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Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) is a metatheatrical drama by Luigi Pirandello. Viewed as an important work of absurdist literature, the play was a critical failure when it was first, staged in Rome. Revised by its author and bolstered by successful performances in New York City, Six Characters in Search of an Author has been, recognized as a pioneering examination of the nature of creativity, the relationship of the director and actors...
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"Focusing on the foods Conant grew up with and the ones he makes for his loved ones today, Peace, Love, and Pasta compiles simple, fresh, and flavorful Italian recipes for the home cook to bring to their own family's table. These recipes are built on theart of cooking for love, fascination with flavors and ingredients, and the simple pleasures of taste and conviviality"--
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"When Chris Bianco started Pizzeria Bianco in the back corner of a Phoenix grocery store in 1988, he had no idea that he would become a driving force in the artisanal pizza movement. All he knew was that his food would reflect the respect and sincere intention that he brings to each of his recipes, as the result of his relationships with farmers, local producers, customers, and staff. Now a James Beard Award-winning chef--the first pizzaiolo to receive...
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En este breve pero intenso texto —hasta ahora inédito en castellano— el maestro siciliano se convierte en Tiresias y se sumerge en su mito para revelar la verdadera esencia del adivino ciego. Entregado a esa narración viva y carismática tan propia de toda su extensa obra, Camilleri repasa en estas páginas mitos y dioses, escritores y personajes literarios, hila el pasado con el presente y, como Tiresias, escudriña el futuro con su mirada...
7) The Inferno
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In 1867, when Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published the first American edition of The Inferno, Dante was almost unknown in this country. The New England poet and educator, who taught Italian literature at Harvard, introduced Dante's literary genius to the New World with this vibrant blank verse translation of the first and most popular book of the three-part Divine Comedy. Expressed in haunting poetry of great emotional power, The Inferno chronicles...
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After all, the "Moscarda" he believed himself to be was different when he was alone, or with his wife, his tenant, or his friends. And, there were hundreds-no, thousands-of additional Moscardas in the minds of everyone who had met or heard of him.
Moscarda grappled with this new knowledge: that he was not who he thought he was, nor who anyone else thought he was. And, the people around him? They were not who he thought they were either.
So he decided,...
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The Divine Comedy is a narrative poem by Dante Alighieri that describes the author’s travels through Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Paradise (Paradiso). This trio of books, or canticas, is one example of the number three as a theme throughout the work. Each book consists of 33 cantos, which added to an introductory canto, totals 100. Each cantica follows a pattern of 9 phases plus 1 for a total of ten—9 circles of hell plus Lucifer,...
11) Purgatorio
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“Purgatorio” is the second part of “The Divine Comedy”, Dante’s epic poem describing man’s progress from hell to paradise. Having escaped the Inferno, Dante and his guide, the classical Roman poet Virgil, ascend out of the underworld to the Mountain of Purgatory on an island on the far side of the world. The mountain has 9 terraces, seven of which correspond to the seven deadly sins, and two of which constitute an Ante-Purgatory with the...
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"Reimagine Italian American cooking with more than 125 big-hearted recipes from the celebrated husband-and-wife chef team of Don Angie in New York City. Old-school, Italian American "red sauce" is a beloved style of cooking that is rich with nostalgia, adeep sense of family, and the promise of irresistible food--copious amounts of it. Offerings may include an endless assortment of antipasti at the start of every meal, multi-layered chicken and eggplant...
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If you really wanna get to the meat a potatoz of the story, you want to understand and experience what it's like to be married to big powerful man? With more leaf letter and marijuana dollars then you could ever imagine? Well your in luck! Herez the knows and the hows, a man mobbed up, lotta money, lotta cars, cigars and knows bars. He is the guy, you will feel and live each moment at a time but no skipping, you're gonna wanna be patient, this book...
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Domingo Notaro's poems struggle to fix an innocent gaze on a contemporary world that appears more and more fraught with inhumanity and cruelty. They explore themes of exile, fertility, the human body's connection to the wider cosmos, and the corrupting influence of power. Often literally scattered across the page, the poems compel the reader to become an active participant in a quest for sense and meaning. "Halfway between lucid vision and prophetic...
18) The Prosaic Code
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The power of Nature is the only certainty that the human can have in his short life. The animals and the plants live without any distance from this paradise. The human tries to enter the mystery of Nature with science and art, but he must respect the eternal green book. Some terrorist goes around the planet, setting fire to the most beautiful places for destroy them. Others for money go around, pretending to save all the world.
"A poison love" and...
19) 100 Poems
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Umberto Saba (1883-1957) is one of the great Italian poets of the twentieth century, as closely associated with his native city Trieste as Joyce is with Dublin. He received a sparse education but was writing distinctive poetry before he was twenty, ignoring the modernist groups which dominated the day. He came at personal themes in unexpected ways, using an unapologetically contemporary idiom. He acquired an antiquarian bookshop which prospered for...
20) Complete Poems
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Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-,1968) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959. The citation declares, 'his lyrical poetry with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our time'. Jack Bevan's authoritative translation of Quasimodo life work fills a great gap in our knowledge of twentieth-century European poetry. 'The poetry is textured like shot silk, yet the elegance and syntactical lucidity with which Jack Bevan has worked...
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