28 September 2010 - 19 October 2010
The series of book launches featuring the latest publications from the Giorgio Cini
Foundation resumes this autumn on the island of San Giorgio.
The first date, 28 September, is devoted to the publication of the correspondence between Eleonora Duse and her daughter Enrichetta, entitled: Ma Pupa, Henriette. Le lettere di Eleonora Duse alla figlia, edited by Maria Ida Biggi and published by Marsilio, Venice. These letters – the vast majority are previously unpublished – provide fresh insight into Duse as a mother and private woman.
On 7 October the featured book is Benno Geiger e la cultura europea edited by Marco Meli and Elsa Geiger Arié and pubished by Olschki. This is a companion volume to the previously published Benno Geiger e la cultura italiana (2007), which presented material preserved in the Giorgio Cini Foundation concerning Benno Geiger’s role in 20th-century Italian culture. The latest book, on the other hand, will complete his intellectual portrait in a European key. With a good deal of previously unpublished material, it offers an all-round image of his multifaceted interests in the European (especially French and German) artistic and literary world.
Next up, on 12 October, is the book Cinque pezzi sacri. Testi poetici dell’oratorio sacro in Metastasio, Handel, Haydn (“Five sacred pieces. Poetic texts of the scared oratorios in Metastasio, Handel, Haydn”), edited by Bruno Bertoli and part of the “Studi di Musica Veneta” series. The essays in this volume analyse the poetic texts of some celebrated 18th-century oratorios and aim to explore a research fi eld still relatively neglected by literary and
music critics. The series of book presentations will end on 19 October with the seventh volume in the
Viridarium series entitled La Montagna sacra (“The Sacred Mountain”), published by Medusa editore and edited by Alessandro Grossato. The authors supply new materials and original ideas in interpreting the “Sacred Mountain”, one of the most signifi cant mythologems in the history of religions in various countries: from Hinduist India to
Zoroastrian Iran, ancient Greece, Islamic Arabia-Persia, Taoist China, Shinto and Buddhist Japan, and the Amerindian cultures of North America.
Events
Books at San Giorgio
Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
The series of book launches featuring the latest publications from the Giorgio CiniFoundation resumes this autumn on the island of San Giorgio.
The first date, 28 September, is devoted to the publication of the correspondence between Eleonora Duse and her daughter Enrichetta, entitled: Ma Pupa, Henriette. Le lettere di Eleonora Duse alla figlia, edited by Maria Ida Biggi and published by Marsilio, Venice. These letters – the vast majority are previously unpublished – provide fresh insight into Duse as a mother and private woman.
On 7 October the featured book is Benno Geiger e la cultura europea edited by Marco Meli and Elsa Geiger Arié and pubished by Olschki. This is a companion volume to the previously published Benno Geiger e la cultura italiana (2007), which presented material preserved in the Giorgio Cini Foundation concerning Benno Geiger’s role in 20th-century Italian culture. The latest book, on the other hand, will complete his intellectual portrait in a European key. With a good deal of previously unpublished material, it offers an all-round image of his multifaceted interests in the European (especially French and German) artistic and literary world.
Next up, on 12 October, is the book Cinque pezzi sacri. Testi poetici dell’oratorio sacro in Metastasio, Handel, Haydn (“Five sacred pieces. Poetic texts of the scared oratorios in Metastasio, Handel, Haydn”), edited by Bruno Bertoli and part of the “Studi di Musica Veneta” series. The essays in this volume analyse the poetic texts of some celebrated 18th-century oratorios and aim to explore a research fi eld still relatively neglected by literary and
music critics. The series of book presentations will end on 19 October with the seventh volume in the
Viridarium series entitled La Montagna sacra (“The Sacred Mountain”), published by Medusa editore and edited by Alessandro Grossato. The authors supply new materials and original ideas in interpreting the “Sacred Mountain”, one of the most signifi cant mythologems in the history of religions in various countries: from Hinduist India to
Zoroastrian Iran, ancient Greece, Islamic Arabia-Persia, Taoist China, Shinto and Buddhist Japan, and the Amerindian cultures of North America.