History and Culture in Italy

by Hendrix, John Shannon

• ISBN13: 9780761826286
• ISBN10: 0761826289
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-11
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

History and Culture in Italy is a scholarly, introductory survey of the history and culture of Italy, focusing on art and architecture, literature and philosophy, politics and historical events, and observations of daily life in modern Italy.

Table of Contents

Giordano Bruno and Intellectual Rebellion	1	(7)
Venice, Vicenza and Milan	7	(3)
Paolo Portoghesi: Borromini and Postmodernism	10	(1)
Mythological Origins in Crete and the Peloponnese	11	(6)
Giuseppe Mazzini and the Risorgimento	17	(3)
Baroque Architecture in Turin	20	(2)
Primo Levi and Post-Holocaust Identity	22	(5)
Antonio Gramsci and Marxist Cultural Theory	27	(8)
Vienna and the Origins of Modernism	35	(2)
Prague: Creativity and the Subconscious	37	(5)
Giovanni Macchia: Sensuality and Modern Life	42	(6)
Futurism and the Obsession with Speed	48	(5)
Calcio and Astrology in Modern Italy	53	(2)
Silvio Berlusconi and Capitalist Politics	55	(5)
Life as Spectacle	60	(5)
Calcata: a Bohemian Alternative	65	(7)
Franco Archibugi and the Italian Language	72	(2)
Campo Marzio: the Heart of Rome	74	(7)
Genoa and the French Riviera	81	(1)
Capri and Anacapri	82	(2)
Thomas Aquinas and the Great Synthesis	84	(3)
Lorenzo Valla: Philology and Textual Criticism	87	(3)
Tommaso Campanella: Political Revolt and Utopia	90	(3)
Giambattista Vico and the Social Sciences	93	(5)
Benedetto Croce and the Philosophy of the Spirit	98	(4)
Archetypes for Mythology and Christianity in Egypt	102	(10)
Olympia: the Greek Arcadia	112	(5)
The Art Scene in Rome	117	(2)
The Villa Farnesina	119	(4)
Seneca and Stoicism	123	(4)
Constantine and Christianity	127	(7)
Cicero and the Art of Oration	134	(3)
Piazza San Pietro and the Arms of the Church	137	(4)
Classical Philosophy in the Vatican	141	(9)
Borromini: Humanism and Neoplatonism	150	(4)
The Cornaro Chapel: Spiritual and Physical Ecstasy	154	(2)
Pompeii and the Villa of the Mysteries	156	(4)
Plotinus: Plato and the Ennead	160	(4)
Saint Francis of Assisi and the Universal Spirit	164	(5)
Siena: the Renaissance that Might Have Been	169	(6)
Saint Augustine and the Christian Community	175	(5)
Leon Battista Alberti and the Modern Architect	180	(9)
The City of Florence	189	(5)
Michelangelo: Expression and Rebellion	194	(3)
The Platonic Academy	197	(3)
Sandro Botticelli and Classical Mythology	200	(4)
Pisa: Monuments to an Empire	204	(3)
Galileo and the Birth of Science	207	(1)
Umberto Eco and the Importance of Semiotics	208	(5)
Andrea Palladio and Humanist Architecture	213	(8)
Byzantine Mosaics in Ravenna	221	(6)
Giuseppe Terragni: Architecture and Politics	227	(4)
Athens and Aix-en-Provence	231