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A uniquely combined travel journal and regional Italian cookery guide, written by a true, native-born connoisseur of Italian culture. Dolce Vita is not an ordinary cookbook, but rather a systematic regional survey of Italy, from north to south, with each region characterized by its landscape, tradition and folklore, and most importantly, its Kosher though authentic culinary micro-culture. The author, Gaio Sciloni, born and raised in Tuscany, is a well-known writer who has furnished the Israeli reader with excellent translations of Italian literature.
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Do you marvel at people who seemingly have it all only to drop everything for life in a remote village? Have you wondered about leaving your roots for migration to the unknown? ‘Fit only for climbing coconut trees.’ The mockery invented by Philip’s father because he was badminton-mad and useless (said father) at all else, lingered with him through school in Malaysia. It travelled with him on an Aeroflot to England in 1970, aged 18, functioning onadrenaline. It stuck through his navigation of parochial middle England – caring for patientsin a mental hospital, law practice, sports, and relationships. Toughened by an Indian father and a Chinese coach, lifted by a messiah-like Englishman and grounded by a Labrador soulmate, Racket Boy – Where’s My Country, explores Philip’s life over six decades. From being ordered by the British government to leave England, accosted in Bombay, mugged in Barcelona to horse-trading with a petroleum giant in Ecuador and thrilling in a World Cup in military-ruled Argentina, to list a few highlights. Philip is now a spectator in the hills of Tuscany, more than just fit to be climbing coconut trees!
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Special interest tourism is growing rapidly due to a discerning and heterogeneous travel market and the demand for more focused activity or interest-based tourism experiences. This book approaches the topic from the perspective of both supply and demand, and addresses the complexities now inherent in this area of tourism. It presents a contextualised overview of contemporary academic research, concepts, principles and industry-based practice insights, and also considers the future of special interest tourism in light of the emergence of ethical consumerism. With a clear, user-friendly structure, the book: -Links theoretical frameworks to clear practical applications. -Reviews key emerging issues for tourism relating to families and faith, the performing arts, active and passive pursuits, therapeutic leisure and travelling. -Includes contributions and case studies from international academics and practitioners to give a truly global overview. Sometimes referred to as niche or contemporary tourism, this book provides a complete introduction to the study of special interest tourism for students.
Tuscan cuisine is simple and refined from time to time, commoner and aristocratic, but always genuine and tasty, which also includes delicious sweets, which often echo echoes of a time – the Middle Ages – in which Florence and the Tuscany they were truly at the center of the world. Tuscany in the kitchen it is not a simple recipe book, but an authentic insight into the gastronomic civilization and culture of Tuscany, a journey through images through photographs created ad hoc by specialized photographers.The volume collects 80 recipes traditional, but also preparations enriched by touches of creativity and precious suggestions on combinations with local wines. From the same series:• Calabria• Valle d'Aosta• Rome• Puglia• Venice• Sicily• Lombardy• Liguria
"Beautiful things, seen from above, are even more beautiful." There are several publications that tell about Tuscany from the sky: from certain heights, this land appears even more spectacular. But only this book makes use of an unprecedented point of view: that of bird's eye view, high enough to detach from the earth's crust, too low to be at high altitude, moving in that sphere that belongs to the world of birds.Using any means he has ever raised from the ground - helicopter, hot air balloon, motor glider, paraglider, ultralight, biplane -, climbing towers and chimneys, using drones, telescopic columns, wireless controlled machines, self-built gimbals and a lot of work, Guido Cozzi has created a totally new iconography of Tuscany: from above, but not too much ...
Winner of the MARIO VARGAS LLOSA V BIENNIAL NOVEL PRIZE, 2023 Mario Vargas Llosa says "I have just read this novel by the Mexican writer David Toscana, which won the Biennial Novel Prize that bears my name, held in Guadalajara, and I think it is one of the most original texts published in recent years". "What is at stake in this remarkable text is humour. A strange and incandescent humour". "One of the original aspects of this book is that game by which, in the depths of the tragedies that the characters experience, there is always a light to which they can cling", "I think David Toscana has written one of the best novels in the language". La Nación, article by Mario Vargas LlosaWritten with the will to believe that imagination and desire are powerful forces for transforming reality, The Weight to Live on Earth puts us in front of an immense frieze of possibilities: life changes as we read, the author proposes, and this is how this group of characters turn the city of Monterrey into every possible scenario from Tsarist Russia to Soviet Russia, and a canteen will be a space station, an orange orchard will be a dacha, the Santa Catarina River will be the Neva, and an abandoned cable car will be the take-off platform. Sinopsis The news of the death of three Soviet cosmonauts on their return to Earth after 23 days on the Sailyut space station is the trigger for the delirious journey that Nikolai is about to embark on. Driven by his passion for reading, he changes his name to Nikolai Nikolayevich Pseldonov and his everyday life in the early 1970s in northern Mexico becomes a frieze that combines all the times and spaces of Russian literature: from Tolstoy to Bulgakov, from Chekhov to Akhmatova. Nicholas and his wife, along with a handful of strangers who join them along the way, fervently recreate scenes, conversations and stories from a wide range of novels, short stories and plays, but which, unlike the knights imitated by Don Quixote, star anti-heroes. Dozens or hundreds of stories that help us to piece together their own history and to sense their desolation in the face of a world in which they do not fit, a world they can only face with their imagination. Because, as the protagonist of The weight to live o earth says, “Life is the only infinite thing that has an end”. WHAT HAS BEEN SAID ABOUT THE AUTHOR’S WORK“Una obra que en España emparentaría de modo claro con el mejor Luis Landero, puesto que se sustenta en un mismo aliento o eje: el hiato entre realidad e irrealidad y el afán de los hombres por no resignarse a lo que son sin haber, al menos, intentado probar la suerte de lo que podrían ser; en suma: la redención en la búsqueda de lo imposible.” Ernesto Calabuig, El Cultural, El Mundo. “El humor, y en específico el negro, en las novelas de Toscana es legendario (…) logra unir la gran tradición de la picaresca en español con el universo metafísico de otro checo, Franz Kafka, para imponer un nuevo adjetivo atmosférico a la literatura mexicana: toscaniano o toscanesco.” Juan José de Ávila, El Confabulario, El Universal.
Who butchered the fabulously wealthy Ursula? On the night socialite Ursula von Bachmann was murdered in her fabulous villa in Tuscany, her three adult children and Piero and Marta, the couple who ran the house for her, were all present and all had the motive to want her dead. Jacopo Dragonetti, investigating magistrate and State Prosecutor, in charge of the case, also finds out that Guido della Rocca, Ursula’s gigolo boyfriend, is also in the frame. ‘Feels like a grown up, intense and grisly version of Cluedo, you suspect everyone and trust no one…a gripping story.’ Liz Loves Books
From the bestselling author in Italy comes the only novel featuring Galileo. Florence, 1631. The Plague, the Inquisition. A young nun studies the skies above. Only a scientist can shed light in on the darkness of reason. Florence, 1631. Barely a century has passed since Martin Luther unraveled Christian unity. Europe is a battlefield. The Catholic Church’s fight against heresy is bitter and the plague that descended from the North rages throughout Italy. People are forced to stay inside their houses, doctors guard the streets, the Grand Duke of Tuscany allows only religious processions and blatant acts of penance. Only a grumpy old man, his vision now blurry, dares to defy the Grand Duke’s laws by going out, wearing a leather apron in order to take care of his vineyards. It is Galileo Galilei: the man who by perfecting a Dutch invention, the telescope, has discovered the imperfect surface of the moon, the satellites of Jupiter, and the phases of Venus. He experiments with the motion of the pendulum and on the fall of bodies — and he is now publishing a work that threatens to subvert the place of humankind in the cosmos.
Leonardo Da Vinci, an unrivaled genius, the greatest of all time.How did it become? The novel reveals the origins of his multifaceted genius starting with the story of his birth, which is anything but simple.A child prodigy conceived, as he himself says, by the great love and desire of the parties: the impossible love between an ambitious notary and an extraordinary woman with the only defect of being poor. Illegitimate child - a condition that will affect his whole life.With lightness, historical rigor and a touch of irony typical of the Tuscans, Elisabeta Gavrilina tells the most intimate Leonardo: his world and the insatiable curiosity that shaped his thoughts, dreams and fears, the masterpieces he observed with wide eyes and the professions in which he tested himself.With a passionate prose and a realism that does not discount them, the author paints the important characters in the life of the Genius. The strength of the book is in fact in the all-round design of the protagonists which, combined with accurate documentation and attention to historical detail, allows readers to immerse themselves in the atmosphere of quiet Vinci and Florence at the dawn of the Renaissance.An exciting journey that holds surprises, almost a pilgrimage into a past much more current than one might believe.
Moving between Tuscany, London, Rome and New York, The Tuscan Trilogy recounts the joys and tragedies of a woman whom fate both cuddles and flays, of her rise from childhood poverty in southern Italy to glittering social and financial success in London, of the men who love her, of her sons, and of the castle in the Chianti hills where the story begins and ends.
On foot or by bicycle through the Emiliaand Tuscany regions, from PiazzaMaggiore to Piazza della Signoria: oneweek travelling over Roman slab stoneroads of the Flaminia Military Trail,amidst the woods of the ApennineMountains. Then climbing up themountains dedicated to ancient gods,such as Monte Adone (Adonis) andMonte Senario. Complete with thedescription of the itinerary in bothdirections: from Bologna to Florence andvice-versa.
350 km between La Verna, Gubbio,Assisi... all the way to RietiSeventeen days on foot, by bicycle oron horseback across Tuscany, Umbriaand Lazio; through millennial forestsand valleys full of history. A newupdated version of the first guidebookon the “roads of Francis” on foot. Thefundamental events in the life ofFrancis are described for every stageof the trail. A whole chapter is entirelydedicated to bicycle preparation andmaintenance.
Four children by three former wives, six lawyers, dozens of lovers including the Widow, the Starlet, Zita and especially the Wandered Jewess, a debt of four thousand euro and eight days to return it to a group of ‘impatient’ Romanians. So it begins the story of Julian discouragement, the last descendant of a large middle-class family, unable to stay out of trouble. The chronicle of these eight days is a trip through Tuscany, Rome and Milan in search of money; a Way of the Cross of betrayal, where friends are no longer young, no longer carefree and have no more desire to help him, closed in the cocoon of their home lives. And then the memories of his grandfather businessman standing every day at four in the morning; the grandfather who at eight had already visited the first of his mistresses, and who decides to be buried in his pajamas because he was born poor, and because he knows how uncomfortable is to sleep fully clothed.
Famous for its bold flavours, seasonal ingredients and vibrant colours, Italian has repeatedly been voted the world's favourite cuisine. Take a closer look, though, and you'll discover that there is much more to this nation's food than the ubiquitous pasta, pizzas and risottos offered at many restaurants. Italian-cooking expert Valentina Harris examines each area in turn, with a carefully curated selection of recipes, and detailed instructions and photographs to help you achieve an authentic, and completely delicious, end result. This comprehensive book is a must-have reference for anyone who is passionate about cooking authentic Italian food. A culinary tour of Italy including: Lombardy; Piedmont; Liguria; Emilia-Romagna; Veneto; Tuscany; Umbria; Sardinia; Campania; Sicily; Puglia; Basilicata; and Calabria. An extensive introduction examines in detail the history and traditions of classic Italian cooking, the ingredients and how to prepare and use them. CLICK HERE TO READ THE WHOLE BOOK IN DIGITAL FORM
Italy’s economic expansion after World War Two triggered significant social and cultural change. Secularization accompanied this development and triggered alarm bells across the nation’s immense Catholic community. The Devil and the Dolce Vita is the story of that community – the church of Popes Pius XII, John XXIII and Paul VI, the lay Catholic Action association, and the Christian Democratic Party – and their efforts in a series of culture wars to preserve a traditional way of life and to engage and tame the challenges of a rapidly modernizing society. Roy Domenico begins this study during the heady days of the April 1948 Christian Democratic electoral triumph and ends when pro-divorce forces dealt the Catholics a defeat in the referendum of May 1974 where their hopes crashed and probably ended. Between those two dates Catholics engaged secularists in a number of battles – many over film and television censorship, encountering such figures as Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. The Venice Film Festival became a locus in the fight as did places like Pozzonovo, near Padua, where the Catholics directed their energies against a Communist youth organization; and Prato in Tuscany where the bishop led a fight to preserve church weddings. Concern with proper decorum led to more skirmishes on beaches and at resorts over modest attire and beauty pageants. By the 1960s and 1970s other issues, such as feminism, a new frankness about sexual relations, and the youth rebellion emerged to contribute to a perfect storm that led to the divorce referendum and widespread despair in the Catholic camp.
