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Eggs,
Earth
And Space
Popular science or earth science description of planet earth, its various systems and their functions, their current status, dangers, including global warming, climate change, pollution, sea level rise etc. The book includes introductory framed story about young student stowaways on the International Space Station which through their questions, precede and introduce each scientific chapter.
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The House on the Fondaco Plain
At the beginning of the 1970s, Teresa Licciardi, a young widow, shutters her ancestral house and leaves her small town in Sicily, with her sons, for a new life in America. Her departure is the culmination of this beautiful novel, in which the story of a family across generations and continents becomes a hymn to the memory of lost time, people and places, and a celebration of the courage, dignity and love of the author’s family and ancestors. Images of daily life, popular beliefs and superstitions, historical and magical events overlay cinematic scenes spanning the frozen Russian steppes in World War II and the boundless prairies of Australia, the gentle Sicilian hillsides and the tunnels and skyscrapers of Manhattan. This is a stirring epic of the immigrant adventure.
NATALE CARUSO was born in Licodia Eubea (Sicily) and immigrated to America at the age of twenty. He taught Italian and Spanish in the NYC High School system for thirty-one years and is now a professor of foreign languages at the City University of New York. His poetry has appeared in various anthologies. Other books by Natale Caruso include AnAmericanStory–ANovelofBlackMigrationNorth and Beyond the Southern Border.
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Antonfrancesco Grazzini («Il Lasca»), Two Plays
Antonfrancesco Grazzini, known as Il Lasca (The Roach), was born and lived in Florence at the height of the Renaissance. He wrote prolifically in most genres, including novelle, burlesque poetry, and comedies. As a playwright he was, in his time, more popular than even Machiavelli. The Friar is a farce in three acts which satirizes, in the manner of Boccaccio, lustful men of the cloth and their willing female victims. The Bawd subverts stock classical comedy characters and situations while placing them in contemporary Florence. The result is the usual mayhem involving gullible fools, lustful young people, corrupt scheming servants, and a bit of black magic. The rise and subsequent popularity of the commedia dell’arte owes much to the likes of Il Lasca.