Italy : the enduring culture /
Jonathan White.
- New York : Leicester University Press, 2001.
- xiii, 346 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Italy in the Cultural Cosmorama -- 1. Cities, Dantesque and Other -- 2. Sexuality, Class and Economics: The Decameron as Originary Text -- 3. 'The Architect Achieves His Victory': Renaissance and Later Ideal Cities -- 4. 'When the Kissing Had to Stop': Eighteenth-century Venice - Apotheosis or Decline? -- 5. Opera, Politics and Television: Bel Canto by Satellite -- 6. Mimesis or Montage? Reflections on the Languages of Literature and Cinema -- 7. The Triumph of Death: History in the Sicilian Context -- 8. 'A Fine Funeral of Our Identities? The Italian Diaspora of the Modern Epoch.