Everyone knows Pinocchio, but few know his story. Not the one about how he was transformed from a block of wood into a little boy after an adventure or two, but of his creation by the Florentine journalist Carlo Lorenzini. Under the pen name of Collodi, Lorenzini wrote the future masterpiece in installments for a local children's review between 1881 and 1883. Young and old alike can now discover the original Pinocchio, reedited as it appeared with its simple original illustrations, and rediscover the story that has delighted generations. Italian text.

Le avventure di Pinocchio: Illustrate con le grafiche dell'edizione originale dal Giornale per i Bambini 1881-1883 (Children's Corner) (Italian Edition)

Children's Books

COLLODI, CARLO

Literature & Fiction

Edizioni Polistampa

English summary: The Artusi is the most famous and widely-read of all Italian cookbooks, with 790 recipes from the kitchens of mothers and grandmothers that have inspired the country's great cooks for over a century. This new edition is true to the original, first published in 1891. Italian text. Italian description: Con le sue 790 ricette, raccolte dall'autore con scrupolo e passione nel giro dei lunghi anni e innumerevoli viaggi, l'Artusi è il libro più famoso e letto sulla cucina italiana, quello da cui tutti i grandi cuochi dell'ultimo secolo hanno tratto ispirazioni e suggerimenti. Un manuale adatto al cuoco esperto così come al principiante, che esalta l'arte del mangiar bene e ispira la cucina delle famiglie italiane da più di un secolo. Un'edizione nuova nella veste ma fedele in tutto e per tutto a quella originale del 1891, pensata per rendere omaggio al padre fondatore della sana cucina di casa nostra, quella della nonna e della mamma, per consegnarla nelle mani delle nuove generazioni. Presentazione di Paolo Piazzesi

La scienza in cucina e l'arte di mangiar bene (Il Segnalibro) (Italian Edition)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Pellegrino, Artusi

Regional & International

English description: 280 recipes between tradition and innovation, each one tested, described in detail, combined with advice and solutions, and commentaries sure to bring a smile to the most epicurean of gourmets, even the great Pellegrino, father of Italian gastronomy. From antipasti to sorbets, without forgetting risottos, pasta dishes, vegetables, frittatas and meats, page after page perpetuates with elegance the wisdom and experience of culinary science and art.  Italian description: 280 ricette fra tradizione e innovazione, provate una per una, descritte passo per passo e garantite nel risultato, corredate di consigli e soluzioni, impreziosite da briosi commenti e frizzanti chiose che strapperanno certamente un sorriso compiaciuto al grande Pellegrino il quale, nell'Empireo dei Grandi Cuochi, nello stile gastronomico delle ricette come nel modo di porgerle riconoscera la propria genuina matrice coniugata al gusto contemporaneo. Dagli antipasti al sorbetto, passando per primi asciutti e minestre, senza dimenticare risi, risotti e zuppe, secondi piatti di carne e pesce, contorni di verdure, frittate e tortini, dolci e dessert, pagina dopo pagina si compone una snella ma doviziosa enciclopedia della buona tavola che perpetua con eleganza, nei nostri giorni distratti e frettolosi, la saggezza e l'esperienza de La scienza in Cucina e l'arte di mangiar bene . Per chiudere in bellezza, una selezione delle piu invitanti ricette dell'illustre avo Pellegrino getta un ponte fra ieri e oggi, a dimostrare che il tempo non passa mai, sulla tavola degli Artusi. Un viaggio gustoso fra le mille delizie di una cucina sapiente e semplice al tempo stesso, una scorpacciata di personaggi, luoghi, scorci di Firenze, condita col sale della memoria. Un ricettario tutto da leggere, un grande libro da assaporarea

A tavola con gli Artusi: 120 anni dopo. La scienza in cucina e l'arte di mangiar bene. I migliori piatti abbinati a divagazioni e aneddoti di vita fiorentina (Italian Edition)

Artusi Luciano Artusi Ricciardo

Family recipes that have been handed down through the generations are a priceless heritage. This is particularly true in Tuscany, where the tradition of good home-made cuisine is so strong that family recipes are still used even in restaurants and trattorie . The beauty of home-made recipes is that they always add something more to the standard preparation: a touch of imagination, an inspired variant, a brilliant touch that makes a good dish even better. And so Fabrizio Baroni, a physicist with a penchant for gastronomy, decided to transcribe the recipes of his grandmother Giovannina, and has brought them together in this book which, among its other merits, has the virtue of simplicity. Indeed, since essentiality and humble thrift are innate to Tuscan cooking, it is fitting that the recipes too should be explained in a short and simple manner, rather than being long-winded and wordy. It is the same approach used by the great Pellegrino Artusi in his time: immediately comprehensible to all. Tuscan tradition combined with Granny Giovannina's superb ideas have served us up over a hundred mouth-watering recipes! 1st edition: July 2012 1st reprint: January 2013 1st English edition: September 2013

Granny’s Recipes: 145 wholesome traditional Tuscan dishes to relish all year round (Toscani Super DOC) (Italian Edition)

Baroni, Fabrizio

Special Diet

Sixty-three original frames, most previously unpublished, from the Palatine Gallery, the Museo degli Argenti in Pitti Palace, the Uffizi Gallery and Villa Poggio a Caiano are described in this volume. All were commissioned by the Medici from the 16th century onwards for paintings, as they entered their collections. Invented by masters such as Ammannati and Buontalenti, the decorative motifs of Mannerism were combined to form the lobate style. With the evolution of the baroque frame, however, Buontalenti's volutes were transformed into scrolls and cartouches flanked by details, prevalently zoomorphic in appearance, inspired by the drawings of artists such as Callot and Stefano della Bella, whose fantastical sketches also illustrate this volume. In addition to many famous artists who designed frames, including Volterrano and Foggini, new attributions (to Pietro da Cortona and Ciro Ferri) and new names of carvers, including Antonio Mancini, Luca Boncinelli, Jacopo Sani, and Carlo Galestruzzi, were discovered in the course of this detailed study carried out in the State Archive of Florence. This volume is a stimulating and useful contribution not only for art historians but also for those interested in the history of the Medici collections and the development of museums in Italy from the 16th to 18th centuries. Presentazioni di / Forewords by Cristina Acidini, Edoardo Speranza, Antonio Paolucci. Testi in italiano e in inglese / Italian and English text Traduzione di / Translation by Eve Leckey, Francoise Chiarini.

Cornici dei Medici / Medici frames: La fantasia baroccaal servizio del potere / Baroque Caprice for the Medici Princes

Arts & Photography

Mosco, Marilena

History & Criticism

Luigi Barzini travelled the world as a correspondent for the Corriere della Sera , inventing his own journalistic style. Enzo Magri revisits Barzini's writing, along with his professional and private lives. Letters from around the world to his wife, the writer Mantica Pesavento, reflect their love for each other along with Barzini's professional insecurities and fears about inadequate production and losing his job. Italian text.

Luigi Barzini: una vita da inviato (Passaparola) (Italian Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Magri, Enzo

Professionals & Academics

A conference held at Georgetown University by the Center for the Study of Italian History and Culture in 2006 examined the relationship between cities and sacredness in all of its forms, especially in regards to rituals, between the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. The articles consider urban space and its intrinsic social, religious and political functions, a comparison that brings out questions of collective representation and social order in the Italian geopolitical context. Italian text.

Italian History and Culture - N. 13, A. 2008: I luoghi del sacro. Il sacro e la città fra Medioevo ed Età Moderna (Italian Edition)

History

Ricciardelli, F.

Europe

Catalogue of the exhibition of the same name put on at the State Archive of Florence from 9 December 2008 to 14 March 2009. Produced by the Centre for Classicism Studies to mark the 6th centenary of his death, the aim of this book is not just to celebrate Salutati’s fundamental role in the emergence of civic Humanism, but also to restore the political dimension to a life and literary production dedicated, through its strong ideological and active presence, to the city of Florence. While the theme defined by the work’s title remains central, its restitution to us of a three-dimensional Salutati comes courtesy of a first-rate team of scholars and curators. Their selections from the precious documentary material conserved at the State Archive of Florence have been made with great critical competence. While illuminating the profile of an intellectual and man of his times from a variety of perspectives, they also open new avenues for research into the Chancellery and political institutions of Florence, into the typology of Florentine letters and treaties between the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth centuries. These interesting contributions delve to the heart of an eclectic personality, who ingeniously propelled itself towards a new kind of mentality, to the extent that he became a figurehead of the rising humanistic avant-garde. Salutati went as far as to sustain the high civic and cultural significance of philological and humanistic research, of the promotion of the literature and language of ancient Greece, of the reinstitution of classical studies. It is, however, worth bearing in mind that Salutati’s propagation of a new Humanism and his cultivation of significant relationships with major exponents of European culture was only possible thanks to his long period in office in the upper echelons of the Florentine Republic. His was a paradigmatic incarnation of the figure of the Florentine Chancellor and as such Salutati elevated the might of his words with great polemical zeal above every other means for saving the city of Florence from despotic designs, establishing the city as an indomitable bastion of libertas Italiae, a fortress from which he defended, with closely felt conviction, the divine gifts of freedom, of a politically active life and of democracy: the sense of the state and of civic commitment.

Coluccio Salutati e Firenze: Ideologia e formazione dello Stato (Cataloghi e Mostre) (Italian Edition)

Viti, Paolo

Ancient Civilizations

Raccontano la propria infanzia alcuni tra i piu grandi italiani della nostra epoca, Numeri Uno nei diversi campi di attivita: letteratura, musica, spettacolo, sport, scienza, giornalismo. E grazie alla sensibile partecipazione dellautrice ci accorgiamo, alla fine di ogni intervista, di essere entrati in sintonia, in una perfetta amicizia letteraria con personaggi famosi che, con le loro storie e le loro carriere, sarebbero altrimenti inavvicinabili. "E proprio questo come scrive Giancarlo Mazzuca nella prefazione il filo comune che lega i protagonisti della galleria di ritratti, che sentiamo alla fine di conoscere intimamente, come cari compagni di scuola di uninfanzia mai dimenticata."

C'era una volta un bambino: Luciano Pavarotti, Giulio Andreotti, Pupi Avati, Pippo Baudo, Paolo Bonolis, Giuliano Bugialli, Manlio Cancogni, ... loro infanzia (Passaparola) (Italian Edition)

Martina, Rosella

English summary: A multidisciplinary, pioneering study of the paintings and works of Giovanni Fattori. Fattori and his contemporaries added new materials to traditional artistic techniques, escaping the academic environment for the open air. This vast and articulate study brings new light on this important artistic movement from the turn of the previous century. Italian text. Italian description: È un volume multidisciplinare sulla pittura di Giovanni Fattori. Grazie al contributo di numerosi esperti scientifici, istituti e centri di ricerca, il lavoro raggiunge un traguardo pionieristico nel campo dell'indagine conoscitiva di un particolare gruppo di opere d'arte finalizzata alla conservazione e al restauro. Con la pittura di Fattori (e dei suoi contemporanei) si affacciarono all'universo delle tecniche artistiche tradizionali materiali nuovi dai comportamenti non noti né prevedibili: dai supporti in sottili legni esotici cavati dalle celebri scatole di sigari ai pigmenti che si arricchivano di prodotti chimici di sintesi. Alle procedure tradizionali di preparazione delle tavole e tele, pur note e tramandate in ambito accademico, si venivano affiancando metodi irrituali e sperimentali, più adatti a una pittura praticata en plein air . Le conoscenze disponibili su un nucleo selezionato e significativo di dipinti fattoriani diventano enormemente più vaste e articolate, grazie a questo lavoro d'indagine che ha valore esemplare anche in vista di possibili e auspicabili estensioni dello stesso approccio ad altri esponenti del movimento macchiaiolo e più in generale ad altri artisti otto-novecenteschi, la cui carica innovativa si avvaleva sì di pensieri compositivi inediti e di stesure affrancate da schemi secolari, ma non meno di materiali e metodi stimolanti e ispiratori, mai prima usati.

Con la matita e col pennello. Giovanni Fattori: Indagini e restauri dei dipinti della Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Palazzo Pitti (Italian Edition)

Damiani, Giovanna

Vervat, Muriel

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