From Da Ponte to the Casa italiana : a brief history of Italian studies at Columbia University /

"The Casa Italiana--a neo-Renaissance palazzo located on Amsterdam Avenue near 117th Street--has been the most important expression of the Italian presence on Columbia University's campus since its construction in 1927. As a site of interdisciplinary scholarship and promotion of Italian cu...

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主要作者: Faedda, Barbara (Author)
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: New York : Columbia University Press, 2017.
在線閱讀:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/faed18593
書本目錄:
  • The dawn of Italian studies at Columbia University : Lorenzo da Ponte, Mozart's librettist and adventurous exile in New York (1825-1838)
  • After Da Ponte, the arrival of patriot and refugee Eleuterio Felix Foresti (1838-1911)
  • The Casa Italiana : the realization of an ambitious dream (1920s)
  • Prezzolini, controversial Casa director, and World War II (1930s and 1940s)
  • Appendix A: From Lorenzo da Ponte to Charles V. Paterno : Libri Italiani at Columbia University / Meredith Levin
  • Appendix B: The anatomy of the Casa Italiana's façade / Francesco Benelli
  • Appendix C: The Casa Italiana educational bureau : a research "fact-finding institution" on the Italian-American community / Javier Grossutti.