The Cambridge companion to Ancient Rome by
Rome was the largest city in the ancient world. As the capital of the Roman Empire, it was clearly an exceptional city in terms of size, diversity and complexity. The thirty-one chapters ot this book by leading historians, classicists and archaeologists discuss issues ranging from the monuments and the games to the food and water supply, from policing and riots to domestic housing, from death and disease to pagan cults and the impact of Christianity.
The Cambridge companion to modern Italian culture by
This volume provides information and analysis on such topics as regionalism, the growth of a national language, social and political cultures, the role of intellectuals, the Church, the left, feminism, the separatist movements, organised crime, literature, art, design, fashion, the mass media, and music. Each essay contains suggestions for further reading on the topics covered.
The Cambridge companion to the Italian novel by
Covers a wide range of topics including the theory of the novel in Italy, the historical novel, realism, modernism, postmodernism, neorealism, and film and the novel. The contributors are distinguished scholars from the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, and Australia. Novelists examined include some of the most influential and important of the twentieth century inside and outside Italy: Luigi Pirandello, Primo Levi, Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino.
The Cambridge companion to the Italian Renaissance by
This Companion presents a lively, comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and current approach to the Renaissance period that extends in Italy from the turn of the fourteenth century through the latter decades of the sixteenth. The chapters are organized around axes of humanism, historiography, and cultural production, and cover a wide variety of areas including literature, science, music, religion, technology, artistic production, and economics.
A companion to Italian cinema by
A comprehensive collection of essays written by leading figures in the field addressing the prominent films, directors and cinematic forms of Italian cinema. Covers recent issues such as feminism, stardom, queer cinema, immigration and postcolonialism, self-reflexivity and postmodernism, popular genre cinema, and digitalization.
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