Un soldato innamorato massimo ranieri biography
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A Cultural History of La Scala in the Risorgimento (1814-1848).
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Siel Agugliaro
On the evening of 7 December 1968, a group of students protesting against social inequalities gathered in front of Teatro alla Scala, in Milan. The demonstrators attacked the wealthy attendees who came for Don Carlos, the opening night of the season, and hit them with eggs and vegetables. That event became a symbol of the Italian 'Sessantotto', the period of social and political unrest that took its cue from the May 1968 events in France, and affected the country for a whole decade. The 1968 protest remained an isolated case in La Scala's history, but it would have a profound impact on the cultural policy sought by the theatre in the following years. In a time of struggle for a national retirement system, for equal opportunities in education, and for workers' rights, could the most prominent opera house in Italy afford to be perceived as a bourgeois temple? More broadly, how could La Scala change its public image, and present itself as a truly democratic cultural institution, at the service of the whole citizenry, and not only of a confined group of privileged attendees? These ques
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Place in the Sun: Africa in Italian Colonial Culture from Post-Unification to the Present 9780520936263, 9780520232341
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Introduction: Italian Colonial Cultures
Part I. The shaping of Italian Colonial History: Political Practices and Theoretical Legitimization
The Myths, Suppressions, Denials, and Defaults of Italian Colonialism
Studies and Research on Fascist Colonialism, 1922–1935: Reflections on the State of the Art
Italian Anthropology and the Africans: The Early Colonial Period
The Construction of Racial Hierarchies in Colonial Eritrea: The Liberal and Early Fascist Period (1897–1934)
Part II. Colonial Literature: From Exploration to a Domestic Empire
Gifts, Sex, and Guns: Nineteenth-Century Italian Explorers in Africa
Incorporating the Exotic: From Futurist Excess to Postmodern Impasse
Alexandria Revisited: Colonialism and the Egyptian Works of Enrico Pea and Giuseppe Ungaretti
Mass-Mediated Fantasies of Feminine Conquest, 1930 –1940
Orphans for the Empire: Colonial Propaganda and Children’s Literature during the Imperial Era
Part III: The Colonial Production of Africa and the Silent Scene of Decolonization
Colonial Autism: Whitened Heroes, Auditory Rhetoric, and National Identity in Interwar Italian Cinema
Black Shirts/Black Skins: Fascis 'O surdato 'nnammurato