The Education of Italian Renaissance Women
Author : Melinda K. Blade
Publisher :
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 29,57 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Melinda K. Blade
Publisher :
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 29,57 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Melissa Calhoun Engvall
Publisher :
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 12,72 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Renaissance
ISBN :
Author : Angelo Mosso
Publisher :
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 18,41 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Women
ISBN :
Author : Melinda K. Blade
Publisher :
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 49,66 MB
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Femmes - Italie - Histoire - 1450-1600 (Renaissance)
ISBN : 9780866630726
Author : Mary Agnes Cannon
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 38,59 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Education, Humanistic
ISBN :
Author : Miriam Cohen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 28,14 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801480058
Cohen examines shifting patterns in the family roles, work lives, and schooling of two generations of Italian-American women, paying particular attention to the importance of these women's pragmatic daily choices.
Author : Caroline Moorehead
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 24,96 MB
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0062686380
"Dramatic, heartbreaking and sweeping in scope." —Wall Street Journal The acclaimed author of A Train in Winter returns with the "moving finale" (The Economist) of her Resistance Quartet—the powerful and inspiring true story of the women of the partisan resistance who fought against Italy’s fascist regime during World War II. In the late summer of 1943, when Italy broke with the Germans and joined the Allies after suffering catastrophic military losses, an Italian Resistance was born. Four young Piedmontese women—Ada, Frida, Silvia and Bianca—living secretly in the mountains surrounding Turin, risked their lives to overthrow Italy’s authoritarian government. They were among the thousands of Italians who joined the Partisan effort to help the Allies liberate their country from the German invaders and their Fascist collaborators. What made this partisan war all the more extraordinary was the number of women—like this brave quartet—who swelled its ranks. The bloody civil war that ensued pitted neighbor against neighbor, and revealed the best and worst in Italian society. The courage shown by the partisans was exemplary, and eventually bound them together into a coherent fighting force. But the death rattle of Mussolini’s two decades of Fascist rule—with its corruption, greed, and anti-Semitism—was unrelentingly violent and brutal. Drawing on a rich cache of previously untranslated sources, prize-winning historian Caroline Moorehead illuminates the experiences of Ada, Frida, Silvia, and Bianca to tell the little-known story of the women of the Italian partisan movement fighting for freedom against fascism in all its forms, while Europe collapsed in smoldering ruins around them.
Author : Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 37,79 MB
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0226010562
At a time when women were generally excluded from scholarly discourse in the intellectual centers of Europe, four extraordinary female letterate proved their parity as they lectured in prominent scientific and literary academies and published in respected journals. During the Italian Enlightenment, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Giuseppa Eleonora Barbapiccola, Diamante Medaglia Faini, and Aretafila Savini de' Rossi were afforded unprecedented deference in academic debates and epitomized the increasing ability of women to influence public discourse. The Contest for Knowledge reveals how these four women used the methods and themes of their male counterparts to add their voices to the vigorous and prolific debate over the education of women during the eighteenth century. In the texts gathered here, the women discuss the issues they themselves thought most urgent for the equality of women in Italian society specifically and in European culture more broadly. Their thoughts on this important subject reveal how crucial the eighteenth century was in the long history of debates about women in the academy.
Author : Margherita Datini
Publisher : Iter
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 34,39 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Florence (Italy)
ISBN : 9780772721167
Author : Tim Parks
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 11,71 MB
Release : 2015-01-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802191142
A “marvelous” Mediterranean memoir of an expatriate father raising his children in Italy—from the author of Italian Neighbors (The Washington Post). Tim Parks offers another lively firsthand account of Italian society and culture—this time focusing on all the little things that turn an ordinary newborn infant into a true Italian. When British-born Tim Parks heard a mother at the beach in Pescara shout to her son, “Alberto, don’t sweat! No you can’t go in the sea till eleven, it’s still too cold, go and see your cousin in row three number fifty-two,” he was inspired to write about parenting in Italy—which he was doing himself at the time after adopting the country as his own. In this humorous memoir, Parks offers an enchanting portrait of Italian childhood that shifts from comedy to despair in the time it takes to sing a lullaby. The result is “a wry, thoughtful, and often hilarious book . . . a parable of how our children, no matter what, are other than ourselves” (The New Yorker). “Glimpses of Italy that are fond, critical, pithy and penetrating.” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution