to
Michelangelo, 945.05 BRO d
Clark, Eleanor; Berman, Eugene, Rome and a villa, 914.5632
CLA d
Clark, Robert, Dark water: flood and redemption in the city of
masterpieces, 945.5109 CLA
Crystal, David, 'Think on my own words': exploring
Shakespeare's language, 820.33 D CRY
De Capoa, Chiara… [et. al.], Old Testament figures in art,
704.948 DEC
De Polo, Claudio, Fratelli Alinari 1852-2002: from the
photograph to the image, 770.9 ALI d
Don, Monty, Around the world in 80 gardens, 712 DON
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Douglas, Norman, Respectful ribaldry: a selection of letters from Norman Douglas to
Faith Compton Mackenzie, 820.9 DOU d
Eger, Elizabeth; Peltz, Lucy, Brilliant
women: 18th century bluestockings, 820.609
EGE
Ekserdjian, David, Parmigianino, 759.5 PAR
Fenlon, Iain, The ceremonial city: history,
memory and myth in renaissance Venice,
945.31 FEN
Ferber, Michael, A dictionary of literary symbols, R 809.9 FER
Ferri, Marco, I Medici riesumano i Medici: cronaca di una
straordinaria avventura alla scoperta dei segreti della grande
dinastia fiorentina, 945.5 MED d
Fossi, Gloria, The Uffizi: the official guide, 708.551 UFF d
Fraquelli, Simonetta … [et. al.], Radical light: Italy's divisionist
painters 1891-1910, 759.5 FRA
Frescobaldi, Dino; Solinas, Francesco, I Frescobaldi: una
famiglia fiorentina, 945.5105 FRE d
Fuchs, Dominique Charles; Di Marco, Simona, Il Museo
Stibbert: la casa museo = The Stibbert Museum: house and
museum, 708.551 STI d
Gabinetto G.P. Vieusseux, First supplement to the English
Catalogue completed up to date 1915-1926 C 018.20GAB d
Giusti, Giovanna, The statues of the Loggia della Signoria in
Florence: masterpieces restored, 730.945 GIU d
Grant, Tony, From our own correspondent: a celebration of fifty
years of the BBC radio programme, 909.82 GRA d
Gregori, Mina, Italian still life: from Caravaggio to the 18th
century, 758.4 GRE d
Hatfield, Rab, Finding Leonardo: the case for recovering the
battle of Anghiari, 759.5 LEO
Innocenti, Clarice, Women in power: Caterina and Maria de'
Medici, 709.5 MED d
Johnston, Alan, Kidnapped and other dispatches, 956.9405
JOH d
Kanter, Laurence B.; Henry, Tom, The complete paintings of
Luca Signorelli, 759.5 SIG
Kemp, Martin, The human animal in western art and science,
704.9432 KEM
Kenny, Anthony, Ancient philosophy, 182 KEN
Kenny, Anthony, Arthur Hugh Clough: a poet's life 820.8 CLO d
Kenny, Anthony, Medieval philosophy, 189 KEN
Kenny, Anthony, Philosophy in the modern world, 190 KEN
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Kenny, Anthony, The rise of modern philosophy, 190 KEN
Landy, Marcia, Stardom Italian style: screen performance
and personality in Italian cinema, 791.43 LAN
Lane, Margaret, The tale of Beatrix Potter, 820.8 POT
Lee, Hermione, Body parts: essays on life-writing, 809.93592
LEE
Lillie, Amanda, Florentine villas in the fifteenth century: an
architectural and social history, 728.8 LIL
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki… [et al.], Viewing Renaissance
art, 709.024 WOO
Macadam, Alta, Florence: where to find Giotto, Brunelleschi
[etc.] 914.551 d
Mackrell, Judith, Bloomsbury ballerina: Lydia Lopokova,
imperial dancer and Mrs. John Maynard Keynes, 793.3 LOP
Malaguzzi, Silvia, Food and feasting in art, 704.9 MAL
Mallach, Alan, The autumn of Italian opera: from verismo to
modernism, 1890-1915, 782.1 MAL
Marsden, Richard, The old English Heptateuch, and Aelfric's
Libellus de veteri testamento et novo, EETS. OS. 330
Morgan, Janet, Agatha Christie: a biography, 820.9 CHR
Mulvagh, Jane, Madresfield: one home, one family, one
thousand years, 929.2 LYG
Murphy, Caroline P., Isabella de' Medici: the glorious life and
tragic end of a Renaissance princess, 945.5105 MED
Piacenti, Kirsten Aschengreen, Frederick Stibbert:
gentiluomo, collezionista e sognatore, 708.551 STI d
Pieri, Mario, I marmi d'Italia, 553.5 PIE d
Potterton, Homan, Pageant and panorama: the elegant world
of Canaletto, 759.5 CAN d
Preston, Douglas; Spezi, Mario, The monster of Florence,
945.5109 PRE
Restivo, Angelo, The cinema of economic miracles: visuality
and modernization in the Italian art film, 791.43 RES
Ross, Alex, The rest is noise: listening to the
twentieth century, 780.904 ROS
Rossetti, William Michael... [et. al.], The
germ: thoughts towards nature in poetry,
literature and art , 820.8 ROS d
Tongiorgi Tomasi, Lucia; Tosi, Alessandro
Italian botanical art today, 520.222 TON d
Rowan, Tiddy, A guide to modern +
contemporary art in the city London,
709.42 ROW