rights list 2012 - Salerno Editrice

rights
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SALERNO EDITRICE
Index
Presentation 3
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Profili
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Aculei
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Grandi Opere
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Sestante
24
Piccoli saggi
34
Strumenti per l’università
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Salerno Editrice
Founded in 1972, the Salerno Editrice directs its activities towards a
production of high culture in the fields of literature, criticism and philology, essays and history.
It’s all under the literary-humanistic frame - in its complex structure
which includes art, music, drama and spectacle, the thought - entering
the publishing field of Salerno Editrice, in view of the recovery of
texts no less than in that of their historical and critical assessment and
accommodation, and so not in “passive” way.
In the ‘factory’ of the publishing house are studied and developed
publishing programs, also contributing to an overall plan clearly outlined and cultural project aimed at starting. Thus, the serie of the debut, “The Italian novelists” - which incorporates initiatives launched in
various ways, between the Seven and Nineteenth, and never finished
- has been designed from the beginning, according to a plan rigorously
constructed, aimed at offering an archive of texts in a field of Italian literary tradition, as important as lack of editions (and much more reliable editions), so, in series like “Texts and documents of literature and
language” or “Documents of poetry, or even “Out of Series”, were
designed and initiated to implementation works of relief and of completed, otheLiterature (Brecent years the historical series were complemented by new, agile “ SThe annual production is about 80 volumes,
including books and magazines.
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Description
A historical collection, agile,
riserved to quick - but not
summaries - profiles of great
and famous personalities of all
time, without excluding large
reconstructions of events that
have had a major accident in
the history not only of its protagonists, but essential historical summary on events, facts,
aspects of human civilization.
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Maria de’ Medici news Benedetto XIV
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AUTHOR
Stefano Tabacchi is parliamentary adviser of the Chamber
of Deputies. He studied at the
Scuola Normale Superiore in
Pisa and published numerous
essays on the History of the
Ancient Italian States.
Maria de’ Medici
From the damnatio memoriae to
the appreciation of her political action: the controversial
story of Maria de’ Medici in
the first italian biography.
Last Italian queen on the throne
of France, Maria de’ Medici is still
linked to the image of a fascinating woman but with limited political skills. Until recent years the
historical judgment on her actions
as queen of France has been extremely severe. Mary was considered subservient to the Spanish
and papal policy, unable to realize
the statement of monarchical absolutism. Only in recent years, her
image has been the subject of a
thorough review, in particular in
the artistic and cultural aspects.
The book is the only biography of
Maria de ‘Medici available in Italian and presents an updated and
comprehensive reconsideration
of the life of the queen, especially
in its political dimension. In particular, the author analyzes the ways
in which Mary tried to consolidate
a model of female sovereignty.
AUTHOR
Gaetano Greco teaches Modern History at the University
of Siena. Among his numerous
publications: La Chiesa in Occidente. Istituzioni e uomini dal Medioevo all’Età moderna (2006).
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BENEDETTO XIV
From the reforms of the church
at the close against the Jews
and Eastern pagans. The controversial experience of the
literate Pope, who has left an
indelible mark in the history
of the Church.
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With this volume the author tra24,00
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«Profili» n. 52 Benedict XIV, aiming to rebuild his love for science and arts,
pointing out, in a language accessible to not experts readers,
the reason why his thought still
survives today. In fact, Benedict
XIV is the author of a huge and
controversial “canon” which introduced in the ecclesiastical life
of the Catholic Church a series
of significant innovations, such
as the recognition of women’s
religious congregations, or marriage between Catholics and
non-Catholics.
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Napoleone
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NAPOLEONE III
AUTHOR
Adriano Viarengo is Italian
Risorgimento History scholar
and co-director of the «Rivista storica italiana».
Among the many biographies
of Napoleon III is lacking one
that can take from a different
perspective to the existence
of a character who had such
a strong influence on our nation and the entire Europe in
a time of great political upheaval.
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AUTHOR
Eugenio Di Rienzo teaches
Modern History at the University of Rome “Sapienza”
and he’s director of «Nuova
Rivista Storica». Among recent publications: La storia e
l’azione. Vita politica di Gioacchino Volpe (2008).
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The diplomacy of Napoleon III’s
foreign policy exerted a great influence throughout Europe, creating a new balance between the
European powers, which would
remain essentially unchanged
until the First World War. Hence the need to study the foreign
policy of Napoleon III in the
light of the French, Russian, Austrian, Prussian, Italian, diplomatic archives, and to compare the
strategy often opaque and inconsistent, with that of other major
players: Palmerston, Cavour, the
Russian Chancellor Gorčakov
and Bismarck.
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CAVOUR
150 years after the proclamation of the italian Unity, a portrait of the man who made it
possible.
Count Camillo Benso di Cavour,
one of the leaders of Italian Ri
568 sorgimento, was born in August
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most important Italian scientific
journal, the «Rivista storica italiana», has penned a portrait of this
crucial historical figure.
Viarengo describes the personality of the Count, his cosmopolitan
upbringing in Genoa, Paris and
London and his role as one of the
leading politicians of nineteenthcentury Europe. The book, based
on extensive researches, provides
a clear portrait of this impressive
man and is addressed not only to
scholars but also to common readers curious to learn more on the
building of an European nation.
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Atatürk
Leonardo
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AUTHOR
Carlo Vecce is Professor of
Italian Literature at University of Naples “L’Orientale”.
Among his main publications:
Leonardo da Vinci, Scritti, by
Carlo Vecce, (1992).
ATATÜRK
This new biography of Atatürk, shows one of the most radical and coherent transformations in the history.
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AUTHOR
Fabio L. Grassi teaches Contemporary History of Turkey
to Yýldýz Teknik Üniversitesi,
and has published numerous
works, including: L’Italia e la
questione turca 1919-1923 (1996).
Mustafa Kemal was a master of
politics and diplomacy. Under his
rule, the new Turkey was marked
by fierce nationalism, a strong attraction to Western ways, and a critical attitude toward the traditions
of Islam. He made a real revolution: a new dress code, a new calendar, a new alphabet and finally
a whole new language. The female
suffrage was proclaimed in 1934.
For him was very important the
unity of the country. Kemal at his
worst tried forcibly to assimilate
the Kurds, destroying their identity, and so launched a tragedy that is
still being played out.
The author tells this enthralling story in a vigorous style. He taps into
a wide range of sources, many of
them only recently available, including the memoirs of Latife’s family.
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LEONARDO
The first modern Leonardo da
Vinci’s biography written by a
specialist, and faithfully based
on original documents and autograph manuscripts.
Today we have several excellent
520 books on Leonardo as an artist or
an inventor (Clark, Kemp, Chastel,
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Arasse, Pedretti), but there’s no«Profili» n. 24 thing about his life: the few current
biographies simply repeat Leonardo
‘myths’. The great experience of
Carlo Vecce on Leonardo’s manuscripts led to collect a lot of new
details. The result is an original
portrait, faithful to the reality: the
relationship with his friends and
enemies, with the natural mother
Caterina, the patronage and the political power, the complex sexuality.
Leonardo was not a solitary genius.
He likes to play, to tell funny stories
and riffles. He was able to see over
the surface of the things, and feeling in harmonic relation but also
of struggle with Nature and Universe.
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Masaniello
Craxi
CRAXI
AUTHOR
Silvana D’Alessio is a Researcher of the University of Salerno. She has authored many
works about the revolt of Naples and the English reception of that event.
An historical analysis of the
most troubled period of the Italian Republic, through its most
controversial protagonist.
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AUTHOR
Luigi Musella is Professor
of Contemporary History
at the University of Naples
‘Federico II’.
This work is an historical analysis richly documented, where the
most important sources are the
Official Parliamentary Proceedings, the published and the inedited Craxi’s work and, first of
all, the memory of many protagonists. In fact, as Luigi Musella
said, “the interviews to the majority of politicians who knew and
supported him during his long
career presented the most original
sources”.
This Craxi’s biography is maybe
the only one critically oriented towards those journalistic sources
which at that time didn’t register
objectively facts and events.
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MASANIELLO
This work is a biography of
the leader of the first days of
the Neapolitan revolt against
the Spanish government, that
began in July 1647.
Masaniello was a young fisherman. Little is known of his life
before the 1647 revolt, although
the chronicles of the riot indicate
that he was extremely poor and,
specifically, he had been hostile
toward tax collectors. Although
illiterate, Masaniello was extremely clever. It was clear to his eyes
that the Spanish government functioned as a ‘tyrannical’ dominion.
This biography, in the first part,
reconstructs the roles played by
Masaniello in first days of the revolt. In the second part the book
focuses on the European reception of the riot.
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Napoleone
Murat
NAPOLEONE
AUTHOR
Renata De Lorenzo is a professor of History and director
of the Department of History, at the University “Federico
II” of Naples.
The public and private life of
the greatest and controversial
statesman of modern ages.
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AUTHOR
Luigi Mascilli Migliorini teaches
Modern History at the University ‘Federico II’ of Naples. He
directs the «Rivista italiana di
studi napoleonici». Among his
publications on Napoleon: Il
mito dell’eroe (1984).
This study considers Napoleon
both in his public life and in the
private one. Archetype of the
modern man with all contradictions of his personality, this biography of Napoleon becomes
the ideal subject for reading
facts and ideas of European
history between French Revolution and the first years of the
XIX century. The book is completed by a great revision of historian’s interpretation since the
Napoleon’ death until our days.
This biography is both an accessible handbook for the general
reader who wishes to learn about
Napoleon and a stimulating essay
for students of Modern History.
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MURAT
The military and political career, and the fall of Joachim Murat: The soldier that earned, on
the side of Napoleon, the throne of the Kingdom of Naples.
A biography that traces the life
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of Joachim Murat: the humble
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career alongside Napoleon, the
famous enterprises in Italy, Egypt
and Prussia in the campaign that
brought him to the throne of the
Kingdom of Naples. In addition
to political events, Renata De
Lorenzo talks about his passion
and his marriage to Catherine
Bonaparte (sister of Napoleon),
of the life of the French court
in Naples (1808-1815), the suffered relationship and the continuing conflict with Napoleon.
A historical biography accurate
and well documented, easy to
read even for the large audience
of enthusiasts.
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LUIGI FIRPO
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TOMMASO CAMPANELLA
The different faces of the famous scientist: the analysis of a
man and the scientist who denied
his ideas.
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AUTHOR
FABIO TRONCARELLI
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GIORDANO BRUNO
FRANCIS DRAKE
Giordano Bruno’s tormented life
offers the narration of a sort of
“Philosophy in action” and a visual
angle of extraordinary interest of
the period of the Religious wars
and the struggle between Protestant
and Catholic-Reformation.
The life of most powerful pirate
with his legendary adventures and
the myth of the Elizabethan piracy are focused in the history of
English and worldwide history of
the XVII century.
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AUTHOR
MICHELE CAMEROTA
AUTHOR
TOMMASO DI CARPEGNA
FALCONIERI
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COLA DI RIENZO
A new biography of the famous
scientist described in his different aspects as a researcher, as
an University Professor, but
above all as a man forced to
give up his theories in order to
save his life.
The life of the most famous roman citizen of the Middle Ages.
The author traces here a portrait
all based on the most recent studies, surely more complex and fascinating.
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NICOLETTA BAZZANO
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MARCO ANTONIO
COLONNA
The events of the life of an illustrious member of the most
powerful Roman family using
as source – for the first time –
his personal letters. Further this
work is a very interesting document of Italian Renaissance.
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Events, situations, issues of
great importance and interest open on contemporary
issues: immigration and citizenship, women and sexuality, democracy and intolerance. Books that deal with
a past that does not pass. In
Pocket-sized and innovative
eye-catching graphics, the
most controversial issues of
modernity framed in their
historical roots.
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an analysis of fascism and of the German
national-socialism.
This book shows how, while
the crisis of the liberal model
reveals its dimension not only
Italian and the authoritarian
torsion of USSR ends up, the
Gramsci’s notes rotate more
and more, around the unrecognizable face of the “great and
terrible world.”
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Luciano Canfora
Luciano Canfora is a professor at
the University of Bari. Great scholar of the classical world, stands
out for the exceptional quality of
his scientific publications.
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GRAMSCI
in carcere e il fascismo
CACCIA ALLE STREGHE
GRAMSCI
in Prison and the Fascism
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AUTHOR
Luciano Canfora is a professor at the University of Bari.
Great scholar of the classical world, stands out for the
exceptional quality of his
scientific publications.
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Gramsci’s analysis on Fascism
and Communism
This volume faces a theme very
frequented by a big part of writing
about Antonio Gramsci: the consideration that he came maturing
and improving, during the decade
of his detention, around the nature
and to the historical perspectives of
the fascism, not only the Italian one.
Such a thought is particularly valuable because free of the inevitable
and necessary elements of the daily
politics battle. The consideration
of this aspect of his thinking also
leads to the question of judgment
that Gramsci gives the other central
experience of the twentieth century,
the Soviet one: similarities and differences between the two opposing
systems are constantly present to
his watchful critical attention. Finally the reflection around the problem
of the vast consent that the fascism
got in the Italian intellectual world.
WITCHES HUNT
Between superstition and religion, the analysis of a phenomenon and its modernity
At the end of the Middle Ages begins the so-called “witch hunt.” According to the bill Summis desiderantes, promulgated by Pope Innocent
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«Aculei» n. 7 Christianity as never occurred before. But what is the phenomenon of
witchcraft and the subsequent witch
hunt? It is an offensive against the
universe folkloric and popular superstitions? It is a reaction to the
diversity of society?
On the basis of a careful analysis
of the sources, and the writings, it
is possible to draw a general framework from which the “hunt”
emerges as a constitutive element
of modernity. In particular, this
phenomenon is not only typical of
the “barbaric Middle Ages,” but it
persists even and especially in the
times in which we like to think that
the triumph of reason and law prevail.
AUTHOR
Marina Montesano teaches Medieval history at the University
of Messina. Among her publications: Medieval History (with
Franco Cardini), Florence, 2006.
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CRISTIANI
perseguitati e persecutori
CHRISTIANS
Persecuted and Persecutor
From the dream of Constantine
to the lynching of Hypatia. The
Story of a “phenomenon” that
has marked the humanity.
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AUTHOR
Franco Cardini is Professor
of Medieval History and successful author, appreciated
not only for his scientific studies, but also for his work as
a storyteller, as a scriptwriter
and for his literary articles.
The relationship between power
and society at the advent of the
Christian era. The prohibitions
and repression. The persecution
and freedom of worship.
The Christianization conceived only
as a system founded on the values
of love and freedom. Paganism
understood as free co-existence
between different faiths. The role
of the persecuted and the persecutor clearly distinct. Franco Cardini
investigates these and other misunderstandings to restore a historical
framework unraveled and honest,
because the light of the past illuminates a present as never obscured by specious appeals to new and
dangerous crusades and holy wars.
FACCIA DA ITALIANO
AUTHOR
Matteo Sanfilippo teaches Modern History at the University
of Tuscia. He edited, as a coauthor, the volume Annals of
the History of Italy of the emigration (2009).
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ITALIAN FACE
Italians. Lazy, exploitative, if not
ready to theft or to murder. Negative and prejudice of centuries
of migrations.
Too often we tend to reduce the
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and first half of the twentieth cen«Aculei» n. 2 tury, forgetting that this continues
today, and that has formed over
centuries of emigration. Often is
thought that the prejudice against
our emigrants was formed in the
nineteenth century. In fact, the history of negative representation
of Italians abroad is a phenomenon of long duration, which must
fall on a centuries-long period of
time.The brilliant, rigorous book
of Matteo Sanfilippo reconstructs
the genesis and reasons of prejudice against the Italians, stratified
in time and die-hard (because still
nothing is done by us to offer to
the world a different “face”).
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I TEMPLARI E LA SINDONE
storia di un falso
THE TEMPLARS AND THE
SHROUD. story of a false
The Templars and the Shroud:
historical truth or media hype?
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AUTHOR
Andrea Nicolotti is a scholar of the History of Christianity and a researcher at
the University of Turin. He
runs the website
www.christianismus.it
Where does the Shroud of Turin
come from? What period was it
really? It is true as claimed by the
most fashionable historiographical
reconstructions that the Templars
could seize the precious object after it was looted during the sack of
Constantinople in the Crusades in
1204?
The book of Nicolotti examines
the theory and the evidence to support it. The conclusion is that this
theory is based on misunderstandings, manipulations of the texts,
factual errors and approximations.
The connection between the Templars and the Shroud, therefore,
is totally unproven. The occasion
provides an opportunity to reflect
on historical methodology.
LUXURIA
eros e violenza nel seicento
AUTHOR LUXURIA
Oscar Di Simplicio is a scholar eros and violence in the seof Modern History. Among venteenth century
his monographs: Autunno della A talented man, a brutal and restregoneria (2005). fined priest, using his power to
subdue his parishioners.
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A sinister priest in the Maremma
172 of seventeenth century, addicted to
vice, make the beautiful and the bad
12,00 weather on his parishioners in exer«Aculei» n. 4 cising its power and influence to obtain by force, money and favors of
all sorts from the population. The
protagonist’s actions raise questions
on which debate today neurobiology and cognitive science: the instinctual nature of man is good or bad?
The historical analysis provides a
key to understand human behavior
by seeking a synthesis between nature and culture of the protagonist.
Who was this obscure priest at the
end? A soul corrupt, brutal and callous or the mirror of his time and
of the ecclesiastical institution? To
these questions the author tries to
answer through an analysis of the
judicial record of the time.
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FARE LA PACE
vincitori e vinti in europa
MAKING PEACE
Winners and losers in Europe
Since the end of the war to peace. A path to the achievement of
civilization.
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AUTHOR
Sergio Valzania is deputy director of Radio Rai (the Italian Public Broadcasting Company).
He teaches at the University
of Genova. For the Salerno
Editrice has already published
Rhetoric of War, 2002.
The story of “peace”, not of the
conflict and the analysis of the end
of the war. This is the reversal of perspective that Sergio Valzania suggests
to us. We discover that this is not a
trivial path. On the contrary. Making
peace is often much more difficult to
declare a war, and sometimes affects
the future in a deeper way.
From the vision of peace belonged
to classical Greece, for which it represented a situation of equilibrium
in a context of ongoing rivalry
between the poleis, at the Washington Conference of 1921. Through
this brief history of Europe, the author shows us how to make peace
is not an empty moment between a
war and the other, but requires an
higher commitment and awareness
than the conflict.
FASCISMO
condanne e revisioni
AUTHOR
Gustavo Corni teaches Contemporary History at the University of Trento. Among his
publications include: Popoli in
movimento (2009).
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FASCISM
convictions and revisions
Fascism between historical truth
and political representation.
From the dominance of “antifascist paradigm” to the interpretation of Fascism proposed by
136 Renzo De Felice, Gustavo Corni
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1945 until today.
His analysis puts the spotlight on
issues such as the Resistance, the
consensus for the fascist regime,
the relations between the regime
and strong economic powers. After the end of the so-called “First
Republic”, anti-fascist paradigm
has suffered blows even harder,
in a radically changed political and
cultural climate. The revisionists
are on the agenda, provoking controversy but also strong support
in public.
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The Literary Spaces and the
History of Italian Literature,
the History of Europe and
the Mediterranean. Great
views of key historical events
of Western civilization, with
ample space to previous research and related literature. Monumental works, indispensable investigative tools,
which build upon the past
for a better understanding
of the present.
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STORIA DELLA LETTERATURA ITALIANA
HISTORY OF THE ITALIAN LITERATURE
DIRECTOR: ENRICO MALATO
14 voll. of 25 x 17,5 cm
Overall about 16800 pages + 564 tables out of text
in colour and black / white
hardcover book, with jacket
Eight centuries of Italian literature. One of the richest and oldest literature in the world, a model for western culture. A project
carried out with the co-operation of about 120 Italian as well as
foreign scholars. Salerno Editrice conceived a new history of the
Italian literature characterised for its wide horizon. It is not only a
mere history of literature, but also an outline of the Italian culture
and political development in tight connection with other foreign
cultures. In fact this literary history conducts in a lot of fields: history of language, art, music, philosophy and in general history of
culture. Besides there’s an important part dedicated to the popular
culture and its relations with the Italian regional culture.
Every author wrote his essay following so to say a path, elaborated
by the project director: Enrico Malato. Five volumes of appendix
complete this great work: the first is a reconstruction of the text
tradition; the second an outline of the literary critic in Italy, from
Dante to Croce, Contini and others; the third consists of an analysis of the circulation and reception of the text; the fourth is a series
of very useful information for studying the Italian literature; the last
is an analytical index and a complete bibliography.
There are also many tables, in colour or black and white, that enrich
the whole work.
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STORIA D’EUROPA E DEL MEDITERRANEO
EUROPEAN AND MEDITERRANEAN HISTORY
This work is not meant to be yet another History of Euro pe,
but a History of Europe and the Mediterranean. Through this
formula the director and the authors wanted to avoid a purely ‘European’, or Western, viewpoint and carry out a work useful to bridge the
gaps between Western and Eastern Europe, and between Christian
and Islamic societies, showing the common roots that they share and
the common ground covered by a long part of their history. This
wider scope characterizes strongly the Storia d’Europa e del Mediterraneo, making it really different from other extant general histories.
Divided into two great parts – 1. Il mondo antico, in seven volumes;
2. Dal Medioevo all’Età della globalizzazione, in eight volumes –, the
work is organized into six sections, covering the whole course of the
history, from the appearance of the prehistoric man to the spread of
the Greek civilization, from the Roman ecumene to the Middle Ages
melting pot, from the Modern Age to the globalization era.
A work realized according to the more advanced researches: a reconstruction of the historical events connected to the development
of the uses, the cultural experiences and the religious beliefs, of society, institutions, economy and the dynamic of the relationships with
other cultures and civilizations.
DIRECTOR: ALESSANDRO BARBERO
Overall
7+8 voll. of 25 x 17,5 cm
about 12000 pages + 480 tables out of
text in colour and black / white, maps
hardcover book, with jacket
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LO SPAZIO LETTERARIO DI ROMA ANTICA
THE LITERARY SPACE IN THE ANCIENT ROME
A really new work, both rigorous and original, that provides an inedited
perspective on the literary tradition of the Ancient Rome. This literature
has represented a basis for every further cultural development. This title
points out the concept of ‘literary space’, including a wide range of cultural events such as philosophy, law, oral literature, magical texts, folklore.
The interest for Ancient culture has been appearing very vivid in Italy for
years, as even the average of the man feels that his cultural life depends
on Rome and its productions.
The attention of this work concentrates on the text in its complexity: not
only the official texts, but also the everyday texts that are as important
as the others for understanding a whole culture. It is clear that this is an
original and suggestive proposal a re-thinking in a certain way of writing
history. In the end there are an analytical index and a bibliography of the
Latin literature. Finally we have a work that has lacked up to now.
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Lo spazio letterario di Roma
antica vol. VI, I testi. 2. La Poesia.
Lo spazio letterario di Roma
antica vol. VII, I testi. 2. La Prosa.
tables out of text in colour and black and white
hardcover book, with jacket in colour
DIRECTORS
Guglielmo Cavallo, Paolo Fedeli, Andrea Giardina
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LO SPAZIO LETTERARIO DELLA GRECIA ANTICA
THE LITERARY SPACE IN THE ANCIENT GREECE
After the great success of its similar work on the Roman Literary
History, another original title, that gathers the entire development of
the literary production in the Greek area, from the beginning until the
Byzantine Age through two thousand years. If the Roman literature represented a basis for the Western culture, obviously it depended on the
Greek culture; so this title in a certain way completes the work on Rome.
Normally we forget that we lost a good deal of Greek literature, and a
lot of books were destroyed. We cannot fully understand that culture without this big lost. This title analyses and reconstructs even this story in
its development, questioning why the Ancient libraries were burned and
its significance for the successive centuries.
This work is the result of the co-operation of more than seventy authors.
The exposition is both diachronic and geographical, so that this is the
first book on this subject that we can indicate as ‘literary geography’. In
the last volume there are a complete chronology, an analytical index and
a bibliography of the Greek literature.
DIRECTORS
Giuseppe Cambiano, Luciano Canfora, Diego Lanza
3 voll. in 5 tomes of 25 x 17,5 cm.
Overall about 4150 pages + 240 tables out of
text in colour and black / white
hardcover book, with jacket
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LO SPAZIO LETTERARIO DEL MEDIOEVO
THE LITERARY SPACE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
1. Il Medioevo latino - The Latin Middle Ages
5 voll. in 6 tomes of 25 x 17,5 cm
Overall about 4300 pages + 240 tables out of text in colour and black / white ; hardcover book, with jacket
2. Il Medioevo volgare - The Vulgar Middle Ages
5 voll. in 6 tomes of 25 x 17,5 cm
Overall about 4500 pages + 204 tables out of text in colour and black / white; hardcover book, with jacket
3. Le culture circostanti - The surrounding cultures
3 voll. of 25 x 17,5 cm
Overall about 2850 pages + 120 tables out of text in colour
and black/ white; hardcover book, with jacket in colour
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The concept of Middle Ages was created during the Humanism to indicate a whole period of the human history considered ‘useless’ in comparison with the Antiquity and the Renaissance. So far the Middle Ages has
been indicated as a period of barbarians, of destruction. Even human
freedom were limited by a strict subordination under the God’s willingness. This was a wrong interpretation, that even nowadays has not been
overcome. In the past only the Romantic movement praised the Middle
Ages, but in a sentimental way. In addictions, this movement preferred
only a part of this period, that is the German and Romance Middle Ages.
In this situation we needed a radically new reconstruction of an important period in the world history, without any prejudice. In fact during the
Middle Ages happened events that created a culture that lasts so far. As
in the other two works on Rome and Greece, this is a title carried out
with the co-operation of an international team. More than eighty scholars world-wide grant the quality of the book, in which you can find also
an analytical index and a chronology.
1. Il Medioevo latino - The Latin Middle Ages
Directors: Guglielmo Cavallo, Claudio Leopardi, Enrico Menestò
2. Il Medioevo volgare - The Vulgar Middle Ages
Directors: Piero Boitani, Mario Mancini, Enrico Menestò
3. Le culture circostanti - The surrounding cultures
Directors: Mario Capaldo, Franco Cardini, Guglielmo Cavallo,
Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti
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Simona Costa teaches Contemporary Italian Literature
at the University of Roma
Tre. Scholar of d’Annunzio,
she has authored numerous
volumes, including d’Annunzio Funambolo del moderno, Verona, Gutenberg, 1991
D’ANNUNZIO
The literary and existential great adventure of an intellectual
symbol of the twentieth century
Gabriele d’Annunzio was one of the
major actors of the period between
the end of the formation of a unitary
state with the construction of Rome
as capital and the various stages that
mark the face of the new nation: the
disappointments and scandals postRisorgimento, the unparliamentary
controversy, colonial expansion, the
Great War and the “mutilated victory”, the company flood, the birth of
fascism, until to the deprecated axis
Mussolini-Hitler. Attracted by the
taste for provocation and scandal,
proposing the inseparability between the life and works of the author,
d’Annunzio makes an incredible
operation of rejuvenation of italian
letters.
Thanks to the great Eleonora Duse,
with the parliamentary d’Annunzio,
begins also a significant dramaturgical experience, that poised between poetry and oratory, is the overcoming of the bourgeois theater.
AUTHOR
Antonio Saccone teaches Italian literature at the University
of Naples “Federico II”. He
has authored numerous essays
including Qui vive / sepolto / un
poeta. Pirandello Palazzeschi Ungaretti Marinetti e altri (2008).
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UNGARETTI
The very original reconstruction of the biographical profile of the most European poets
of ’900.
The experimental anxiety which
governs the onset book, Il Porto
300 Sepolto, the relentless attention dedicated to variants of the Allegria,
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the classical canon, the unfinished
journey toward La Terra Promessa
up to the last, exceptional results
achieved in writing by “the very
old madman,” define the character of this grat poet. An important part of the book is dedicated
to the very evocative journalistic
prose and the exciting educational
experience, as well as the large and
very lively work as a translator and
essayist.
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LEVI FENOGLIO
LEVI
From the literature of witness to
the scientific works. The human
and artistic journey of one of
the most powerful of the twentieth century.
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AUTHOR
Enrico Mattioda teaches Italian literature at the University of Turin. Devoted to the
work of Primo Levi: L’ordine
del mondo. Saggio su Primo Levi
(1998).
The book of Mattioda begins with
an often neglected aspect of thought and work of Levi, the one that
draws on his scientific training. After the re-publication of Se questo è
un uomo the writer, in fact, opened
the phase of the story of scientific inspiration. In this book for the
first time are traced the sources of
many of the narratives of Levi, in
particular in the magazine «Scientific American».
This research has allowed us to reconstruct the development of his
thought that, in the late seventies
and early eighties, with the discovery of the blacks holes - the so-called
“black stars” - and the awareness
of a non-rational side in himself,
moves towards a pessimistic view
of the world.
AUTHOR
Roberto Bigazzi teaches Italian literature at the University
of Siena. For Salerno Editrice
has already published Fenoglio:
characters and narrators (1983).
FENOGLIO
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Fenoglio explores the world in an
innovative form and provincial
level, seeking local identity in the
affairs of a country that needs
to be rebuilt after the civil war
and fascism. His writing looks to
Verga’s realism but also to those
Americans - Anderson, Lee Masters, and Faulkner - translated for
the first time in Italian. It does not
have the tone sweetened of the
narrative on the Resistance - focused on the enthusiasm of memory - nor those desecrating of his
detractors.
Hi makes a lucid examination of
those who had believed they could
change the Italian bourgeois society.
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The story of a generation in
foreground in the monograph
on one of the most fascinating
and representative Italian authors of the post-war.
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CALVINO
The real life of a great storyteller of the imaginary.
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AUTHOR
Francesca Serra is a Researcher at University of Firenze.
She has authored noumerous
volumes, including Calvino e il
pulviscolo di Palomar (1996).
Up from youth to maturity, the intellectual and biographical story of
one of the most original writers of
the twentieth century.
This monograph of Francesca Serra is an essay dealing with the writer
and his creations. It examines the
entire production of Calvino from
his first compositions to the works he left unfinished on his death.
What is more the authoress tries
to portray how Calvino really was
by setting him free from the past
and debateable analysis of the critic. The result is a brilliant portrait
of the biography and artistic nature
of the author. Calvino is described
as one of the most fascinating and
attractive figures of the XX century; a “classic”, as himself once said,
who never ends speaking to his readers.
AUTHOR
Giovanna Ioli is scholar of the
Italian Literary Production of
the XVIII and XX centuries,
operating in the University of
Turin. Among her publications:
I Romanzi of Italo Svevo (1993).
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MONTALE
Giovanna Ioli traces a new biography of one of the most important poets of the last century in which life and poems are
strictly connected and analysed.
This new, lithe monograph reconstructs the entire route biographical
and artistic of Montale, in a continuous blend between life and poetry, always located within the specific
historical and social reference, and
always with extensive use of all available documentary sources.
From “Ossi di seppia” (1925) to
“Diario postumo” (1996), the intense poetry of Montale is examined with passion and precision, and
rebuilt in every step, so as to constitute a real “opportunity” of discovery and investigation. The subtle interplay of internal reflections
conducted with wisdom by the author in these pages, allows to fully
embrace the entire universe of poetry and biography, and to appreciate
its intact fascinating complexity.
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PIRANDELLO
The son of chaos
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AUTHOR
Marziano Guglielminetti was
Professor at the University
of Torino. He published lots
of titles, including: Dalla parte dell’io. Modi e forme della scrittura autobiografica nel Novecento
(2002).
This new monograph is the last
effort of Marziano Guglielminetti
who describes the well known figure
of Luigi Pirandello but from a revolutionary point of view. The author
aims to go over the most obsolete
critic acquisitions and inquires about
the life and art of the Sicilian writer.
Through the study of his novels,
his theatrical masterpieces and also
his youthful compositions, the protagonist results deeply analysed and
better defined. The critic points out
the attraction that Pirandello got on
the common people and indicates
his winning numbers in the themes
he developed: he dealt with lively
situation and characters which are
so vivid to be conceived as really
true. Moreover the uncertainty of
life and the inconstancy of human
personality he spoke about make
his poetry actual and always open to
new investigations and literary interpretations.
AUTHOR
Gino Tellini teaches Italian
Literature at the University of
Florence. Among his recent
works: Le Muse inquiete dei moderni. Pascoli, Svevo, Palazzeschi e
altri (2006).
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MANZONI
Gino Tellini faces (and eventually refute) the many biases and
errors, on the work and figure of
Manzoni.
The figure of Manzoni carries a
hint of respectability and then of
boredom. He’s often seen as a pe376 aceful teacher of good feeling and
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no adventure, about an engaged
couple and their countered marriage. Drawing on the most recent criticism, the portrait drawn by Tellini
succeeds in winning the difficult
challenge of accounting for the
multifaceted complexities of Manzoni, without conceding anything
to the convenient shortcuts.
It shows the journey of a troubled
career, during which he practiced
fields of investigation and several
literary genres: civil poetry, the sacred opera, theater, fiction, prose
and moral philosophy, historiography, literary theory, linguistics.
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LEOPARDI
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AUTHOR
Gino Tellini teaches Italian
Literature at the University
of Florence. Among his recent works: Le Muse inquiete
dei moderni. Pascoli, Svevo, Palazzeschi e altri (2006).
The most modern and up-todate ‘profile’ today available on
Leopardi.
The real profile of Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) defies any attempt at easy definition: a poet of
pessimism and pain? Cantor of negation and the existential void? This
monograph answers the need for a
rethinking in an organic way, of its
shape, in the light of the most important contributions of recent studies. Multiforme and unsystematic
writer, Leopardi finds its most characteristic style in an activity prodigiously prismatic, which Tellini follows with his elegant touch in all its
events, from the poet, to the prose
writer and diarist - and even to philosopher, scholar, translator.
Therefore a biography that, thanks
to a very careful and original reconstruction of the poet – rich of facts,
experiences and persons – adds important new details to the image of
Leopardi, man and thinker.
AUTHOR
Mario Pazzaglia is professor
emeritus of the University of
Bologna. Among his works
include: Lungo l’Ottocento: Foscolo, Leopardi, Manzoni e altri
(2000).
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PASCOLI
The greatness and diversity of
the poet of the “small things”.
The image of Giovanni Pascoli (1855-1912) is associated with
the poetry of the dead, the shattered nest, the small things: this is
his best known and studied voice
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outlining the evolution of his poetics. Italian and Latin poetry, therefore, but also the prose of the
“Fanciullino”, the essays on Dante, Leopardi and Manzoni, ethical
and political writings, which, despite their ideological limits, give the
poet a place of importance within
the Italian nationalist socialism.
This places Pascoli in the area of
proto-twentieth century. And, in
this context, it should be noted the
poet’s relationship with the European Symbolism, approached with
autonomy and originality, as well as
with the Positivism.
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FOSCOLO
Romantic and modern at the same
time, Foscolo still exerts a special
fascination on readers today.
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AUTHOR
Giuseppe Nicoletti is Professor at University of Florence
where he teaches Italian Literature. He has published lots
of books, including: Dall’Arcadia a Leopardi (2005).
This monograph arises from the
necessity of updating the last acquisition on Foscolo’s biographical and
exegetic nature. It aims to propose a
modern interpretation of the protagonist, his masterpieces and minor
works. Consequently different levels as the artistic, critic and linguistic, but also the historical and biographical ones alternate themselves
and offer the image of the writer
better defined under many aspects.
Moreover Giuseppe Nicoletti inquires about the reason of the attraction that Foscolo still has on
the modern reader after more than
200 years. Foscolo was not only a
Romantic writer, the author of the
immortal Jacopo Ortis: he was also
a critic, an interpreter, a man engaged both in social and political
fronts, therefore one of the most
representative figures of the XIX
century.
AUTHOR
Carmelo Alberti, director of
the Institute for Theater Research of the House of Goldoni, teaches Humanities at
the University “Ca ‘Foscari”
of Venice.
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GOLDONI
The utopia of a theater that
knows how to “read in the book
of the world.”
The human history and the art of
Carlo Goldoni, the highest Italian playwright of the eighteenth
368 century and one of the absolute,
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far from any stereotype that, over
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time, may have formed about his
figure, his theater, his own time.
The Goldoni’s journey is the experience of an intellectual of eighteenth-century who wants to affirm
the consistency of the “trade play”
in the Venetian and European society. Through careful investigation
of texts, letters and memoirs, the
author reconstructs the story of
the great playwright, in a writing
that moves between biography,
historical references and stage
movement. The result is pages
that show a rigorous but readable
Goldoni.
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MARINO
The artistic parable of a literary
devalued by critics until almost
the present day.
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AUTHOR
Emilio Russo is a researcher
in Italian literature at University of Rome “Sapienza”. He
has authored numerous volumes including Studi su Tasso
e Marino (2005).
With a very detailed analysis of the
Marino’s life and his works, this
book attempts to reaffirm the figure of one of the most important
protagonists of the Baroque Age
as a ‘classic’ of the Italian literature
after many decades of devaluation.
In fact, Giovan Battista Marino is
the author yet to be discovered: this
book, through the careful analysis
of the life and works, aims to reaffirm the stature of “classic” of the
Italian literature and the main performer of our Baroque age.
His controversial adventure is here
revisited in its full complexity: in
diplomatic moves that gained to
the poet the favor of princes and
prelates of Europe, and in the literary choices, such as to compose in
a new way original synthesis of the
endless footage from classic and
modern instances.
AUTHOR
Andrea Battistini is Professor
of Italian Literature at University of Bologna. He is one of
the top authorities on Baroque studies, but he also studies
Dante producing an edition of
La Vita nuova e Le Rime (1995).
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BAROCCO
The Baroque: the triumph of appearance and of the amplification lying on a desperate void of
content?
This is the condemnation that has always made on the Baroque ages.
In fact, in this period so contradicto332, with 8 tab. f.t. ry and fascinating live two very diffe19,00 rent faces, but complementary.
«Sestante» n. 4 The one, dispersed, fixed in the sense of inconstancy and instability, in
the ephemeral spectacle, in love for
the hyperbole, so eccentric and empty. The other, unitary, which aims to
chase the lost harmony because of
the crisis of the Aristotelianism and
religious schisms, and groped through the construction of encyclopedias, museums and collections in
which was claimed to sum the entire
human knowledge. This volume has
the ambition to illustrate both sides
of the period, in the knowledge that
you cannot understand all the Baroque, but analysing the only literature.
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TASSO
Constantly on the edge between
genius and madness, the personality and the work of one of
the most fascinating voices of
the “human tragedy”.
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AUTHOR
Claudio Gigante is professor
of Italian Literature at University of Bruxelles. His other
works published with Salerno
Editrice include Esperienze di
Filologia cinquecentesca (2003).
An interpretive journey through the
myriad of the works of Tasso. The
figure of Torquato Tasso (15441595) has always fascinated the public not only for the beautiful verses
of his Gerusalemme liberata but also
for the exceptional biography, marked by religious concerns, ravings
on the verge of madness, rebellion
fairs, repentance and escape.
The book, introduced by a rich
biography of the poet, offers a
new reading of human history and
literature of the greatest writer of
the Italian Sixteenth century and
e a suggestive description of the
Italian atmosphere of the Tasso’
epoch.
AUTHOR
Giulio Ferroni is Professor
of the Italian Literature at the
University of Rome «Sapienza». He is the author of very
important reduced works for
students of the History of the
Italian Literature.
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ARIOSTO
Life as a free flow of imagination,
reason, irony, in a continuous dialogue with the classical tradition.
The volume points out that Ariosto
is not only the author of the famous
Orlando Furioso. Thanks to the care460 ful reconstruction of Giulio Ferroni,
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a very refined Latin poet, author of
the biting satires and of an interesting collection of letters. On these
aspects is based the first part of the
work, while the second one examines carefully the sources of Orlando
Furioso, the creative processes, the
editions and the success of the book.
The work is completed by a very rich
bibliography and a large final index,
including one of the characters of
the Orlando Furioso, a very useful tool
for everyone wants understanding
correctly their movements in the
poem.
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DANTE
The most comprehensive analysis of the “divine” poet.
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AUTHOR
Enrico Malato is Professor
emeritus at University ‘Federico II’ of Naples. He chairs the
“Centro Pio Rajna” and from
2001 he directs the «Rivista di
studi danteschi». Most recently
Salerno Editrice has published
Studi su Dante (Rome 2005).
This essay, which is the result of
more than thirty years of research
and studies, brought important innovation on Dante’ biographical
and exegetic profile. It aims to show
the results of those studies that revolve around the general figure of
the protagonist. Therefore Dante
results for many important aspects
better defined and clear. Moreover
the criticism gives attention to a
whole set of unanswered problems
and aims to offer a complete picture
of the debateable Dantean analysis;
this is a part of the physiognomy of
the character and a feature not secondary of the attraction that Dante
still has on the imagination of his readers after almost 700 years. For the
criticism, knowing Dante (especially
having a problematical knowledge)
is the necessary condition and premise to love him.
AUTHOR
Marco Ariani is Professor of
Italian Literature at the Third
University of Rome. He has
published many books, including Scritture per la scena. La letteratura drammatica del Novecento
italiano (2001).
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Petrarca as love-writer and intellectual of his time.
The present volume inquiries the
protagonist, commonly known
as a love-writer and as the author
of the immortal Rerum Vulgarium
Fragmenta, from an exegetic point
400, with 4 tab. f.t. of view. Marco Ariani wants Pe20,00 trarca to be free of these “masks”
and aims to reveal what the true
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nature of the Poet really was. In
his analytic essay, he describes the
human, civil and cultural course
of the poet. Petrarca is shown
not only as Laura’s bard: he was a
philologist, a passionately estimator and discover of the Classics,
a collector. While he wrote verses
in Latin, he experimented with
new literary forms and dealt also
with themes like the uncertainty
of time that goes by and the vanity of life, during which he never
hesitated to commit himself both
civil and political fronts.
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The major topics of great
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convivenza e integrazione
THE GREEKS AND THE
OTHERS
Cohabitation and integration
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AUTHOR
Cinzia Bearzot teaches Greek
History to the Catholic university in Milan. Her studies
are focused on the History of
the Greek Political Thought,
and the International Relationships and of the Ancient
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Can citizens and foreigners cohabit
without conflicts? The ethnic, linguistic, religious, cultural differences arouse a feeling of more or less
serious extraneousness, with which
it is necessary to clearly compare to be able to face the complex
matters related to the cohabitation.
The comparison with the experience of the ancient world doesn’t
provide solutions (that cannot put
aside from the historical context
in which they mature), but it certainly offers meaningful elements
of reflection. This book examines
the relationship between citizens
and foreigners (free or enslaved,
residents or not residents) in the
Greek city, from the archaism to
the Hellenistic age, starting from a
crucial theme: the awareness of the
Greek identity and the relationship
with whom was extraneous to its
world. An occasion to meditate in
aware way on that problems of relationship with the “other” that the
history proposes today.
COLOMBO
da genova al nuovo mondo
AUTHOR
Gabriella Airaldi teaches History of travel and international relations at the University
of Genoa.
COLUMBUS
FROM GENOA TO THE NEW
WORLD
“Your Excellencies king, I began to
navigate when I was very young and I
have been continuing today. The same
art causes those who follow it to want to
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Five hundred years ago Christopher Columbus launched his
challenge to the world and then
the world gathers it. Since five
hundred years everyone has been
fashineted by the myth of a man
who crossed the frontier of theknowledge.
But why Columbus “discovered”
America? To understand this important historical question , we
must start from the extreme periphery of Eurasia and in particular
from Genoa, the most “Atlantic”
of the Italian cities and from the
“open horizons” in its history.
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ALESSANDRO MAGNO
Eroe arabo nel medioevo
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
An hero in the Arab Middle Ages
Unpublished sources reveal a new
portrait of the man-symbol of
the encounter and clash between
East and West.
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AUTHOR
Marco Di Branco teaches Byzantine History at the University “Sapienza” of Rome. For
Salerno Editrice has already
edited the Elogio di Nerone of
Gerolamo Cardano (2008).
Just twenty years old, Alexander
succeeds to the throne of Philip II
of Macedon and in little more than
a decade defeated the Persian Empire, occupying Syria, Palestine and
Egypt: Alexander’s empire became
the site of a unique fusion of Greek civilization and the East. Arabic
literature (and later the Persian)
was very interested in the figure of
Alexander the Great: if the Christian of East in late antiquity saw
the conqueror of Persia, a hope for
liberation from the yoke of the Sassanid Empire, in Iranian tradition is
transmitted instead an even demonic image of the great leader.
The intent of this book is to shed
light on the multiple interpretations
and the Thousand Faces of Alexander that have come down to us.
NELLE STANZE DEL RE
Vita e politica nelle corti europee tra XV e XVIII secolo
AUTHOR
Pierpaolo Merlin is lecturer
in Economic History and
Modern and Contemporary
History at the Faculty of Political Science, at University of
Cagliari.
IN THE KING’S ROOMS
Life in the most prestigious European courts between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries.
The essay investigates the organization and evolution of the
courts of Spain, France, England,
Austria, from the sixteenth to the
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and institutional dynamics; the balance of power between the sovereign and the court, the figure of
the monarch and the role and importance of the big favorites and
prime ministers as the Count of
Olivares or the Cardinal Richelieu.
Merlin draws extensively on a
source of great historical and documentary as the reports of Venetian ambassadors, that between
the sixteenth and eighteenth century resided stably in the main European monarchs.
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RITI DI CORTE E SIMBOLI
DELLA REGALITÀ
Rites of the court and
symbols of royalty.
The kingdoms of Europe and
the Mediterranean from the
Middle Ages to Modern Ages.
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AUTHOR
Maria Antoinetta Visceglia
teaches Modern History at
the University “Sapienza” of
Rome.
An investigation into the complex
relationship between holiness and
majesty in Christian and Islamic
world. The royal power, based on
the concept of Maiestas, takes in the
Christian world and the Mediterranean Muslim rhetoric, and different
rituals, which are the expression of
a different degree of “sacredness,”
given to sultans and kings of Europe: first, the rites of passage from
the funeral of his predecessor at
the elevation of the new king, the
formula of the oath (Chapter I and
II); then, the composition and lifestyle of the entourage of the ruler
of the kingdoms of Europe and
the Mediterranean Muslim (Chapter III), indexes of different concepts of the kingship.
UN ALTRO MEDITERRANEO
Una storia comune fra scontri e integrazioni
French and Turkish Another Mediterranean
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AUTHOR
Salvatore Bono is Professor
Emeritus at the University of
Perugia and president of the
International Society of the Historians of the Mediterranean).
A shared history between fighting and additions.
Salvatore Bono – who, since the
second half of the last century,
has been dealing with the history of the Mediterranean in the
Modern and the Contemporary
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which usually are divergent and
conflicting. In the middle section
of the book, Bono makes a comprehensive study of the historical
events regarding the encounter of
civilizations in the “Mediterranean world”, in particular, from the
appearance of Islam to the Colonial Time and to the contemporary developments. The author
underlines that history is essential
in order to overcome prejudice,
mistrust and make mutual respect
and appreciation prevail which are
the prerequisite conditions to cooperation and integration.
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INQUISITORI, CENSORI, FILOSOFI SULLO
SCENARIO DELLA CONTRORIFORMA
Inquisitors, censors, philo-
sophers on the scenario of
the Counter-reformation
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AUTHOR
Saverio Ricci teaches History
of Philosophy in the University
of Tuscia. He is the author of
numerous works including, for
the Salerno Editrice, Giordano
Bruno in the Europe of the ‘500.
The great inquisitorial machine and
the attack on free thinkers. The
philosophy: from handmaiden of
theology to awkward thought to
fight and censor. Even today, when
it comes to the Inquisition immediately come to mind the story,
more or less tragic, of great philosophers such as Giordano Bruno,
Galileo Galilei, Michel de Montaigne, Bernardino Telesio, Tommaso
Campanella, Francesco Patrizi.
In his careful and richly documented journey into the world of censors and censored, Saverio Ricci
helps to bring readers to a more
realistic and clear picture of the
modern age and the true function
of the “inquisitorial machine” often weighed down by clichés and
historical prejudices.
LE CENTO NOVELLE CONTRO LA MORTE
Il Decameron e la rifondazione cavalleresca del mondo
AUTHOR
Franco Cardini is Professor of
Medieval History at the Italian
Institute of Human Sciences
(SUM). Directeur d’Etudes
at EHESS in Paris, Fellow of
Harvard University.
The hundred stories against
death
The ‘Decameron’ and the chivalric re-establishment of the
world.
A great historian, explores the
cultural social and civic meanings
of a work that has always been rePAGES 160 garded as an apology of bourgePRICE
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SERIES «Piccoli saggi» n. 33 With a completely new and original approach Cardini reads the
stories told in the Decameron highlighting the civic, cultural and
spiritual message, which is not at
all - contrary to what has seemed
to many - the epic and the apology of the Florentine bourgeois
society and its values, but the conviction and the passing of both,
in the light of a full recovery of
post-courtly chivalry: the love as
a complete dedication and selfless, the contempt of money and
material wealth , the recovery of
friendship and solidarity as the
founding principles of life.
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TUCIDIDE TRA ATENE E ROMA
Thucydides between
Athens and Rome
The great epic of Athens and
Sparta in the story of the greatest historian of Ancient times:
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AUTHOR
Luciano Canfora is a professor at the University of Bari.
Great scholar of the classical world, stands out for the
exceptional quality of his
scientific publications.
Thucydides reigns on the history of all time. He lived in classical
Greece, in the fifth century BC, during the great Peloponnesian War
which pitted Athens to Sparta, reported in his literary masterpiece,
still current example of historical
investigation. The commitment of
the Athenian Thucydides, recognized and emphasized by Canfora,
lasted thirty years in the care of his
work - however, remained incomplete - which sought to reconstruct
the “truth” of war.
In this essay Canfora deals with
some controversial aspects of the
life of Thucydides in his day; and
the “odyssey” of his valuable writings, saved by Xenophon, and passed by the libraries of ancient Rome.
IL SOMMO INQUISITORE
Giulio Antonio Santori tra autobiografia e storia (1532-1602)
AUTHOR
Saverio Ricci teaches History
of Philosophy in the University of Tuscia. He is the author
of numerous works including,
for the Salerno Editrice, Giordano Bruno in the Europe of the
‘500.
The Supreme Inquisitor
The little-known and controversial personality of Giulio Antonio Santori, the “hunter of heretics.”
Personage not widely known, yet
prominent in the history of the
Church and the political and spiritual life of the sixteenth century,
PAGES 448 Giulio Antonio Santori was among
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SERIES «Piccoli saggi» n. 15 of Inquisition and of the most sensational trials against persons accused of heresy, as the philosophers
Giordano Bruno and Tommaso
Campanella and the King Henry
IV of France. Research carried out
on mostly unpublished documents
now allow to propose a first reconstruction of his biography. Being
the mind and the main engine of the
Holy Office for many decades, Santori was at the center of the Roman
Curia, and was nominated four times, without ever succeeding, to the
papal throne. Therefore, his biography is an access to “secrets” and the
internal clashes in the papal court.
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Description
The reference manuals for the University students
The Greek Tragedy. Origins, History, Rebirth
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After 2500 years, the power of Greek tragedy continues to exercise its emotion on the imaginary of the
modern ages. The Athenian theater of the V century
- with its world of dark crimes, heroes, vainglorious
soldiers and old misanthropes, where word, dance and
music cohabit with equal dignities - is a formidable inheritance, a tradition in continuous transformation, that
survives and revives. This book is devoted to the history of this literary genre that reserves the last chapter
to the survivals and the rebirths of the Athenian tragedy, from the end of the ancient world up today: from
the Renaissance ages on, figures and motives for the
Greek tragedy have inspired the poetry, the figurative art, the literature, the philosophy and the psychology. Thinking about the Oedipus of Sigmund Freud,
James’ Joyce Ulisse, the Minotauris of Pablo Picasso,
the Ariannes of George De Chirico, the Antigone of
Bertolt Brecht, the Medea of Pier Paolo Pasolini: the
Nine hundred is, for many verses, the Greek century.
Giorgio Ieranò teaches History of the Greek theater at the University of Trento
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