Wedding Speech Italian
October 3rd, 2010
Transmissions from a Lone Star: On rock stars, slaves and free men
Ever since I left the university 15 years ago I have led a strange life, one which has been short on cash but rich in unusual encounters. Recently for instance I have been spending a lot of time in the house of a musician acquaintance whose band had several hits in the 1980s.
My Awful, Horrible, Irish-Italian Wedding Speech
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The Renaissance of Marriage in Fifteenth-Century Italy (Harvard Historical Studies) $64.92 Weddings in fifteenth-century Italian courts were grand, sumptuous affairs that often required guests to listen attentively to lengthy orations given in Latin. In this book, Anthony D’Elia shows how Italian humanists used these orations to support claims of legitimacy and assertions of superiority among families jockeying for power, as well as to advocate for marriage and sexual pleasure. Humani… |