This book introduces a new method for determining the authorship of Renaissance plays. Based on the rapid rate of change in English grammar in the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries, socio-historical linguistic evidence allows us to distinguish the hands of Renaissance playwrights within play texts. The present study focuses on Shakespeare, his collaborations with Fletcher and Middleton, and the apocryphal plays. Among the plays examined are Henry VIII, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Macbeth, Pericles, and Sir Thomas More. Using graphs to present statistical data in a readily comprehensible form, the book also contains a wealth of information about the history of the English language during a period of rapid and far-reaching change.
- Il treno per Aquila? - domand -Ettore Boni al primo ferroviere che vide fermo sul marciapiede, sotto la vasta tettoia di cristallo affumicata e fragorosa.
This book is about one of the most remarkable European politicians of recent decades, Silvio Berlusconi, and about his contribution to the dramatic changes that have overtaken Italian politics since the early 1990s. From the vantage point of 2017, would Italian political history of the past twenty-five years look substantially different had Berlusconi not had the high-profile role in it that he did? Asking the question makes it possible to contribute to a broader debate of recent years concerning the significance of leaders in post-Cold War democratic politics. Having considered Berlusconi’s legacy in the areas of political culture, voting and party politics, public policy and the quality of Italian democracy, the book concludes by considering the international significance of the Berlusconi phenomenon in relation to the recent election of Donald Trump, with whom Berlusconi is often compared.
Silvio Scionti was a zestful, colorful figure, as well as a master pianist and teacher. Stories about him, particularly about his more than ten-year career at the University of NorthTexas, are legion, and author Jack Guerry--a former Scionti student--has collected many of them in this remembrance and biography. Scionti firmly established his reputation as a compelling pianist, whose playing has been described as powerful, vital, and full of eloquence, during his twenty-six years at the American Conservatory in Chicago. Known especially throughout the United States and Europe for his duo-piano playing, Scionti's career flourished when he married Texan Isabel Laughlin, and the "irreproachable and irrepressible Sciontis" impressed critics wherever they played. Lured to North Texas in 1942, the Sciontis were instrumental in the growth of the School of Music to the stature it still claims today. Scionti's "buoyant spirit," enthusiasm, talent, and reputation brought students to Denton from around the country. Many members of Scionti's "student family"--themselves now professionals and teachers--have contributed their recollections to this volume including tales of Scionti's proverbial Italian spaghetti dinners, exhausting hikes up Mount Etna, and high-speed sight-seeing along Italian mountain lanes with Scionti at the wheel of his "magnificent red Buick." The "indefatigable" Scionti never stopped: When he was seventy and near the end of his North Texas career, he organized a ten-day tour of five states for his eight-piano emsemble--taking the eight pianos along and assembling them at each of the thirteen cities visited. Even through his "retirement" years, Scionti still was busy teaching and opening professional doors for students who continued to seek him out.
Title: Silvio Bartholi, Painter. A story of Siena.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Bentley, Emma; 1896. 281 p.; 8 . 012627.h.20.
Silvio Pellico non amava scrivere poesie d'occasione su richiesta di qualche mecenate e committente. Uscito dal carcere, Silvio Pellico aveva scritto con affettuosa ironia in una lettera del 1834, indirizzata alla contessa Ottavia Di Masino di cui frequentava il salotto che avrebbe preferito tornare in carcere piuttosto che essere costretto a scrivere versi su ordinazione. A conferma di questo Silvio scrivera nel 1839 in una lettera al fratello Luigi che, arrivato a cinquant'anni, non e facile per un poeta trovare ancora nuove idee e nuovi spunti e che Monti a quell'eta continuava ad essere ancora capace di comporre versi in quantita perche su di lui agiva la sollecitazione di Napoleone che lo ricompensava per le sue lodi.Con queste premesse risulta strano che nel 1842, in occasione delle nozze del futuro re Vittorio Emanuele II con Maria Adelaide D'Austria, il comune di Torino abbia commissionato due composizioni poetiche a Felice Romani, e allo stesso Pellico...
Silvio Berlusconi: la fonte di ogni male? Lo pu essere l'uomo che ha avuto democraticamente in libere elezioni sempre un largo consenso? Lo pu essere l'uomo che secondo la rivista americana Forbes, avrebbe un patrimonio personale stimato in 5,9 miliardi di dollari USA, risultando essere il sesto uomo pi ricco d'Italia e il 169 pi ricco del mondo? Su Silvio Berlusconi sono stati scritti numerosi libri, vi sono difensori e accusatori, sicuramente il personaggio che attrae molte attenzioni. Ma nonostante tutto quello che stato detto e scritto su di lui quanto ha in realt Berlusconi inciso sulla politica italiana? Quale stato il quadro che si venuto a delineare dal dopo guerra ad oggi? Quanti sono stati gli sprechi e come mai il debito pubblico accresciuto nei tempi in maniera esponenziale? Sono solo alcuni dei temi trattati in questo volume. Berlusconi non visto come uomo da difendere o da accusare, ma un intero paese che viene messo sotto una lente d'ingrandimento. I poteri forti che non si manifestano pubblicamente in politica, ma ne determinano le sorti, i personaggi come Carlo De Benedetti che tirano le fila senza che ci venga evidenziato, il ruolo avuto dalla Democrazia Cristiana, dal Partito Comunista, dal pool di "Mani Pulite", Craxi, Prodi, D'Alema, Rutelli, Fini, Casini, Lusi, gli scandali perpetrati in questo paese, i rapporti fra economia e mafia, il Vaticano, sono solo alcuni degli aspetti che con una attenta ricostruzione il libro ripercorre, fino ad arrivare a Monti, il presidente del consiglio scelto dal presidente della Repubblica. Episodi, fatti, situazioni che stranamente galleggiano in un limbo, riemergono, dalle nebbie e cercano, in questo volume, di essere una sorta di filo d'Arianna per districarsi nel dedalo appositamente creato al fine di distogliere l'attenzione del popolo italiano, un dedalo opportunamente costruito per mettere in condizione di evidenziare solo quello che fa comodo, un dedalo che questo libro fa saltare in aria mettendo in evidenza quello che fino ad oggi stato relegato nell'oblio.
