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Italian Culture and Hand Communication

over one another in the process. Their facial expressions only add to the animated effects of their hand gestures and body langua...

Overview of Political Machines and Immigrants

As a matter of a fact, for a time, it did appear that a new age might be dawning for the political machine because of the dire nee...

Architecture of the Italian Renaissance

of the "longitudinal, three-aisled basilica" (Church of San Spirito) that would come to be the foundation of Western church form. ...

Umberto Boccioni and Jean Dubuffet

Expressionist, a cave painter (and poet) with a yen for existentialist texture" (Adams 126). In his earliest works, 1917 to 1936...

The Godfather and The Sopranos Italian American Stereotypes

that mirrors such interpretation as brought about by the likes of popular culture, but it has also been quite successful at reachi...

European Art of the Medieval Period

of fresco (painting on wet plaster) painting, but hand copied manuscripts also became small jewels of painting, called "illuminati...

Maesta Altarpiece in the Cathedral of Siena by Duccio di Buoninsegna

This twelfth century altarpiece is the focus of a report consisting of seven pages in an examination of how altarpieces during thi...

The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg

The writer analyzes the book The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg and argues that ...

Actors of the Italian Renaissance and Their Status

out) which represented, Hell. Around 1485, Italian rulers began to finance productions of Roman plays and imitations of them. Th...

Disappointment of Jessica and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

In six pages this paper discusses the disappointment of this father and daughter and Italian Renaissance society disillusionment i...

Life and Art of Michelangelo

In five pages this Italian Renaissance artist is examined in terms of his art including the Sistine Chapel, the Pieta, and David, ...

Jael Slaying Sisera and Carol Maratta

In five pages this lone work by an Italian painter from the Baroque period is examined in terms of identification of different inf...

West Indian and Italian Immigration to the U.S.

cities could eventually be found in New York, Chicago, Boston and other metropolitan areas (Hutchmacher, 1967). It was these Littl...

Italian Mafia of New York

the violence and power that renders its members fully able to take possession of whatever they want any way they can obtain it. O...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado' and the Setting of Italy

themselves, perhaps unnecessarily, on their knowledge of wines. This offers us a very powerful and self righteous look at these tw...

English Words Borrowed from Italian

years. Some of these include gondola, cameo, arsenal, regatta, fresco, studio, vendetta, broccoli, motto, piano, opera, grotto, vi...

Cinematic Neorealism

neorealistic filmmakers, such as Rossellini, Vittorio DeSica and Cesare Zavattini, was to make a "moral statement," which forces ...

Italian Literature and the Themes of Escape, Alienation, and Entrapment

first the expulsion from the tennis club, then from the fascist party, then academic anti-Semitism, then more and more direct insu...

Louis de Berniere's 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' and Cultural Perspective Differences

throughout the novel. Although they try and maintain their cultural identity through music, they are morally lost in environmental...

Italian and Russian Organized Crime

In relationship to Italian organized crime the story is quite different for it is essentially based in a very rich and long...

Early Italian Fascist Movement and Patriotism

In five pages this paper discusses the exclusion of patriotic sentiments in Italian Fascism, which was cemented mostly upon a foun...

Ter Brugghen, Rubens, and the Italian High Renaissance Influence

In five pages this paper discusses each artist's religious paintings and the Italian influences each work reflects. Six sources a...

Overview of the Italian Renaissance and Women

spirit, in which desires intrinsic to human nature, generally repressed under medieval feudalism, burst forth with new fervor and ...

Discourses on Livy by Niccolo Machiavelli

In five pages this report considers this little known 1531 work by Machiavelli and argues that it presents a complete picture of t...

Heroic or Villainous Christopher Columbus?

This paper exposes Italian explorer Christopher Columbus as a villain in six pages. Nine sources are cited in the bibliography....

Italy During the Renaissance Era and the Roles Played by Nonelites and Women

result, court mistresses commonly took on the role of both lover and confidant, creating a lineage through childbearing that suppo...

Italian Renaissance and Humanism

In five pages the Italian Renaissance is examined in a consideration of how humanism affected Medieval thinking, religion, and soc...

Thousand Years of Italian Music

In eight pages this paper traces the development of Italian music in a consideration of contributions, important works, and compos...

1968 Film Romeo and Juliet by Franco Zeffirelli

In three pages this paper examines the filmmaker's various cinematic techniques and include elements such as utilizing teenage act...

How Ann Radcliffe Responded to Lewis in The Italian

In a paper consisting of three pages the argument is presented that The Italian was in response to The Monk by Lewis and offers ch...