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CNN’s Searching for Italy: Stanley Tucci as Foodways Icon
This chapter discusses Stanley Tucci’s CNN show Searching for Italy as a culinary travelogue exploring Italy’s diverse and rich food culture. This...
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Rewriting Catullus 63 in Renaissance Italy
The article focusses on two Renaissance reinterpretations of Catullus 63, one of his least imitated poems in Italy during that period. I deal with...
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The Transnational Puppet: From Italy and Back
This chapter investigates the implications of the image of the puppet within Italian American cinema by tracing the origins and evolution of key...
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Propaganda, Pedagogy, and Cultural Authority: The Fascist theatre in Italy and Abroad
This essay describes the propagandistic and pedagogic uses of the theatre by Benito Mussolini's fascist regime in Italy, 1922–1945. Working with the...
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LGBTQ+ Rights and Access to Healthcare in Italy and Portugal
This chapter aims at exploring the common traits and the differences between Italy and Portugal concerning two key elements of this book: LGBTQ+...
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Space for Filmmaking in 1960s and 1970s Italy: Production Companies and Studios
Focusing on 1960s and 1970s giallo cinema in Italy, this text analyses the production company and the studio as the primary material spaces of...
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Acid Attacks in Italy: Gender-Based Violence, Victimhood, and Media Representation
Acid attacks in Italy became the object of political attention following the extensive media coverage of two landmark cases in 2013 and 2017. This...
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Archaeometallurgical Investigation on Historical Sword-Making Techniques in Northern Italy Between the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
The history of BresciaBrescia (Latin Brixia), a city in northern Italy, is characterized by a long manufacturing tradition, in particular the...
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Screenwriting Manuals and Pedagogy in Italy from the 1930s to the End of the Twentieth Century
This chapter proposes a historical excursus into screenwriting in Italy, while setting out to identify—from a pedagogical and educational...
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Basilicata and Southern Italy Between Film and Ecology
This volume offers an open, transdisciplinary living space (also green) through which to explore the different connections between Basilicata and...
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The Reception of Petrarch’s Africa in Fascist Italy
In his 1877 Storia della letteratura (History of Literature), Luigi Settembrini wrote that Petrarch’s fourteenth-century poem, the Africa , ‘is...
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GoodFellas. When the ‘Kid from Little Italy’ Meets the ‘Oklahoma Kid’
This chapter focuses on GoodFellas, discussing Martin Scorsese’s conscious attempt to re-create in some of his films what he saw through his window...
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Is Art a Means of Resistance in Times of Global Crisis?: Far-Right, Humour and Street Art in Today’s Italy
In Italy, the rise of radical narratives in public discourse has coincided with the popularisation of nationalist and exclusionary ideas...
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Legislation on the Protection of Cultural Goods: A Compared Study Between Brazil and Italy
The aim of this work is to present, in general lines, the history of Brazilian and Italian legislation regarding the protection of cultural goods,...
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Microclimatic Monitoring for Archeological Shelters Across Indoor Comfort and Conservation: The Case Study of the Villa del Casale in Piazza Armerina (Sicily, Italy)
Conservation and use raise priority and complementary needs in the archeological built heritage and, within the contemporary paradigm, they are no...
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Responding to Fake News: The Use of Facebook for Public Health Communication During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy
Social media platforms have created new challenges for communication during crises related to health issues. In general, public health organisations...
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Spotlight: Norman Korpi
I come from a third-generation southern Italian mostly Sicilian family that immigrated to northern Michigan in the early part of the twentieth...
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Restoration and Arrangement of Archaeological Remains in the Mediterranean: The Protection of the Testimonies Between Past and Contemporary Experiences
In general, the need to provide for the protection of archaeological remains has always been a priority in the work of archaeologists and architects....
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The Italian (1915) and the Representation of Italian Immigrants in Silent American Cinema
This chapter focuses on The Italian (1915) produced by Thomas Ince and directed by Reginald Barker. It analyzes the film within the context of silent...