TY  - BOOK
AU  - White Jonathan Charles
TI  - Italy: the enduring culture 
SN  - 0718502574
AV  - DG442 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - New York
PB  - Leicester University Press
KW  - Civilization Modern
KW  - Italian influences
KW  - Italy
KW  - Civilization
N1  - 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
ER  -