Edited collections

At a Fair Distance: International Perspectives on the Risorgimento

ed. by Dario Martinelli and Lina Navickaitė-Martinelli

(In English)

At a Fair Distance is a collection of studies on Italian Risorgimento performed by international scholars. It offers a view “from another angle,” within a context—the 150th anniversary of Italian unification—that has generally been arranged “by Italians for Italians,” lacking that particular resourcefulness and often impartiality that international scholarship was able to contribute to the Risorgimento’s historiography.

The book is ideally articulated in four sections. In the first one, Adrian Lyttelton, Bruce Haddock, and Joseph Luzzi refer to the general problems raised by the Risorgimento as a phenomenon, as a historical “container” of events, as a myth. In the second one, the importance of the hundreds of topical histories that surround the “main events” is exemplified through the case of Giuseppe Verdi, discussed by Philip Gossett, Peter Stamatov, and Andreas Giger. In the third section, the reader has the opportunity to learn about the attention that Italian events and characters received in other countries: it is the case of Dennis Berthold’s essay on the depiction of Garibaldi in America, and the volume’s Appendix, collecting the articles that the New York Times published during March 1861. Finally, three essays will illustrate how international characters displayed sympathies for, and played leading roles in, the events of Risorgimento: it is the case of Thomas H. Schmid with Percy Bysshe Shelley, Carol E. Harrison with Pauline Craven, and Sandra M. Gilbert with Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Umweb Publications, 2011 – 328 pp. – 40 euros (free delivery all over the world)

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La coscienza di Gino – Esperienza musicale e arte di vivere

ed. by Dario Martinelli and Francesco Spampinato

(Mostly in Italian, with some contributions in French and English)

Essays in honour of Gino Stefani, in the occasion of his 80th birthday. Stefani is the founder of Musical Semiotics, and is currently active in the field of applied art resaerch, particularly in the contexts of Art-Therapy and Peace Studies.

20 euros (forwarding expenses included)

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Teksti, Tila, Kuva

Ed. by C.Langinauer and J.Turunen

(In Finnish)

A book written by the students in a semiotic course given at Helsinki University, by Umwebber Merja Bauters
The book applies semiotic methodologies to such themes as “A
need for love”, “Art in media – Media in Art”, “Un-understandable art”,
” Always a step behind – adds braking the myths”.

euros 20.- (including forwarding expenses)

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Stili, stilemi, stilismi

ed. by Dario Martinelli

(In Italian, see the Contents)

Essays around the notion of style in arts, music, cinema and hypertextuality. Includes essays by Gino Stefani, Lina Navickaite, Dario Compagno, Silvia Valente, Giuseppe Chieco, Francesco Spampinato and Dario Martinelli

10 euros (forwarding expenses included)

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Finland-Italy: a few comparisons

ed. by Dario Martinelli and Lina Navickaite

(In English, Finnish and Italian, see the Contents)

Cultural exchange and reciprocal artistic influence have often been a leitmotif in the relation between Finland and Italy. This book focuses on five cases, chosen among the least predictable ones, with a general preference for comparative analyses. Such cases include the fields of visual arts, music, popular culture, sports, advertising and anthrozoology. The wish is to give a little more impulse to a field of inquiry that experiences the paradox of being extremely lively and rich on the one hand, and so relatively little explored on the other.

8 euros (forwarding expenses included)

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Semiotics from S to S – A Selection of not-So-SeriouS Semiotic StudieS

ed. by Merja Bauters, Guido Ipsen, Dario Martinelli

preface by Eero Tarasti

(In English)

S stands certainly for Semiotics,
but also for…
Salmon, Sebeok, Secret of the Fox’s byte, Semantic Nets, Semantics Sibilants, slivovice and Svejk, Sinebrychoff, Singalong, Singing tree, Sixty-Nine, Slurs’n'slides, Smack, Soccer, Solution to the Puzzle, Some Stories, Soulmate Seeking, Spare Time, Speaking Non-verbally, Splitting, Strawberry Fields, Stumble, Swindle, Synergy

32 euros (forwarding expenses included)