History and Culture in Italy

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.

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

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