Monday, October 24, 2011

15th New Italian Cinema Festival


The San Francisco Film Society and New Italian Cinema Events of Florence, Italy present New Italian Cinema, November 13–20 at Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema. The eight-day series features a tribute to Daniele Luchetti, eight films from emerging filmmakers, numerous filmmaker guests and Nanni Moretti’s Habemus Papam.  For more information click here.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

New Acquistions, September/October 2011

A selection of new books to start off the Fall Quarter...


French:
Allemand, Sylvain, Edith Heurgon, and Claire Paulhan. De Pontigny à Cerisy: des lieux pour penser avec ensemble. Paris: Hermann, 2011.

Begag, Azouz. C'est quand il y en a beaucoup: nouveaux périls identitaires français. Paris: Belin, 2011.

Cabanel, Patrick, and Jacques Fijalkow. Histoire régionale de la Shoah en France: déportation, sauvetage, survie. Paris: Éditions de Paris, 2011.



Chesters, Timothy. Ghost stories in late Renaissance France: walking by night. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.




Courduriès, Jérôme. Etre en couple - gay: conjugalité et homosexualité masculine en France. Lyon: Presses universitaires de Lyon, 2011.

Ferrer, Daniel. Logiques du brouillon: modèles pour une critique génétique. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2011.

Pfeffer, Wendy, and Robert A. Taylor. Bibliographie de la littérature occitane: trente années d'études (1977-2007). Turnhout: Brepols, 2011.

Rosanvallon, Pierre. La société des égaux. Paris: Seuil, 2011.

Roussel, Raymond, and Mark Ford. New impressions of Africa = Nouvelles impressions d'Afrique. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2011.

Trouillot, Lyonel. La belle amour humaine: roman. Arles: Actes Sud, 2011.

Watt, Adam A. The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Williams, Wes. Monsters and Their Meanings in Early Modern Culture: Mighty Magic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.



Bisicchia, Andrea. Teatro e mafia, 1861-2011. Milano: San Raffaele, 2011.

Bosworth, R. J. B. Whispering City: Modern Rome and Its Histories. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.

Brancati, Daniela. Occhi di maschio: le donne e la televisione in Italia : una storia dal 1954 a oggi. Roma: Donzelli, 2011.

Centro nuovo modello di sviluppo. I mercanti della notizia: guida al controllo dell'informazione in Italia. Bologna: EMI, 2011.

Dante Alighieri, Robert Hollander, and Simone Marchesi. La Commedia di Dante Alighieri. Firenze: L.S. Olschki, 2011.

Feo, Giovanni, and Francesca Roversi Monaco. Bologna e il secolo XI: storia, cultura, economia, istituzioni, diritto. Bologna: Bononia University Press, 2011.

Fumaroli, Marc, and Richard Howard. When the World Spoke French. New York: New York Review Books, 2011.







Gotor, Miguel. Il memoriale della Repubblica: gli scritti di Aldo Moro dalla prigionia e l'anatomia del potere italiano. Torino: Einaudi, 2011.

Leroux, Robert. Political Economy and Liberalism in France: The Contributions of Frédéric Bastiat. London: Routledge, 2011.

Lombardi, Chiara. Mondi nuovi a teatro: l'immagine del mondo sulle scene europee di Cinquecento e Seicento : spazi, economia, società. Milano: Mimesis, 2011.

Mangini, Enzo, Anna Ciammitti, and Pierdomenico Sirianni. Natale De Grazia: le navi dei veleni. Roma: Round Robin, 2011.

Marcozzi, Luca. Petrarca platonico: studi sull'immaginario filosofico del canzoniere. Roma: Aracne, 2011.

Motolese, Matteo, and Alessio Ricci. L'italiano letterario: fondazione e modelli. Città di Castello: Edimond, 2011.

Ravenda, Andrea F. Alì fuori dalla legge: migrazione, biopolitica e stato di eccezione in Italia. Verona: Ombre corte, 2011.

Rinaldi, Michele. Per l'edizione critica delle Expositiones et glose super Comediam Dantis di Guido da Pisa: recensio dei manoscritti. Napoli: Loffredo, 2010.

Santino, Umberto. Don Vito a Gomorra: mafia e antimafia tra papelli, pizzini e bestseller. [Rome, Italy]: Editori riuniti University Press, 2011.

Torre, Angelo. Luoghi: la produzione di località in età moderna e contemporanea. Roma: Donzelli, 2011.






Wilson, A. N. Dante in Love. London: Atlantic, 2011.

Monday, October 3, 2011

Recently Acquired Rare and Antiquarian Books - October 2011


AUGIER DU FOT (M.). Catéchisme sur l’art des accouchements pour les sages-femmes de la campagne, Fait par l’ordre du Gouvernement... et imprimé aux dépens du diocèse.  Montpellier, Jean Mariel aîné, 1776. in 12 (9,9 x 16 cm. xxiv-90 pp.-(2)ff. 

BURNEY (Miss).
Évelina, ou L’Entrée d’une jeune personne dans le monde. Traduit de l’anglais. Paris, Imbert, Avril 1798. 2 volumes in 12 (71 x 130 mm).

CHORIER (Nicolas).
Les Dialogues de Luisa Sigea sur les arcanes de l'Amour et de Vénus ou Satire Sotadique… Prétendue écrite en espagnol par Luisa Sigea et traduite en latin par Jean Meursius. Texte latin revu sur les premières éditions et traduction littérale, la seule complète, par le Traducteur des Dialogues de Pietro Aretino. Paris, Isidore Liseux, 1882. 4 vol.

Les véritables principes de la langue françoise: pour la sçavoir écrire et parler en peu de temps… Seconde edition. Reveuë, corrigée & augmentée de Remarques sur la Grammaire Françoise du P. Chifflet. En faveurs des Etrangers. A Paris: chez Florentin et Pierre de Laulne, devant la Sorbonne, 1690.

A guide to the “principles” of French aimed at foreigners. This handbook (12mo) was first published in 1684, with another second edition in 1685.

SAINTE-MARTHE (M. Claude de). Traités de piété, ou Discours sur les devoirs des prêtres. S.l., 1770. In 12
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HAMON (M.).
Suite des Opuscules et Lettres de… Qui n'ont point encore paru. S.l., 1770. 129 pp.-(1)f. EDITION ORIGINALE. Contient notamment une Lettre aux religieuses de Port-Royal sur la persécution.

ROLAND DE LA PLATIERE, Jean-Marie. De l'influence des lettres dans les provinces, comparée à leur influence dans les capitales ; discours lu à la séance publique de l'Académie de Lyon, le 6 décembre 1785. S.l: s.n, (Lyon, 1785)
A short text by the future revolutionary Roland (Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière (1734-1793)), in which he demonstrates that literary culture favors capital cities and argues why the provinces would benefit from greater access to cultural and other resources.


SPERONI DEGLI ALVAROTI (S). Dialogi di M. Speron Speroni. Nuovamente ristampati et con molta diligenza riveduti et corretti.  Venise, Domenico Giglio, 1558. in-8. 154ff.   Cartonnage moderne.  (ref.67242)

The Italian humanist and scholar Sperone Speroni degli Alvarotti (1500-1588) was a member of Padua’s Accademia degli Infammiati. He was known for his works on literature and drama. The work recently acquired by Stanford, the Dialogi, was his first publication, and was first published by the Aldine Press in Venice in 1542. Here we have a later Venetian edition, testifying to the popularity of his thoughts on subjects such as love and jealousy, the dignity of women, languages and rhetoric. This work fits in with the research of French professor Cecile Alduy, since Speroni’s dialogues were an important influence to French Renaissance poets such as Du Bellay, Ronsard, and Scève.
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