New Arrivals in French and Italian Studies

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


French Works

Essif, Les. American "unculture" In French Drama: Homo Americanus and the Post-1960 French Resistance. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Laboulais, Isabelle. La maison des mines: la genèse révolutionnaire d'un corps d'ingénieurs civils (1794-1814). Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2012.

Le Bras, Laurence. Guy Debord: un art de la guerre. [Paris]: Bibliothèque national de France, 2013.

Millecam, Jean-Pierre, Années Camus: Mémoires. Paris: Pierre-Guillaume de Roux, 2013.

Montoya, Alicia. Medievalist Enlightenment: From Charles Perrault to Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
[Cambridge]: D.S. Brewer, 2013.

Morrey, Douglas. Michel Houllebecq: Humanity and Its Aftermath. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013.

Taguieff, Pierre-André. Dictionnaire historique et critique du racisme. 1re éd. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2013.

Vargas, Fred The Ghost Riders of Ordebec. London: Harvill Secker, 2013.
 



Italian Works

 
Bianchi, Alessandro. Al servizio del principe : diplomazia e corte nel ducato di Mantova, 1665-1708. 1. ed. Milano: UNICOPLI, 2012.

Costantini, Roberto, and N. S. Thompson. The Deliverance of Evil. London: Quercus, 2013.


Gaylard, Susan. Hollow Men: Writing, Objects, and Public Image In Renaissance Italy. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013.

Misan-Montefiore, Jacques. The Commedia dell'arte from Arlecchino to Our Times. Pisa: F. Serra, 2013.

Païni, Dominique. Lo sguardo di Michelangelo Antonioni e le arti. Ferrara: Ferrara arte, 2013.

Pontremoli, Alessandro. La danza nelle corti di antico regime : modelli culturali e processi di ricezione fra natura e arte. Bari: Edizioni di Pagina, 2012.

Smith, Gregory, and Jan Gadeyne. Perspectives on Public Space in Rome, from Antiquity to the Present Day. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013.

Recently Aquired Rare and Antiquarian Materials

Whether you plan to fall in love this summer, take a cruise, or imagine the Devil's take on Voltaire, you will find inspiration in Stanford's most recent acquisitions of rare and antiquarian materials.  We have also added to our collection a work by Laura Bassi, many of whose family papers have now been digitized in a joint collaboration between the Stanford University Libraries and the Biblioteca Comunale dell'Archiginnasio, in Bologna, Italy.

Bassi, Laura Maria Caterina., and Gaetano Tacconi. D. O. M. Laura Maria Catharina Bassi, ... se suaque philosophica studia humiliter D. D. D. (Disputabuntur publice die 17 aprilis 1732.). Bononiae: ex typ. L. a Vulpe.

A welcome addition from the works of the distinguished physical scientist of 18th-century Bologna, active participant in the Republic of Letters and first woman to be appointed a professor in a European university.  Students and scholars interested in Bassi's extraordinary life will find a magnificent archival resource, the Bassi-Veratti Collection, available at the click of a mouse, thanks to a collaboration between the Biblioteca Comunale dell'Archiginnasio in Bologna, Italy, and the Stanford University Libraries.

Giraud, C.-M. Epitre du diable, a M. De V***. Vienne: Chez le Libraire de la Cour, 1760.

Ledvinca, Nico. Remi sull’Adriatico : storia di una crociera. Milano: Editrice la Quercia, 1933.







Stampa, Gaspara, Collaltino di Collalto, and Vinciguerra II di Collalto. Rime di Madonna Gaspara Stampa con alcune altre di Collaltino, e di Vinciguerra conti di Callalto: e di Baldassare Stampa: Giuntovi diversi componimenti di vari autori in lodi della medesima. Venezia: Piacentini, 1738.

A splendid edition of Gaspara Stampa's Rime. Born in Padua and resident in Venice, Stampa was certainly one of the most important female poets of the sixteenth century and embodied the Renaissance ideals of extraordinary learning and active participation in the cultural circles of her day.  Originally published in 1554 not long after her death in the same year, the work was dedicated to the great lyric poet Giovanni della Casa, fellow resident of Venice and author of the most influential late Renaissance treatise on manners, Il Galatea.

nice article on French literary blogs

... in the Magazine littéraire

Highlighted blogs include:
Stalker
De Litteris
La lettrine
L’Autofictif

You can find the most recent issues of Magazine littéraire in the book racks just past the IC desk, along with Lire, Books: l'actualité des livres du monde, and the Nouvel Obs

New Arrivals in French and Italian Studies

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


Italian Works

Avati, Pupi. La grande invenzione : un'autobiografia. 1. ed. [Milan, Italy]: Rizzoli, 2013.

Cerami, Vincenzo, Alla luce del sole. 1. ed. Milano: Mondadori, 2013.

Muñiz Muñiz, Maria de las Nieves. L'immagine riflessa : percezione nazionale e trame intertestuali fra Italia e Spagna : da Petrarca a Montale, da Garcilaso a Guillén. Firenze: F. Cesati, 2012.

Tabucchi, Antonio, and Anna Dolfi. Di tutto resta un poco: letteratura e cinema. 1. ed. in "Le comete." Milano: G. Feltrinelli, 2013.


French Works

Buot, François. Gay Paris: une histoire du Paris interlope entre 1900 et 1940. [Paris]: Fayard, 2013.

Catani, Damian, Evil: A History In Modern French Literature and Thought. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

Chalvidant, Jean. Secrets d'ETA. Paris: J. Picollec, 2012.

Dufief, Pierre-Jean, and Marie Perrin-Daubard, eds. Violence politique et littérature au XIXe siècle. Paris: Manuscrit, 2012.

Jaccottet, Philippe. Taches de soleil, ou d'ombre : notes sauvegardées : 1952-2005. [Paris]: Bruit du temps, 2013.

Jouanna, Arlette. The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre: The Mysteries of a Crime of State (24 August 1572). 1st English-language ed. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013.

Louis, Édouard., and Annie Ernaux. Pierre Bourdieu: L'insoumission en héritage. 1re éd. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2013.

Open Roads, Closed Borders: The Contemporary French-Language Road Movie. Bristol: Intellect Books, 2013.

Ricci, Maria Teresa. Figures et langages de la marginalité aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles: actes du colloque d'octobre 2010. Paris: Champion, 2013.

Saint-Amand, Denis. La littérature à l'ombre : sociologie du zutisme. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2012.

Trouillot, Lyonel. Le doux parfum des temps à venir. 1re éd. Arles: Actes sud, 2013.

Au revoir, Georges

Chansonnier, poet, songwriter Georges Moustaki passed away this week...
I saw him perform in Paris in a small club in 2000 -
Here are a few titles at the library about him and by him.

Pelle, André., and Georges Moustaki. The Colours of Alexandria. Alexandria, Egypt: Harpocrates, 2005.

Calvet, Louis Jean, Georges Moustaki: La Ballade Du Métèque. [Paris?]: Fayard, 2004.

Moustaki, Georges. Petite Rue Des Bouchers: Roman. [Paris]: Editions de Fallois, 2001.

Moustaki, Georges., Georges Moustaki, and Siegfried Meir. Fils Du Brouillard. Paris: Fallois, 2000.

Piaf, Edith, Edith Piaf Song Collection. Milwaukee, WI: H. Leonard Corp., 199.

Kaplan, Nelly., Georges Moustaki, Bernadette Lafont, and Julien Guiomar. A Very Curious Girl.(film)

Moustaki, Georges., and Cécile Barthélemy. Georges Moustaki. Paris: P. Seghers, 1970.

Moustaki, Georges., and Mariella Righini. Questions a La Chanson. [Paris] Stock, 1973.