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This book explores how the accounts of conversion to the Catholic Church provide an unusual political opinion with serious ramifications during the Risorgimento. This book focuses on feminist critiques of globalization and European identity formation and examines changing conditions of cultural production and their consequences for a European public sphere. It discusses international relations, development and migration, and the levels of transformation of democratic institutions and practices.Examining a variety of newspapers, novels, and inquisition trials, Lang demonstrates how the accounts of conversion to the Catholic Church provide an unusual political opinion with serious ramifications in the shaping of national Italian identity during unification. ... Read more

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In 1918, Woodrow Wilson’s image as leader of the free world and the image of America as dispenser of democracy spread throughout Italy, filling an ideological void after the rout of Caporetto and diverting attention from a hapless ruling class. Wilson’s popularity depended not only on the modernity of his democratic message, but also on a massive propaganda campaign he conducted across Italy, using as conduits the American Red Cross, the YMCA, and the Committee on Public Information.

American popularity, though, did not ensure mutual understanding. The Paris peace negotiations revealed the limits of policies on both sides, illustrated most clearly in Wilson’s disastrous direct appeal to the Italian public. The estranged countries pulled inward, the Americans headed toward isolationism, the Italians toward fascism.

Rossini sets the Italian-American political confrontation within the full context of the two countries’ cultural perceptions of each other, different war experiences, and ideas about participatory democracy and peace. A stellar example of the new international history, this timely book highlights the impact of American ideology and sense of mission in the world.

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This volume originates from the Society for Italian Studies Postgraduate Colloquium that has taken place at University of Cambridge in April 2005. It gathers together articles by British, Irish and Italian young researchers working on various aspects of Italian Studies broadly defined since the end of World War II. The volume offers original insights into lesser known aspects of post-war Italian culture and introduces innovative perspectives on literature, women s studies, cinema, history and politics. The result is the interdisciplinary and original examination of Italian culture and society in the last sixty years.The articles are divided into four sections according to the chronological period and the subject they deal with: Female figures, wartime and beyond, Post-war cultural representations, Political writings, Domestic and international Italian politics. Each section is a coherent ensemble and constitutes an example of the far-reaching results achieved by interdisciplinary research. ... Read more

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This book explores the world of Italian merchants during the period 1300-1500, the medieval businessmen. ... Read more

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Despite the great progress made during this century in the development and operation of particle accelerators, we are, at the moment, facing severe limitations which impede the attainment of very cold and dense beams of charged particles. These limitations are due to the interparticle Coulomb interactions: intrabeam scattering and space-charge effects. Recently, there has been interest in the feasibility of producing a crystalline beam. This is a spatially ordered ensemble of circulating particles having very small velocity fluctuations relative to each other. Such a state may be obtainable from an ordinary warm beam through the application of intense and continuous phase-space cooling (eg. stochastic, electron, laser). Crystalline beams represent the ultimate in the control of space-charge effects. The study, and eventual attainment, of crystalline beams may lead to a variety of other applications, but will certainly provide a deeper insight into the fundmental limitations of storage rings and particle colliders. ... Read more

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This socio-political study traces the rise to power of a fascist dictatorship in Italy and its control of the state during World War II. It focuses specifically on the institutions of the fascist state, the suppression of anti-fascism, and the use of propaganda in maintaining the state. ... Read more

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With chapters on theatre and opera, architecture and urban planning, the medieval revival and the rediscovery of the Etruscan and Roman past, The Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy analyzes Italians' changing relationship to their new nation state and the monarchy, the conflicts between the peninsula's ancient elites and the rising middle class, and the emergence of new belief systems and of scientific responses to the experience of modernity.

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This volume is devoted to the use of the quantum-like description that has been successful in describing numerous physical scenarios in many branches of physics, including the dynamics of charged particle beams in accelerators and the propagation of electromagnetic wave energy in nonlinear media such as plasmas and optical fibres. The quantum-like approach seems, therefore, to form a common basis for understanding the observations in many diverse field of science. This volume is intended for use by graduate students and researchers in high energy physics and mathematical physics. ... Read more

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This work traces the history of Western art and of the Catholic Church through a remarkable selection of 200 works from the Vatican's collection. The works are to be used in a travelling exhibition, starting in the Colorado History Museum in 1993 and concluding in Rome in the year 2000. ... Read more

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Dosso Dossi has long been considered one of Renaissance Italy's most intriguing artists. A wealth of documents chronicle his life, but because very little of his work has survived, he remains an enigma and his art continues to be as elusive as it is compelling. In this collection, leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines examine the social, intellectual, and historical contexts of his art, focusing on the development of new genres of painting, questions of style and chronology, the influence of courtly culture, and the work of his collaborators, as well as his visual and literary sources and his painting techniques. ... Read more

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The success of the standard model in explaining low energyphysics within the framework of spontaneously broken Yang-Mills theoryhas given physicists the hope that the Einstein dream of a unifiedtheory of fundamental interactions might be achieved using geometricalmethods of local symmetry principles supplemented by consistencyrequirements such as renormalization, unitarity and, most crucially,compatibility with present low energy data.
Merging these principleswith the quantum-mechanical notions of spin and statistics ledphysicists further to develop new theories in the last fifteen yearsfor which the gauge symmetry principle is extended to incorporatesupersymmetry and relativistic extended objects - the most famousexample being superstrings propagating in curved space-time and havingsupergravity as their effective field theory.
The proceedingsrepresent the latest highlights in the field reported on by activeresearchers working in this particular area in addition to discussionson future perspectives.
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A compilation of essays presenting an overview of the major developments in popular and mass culture in Italy since World War II. It examines a variety of topics such as the conflicts and tensions between and within Catholic and communist sub-cultures. ... Read more

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Art, Theory and Culture in Sixteenth-Century Italy offers a critical overview of the literature on the visual arts produced during the High and Late Renaissance. Analyzing and interpreting texts by such writers as Vasari, Lomazzo, Zuccaro, and Tasso, Robert Williams demonstrates how these works offer insight into the experience of contemporary viewers, thus permitting a clearer view of the relationship between abstract thought and lived experience. By focusing on a heretofore neglected, but important body of literature, Williams shows how an understanding of it can transform our knowledge and appreciation of the Renaissance. ... Read more

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In this illuminating work, surveying 300 years and two nations, Sarah Gwyneth Ross demonstrates how the expanding ranks of learned women in the Renaissance era presented the first significant challenge to the traditional definition of “woman” in the West.

An experiment in collective biography and intellectual history, The Birth of Feminism focuses on nineteen learned women from the middle ranks of society who rose to prominence in the world of Italian and English letters between 1400 and 1680. Drawing both on archival material—wills, letters, and manuscript compositions, some presented here for the first time—and on printed writings, Ross gives us an unprecedented sense of educated early modern women’s lives.

Sponsored and often educated by their learned fathers and other male relatives within a model that Ross terms “the intellectual family,” female authors publicized their works within the safety of family networks. These women, including Christine de Pizan, Laura Cereta, Margaret More Roper, Lucrezia Marinella, and Bathsua Makin, did not argue for women’s political equality, but they represented and often advocated women’s intellectual equality. Ross demonstrates that because of their education, these women had a renaissance during the Renaissance, and that in so doing they laid the foundation for the emancipation of womankind.

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Americans have a voracious appetite for Italy. It remains a primary destination for travel, art history, cuisine, and more. Like no other source, Culture and Customs of Italy engagingly explains the scope of Italy and Italians today to students and general readers in one volume. As well, this book provides the needed context to understand the enormous contributions of Italian Americans in shaping the cultural heritage and current popular culture of the United States.

It clearly summarizes the land, people, and history and relates the highlights of a culture that has excelled in so many areas, such as food, sports, literature, the arts, architecture and design, and cinema. The powerful roles of religion and thought, family and gender, holidays, leisure, and media in Italian life are treated in-depth in individual chapters as well. Crucial regional aspects and historical framing of all topics add to the authoritativeness.A chronology, glossary, photos, and maps round out the coverage.