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Children's & YAAugust 2006Donata, Tochter Venedigs
Historischer Roman
by Napoli, Donna Jo / Englisch Braun, Anne L.
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Art & design styles: BaroqueOctober 2016The matter of miracles
Neapolitan baroque architecture and sanctity
by Series edited by Amelia Jones, Helen Hills, Marsha Meskimmon
This book investigates baroque architecture through the lens of San Gennaro's miraculously liquefying blood in Naples. This vantage point allows a bracing and thoroughly original rethink of the power of baroque relics and reliquaries. It shows how a focus on miracles produces original interpretations of architecture, sanctity and place which will engage architectural historians everywhere. The matter of the baroque miracle extends into a rigorous engagement with natural history, telluric philosophy, new materialism, theory and philosophy. The study will transform our understanding of baroque art and architecture, sanctity and Naples. Bristling with new archival materials and historical insights, this study lifts the baroque from its previous marginalisation to engage fiercely with materiality and potentiality and thus unleash baroque art and architecture as productive and transformational.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2020Race talk
Languages of racism and resistance in Neapolitan street markets
by Antonia Lucia Dawes
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Race talk is about language use as an anti-racist practice in multicultural city spaces. The book contends that attention to talk reveals the relations of domination and subordination in heterogeneous, ethnically diverse and multilingual contexts, while also helping us to understand how transcultural solidarity might be expressed. Drawing on original ethnographic research conducted on licensed and unlicensed market stalls in in heterogeneous, ethnically diverse and multilingual contexts, this book examines the centrality of multilingual talk to everyday struggles about difference, positionality and entitlement. In these street markets, Neapolitan street vendors work alongside documented and undocumented migrants from Bangladesh, China, Guinea Conakry, Mali, Nigeria and Senegal as part of an ambivalent, cooperative and unequal quest to survive and prosper. As austerity, anti-immigration politics and urban regeneration projects encroached upon the possibilities of street vending, talk across linguistic, cultural, national and religious boundaries underpinned the collective action of street vendors struggling to keep their markets open. The edginess of their multilingual organisation offered useful insights into the kinds of imaginaries that will be needed to overcome the politics of borders, nationalism and radical incommunicability.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2010Representing the King's Splendour
Communication and reception of symbolic forms of power in Viceregal Naples
by Gabriel Guarino, Joseph Bergin, Penny Roberts, Bill Naphy
Compensating for a general neglect of Iberian civilization in Southern Italy, this book seeks to shed light on the viceregal court of Spanish Naples in the seventeenth century, a time when this European metropolis reached the zenith of its splendour. It looks at the cultural projection of Spain and its values, either via the direct visual representations of power of the viceregal court, or the public policies and actions that fostered Spanish attitudes. It explores cultural and social manifestations as court ceremonial, state festivities, and fashion. Each of these issues also takes into account the social and political structure of the city, and the various pressure groups that interacted with the Spanish government. Aimed at students and scholars of early modern Europe, the Spanish Empire, and the princely courts of Europe, this study will also be of interest to scholars of communication and cultural studies, and to readers interested in cultural history during the Baroque era. ;
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Children's & YAJune 2008Jojo macht das schon – Viermal Pizza Napoli
by Ludwig, Sabine / Illustriert von Ludin, Marine
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Science & MathematicsAugust 2018Tomatoes
by E Heuvelink
This new edition of a successful, practical book provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of all aspects of the production of the tomato crop, within the context of the global tomato industry. Tomatoes are one of the most important horticultural crops in both temperate and tropical regions and this book explores our current knowledge of the scientific principles underlying their biology and production.Tomatoes 2nd Edition covers genetics and breeding, developmental processes, crop growth and yield, fruit ripening and quality, irrigation and fertilisation, crop protection, production in the open field, greenhouse production, and postharvest biology and handling. It has been updated to:- reflect advances in the field, such as developments in molecular plant breeding, crop and product physiology, and production systems.- include a new chapter on organic tomato production.- present photos in full colour throughout.Authored by an international team of experts, this book is essential for growers, extension workers, industry personnel, and horticulture students and lecturers.
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FictionNel corridoio della notte
by Salvatore Napoli
Ancestral fears belong to the essence of mankind. Never as in these five horror stories, the human soul is helplessly subjected to that touch of evil that lives in every person. Five stories, some as short as they are instantaneous in reaching the reader's emotions, others more structured and articulated, able to keep the reader’s pathos and pressure always high. Salvatore Napoli’s second book marks the pace of everyday life, the ordinary one, enriching it with the unknown “around the corner”, which can transform a person's life into a fatal destiny. Preface by horror movies director Ivan Zuccon. --- Le paure ancestrali appartengono all'essenza dell'individuo.Mai come in questi cinque racconti horror, l'animo umano subisce inerme quel tocco del malvagio insito in ogni persona.Ma la via della redenzione è sempre dietro l'angolo, così come quella della dannazione eterna.Cinque racconti, alcuni brevissimi quanto istantanei nel raggiungere l'emotività del lettore, altri più strutturati e articolati, in grado di mantenere il pathos e l'attenzione sempre vigili.Salvatore Napoli, alla sua seconda pubblicazione, scandisce i tempi della quotidianità, quella ordinaria, arricchendola con l'incognita dietro l'angolo, che può trasformare la vita di una persona in modo “fatale".Ma al contempo, sa indirizzare le sue storie nella direzione del cyber horror, accarezzando la psiche con gli artigli dell'ignoto, come note letali suonate magistralmente sulla tastiera di un pianoforte, ultimo atto delconcerto più bello, prima di sferrare il colpo di grazia.Echi dal passato rimbombano Nel corridoio della notte, dove tutto può succedere, e l'Autore lo fa “con la medesima crudezza, e con l’ambizione di evocare la poesia della morte" (cit. Ivan Zuccon).Edito Horti di Giano (giugno 2019).Prefazione del regista horror Ivan ZucconIllustrazioni ArsFIGULINA di Chiara ColaiacomoContiene i racconti:- Di sopra non abita nessuno- Marcellone- Pianobar-bot- Braccata- Regionale 9053
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FictionLa donna che visse nelle città di mare
by Marosella di Francia & Daniela Mastrocinque
This intense and spellbinding family saga begins in Messina, in 1904, at the Andaloro house. On the day of her engagement Costanza discovers that her father has committed suicide. Destroyed by her pain, she is sent by her family to New York where she works in a tailor shop in Little Italy, and where the ambitious musician Pietro Malara courts her without success. Four years later, in 1908, the news of the Messina earthquake reaches New York, and Costanza learns that no one in her family has survived. Oppressed by a sense of guilt that drives her to deny herself any form of happiness, she agrees to marry Pietro and follows him to Naples. The final phase of the novel takes place in Naples, in 2012. Lucilla arrives at the Rione Sanità on the trail of her great-grandmother, Costanza Andaloro, whose existence she discovered via an old letter recently come to light. By reading Costanza’s diary and through the stories of the elderly Zina, Lucilla will be able to reconstruct the complex figure of her great-grandmother who was forced to make painful yet vital choices in span of her Neapolitan life. It was there that she singlehandedly raised her daughter, Rosa, the future grandmother of Lucilla. It was there that Costanza became the woman who lived in cities by the sea. Lucilla will complete the circle of her life in music as well, as the ribbons of creativity that weave through her family are revealed.
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FictionJuly 2012Broken Promises
by Donna M. Zadunajsky
Two years after their marriage, Jim Culback wasn’t the man Clare thought he was. How many more broken promises could she accept? After packing and moving everything they owned from Ohio to Naples, Florida, she actually thought their marriage would improve. But as time went by, she couldn’t take the beatings, lies or cheating any longer. But could her husband be capable of homicide? Is Jim responsible for the murders of two women? A detective from Chicago is put on the case to help solve the murders and has an encounter with Clare. What develops between them? Can Clare trust another man? Or does Jim have other plans for Clare?
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Naples In Three Days
A Guide to Neopolitan Art and Architecture
by Fiorella Squillante
Travel guide/art history book
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February 2022Sant’Onofrio e la contessa (Saint Onuphrius and the Countess)
by Rosario Vitale
“I think I’m on the right track. I’m in Italy, the homeland of music itself, right? I am in Naples, the city with the unsurpassed tradition. If this is not the place, then what must it be?”.Naples, summer 1737.Rodolfo Pimi Degli Esposti, a wealthy Paraguayan boy with a true passion for music, is finally fulfilling his lifelong dream of studying in the city with the greatest musical tradition in the world: Naples.The young man is indeed talented, and succeeds in proving it; his mind, however, is often with Natalia, a girl he had met on the same day of his arrival by sea. Extremely poor, Natalia makes a living by telling stories in exchange for something to eat and a handful of coins. Rodolfo is fascinated by the girl and often visits her at the city harbour, hoping to get to know her better.Rodolfo’s life unfolds between the conservatory, where he befriends Carmine (a cadet that is steadily against the prospect of a career in the army or in the Church), and the harbour, where he slowly manages to win Natalia’s trust.Their bond progresses until it turns into an actual relationship, which will eventually bloom on the evening of the inauguration of the San Carlo Theatre (where the young protagonists are the honour of being present).At the end of the soirée, wanting to pay their respects to maestro Domenico Sarro, Rodolfo, Natalia, and Carmine go and visit him in his dressing room. The composer immediately takes a liking to them and invites them to the reception organized by his sister, Anna. It will be a chance for them to meet other notable people, including Raimondo di Sangro, Prince of Sansevero.Against the backdrop of a Naples in full splendour, everything seems to be going well for Rodolfo and Natalia – until fate decides otherwise.
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Children's & YAOctober 2019He Was Your Father
by Alessandro Gallo
“When I was 15, I found out who my father really was reading about him in a newspaper, and I realized that I had a choice in front of me: to follow his steps and mark my role inside his circle, or to show that I belonged to my mother’s world – a clean and pure way of life, full of sacrifices; a different legacy. And that’s what I decided to do.” This is how Gallo describes his upbringing, and the fates of his characters are inevitably similar to his own life. This is the story of a father – a well-known member of the Camorra – and his three children, all forced to make a choice that will shape their lives forever: to be or not to be a part of the family kingdom. The sons, Giusuè and Alberto, have no doubt in mind: they want to fill their father’ shoes and rule a criminal empire of drugs, illegal traffic and enterprises stretched all over the Country. But the daughter, Camilla, is torn between the love for her family and a voice within that tells her to be different and claim another life. All she can do is try and find the strength to achieve what seems to be impossible. But there is a big price to pay for this kind of freedom…
