{"title":"Italian List","description":"\u003cp\u003eDive into captivating Italian literature with our curated list of brilliant series. Explore gripping crime thrillers, historical sagas, and heartwarming family dramas from Italy's finest storytellers.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"pulcinella-book-giorgio-agamben-9780857425409","title":"Pulcinella","description":"The list of subjects that Giorgio Agamben has tackled in his career is dizzying--from the dangers of our current political moment to the traces of the distant past that inflect the culture around us today. With Pulcinella, Agamben is back with yet another surprising--and surprisingly relevant--subject: the commedia dell'arte character. At the heart of Pulcinella is Agamben's exploration of an album of 104 drawings, created by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804) near the end of his life, that cover the life, adventures, death, and resurrection of the title character. Who is Pulcinella under his black mask? Is he a man, a demon, or a god? Mixing stories of the enigmatic Pulcinella with his own character in a sort of imaginary philosophical biography, Agamben attempts to locate the line connection between philosophy and comedy. Perhaps, contrary to what we've been told, comedy is not only more ancient and profound than tragedy, but also closer to philosophy--close enough, in fact, that, as happens in this book, at times the line between the two can blur.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49732027449617,"sku":"NGR9780857425409","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0857425404.jpg?v=1762337421"},{"product_id":"time-and-festivity-book-furio-jesi-9780857426307","title":"Time and Festivity","description":"One of the foremost thinkers of his generation, Furio Jesi began to publish scholarly essays in academic journals at the age of fifteen. By the time of his early death in 1980, he had accumulated a body of work that astonishes with its abundance and diversity, its depth and scope, and, above all, for its unfailing rigor and brilliance.   In Time and Festivity, Andrea Cavalletti collects Jesi’s finest essays, ranging from his groundbreaking work on myth and politics to his reflections on time, festivity, and revolt. He explores the significance of texts by Rimbaud, Rilke, Lukács, and Pavese and the mythological language of the biblical story of Susanna. Carefully annotated and referenced, and enriched by a first-person account of Jesi’s intellectual biography, Time and Festivity provides a precious guide to the methodology and approach at the core of Jesi’s thought, displaying how his personal, vitally intense via negativa might in fact originate from his early statement: “All I have ever written is poetry.”","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49759432605969,"sku":"NGR9780857426307","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0857426303.jpg?v=1751330383"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/italian-list-book-series.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}