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Gerusalemme Liberata by Torquato Tasso

physical and emotional well being for the sake of his art. His erratic behavior became increasingly evident around 1575 when Tass...

Italy During the 1490s' Decade

the major Greek authors of antiquity before 1515, thus ensuring their survival for posterity" (Harris, 2002). In pointing to so...

History and Trends of Canadian Immigration of Italians

Background to Italian Immigration Historically, Italians had been coming to Canada for literally hundreds of years as John Cabot ...

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...

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...

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. ...

Italy's Children and Benito Mussolini

ideas of modernization did not apply to the role of women in Italian society. Population growth was a sign of national strength, t...

Works of Italian Literature 'I Vicere,' 'Gli Indifferenti,' and 'Il Giorno della Civetta' Analyzed

a new way of looking at the world. It is also a new way for a student to look at Italian history, as represented in Federico de R...

South Philly Overview

(Learning Center/Philadelphia). However, shipbuilding still employed some 50,000 workers after World War II, but then began a pre...

Home Purchasing in Japan

In five pages the processes that are involved in purchasing a home in Japan are discussed in a paper that has a rough Italian tran...

New York and Toronto Italians Featured in Little Italies in North America by Robert F. Harney

In nine pages this paper discusses how the Italian populations of these regions are featured in Little Italies in North America by...

Life and Art of Michelangelo Buonarotti

In ten pages this renowned Italian Renaissance artist and true Renaissance man is examined. Five sources are cited in the bibliog...

Mexican Drama and Xavier Villaurrutia

to Pirandellos play. Villaurrutia was obviously interested in the Italian playwrights concepts and this preoccupation becomes clea...

Robert A. Orsi's Madonna of 115th Street and Catholic Identity

reader see that the various gestures and postures of the people, as well as the kinds of prayers said, and the way in which they w...

The Role of the Venetian Army during the Italian Renaissance

but no one can take away Italys prowess during the time period and the strength of the Venetian Navy is also something significant...

Landscape Architecture and Italian Designs for Pavement

finished and beautiful look to the landscape. The versatile usefulness of paving stones can be seen in the fact that they can b...

Divine Justice and Fate Reflected in The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio and Inferno by Dante Alighieri

poem makes it clear that the human soul can only enjoy a happy eternity by pledging complete faith and allegiance in God, Boccacci...

Italian 'Risorgimento' of 1815 to 1870 and Economic, Social, Linguistic, and Political Aspirations

In five pages this report examined the Italian campaign against foreign domination and the strengthening of unity. Five sources a...

K-12 Issues of School Safety

the issue of who is liable for the safety of children while they are at the school. The schools and school systems examined will b...

Italian Americans Defined by Network Television Shows

intelligence as seen in the character of the Fonz. "When Arthur (Fonzie) Fonzarelli appeared on the screen in 1974, with his slick...

Stereotypes Involving Organized Crime and Italian Americans

crime as a malignant tumor on the face of society. After assessing the facts against what popular culture has had to say about th...

Cinematic Neorealism

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

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 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...

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...

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...

Contemporary Application of the Ideal Leadership Theory of Niccolo Machiavelli

Machiavelli had been imprisoned by the opposing Medici and he saw how the conflict between politicians can destroy what issues are...

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...