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Dante's Gluttons: Food and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy
explores how the medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
uses food to express and condition the social, political, and
cultural values of his time. Combining medieval history, food
studies, and literary criticism, Dante's Gluttons historicizes food
and eating in Dante, beginning in his earliest collected poetry and
arriving at the end of his major work. For Dante, the consumption
of food is not a frivolity, but a crux of life, and gluttony is the
abdication of civic and spiritual responsibility and a danger to
both the individual body and soul, as well as the greater
collective. This book establishes how one of the world's preeminent
authors uses the intimacy and universality of food as a touchstone,
forging a community bound by a gastronomic language rooted in the
deeply human relationship with material sustenance.
Waking to find himself shipwrecked on a strange shore before a dark
wood, the pilgrim of the Divine Comedy realizes he must set his
sights higher and guide his ship to a radically different port.
Starting on the sand of that very shore with Dante, John Freccero
begins retracing the famous voyage recounted by the poet nearly 700
years ago. Freccero follows pilgrim and poet through the Comedy and
then beyond, inviting readers both uninitiated and accomplished to
join him in navigating this complex medieval masterpiece and its
influence on later literature. Perfectly impenetrable in its poetry
and unabashedly ambitious in its content, the Divine Comedy is the
cosmos collapsed on itself, heavy with dense matter and impossible
to expand. Yet Dante's great triumph is seen in the tiny, subtle
fragments that make up the seamless whole, pieces that the poet
painstakingly sewed together to form a work that insinuates itself
into the reader and inspires the work of the next author. Freccero
magnifies the most infinitesimal elements of that intricate
construction to identify self-similar parts, revealing the full
breadth of the great poem. Using this same technique, Freccero then
turns to later giants of literature- Petrarch, Machiavelli, Donne,
Joyce, and Svevo-demonstrating how these authors absorbed these
smallest parts and reproduced Dante in their own work. In the
process, he confronts questions of faith, friendship, gender,
politics, poetry, and sexuality, so that traveling with Freccero,
the reader will both cross unknown territory and reimagine familiar
faces, swimming always in Dante's wake.
Waking to find himself shipwrecked on a strange shore before a dark
wood, the pilgrim of the Divine Comedy realizes he must set his
sights higher and guide his ship to a radically different port.
Starting on the sand of that very shore with Dante, John Freccero
begins retracing the famous voyage recounted by the poet nearly 700
years ago. Freccero follows pilgrim and poet through the Comedy and
then beyond, inviting readers both uninitiated and accomplished to
join him in navigating this complex medieval masterpiece and its
influence on later literature. Perfectly impenetrable in its poetry
and unabashedly ambitious in its content, the Divine Comedy is the
cosmos collapsed on itself, heavy with dense matter and impossible
to expand. Yet Dante's great triumph is seen in the tiny, subtle
fragments that make up the seamless whole, pieces that the poet
painstakingly sewed together to form a work that insinuates itself
into the reader and inspires the work of the next author. Freccero
magnifies the most infinitesimal elements of that intricate
construction to identify self-similar parts, revealing the full
breadth of the great poem. Using this same technique, Freccero then
turns to later giants of literature- Petrarch, Machiavelli, Donne,
Joyce, and Svevo-demonstrating how these authors absorbed these
smallest parts and reproduced Dante in their own work. In the
process, he confronts questions of faith, friendship, gender,
politics, poetry, and sexuality, so that traveling with Freccero,
the reader will both cross unknown territory and reimagine familiar
faces, swimming always in Dante's wake.
Collection of operas composed by Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo
Puccini. Carlo Rizzi conducts the Wiener Symphoniker for a
performance of 'Aida' featuring Tatiana Serjan in the title role,
Iano Tamar as Amneris, Rubens Pelizzari as Radamès and Iain
Paterson as Amonasro. 'Madama Butterfly' stars Raffaella Angeletti,
Annunziata Vestri and Massimiliano Pisapia with the score performed
by the Fondazione Orchestra Regionale delle Marche and conducted by
Daniele Callegari. Maria Guleghina plays the role of the eponymous
character in 'Turandot' with Zubin Mehta leading the Orquestra de
la Comunitat Valenciana. 'La Traviata' features Svetla Vassileva,
Massimo Giordano and Vladimir Stoyanov. Yuri Temirkanov conducts
the Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma. Finally, Massimo
Zanetti conducts a production of 'Rigoletto' which stars Leo Nucci
in the lead role with Francesco Demuro as the Duke of Mantua and
Nino Machaidze as Gilda.
Leo Nucci leads the cast in Giorgio Gallione's production of
Verdi's opera recorded live at the Teatro Regio Di Parma in 2010.
Other cast members include Roberto Scandiuzzi, Simone Piazzola,
Tamar Iveri and Francesco Meli. The conductor is Daniele Callegari.
The Bolognese nun Diodata Malvasia was presumed to have authored
only one work, The Arrival and the Miraculous Workings of the
Glorious Image of the Virgin (1617). In her recently discovered
second manuscript chronicle, A Brief Discourse on What Occurred to
the Most Reverend Sisters of the Joined Convents of San Mattia and
San Luca (1575), her writing demonstrates active resistance to
Tridentine convent reform. Together, Malvasia's works read as the
bookends to a lifelong crusade on behalf of her convent.
Collection of operas composed by Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo
Puccini. Carlo Rizzi conducts the Wiener Symphoniker for a
performance of 'Aida' featuring Tatiana Serjan in the title role,
Iano Tamar as Amneris, Rubens Pelizzari as Radamès and Iain
Paterson as Amonasro. 'Madama Butterfly' stars Raffaella Angeletti,
Annunziata Vestri and Massimiliano Pisapia with the score performed
by the Fondazione Orchestra Regionale delle Marche and conducted by
Daniele Callegari. Maria Guleghina plays the role of the eponymous
character in 'Turandot' with Zubin Mehta leading the Orquestra de
la Comunitat Valenciana. 'La Traviata' features Svetla Vassileva,
Massimo Giordano and Vladimir Stoyanov. Yuri Temirkanov conducts
the Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma. Finally, Massimo
Zanetti conducts a production of 'Rigoletto' which stars Leo Nucci
in the lead role with Francesco Demuro as the Duke of Mantua and
Nino Machaidze as Gilda.
Daniele Callegari leads the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro
Regio di Parma in this live performance of Verdi's opera, recorded
at the Parma Festival in 2009. Staged by Lamberto Puggelli, the
cast includes Roberto de Biasio, Michelle Pertusi, Cristina
Giannelli and Dimitra Theodossiou.
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