Recent Restorations, Volume I. Arnold Nesselrath. Vatican City State, ©1997. Softcover, 109 pages – 37 pages of text, the rest are plates. This volume, documenting its restoration, is richly illustrated and carefully documented in minute detail. This monumental work of Renaissance art, painted as a tribute to the virtue of Truth, will be further understood and appreciated by art lovers…
Barbara Furlotti. Scala, ©2008. Softcover, 125 pages with index. Underlining in pencil. A lot of guides won’t do the Pinacoteca, because there it appears like you really have to know your stuff. Well, this is the book to get you started. Rather than suffer the crowds of the Raphael Rooms, you can take your guests on a walk through art…
Margaret , Werner Forman. Orbis, London, 1984. Oversized hardcover with dust jacket, 128pp, index. Color images throughout. Margaret’s work over the years led to the re-dating of such important sites as Petra. Although English, she did her doctoral thesis while living in Italy. This present work is considered a popular and lucid work. €5.
(Carl Newell Jackson Lectures) ,Walter Burkert. Harvard, 1987. Soft cover, 181pp. 12 illustrations. The foremost historian of Greek religion provides the first comprehensive, comparative study of a little-known aspect of ancient religious beliefs and practices. Secret mystery cults flourished within the larger culture of the public religion of Greece and Rome for roughly a thousand years. This book is neither…
Memoirs of Jews and Catholics in Wartime Italy. Margherita Marchione, Ph.D. Paulist Press, 1997. Hard cover with dust jacket. 259pp. A member of the Religious Teachers Filippini who have a house on via Bottega Oscure, a few blocks from the Jewish Ghetto and from which they had sheltered 114 Jews from 1943-44. Sister Marchione had made it her personal quest…
Born in Warsaw, Poland and the youngest child of a cultured, Zionist family of Ashkenazi Jews, he is a survivor of Bergen-Belsen. He arrived in Palestine in 1945 and passed there in 2001. He was an Israeli professor of organic chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a Holocaust survivor, an intellectual of liberal political bent, and a civil-rights advocate…
Ramsay MacMullen. Yale, 1984. Softcover, 183pp. Professor MacMullen examines the question from a secular – rather than ecclesiastical – viewpoint, and his conclusion is that mass conversions to Christianity were based more on the appeal of miracle or the opportunity for worldly advantages than simply on a “rising tide of Christian piety”. The book has a full complement of notes…
Italian Renaissance and Greece, Vol. 1. National Gallery, 2003. cm.23×31, pp. 583. peso 2.750 kilo. €15. Paintings, sculptures, bronze statuettes, wedding chests, medals, plaquettes, illustrated manuscripts, majolicas, and rare and valuable objects such as cameos and seals from the Medici treasures captured the magic of the Renaissance, marked by its longing for the Greek antiquity. Legendary heroes of this great…
Touring Club Italiano, 2014. Hardcover, 288 color pagine. peso 1,375 grammi, oversized. €10. Review: https://www.sololibri.net/Tesoro-Italia-Il-patrimonio-negato.html
La bellezza che salva. L’estetica in Tommaso D’Aquino. Pablo Santiago Zambruno. EDI, 2008. Softcover, 164 pagine. Some underlining in pen in the 1st part of the book, up to page 41. €5. Dio, con l’atto d’amore che è la creazione, ha reso le creature “belle” e il caos trasformato in cosmo è un riflesso della sua bellezza; così tutte le…