This book explores Ginzburg’s Jewishness in her autobiographical writings and traces the shift in her self-representation. It brings together substantial historical background on the period surrounding the Racial Laws, when Natalia Ginzburg and other Italian Jews were forced to confront the significance of their Jewishness. It highlights the reactions by Jews and non-Jews to the growing anti-Semitism of the times. In this context, moral identity is also discussed as a facet of Primo Levi and Giorgio Bassani’s Jewish identity.

This story is of life for human beings in the year 2092. With continual discoveries in new medicines and alternative systems of healthy eating the life span of humans is reaching far beyond the working age of 120 years. Thomas and Phoebe with the collaboration of their close friends Maia and Nicholas travel on a quest to uncover the two most important discoveries of their age. Human beings are about to travel through the universe. The two hemispheres governing the earth build a close alliance with the planet MARS. The biggest spaceship ever built – in the shape of a large shining egg, is the size of a small planet. On board is a representative from Earth. The people of Earth have named the ship The Star Discovery Arch and it will, when finished, fly on her maiden voyage through the solar system of BETA CENTAURY with the friends on board...... The author declares this tale, the places, the protagonist and their names that travel through this journey together is only fruit of is imagination – none can refer to any reality. Author - GIANNI.A.

Le scarpe, molto più che semplici protettori per i piedi, rappresentano un affascinante viaggio nella storia dell'umanità. Dalle prime pelli legate come protezione ai design innovativi e tecnologici di oggi, le scarpe sono sempre state presenti, plasmando la moda, esprimendo identità e riflettendo i cambiamenti sociali e culturali di ogni epoca. Scopri molto di più...

Dress became a testing ground for masculine ideals in Renaissance Italy. With the establishment of the ducal regime in Florence in 1530, there was increasing debate about how to be a nobleman. Was fashionable clothing a sign of magnificence or a source of mockery? Was the graceful courtier virile or effeminate? How could a man dress for court without bankrupting himself? This book explores the whole story of clothing, from the tailor's workshop to spectacular court festivities, to show how the male nobility in one of Italy's main textile production centers used their appearances to project social, sexual, and professional identities. Sixteenth-century male fashion is often associated with swagger and ostentation but this book shows that Florentine clothing reflected manhood at a much deeper level, communicating a very Italian spectrum of male virtues and vices, from honor, courage, and restraint to luxury and excess. Situating dress at the heart of identity formation, Currie traces these codes through an array of sources, including unpublished archival records, surviving garments, portraiture, poetry, and personal correspondence between the Medici and their courtiers. Addressing important themes such as gender, politics, and consumption, Fashion and Masculinity in Renaissance Florence sheds fresh light on the sartorial culture of the Florentine court and Italy as a whole.