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Nuovi casi per il cacciatore di libri
Uno scorcio spericolato nel mondo del collezionismo di libri rari in Italia e nel mondo intero; tra libri irraggiungibili, edizioni pirata, libri censurati e misteriosamente scomparsi; autori cult, libri d'artista, libri stampati all'estero, amarcord bibliofilo; casi che hanno fatto epoca. Poeti di estrazione originale, sequestratori, muse, polemisti, matti e mediocri. Scrittori preziosi che pochi conoscono, casi editoriali che hanno fatto discutere; altri che invece nessuno conosce. i segreti del cacciatore di libri per trovare libri rarissimi. I libri su Dracula, il self publishing e le sue perle. Editori benemeriti che sono durati pochi anni ma hanno prodotto libri importanti e lanciato autori di grido. Scrittori che poi sono diventati ladri, omicidi, pazzi criminali e latitanti. Libri di cui nessuno ricorda nulla. Piccole edizioni senza importanza eppure preziose e attendibili.
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Manuale del cacciatore di libri
Questo ? un manuale pensato per il cacciatore di libri, sia esso libraio, collezionista, bibliofilo, editore, scrittore o giornalista. Nel corso degli anni ho frequentato librai, collezionisti e altri colleghi ?cacciatori?, molti di loro mi hanno scritto dopo la lettura dei miei libri e sono nate corrispondenze interessanti. Ho fatto mie molte loro segnalazioni, e soprattutto ho dato voce alle pi? diverse esperienze maturate in questo campo. Ognuno ha il suo ?metodo?, ognuno ha i suoi contatti e il suo stile di ricerca. Io ho cercato di estrapolare da ciascuno quei caratteri che possano valere da guida generale principalmente per coloro i quali si accostano al nostro mondo per la prima volta. Il collezionista di libri vedr? confermate o rivoluzionate le sue personali convinzioni. Il libraio forse si riconoscer? in talune situazioni; perdoni, magari, alcune ingenuit? ma tenga conto che il manuale si rivolge prima di tutto al neofita. I cacciatori di libri professionisti affineranno gli artigli.
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caccia di libri proibiti
Si parler? di quei libri perseguitati dai regimi politici, in particolar modo dal Fascismo e dal Nazismo, delle storie che ci sono dietro, del coraggio di chi li ha scritti. Un?attenzione tutta particolare verso le scienze alternative, non ortodosse, che pure hanno prodotto materiale interessante per il collezionista di stranezze. Questi autori temerari hanno sfidato tutte le convenzioni, ricavandone scherno e ?scomuniche?. I libri sui dischi volanti hanno rappresentato, e tutt?ora, uno spaccato autentico del secolo che ci siamo lasciati alle spalle. Con le loro teorie strampalate ma talvolta argute e con le incredibili storie che vi si celano dietro. Le utopie, le distopie, i mondi fantastici e immaginari della letteratura spesso hanno decretato ?perle? assolute. Libri eccezionali che sono scritti in linguaggi impossibili, sconosciuti e pieni di mistero. Anche di queste gemme preziose si parler? nel libro. Cos? come dei ?microcosmi?, da Sherlock Holmes al Mondo Perduto, alle stravaganze letterarie.
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Bernini
This text explores three of Bernini's baroque chapels to show how Bernini achieved his effects. Careri examines the ways in which the artist integrated the disparate forms of architecture, painting and sculpture into a coherant space for devotion, and then shows how this accomplishment was understood by religious practitioners. In the Fonseca Chapel, the Albertoni Chapel and the church of Saint Andrea al Quirinale, all in Rome, Careri identifies three types of ensemble and links each to a particular spiritual journey. Using contemporary theories in anthropology, film and reception aesthetics, he shows how Bernini's formal mechanisms established an emotional dynamic between the beholder and a specific arrangement of forms.
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Companion to San Bernardino da Siena
Bernardino da Siena (Massa Marittima 1380 - L'Aquila 1444) is one of the most famous preachers of the 15th century. He was canonized in 1450 and has been considered for centuries the charismatic "founder" of the Franciscan Observance. He definitely made an impact on the church and society of his time. Thanks to the spreading fame of his charisma, he gave rise to a long-lasting tradition that goes even beyond the Franciscan history. This companion thoughtfully retraces these stereotypes, and reflects the multifaceted personality of a character who, beyond the traditional triumphalist reading, deserves a fresh focus.
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Bernini and the Idealization of Death
Tracing the history of the cult of Ludovica, the Altieri Chapel, and the statue, Shelley Perlove illuminates Bernini's contribution, both artistically and iconographically, to the chapel and proposes an interpretation of the precise nature of the experience the beata is undergoing in the sculpture. This interpretation is developed from an examination of the statue in the full context of other works of art in the chapel, medieval and Renaissance tomb sculpture, contemporary accounts of Ludovica's life and cult, and devotional Catholic literature undoubtedly known to Bernini. Woven into an iconographic scheme whose layers of meaning are mutually independent, the statue and the other elements in the chapel convey a unified conception.
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Ember
DELUXE EDITION--featuring gorgeous sprayed edges!He’ll burn it all to the ground to keep her.Her fire will consume his soul.Today, my father gifted me with the best present: he died.He left the House of Cross behind–my legacy. But my father left the multibillion drug empire to pure evil. My stepbrother, Asad Prince.He wasn’t counting on how this has finally given me freedom. As the last Cross, I’ll leave it all behind. And I will have the last laugh too: I will take the formula for the drug I created with me.But Asad wants more. More control over the House of Cross. More of me. He knows exactly how to get both: by threatening me to marry him. If I disagree, he’ll kill the few people I love.I won’t make it easy for him. And I will not fall into temptation. Because Asad might be my mortal enemy–but he’s also everything I want.EMBER is a dark mafia romance that explores themes, subjects, and scenes that may not be suitable for everyone. Please see the author's content note at the beginning of the book.Tropes:Enemies to loversArranged marriageForced proximityTouch her/him and dieMorally grey MMC/FMCFairy tale reimagining
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Fantasies of Nina Simone
Since her death in 2003, Nina Simone has been the subject of an astonishing number of rereleased, remastered, and remixed albums and compilations as well as biographies, films, viral memes, samples, and soundtracks. In Fantasies of Nina Simone, Jordan Alexander Stein uses an archive of Simone’s performances, images, and writings to examine the space between our collective and individual fantasies about Simone the performer, Civil Rights activist, and icon, and her own fantasies about herself. Stein outlines how Simone gave voice to personal fantasies through the dozens of cover songs that she released of her white male contemporaries such as George Harrison, the Bee Gees, and Bob Dylan. With these covers, Simone explored and claimed the power and perspective that comes with race and gender privilege. Looking at examples from Simone’s four-decade, genre-bending, career—from songbook standards, jazz, and pop to folk, junkanoo, and reggae—and at her work’s many uptakes and afterlives, Stein mobilizes the psychoanalytic concept of fantasy to build a black feminist history with and for this multifaceted performing artist.
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Very Special Life: The Bernice Chronicles
This book tells the story of mid-20th century Jewish America through the eyes of Bernice Cohen Schwartz, born in NYC in 1923. The oldest daughter of a family of Eastern European origin, Bernice had an American-born mother, but in other things was similar to her contemporaries, reflecting the lives of a generation of pre-WWI urban Jews in America with immigrant parents.Her life story reflects much of the development of American Jewry during the middle of the 20th century: the Great Depression, the Second World War, the development of Zionism, the response to the new State of Israel, and the development of Jewish suburbia. We follow Bernice's school years during the Depression, her connection with the Bronx Y, her college studies, her stint in the Women's Land Army, study trip to Israel in 1949, and marriage to Arthur Schwartz, a young army veteran and social work student from Nyack, NY. After the couple's odyssey through several East Coast Jewish communities, they and their sons settled in Teaneck, New Jersey. We follow Bernice's response to her oldest son immigrating to Israel, and the couple's move to Riverdale, NY and life there during their "Golden Years" in the 21st century.
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Life of Bernini
Initially published by Penn State Press in 1965, Catherine Enggass’s translation of Filippo Baldinucci’s Life of Bernini was the first English-language edition of this historic biography. Out of print for many years, The Life of Bernini is now available in a new paperback edition with an introduction by Maarten Delbeke, Evonne Levy, and Steven F. Ostrow, the editors of Bernini’s Biographies.Baldinucci’s unusual stand-alone biography of Bernini, begun while his subject was still alive, offers important insights into contemporary perceptions of the artist, the motivations of its author, and the nature of literary biography in seventeenth-century Italy.
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