NB Italian Studies

New Books in #ItalianStudies is an author-interview #podcast channel in the @NewBooksNetwork. Listen on Apple Podcasts:

[NB Italian Studies @NewBooksItaly]

Have you written a good new #ItalianStudies book? Want to appear on the @NewBooksItaly #podcast?

Pitch us at the link below and the producers at the
@NewBooksNetwork will try to match you up with an NBN podcast host in your research field!

https://t.co/Ut1tkUPNzZ

[NB Eastern European Studies 📚 @NewBooksEEuro]

THE FIUME CRISIS (@Harvard_Press) recasts what we know about fascism, nationalism and the fall of empire after WWI by focusing on the 3-year period when the Adriatic city of Fiume generated an international crisis. 🎙️@DominiqueReill joins @steven_seegel👇

https://t.co/e1gZjzLINV

[NB History 📚 @newhistorybooks]

Pier Paolo Paosolini, a filmmaker who created art in a variety of media, has something approaching a cult following. 🎨AGAINST the AVANT-GARDE (@UChicagoPress) reconsiders the work of Italy's most prominent postwar intellectual. Ara H. Merjian joins us ↙️

https://t.co/4NprHITANx

[NB Italian Studies @NewBooksItaly]

ITALIAN NEOREALISM (@utpress) steps back from the micro-histories focusing more narrowly on, for example, Italian cinema, so as to weave together diverse cultural strands into a tapestry of historical practice. @4CLL joins Ellen Nerenberg on the podcast👇

https://t.co/agrjnjb3by

[NB History 📚 @newhistorybooks]

Grounded in the frenetic politics of the 14th century, HUMANISM & EMPIRE (@OUPHistory) demonstrates the extent to which humanist assessments of empire responded in lockstep with the shifting sands of Italian affairs. @alexander_c_lee discusses the book ⤵️

https://t.co/vF0Bk9wdKk

[University of California Press (is on Bluesky) @ucpress]

@NewBooksItaly @jaubert1900 The ebook of “The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America” by Giorgio Bertellini @jaubert1900 is available for free, immediate download via UC Press Luminos #openaccess.
https://t.co/ybimkc77F4

[NB Italian Studies @NewBooksItaly]

THE DIVO and THE DUCE (@ucpress) tells the story of the relationship between celebrity culture, charismatic leadership and national sovereignty on both sides of the Atlantic from 1917-1933. Tune in as @jaubert1900 discusses the book with Ellen Nerenberg👇

https://t.co/04j2ckfVZn

[NB History 📚 @newhistorybooks]

On this episode of the podcast Tamar Herzig joins us to discuss microhistory, Jewish apostasy, sodomy, the archival tradition, and her new book A CONVERT'S TALE: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in #RenaissanceItaly. Give their conversation a listen ⤵️

https://t.co/BTtYZPAXqv

[NB German Studies🎙️📚 @NewBooksGerman]

On this episode of the podcast Victoria de Grazia joins @craig_sorvillo to discuss THE PERFECT FASCIST (@Harvard_Press), her new book that peers into the life of the vain, loyal, lecherous, and impetuous Attilio Teruzzi, an exemplar of fascism’s New Man.

https://t.co/uqmVanzgq8

[NB European Studies 📚 @NewBooksEuro]

📗@jajrenshaw has written superb introduction to the history, politics, and cultural life of the Romans from their mythical beginnings to the fall of the Empire in 476. He sits down with @JWEremeeva to discuss IN SEARCH of the ROMANS (@BloomsburyHist) ↙️

https://t.co/vL5lPKHjTe

[NB Intellectual History 📚 @NewBooksIntHist]

Documenting unstudied cases of slavery in 6 Italian cities—Naples, Caserta, Rome, Palermo, Livorno & Genoa—ABOLITIONISM and the PERSISTENCE of SLAVERY in ITALIAN STATES, 1750-1950 (@PalgraveHistory) offers a pioneering study of slavery in Italy. Tune in👇

https://t.co/1Mo3746s8t

[NB Sociology 📚 @NewBooksSoc]

Martina Cvajner's SOVIET SIGNORAS (@UChicagoPress) focuses on a group of women who migrated from areas in the former Soviet Union to northern Italy, following them from their arrival as they built personal lives and networks. Cvajner discusses the book👇

https://t.co/cXJ9mXyU35

[Marco Rafalà @MarcoRafala]

With my mother's COVID-19 illness weighing on my mind I may have stumbled through this conversation but it was a joy nonetheless. I hope you'll give it a listen! Thank you, @GottliebGp, for your patience and kindness, and thoughtful questions. #HowFiresEnd #SicilianAmerican

[NB Literature 🎙️ 📚 @NewBooksLit]

In a sad but loving tribute to his Sicilian-Italian heritage, @MarcoRafala’s debut novel, HOW FIRES END (@LittleABooks), centers on the haunting legacy of WWII on the people of a small Sicilian village. Give @GottliebGp's conversation w/Rafala a listen👇

https://t.co/qY4TjMEY21

[NB Food 📚 @NewBooksFood]

CREOLE ITALIAN (@UGAPress) reveals how Sicilians became an integral part of #NewOrleans (#NOLA) culture and economy through their entrepreneurship, especially in the food service industry. Learn more as @JustinNystrom discusses the book with @chtippen ⤵️

https://t.co/kIwvcZsxqz