Tamarisks

TAMARISKS (MYRICAE) is Giovanni Pascoli’s first major collection of verse. Many of its poems center on manifestations of the rural. Nature is at once an interpretation and interpolation of humanity. These compositions explore the countryside, experience the seasons and their alternation, relate the rhythms of agrarian labor, seek the blooming flower, spy the secluded nest. The collection draws on everyday objects, the changing landscape, the Anthropocene, the disenfranchised, and the natural world to explore humanity’s relationship to nature and to the modern world. Tamarisks is a liminal text, rooted in the classical lyrical tradition. It heralded the innovations and experimentation of the avant-garde of the early twentieth century. In breaking with the past and articulating a new poetic language, it is a foundational statement for modern Italian poetry. Dual-language poetry, translated from the Italian by Piero Garofalo. Introduction, bibliography, first-line index, and notes. Tronzo, William Four Mediterranean Capitals: Essays in Architecture and Visual Experience 1 HC DISTINGUISHED ART HISTORIANWilliam Tronzo brings together insights into four major late ancient and medieval capitals — Rome, Constantinople, Palermo, and Venice — to uncover their common visual vocabulary of civic space, architecture, and symbolic meaning. Drawing on decades of his own and others’ previous research and publication, Tronzo offers new approaches into well-known urban contexts and architectural settings, delving into the viewer’s experience of mosaic, sculpture, drapery, revetment and stone, of wall, dome, and portal, of street and forum to reexamine how historic buildings helped shape the experience of the civic, the imperial, and the divine manifested in urban life and daily movement. 68 color and b&w images, introduction, notes, bibliography, index. A new title in Italica’s Studies in Art & History series.— Google Books