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3) La traviata
Author
Series
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
Contains the complete text of the libretto with annotations in both English and Italian and a critical historical commentary. The text also includes the background of the composer, biographies of the principal singers and conductor. The two accompanying CDs contain the complete opera sung in Italian.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Shy Vittoria has a close relationship with her loving mother Tina. But their quiet Sardinian life will be upset when the young girl discovers that local party girl Angelica is her birth mother. When Angelica is forced to move away because of financial troubles, she asks to become acquainted with Vittoria. Tina agrees, comforted by the idea that the woman will soon be leaving town. Searching for something deep and inexplicable, Vittoria and Angelica...
11) The Dinner
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Based on the New York Times bestselling novel, THE DINNER turns an ordinary meal among family into a taut morality play as the limits of polite society are tested and two brothers discover just how little they know about each other. To Massimo, a gutsy defense attorney, the monthly dinners with his pediatrician brother Paolo and their wives at a posh local restaurant are a status symbol, even if the time is spent in forced familiarity and inconsequential...
Publisher
Wolfe
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Two very different families spend their holidays in the same house at the seaside: the aristocratic Castelvecchios, open-minded, eccentric, but quite selfish, and the working-class Petagnas, very tight-knit, and united around solid conservative values. What brought such distant worlds together? Only Tony and Carlo, the two middle-aged heads of the families, know! The unexpected announcement of their engagement will disrupt an apparently ordinary summer,...
18) Canti
Author
Series
Nuova universale Einaudi volume 1
Publisher
Einaudi
Pub. Date
1967, c1962
Edition
3. ed.
Physical Desc
lxv, 445 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
Italiano
Description
Giacomo Leopardi is Italy's greatest modern poet, the first European writer to portray and examine the self in a way that feels familiar to us today. A great classical scholar and patriot, he explored metaphysical loneliness in entirely original ways. Though he died young, his influence was enormous, and it is no exaggeration to say that all modern poetry, not only in Italian, derives in some way from his work.
Leopardi's poetry is notoriously difficult...
19) Martin Eden
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Adapted from a 1909 novel by Jack London yet set in a provocatively unspecified moment in Italy’s history, MARTIN EDEN is a passionate and enthralling narrative fresco in the tradition of the great Italian classics. Martin (played by the marvelously committed Luca Marinelli) is a self-taught proletarian with artistic aspirations who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his station and marry a wealthy young university...
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