The head of Italy's first family of winemaking reflects on the Antinoris' six-hundred-year legacy and a life of good food and drink in the hills of Tuscany. If you know wine, you know the name Antinori. Since 1385, this noble Florentine family has produced some of Italy's finest wines. The Hills of [...]

Understanding the chemistry behind works of art and heritage materials presents an opportunity to apply scientific techniques to their conservation and restoration. Manipulation of materials at the nanoscale affords greater accuracy and minimal disturbance to the original work, while efficiently com[...]

En starkt reducerad version av den här texten publicerades första gången 2003 i Dagens Nyheter Piero Della Francesca framstår som en snobb i konsthistorien, en intellektuell och aristokratisk målare, vars madonnor är fula i traditionell bemärkelse och där människorna förblir kyligt oberö[...]

Interaction Flow Modeling Language describes how to apply model-driven techniques to the problem of designing the front end of software applications, i.e., the user interaction. The book introduces the reader to the novel OMG standard Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML). Authors Marco Brambill[...]

Piero Melograni here offers a wholly readable account of Mozart's remarkable life and times. This masterly biography proceeds from the young Mozart's earliest years as a wunderkind - the child prodigy who traveled with his family to perform concerts throughout Europe - to his formative years in Vien[...]

Inverting rules with obvious relish, Florentine artist Piero di Cosimo (1462-1522) is known today, as he was in his own time, for his highly personal visual language, one capable of generating images of the most mesmerizing oddity. Endlessly inventive, versatile, and often playful, Piero defies easy[...]

The bestselling psychotherapist and author of "The Power of Kindness" offers a concrete program for developing the will--a faculty we greatly need to face life's hurdles and to embark on our most meaningful projects
All of us experience periods of gloom, fear, and uncertainty. But we each posse[...]

Professor Boitani's latest book explores the areas of the tragic and the sublime in medieval literature by asking what medieval texts mean to modern readers. Boitani, who has written widely on medieval and comparative literature, studies tragic and sublime tensions in stories and scenes recounted by[...]

This classic anthology assembles over 200 source readings, bringing to life the history of music through letters, reviews, biographical sketches, memoirs, and other documents. Writings by composers, critics, and educators touch on virtually every aspect of Western music from ancient Greece to the pr[...]

"The History of Italian Cinema" is the most comprehensive guide to Italian film ever published. Written by the foremost scholar of Italian cinema and presented here for the first time in English, this landmark book traces the complete history of filmmaking in Italy, from its origins in the silent er[...]

Few artists of the fifteenth century are as revered today as Piero della Francesca (c.1413-92). The favourite artist of many painters and sculptors of our own time, he is admired especially for the balance of his compositions, the geometric perfection of his forms and the emotional coolness of his s[...]