1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910961235103321

Autore

Hodges Sheila

Titolo

Lorenzo Da Ponte : the life and times of Mozart's librettist / / Sheila Hodges ; foreword by H.C. Robbins Landon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2002

ISBN

9786612269066

9781282269064

1282269062

9780299178734

0299178730

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 p.)

Disciplina

782.1/092

B

Soggetti

Librettists

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: London : Grafton Books, 1985.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-265) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Introduction -- LORENZO DA PONTE -- Chronological Table of the Main Events of Da Ponte's Life -- Da Ponte's Works -- Acknowledgements -- Notes and References -- Note Regarding the Memoirs -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Three of the greatest operas ever written-The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così€ fan tutte-join the exquisite music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with the perfectly matched libretti of Lorenzo Da Ponte. Da Ponte's own long life (1749-1838), however, was more fantastic than any opera plot. A poor Jew who became a Catholic priest; a priest who became a young gambler and rake; a teacher, poet, and librettist of genius who became a Pennsylvania greengrocer; an impoverished immigrant to America who became professor of Italian at Columbia University-wherever Da Ponte went, he arrived a penniless fugitive and made a new and eventful life. Sheila Hodges follows him from the last glittering years of the Venetian Republic to the Vienna of Mozart and Salieri, and from George III's London to New York City.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910955172603321

Autore

Glucklich Ariel

Titolo

The sense of adharma / / Ariel Glucklich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-774161-4

1-280-52689-0

0-19-802448-7

1-4294-0566-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

181.4

294.5

Soggetti

Dharma

Adharma (Hinduism)

Hindu symbolism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1994.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-259) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction: On Understanding Culture Through the Body; 1. Images and Symbols of Dharma; 2. The Duration of Images in Time; 3. Why Rivers Purify (And Only Bad Witches Are Ugly); 4. Dermatology and Cosmology; 5. Boundaries in Space and Time; 6. Passage to Marriage-The Dharma Agent; 7. Playing The Field: Adultery as Claim Jumping, by Wendy Doniger; 8. Thieves and Dharma in the Story Literature; 9. The Adharmic Force of Punishment (Danda); Conclusion: Back to the Body; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is a study of the contrasting Hindu concepts of adharma (chaos) and dharma (order). The author uses a synthesis of phenomenological and anthropological approaches to study the structure of the imagination that produces such an apparently contradictory viewpoint.