{"product_id":"ariosto-in-the-machine-age-alessandro-giammei-9781487546793","title":"Ariosto in the Machine Age","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAriosto in the Machine Age\u003c\/em\u003e reveals how the most influential poet of the Renaissance was conjured or appropriated to shape Magical Realism, avant-garde painting, Fascist cultural propaganda, and cinema in modern Italy between the birth of Futurism and the end of the Second World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on substantial archival findings, bold iconographic hypotheses, and novel interpretations of literary texts, the book proposes a new account of Italy's twentieth-century culture through a unique take on Ludovico Ariosto's early modern poetics and legacy. Starting from the unexpected pass駟sm of Futurists visiting Ferrara on the eve of the First World War, it rereads the development of Giorgio de Chirico's Metaphysical art and Massimo Bontempelli's Realismo Magico. The book reconstructs the multimedia archive of the Fascist initiatives for the 1933 centennial anniversary of Ariosto's death, and then focuses on the passage between Fascist cinema and the birth of neorealism, unearthing unfinished adaptations of the \u003ci\u003eOrlando Furioso\u003c\/i\u003e by Luchino Visconti and Alessandro Blasetti. Questioning the very concept of reception, this radically interdisciplinary book warns twenty-first-century readers about the risks of monumentalizing the \"great authors\" of the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alessandro Giammei\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1487546793\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487546793\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/30\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 410\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.30d","brand":"Alessandro Giammei","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44809795633407,"sku":"9781487546793","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a075b6de-7b06-4bd6-a1ea-a3a8fc6286ab.jpg?v=1707927494","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ariosto-in-the-machine-age-alessandro-giammei-9781487546793","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}