Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Results of the February 25, 2013, Italian national elections point to divided government ahead. 


http://www.google.com/elections/ed/it/results


Pier Luigi Bersani: Wikipedia




Silvio Berlusconi: Wikipedia
Beppe Grillo: Wikipedia
Mario Monti: Wikipedia


For accounts of the election, see the following:

http://www.lastampa.it/

http://www.repubblica.it/static/speciale/2013/elezioni/regionali/

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/26/world/europe/Italy-elections.html


Monday, February 25, 2013

New Arrivals in French and Italian Studies

A selection of books that have recently made their way to the library . . .

French Works


Debov, Valéry M. Dictionnaire des rimes en verlan dans le rap français. Paris: Maison du dictionnaire, 2012.

Dermenjian, Geneviève., Jacques Guilhaumou, and Karine Lambert. La place des femmes dans la cité. Aix-en-Provence: Presses universitaires de Provence, 2012.

Fried, Michael. Flaubert's "gueuloir": On Madame Bovary and Salambô. New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 2012.

Goestchel, Pascale. L'ennui: histoire d'un état d'âme (xixe-Xxe Siècle). Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2012.

Kontente, Léon., and Miko Kontente. Présence française à Smyrne, XVIIIe-XIXe Siècles. Montigny-le-Bretonne: Yvelinédition, 2012.

Rolland, Romain, Jean Lacoste, and Marie-Laure Prévost. Journal De Vézelay: 1938-1944. Paris: Bartillat, 2012.

Schyns, Desirée. La mémoire littéraire de la guerre d'Algérie dans la fiction algérienne francophone. Paris: Harmattan, 2012.

Starobinski, Jean. Accuser et séduire : essais sur Jean-Jacques Rousseau. [Paris]: Gallimard, 2012.

Stedman, Allison, Rococo Fiction In France, 1600-1715: Seditious Frivolity. Lewisburg [Pa.]: Bucknell University Press, 2013.

Walch, Agnès. La médiatisation de la vie privée : XVe-XXe siècle. Arras: Artois Presses Université, 2012.

Wauquelin, Jean, and Nigel Bryant. The Medieval Romance of Alexander: Jehan Wauquelin's The Deeds and Conquests of Alexander the Great. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2012.

Willingham, Elizabeth M., and Walter Blue. La queste del Saint Graal =: The Quest of the Holy Grail : From the Old French Lancelot of Yale 229 : with Essays, Glossaries, and Notes to the Text. Turnhout: Brepols, 2012.





Italian Works


Frieda, Leonie. The Deadly Sisterhood: A Story of Women, Power and Intrigue In the Italian Renaissance, 1427-1527. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2012.

 

Iermano, Toni, and Pasquale Sabbatino. La nuova scienza come rinascita dell'identità nazionale : la Storia della letteratura italiana di Francesco De Sanctis (1870-2010). Napoli: Edizioni scientifiche italiane, 2012.

 

Lombardi-Diop, Cristina., and Caterina Romeo. Postcolonial Italy: Challenging National Homogeneity, New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

 

Tarpino, Antonella. Spaesati : luoghi dell'Italia in abbandono tra memoria e futuro. Torino: Einaudi, 2012.

brought to you by...
Sarah Sussman, curator of French and Italian Collections