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Tables of Contents for History and Culture in Italy
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Giordano Bruno and Intellectual Rebellion
1
7
Venice, Vicenza and Milan
7
3
Paolo Portoghesi: Borromini and Postmodernism
10
1
Mythological Origins in Crete and the Peloponnese
11
6
Giuseppe Mazzini and the Risorgimento
17
3
Baroque Architecture in Turin
20
2
Primo Levi and Post-Holocaust Identity
22
5
Antonio Gramsci and Marxist Cultural Theory
27
8
Vienna and the Origins of Modernism
35
2
Prague: Creativity and the Subconscious
37
5
Giovanni Macchia: Sensuality and Modern Life
42
6
Futurism and the Obsession with Speed
48
5
Calcio and Astrology in Modern Italy
53
2
Silvio Berlusconi and Capitalist Politics
55
5
Life as Spectacle
60
5
Calcata: a Bohemian Alternative
65
7
Franco Archibugi and the Italian Language
72
2
Campo Marzio: the Heart of Rome
74
7
Genoa and the French Riviera
81
1
Capri and Anacapri
82
2
Thomas Aquinas and the Great Synthesis
84
3
Lorenzo Valla: Philology and Textual Criticism
87
3
Tommaso Campanella: Political Revolt and Utopia
90
3
Giambattista Vico and the Social Sciences
93
5
Benedetto Croce and the Philosophy of the Spirit
98
4
Archetypes for Mythology and Christianity in Egypt
102
10
Olympia: the Greek Arcadia
112
5
The Art Scene in Rome
117
2
The Villa Farnesina
119
4
Seneca and Stoicism
123
4
Constantine and Christianity
127
7
Cicero and the Art of Oration
134
3
Piazza San Pietro and the Arms of the Church
137
4
Classical Philosophy in the Vatican
141
9
Borromini: Humanism and Neoplatonism
150
4
The Cornaro Chapel: Spiritual and Physical Ecstasy
154
2
Pompeii and the Villa of the Mysteries
156
4
Plotinus: Plato and the Ennead
160
4
Saint Francis of Assisi and the Universal Spirit
164
5
Siena: the Renaissance that Might Have Been
169
6
Saint Augustine and the Christian Community
175
5
Leon Battista Alberti and the Modern Architect
180
9
The City of Florence
189
5
Michelangelo: Expression and Rebellion
194
3
The Platonic Academy
197
3
Sandro Botticelli and Classical Mythology
200
4
Pisa: Monuments to an Empire
204
3
Galileo and the Birth of Science
207
1
Umberto Eco and the Importance of Semiotics
208
5
Andrea Palladio and Humanist Architecture
213
8
Byzantine Mosaics in Ravenna
221
6
Giuseppe Terragni: Architecture and Politics
227
4
Athens and Aix-en-Provence
231