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| francesca roberto: LIFE , 1965-10-01 LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use. |
| francesca roberto: Rama II Arthur C. Clarke, 1990-11-01 “This is a space trip that no reader will want to miss.”—Playboy Years ago, the enormous, enigmatic alien spacecraft called Rama sailed through our solar system as mind-boggling proof that life existed—or had existed—elsewhere in the universe. Now, at the dawn of the twenty-third century, another ship is discovered hurtling toward us. A crew of Earth's best and brightest minds is assembled to rendezvous with the massive vessel. They are armed with everything we know about Raman technology and culture. But nothing can prepare them for what they are about to encounter on board Rama II: cosmic secrets that are startling, sensational—and perhaps even deadly. “Offers one surprise after another.”—The New York Times “A masterpiece . . . one of the year’s best hard SF epics.”—The Houston Post |
| francesca roberto: Simone’ Carlotta Maria Shinn Russell, 2016-12-02 This is a journey through love, romance, passion, and heartache. The journey of life, which started at fourteen years of age, would take Simone’ and her family into a maze of pain, heartache, and separation because of choices in love and decisions made while she was young and inexperienced, even to the decisions made after her marriage to protect her family. She found herself in an endless vortex, a downward spiral laced with fear because of the fervent love she had for her family. She felt trapped like a bird in a cage. These decisions were almost detrimental to her daughter and her husband whom she loved with all her soul. Instead of protecting those she loved, her decisions had painful consequences rather than healing remedies. The influencing actions and devastating circumstances all surrounded and involved one woman, who wore a veil of mystery, even to her Father. |
| francesca roberto: Billboard , 1967-03-25 In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends. |
| francesca roberto: Omerta Mafia Code of Silence Mark Biermann, Rona Newton, 2015-09-22 Marko Bennett a handsome young marine recently returned home from two and a half years in the Special Services, in the front line in Afghanistan, fighting against the Taliban. Complete adrenalin junkie, spoilt rich kid who enjoys hanging out with Head of the Crips, Leroy Brown reputed L.A. gangster. Racing Nascars for his big name sponsors, stealing expensive luxury sports cars, Marko street races for Leroy and is linked with the gambling syndicate doing cocaine deals on the side. He winds up in trouble with the law and is sent to New York, by his father the head of the LAPD, who has firm ties to the mafia. Edward Martin, Head Attorney for the Mafia, based in New York, takes young Marko under his wing setting him up as personal assistant to his wife Alessandra who has a label in the Fashion Industry. He has a steamy romance with their daughter Georgia who also works for the massive Fashion Enterprise. He becomes a made man hanging out with hard core mobsters and now enjoys very close relations with Ciro Pistone, (The Don), Frankie Napatano, (Underboss) and other core gang members. Actively entrenched in the Mafia as activities and hanging out with the Cartels son, he becomes involved with the Cartels daughter Francesca and falls madly in love. A twist of fate leads him back to New York on a revenge fuelled rampage of murder and bloodshed linking all the way to the White House. Now a Captain with the mob, he is fully entrenched in the day to day activities of the mob, Jet setting to Sicily, Ibiza and Monaco living the life of a movie star, doing arms deals with the Bosnians and contract hits for the mob. A powerful story full of action, murder, extortion and romance as Marko becomes one of the untouchables, but will he survive to rise up the Mafia ranks |
| francesca roberto: A Walk to Revenge Sam Thompson, A drizzly Manchester night, a hit and run. A chance meeting decades later leads ultimately to the exposure of a transatlantic crime family. Their story begins during the twenties New York prohibition era and follows its evolution into a modern-day underworld business. Jake Hughes and DI Jonty Ball threaten the empire and as a web of murder and deceit is exposed, the crime family bares its’ teeth, leading to an explosive finale where the winner takes all! Or do they? A crime novel with a sprinkling of paranormal. |
| francesca roberto: An Inescapable Temptation Scarlet Wilson, 2013-02-01 Nurse Francesca Cruz has taken a job on a cruise ship bound for the Mediterranean—the perfect retreat from her breakup—except, she finds herself trapped with gorgeous but arrogant doctor Gabriel Russo. She knows his type well: the devastating smile, those come-to-bed eyes and that easy charm. She won't be tempted twice. But with nowhere to escape—except overboard—and her delicious boss lying in the next cabin, it's easier said than done! |
| francesca roberto: I Do, I Do, I Do Samantha Scott-Jeffries, 2012-12-06 Romance, revelations and fun in the Mediterranean sun Isabelle needs to get away from it all. With a boss from hell and a boyfriend so elusive he's almost non-existent, life's looking pretty drab. Then a humiliating cock-up costs Izzy her job and things seem so grim not even a shopping spree can lift her spirits. What's a girl to do? Six months as a wedding planner in Mallorca could be Izzy's answer. If she can't make it work with a man, at least she can help make other women happy with theirs. But when love is in the air, things don't always go the way you plan... |
| francesca roberto: A Message to Your Heart Niamh Greene, 2012-05-30 Niamh Greene's delightful fifth novel A Message to Your Heart is an intriguing and heart-warming story for fans of the wise humour of Catherine Alliott and the modern day fairytales of Cecelia Ahern. Throw in Niamh's unique brand of heart-warming storytelling and readers are in for a real treat. Frankie Rowley is far too practical to believe in karma or fate ... and her family and friends reckon that work-obsessed Frankie's strongest relationship is with her phone. (And why not? At least it never judges her for cancelling dinner for the umpteenth time.) When she loses that precious phone on a business trip to San Francisco, Frankie is forced to hire a replacement. Soon she's getting texts meant for someone else - a woman called Aimee who seems like a lot of fun, and whose family clearly loves to keep in touch - and whose presence in her life is the last thing Frankie needs. Frankie goes on the warpath, but she is in for some surprises when she blunders into Aimee's world. And the biggest surprise of all is how your life can be changed forever by losing a phone. Frankie may not believe in karma or fate, but suddenly it looks like they've got her number ... Praise for Niamh's previous titles: 'Brilliantly astute' **** OK! Magazine 'Very funny' **** Heat 'Greene's wicked sense of humour provides much needed relief in these recessionary times' Irish Independent 'This author is capable of being very very funny' Sunday Independent 'Hilariously written but anchored in real life, this will keep you laughing all the way' Woman 'You'll love this tale of wrong turns, romance and reinvention' Daily Record A Message to Your Heart is a story of two women, two phones, a lot of crossed wires and a life changed forever that will go straight to readers' hearts just like Niamh previous bestselling novels, including the award-nominated Secret Diary of a Demented Housewife. |
| francesca roberto: What to Do Before "I Do" Nihara K. Choudhri, 2004-11-01 The cake has been chosen, the reception hall reserved, and all the attire ordered. Creating a marriage contract is probably the last thing on your mind. However, by working with your spouse-to-be to design your particular marriage contract, you control the relationship and direct your future. What to Do Before I Do takes the potentially unromantic idea of a prenuptial agreement and makes you see its importance to your relationship. Proper planning will answer questions such as- Will your child continue to be cared for in the manner you wish if you pass away? Is your fiancé's debt your responsibility? Can your wife claim your premarital property in a divorce? People often enter marriage with only a vague understanding of their partner's financial status. Even if you decide against a prenuptial agreement, after reading this book, you will realize how important it is to go into a marriage with your eyes wide open. |
| francesca roberto: Deadly Desire Brenda Joyce, 2002-05-19 The time is turn-of-the-century New York City. Society's elite host glittering balls inside sprawling mansions while outside, the teeming streets harbor secrets of their own. New York City's Police Commissioner Rick Bragg has been called upon to investigate a shocking crime. Reluctant to pull Francesca Cahill into a case that could be very dangerous, Rick also knows the beautiful and brilliant heiress has a natural ability for sleuthing that could aid him--even it if means working side by side with a woman who tempts him like no other. And so Franscesca and Rick begin a harrowing journey through the squalid underworld of the city that plunges them deeper and deeper in a peril neither could have imagined--and a desire that only continues to grow... Brenda Joyce's Deadly Desire is a sizzling hot historical romance. |
| francesca roberto: In Love with Emilia - an Italian Odyssey Virginia Gabriella Ferrari, 2004 Set in the northern Italian region of Emilia Romagna this sometimes funny, often poignant, and occasionally irreverent story follows a path between 1996 to 2001 as the author and her husband seek legal ownership of the old family home. The reader treads a path of discovery through the countryside, historical and architectural wonders, villages and cities. Restoration of the house, forming relationships with family and villagers aids the authors growing love of Emilia. Like all intellectual journeys, this story has much of the personal element of self discovery. |
| francesca roberto: The Hero's Life Choice. Studies on Heracles at the Crossroads, the Judgement of Paris, and Their Reception Malcolm Davies, 2023-09-04 Two allegorical ancient Greek stories about a young hero’s career- defining choice are shown in this book to have later been appropriated to radically differing effects. E.g. a male’s choice between female personifications can morph into a female’s choice between the same, or between various male personifications. Never before have so many instances of this process from art, literature, music, even landscape gardening, been culled. Illustrations, mainly colour, many brought into this context for the first time, are conveniently incorporated into the text, thus mimetically mirroring a central theme of the book, the process of ‘visualising the verbal, verbalising the visual.’ |
| francesca roberto: Martial Arts, Health, and Society George Jennings, Lorenzo Pedrini, Xiujie Ma, 2023-02-01 |
| francesca roberto: Neo-Latin Philology: Old Tradition, New Approaches Marc van der Poel, 2014-07-04 Material Philology and the study of Renaissance Latin literature Neo-Latin Philology: Old Tradition, New Approaches explores the question whether the approaches developed in the so-called New or Material Philology can be applied to the study of Renaissance Latin literature. Two contributions in this volume focus on theoretical issues, the first presenting a critical assessment of the debate on New Philology in the 1990s, the second providing some guidelines for researchers of the materiality of sources. The remaining seven contributions discuss various ways in which the material presentation in either manuscript or print played a part in the interpretation of a variety of texts, including Basinio of Parma’s Hesperis, Niccolò Perotti's Cornu copiae, some poems by Janus Secundus, a commentary on Horace’s Ars poetica, Otto Venius’ Emblemata Horatiana, Johann Lauremberg's playPompejus Magnus, and the Alithinologia by John Lynch. Contributors Haijo Westra (University of Calgary), H. Wayne Storey (Indiana University, Bloomington), Christoph Pieper (Leiden University), Marianne Pade (Academy of Denmark, Rome), David Rijser (University of Amsterdam), Werner J.C.M. Gelderblom (Radboud University Nijmegen), Marc van der Poel (Radboud University Nijmegen), Tom Deneire (Antwerp University Library), Nienke Tjoelker (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Innsbruck) |
| francesca roberto: I Never Walked Alone Shirley Verrett, Christopher Brooks, 2008-05-02 An inspiring self-portrait of a world-renowned African American vocal artist This is a fascinating account of a gifted woman's coming of age and rise to success at a time when black classical musicians faced barriers at every turn. Shirley Verrett possessed a talent and ambition so dazzling she could not be denied?and she became one of the most celebrated artists of her time. I Never Walked Alone draws the reader into the world of this graceful, fiery artist, dramatically telling the story of her childhood and her brilliant international career. The book is filled with behind-the-scenes tales of this diva?s great performances, roles, and collaborations, offering insight into her stormy personal relationships as well as her private struggles and critical decisions. Featuring forewords and afterwords by such figures as Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Zubhin Mehta, and Claudio Abbado, this richly detailed book paints a vivid picture of a magnificent survivor and an indelible artist known around the world as the black Maria Callas. Shirley Verrett (Ann Arbor, MI, and New York, NY) is currently Professor of Voice at the University of Michigan School of Music. Christopher Brooks is a biographer and award-winning musicologist. |
| francesca roberto: More Stories of Life and Tales of the Korean War Edward John Mastronardi, 2016-09-23 The tales in parts one and two are a continuation of those found in the authors book Stories of Life and Tales of the Korean War, dealing with the human condition in peace and war. Although fictionalized, in general, as in the first book, the stories that follow are largely based on observation and, sometimes, shocking reality. A few in part one are highly imaginative, perhaps appearing to a reader as adult fairy tales. The motivation for writing part two was a stirring article the author read entitled Swifty written by Chuck Yeager, a well-known and respected retired US general, and is referred to in its epilogue. The stories presented here, although written in a fictionalized format, are largely based on the experiences and actions involving real people and events. The subject matter is not always nice or inspirational, neither is life or war. It would be surprising if readers are unable to find elements in some stories relevant to their own experiences in life. |
| francesca roberto: It Takes Two Patrizia Chen, 2009-11-03 Francesca Rivabuona is fifty and exhausted by the monotony of her life. Stuck in a stale marriage with grown children who have long since fled the coop, and desperate to escape the endless cycle of Upper East Side dinner parties and charity luncheons, she jumps at the chance to write an article about Buenos Aires for a glossy travel magazine. Francesca is instantly captivated by Buenos Aires’s palpable rhythm. She explores the city with her new friends—a group of tango dancers who give her an insider’s scoop into the best Buenos Aires has to offer—and rediscovers the sense of passion and excitement she thought she had relinquished forever. As Francesca learns to master the sensual movements of tango dancing, she begins to let down her guard—on the dance floor, in the bedroom, and in her personal life. Embarking on a steamy love affair with Argentina’s most famous plastic surgeon, she knows that she has been irrevocably transformed by the pulsing, erotic thrill of life in Argentina. At once a tale of a middle-aged woman taking a stand against the disappointments of her life and a sexy, fast-paced, entertaining novel about the ecstasy of tango dancing, It Takes Two reads like a soulful tango: irresistible, exotic, and sensual. |
| francesca roberto: Spin Donald Everett Axinn, 2011-12-03 Set against the arresting beauty of the American Southwest, Spinrecounts the story of young Edward Slavin, orphaned at age seven when his parents die tragically in the crash of a small plane his father is piloting. Edward's obsessive quest for a father ultimately leads to self-discovery and the realization that, no matter who we are or how we live our lives, we are all orphans in many ways. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home. |
| francesca roberto: Jose Builds a Woman Jan Baross, 2006 Jose builds a woman is a novel in the sensual tradition of magical realism. With lush prose and dry humor, Baross captures the fluid boundaries between life and death. The multi-layered saga revolves around the impenetrable passions of Tortugina, the doyenne of bad love, Gabito, the beautiful and jealous octopus driver, and their son Jose, a boy obsessed with marrying a nun.--BOOK JACKET. |
| francesca roberto: Italian Production , 1969 |
| francesca roberto: Piero della Francesca James R. Banker, 2014-02-13 Largely neglected for the four centuries after his death, the fifteenth century Italian artist Piero della Francesca is now seen to embody the fullest expression of the Renaissance perspective painter, raising him to an artistic stature comparable with that of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. But who was Piero, and how did he become the person and artist that he was? Until now, in spite of the great interest in his work, these questions have remained largely unanswered. Piero della Francesca: Artist and Man puts that situation right, integrating the story of Piero's artistic and mathematical achievements with the full chronicle of his life for the first time. Fortified by the discovery of over one hundred previously unknown documents, most unearthed by the author himself, James R. Banker at last brings this fascinating Renaissance enigma to life. The book presents us with Piero's friends, family, and collaborators, all set against the social background of the various cities and courts in which he lived - from the Tuscan commune of Sansepolcro in which he grew up, to Renaissance Florence, Ferrara, Ancona, Rimini, Rome, Arezzo, and Urbino, and eventually back to his home town for the final years of his life. As Banker shows, the cultural contexts in which Piero lived are crucial for understanding both the man and his paintings. From early masterpieces such as the Baptism of Christ through to later, Flemish-influenced works such as the Nativity, we gain a fascinating insight into how Piero's art developed over time, alongside his growing achievements in geometry in the later decades of his life. Along the way, the book addresses some persistent myths about this apparently most elusive of artists. As well as establishing a convincing case to clear up the long controversy over the year of Piero's birth, there are also answers to some big questions about the date of some of his major works, and a persuasive new interpretation of the much-debated Flagellation of Christ. This book is for all those who wish to know about the development of Piero as man, artist, and scholar, rather than simply to see him through a series of isolated great works. What emerges is a thoroughly intriguing Renaissance individual, firmly embedded in his social milieu, but forging an historic identity through his profound artistic and mathematical achievements. |
| francesca roberto: Limba italiană. Manual pentru clasa a IX-a liceu, limba I , |
| francesca roberto: Catalogue général des ouvrages en langue française, 1926-1929 : Matière (3) Bernard Dermineur, 1987-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 Recensement exhaustif des ouvrages parus entre 1926 et 1929. Ces ouvrages comblent, en partie, le vide laissé entre l'arrêt en 1925 du Catalogue de la librairie française fondé au 19e siècle par O. Lorenz et l'édition de La Librairie française recouvrant les années 1933-1975. |
| francesca roberto: QUELLA MAIL CHE NON TI ASPETTI Omar Vicari, 2023-06-01 È la storia di una coppia in crisi, lui Roberto, medico affermato dell’ospedale della città in cui vive; lei Carla, professoressa di matematica del liceo classico della stessa città. Le cose tra loro non funzionano più come una volta, colpa di un tradimento, ma non solo. La passione se ne è andata da tempo e la loro vita si è incanalata sulla strada della monotonia. Il destino o il caso, un giorno ci mette lo zampino. Infatti sul computer dello studio del medico (un ematologo) appare dopo 40 anni una mail di una donna (Francesca il suo nome). Costei, ormai una donna matura, sembra uscire dalle nebbie del passato. Un passato che Francesca e Roberto hanno condiviso fortemente. I due in gioventù si sono amati di un amore forte, fisico, coinvolgente. Quella mail sconvolge a quel punto la vita dei tre protagonisti. Ma il destino, come spesso accade, non è sempre benevolo. |
| francesca roberto: Piero della Francesca: Personal Encounters Christiansen, Keith, 2014-01-13 Prominent Renaissance scholars reveal new insights into Piero’s life and work based on a study of his exquisite small panel paintings. |
| francesca roberto: Musical Courier , 1962 |
| francesca roberto: Io sono lo straniero Giuliano Pasini, 2013-04-09 Dopo il terribile inverno di Case Rosse, il commissario Roberto Serra ha lasciato l'Appennino emiliano per Termine, nel profondo Nord Est, sulle colline del Prosecco: quattro case, tre strade, una chiesa, un cimitero, e intorno solo vigneti, a perdita d'occhio. Lì, di sera, Roberto sfoga in incognito la sua passione per la cucina e per i vini nel piccolo ristorante ricavato nel chiostro di un antico monastero. Di giorno, invece, lavora nella questura della scintillante e perbenista Treviso. Una vita che scorre lenta, tra le sempre più rade visite della sua Alice e le sempre più frequenti chiacchierate con Susana, una bella sudamericana andata come lui a voltare pagina in quell'angolo di mondo. Sino a quando, un giorno d'inverno, il commissario non incontra Francesca, una ragazza eccentrica e disperata che cerca di convincerlo a occuparsi del caso di una giovane sparita nel nulla. Per quanto Roberto punti i piedi in nome della serenità ritrovata tra i vigneti di Termine - anche grazie ai farmaci che assume per non sprofondare nelle visioni angosciose che lo tormentano - davanti a lui si delinea una scia di scomparse misteriose: tutte donne, tutte giovanissime, tutte straniere. Invisibili per la procura, per la polizia, per la gente. Roberto non può più scappare. è costretto ad affrontare un'indagine che lo porterà a scrutare le acque nere dei laghi nascosti tra i vigneti, a scoprire che un passato irrisolto può allungare le sue dita fatali fino al nostro presente, a sondare gli abissi più oscuri della mente umana. Dormienza, pianto, allegagione, invaiatura... le fasi della vita delle vigne scandiscono la nuova indagine del commissario Serra, i cui occhi hanno la luce speciale di chi si sente, in ogni luogo, straniero - e proprio per questo vicino alla sofferenza delle vittime, alla disumanità dei carnefici. Con scrittura mobile, asciutta, a tratti intensamente poetica, Giuliano Pasini dà vita a un romanzo sull'amore e sull'odio, sul dolore e sulla redenzione. Un thriller -spumante, torbido e profumato- come un calice di Prosecco sur lie. |
| francesca roberto: La bacchettona ossia Le donne di falsa apparenza Luigi del Buono, 1875 |
| francesca roberto: Il cerchio Antonella Cataldo, Pierpaolo Ardizzone, 2016-09-26 La storia di un Amore dove non esistono tempo e spazio. Memorie inconfessabili, sensazioni, a volte al cardiopalma, legate alla condivisione di una particolare filosofia dalle origini remote. La storia di un Amore colorato. Il nero dell’inferno della filosofia dell’appartenenza. Il bianco della tunica con la quale lui la veste, a dimostrazione della purezza dell’indole della sua schiava. Il rosso della passione pura, lontana dalla morale corrente. La storia di un Amore a volte incredibile, dove la mente può essere forgiata e resa malleabile, pronta a un percorso complicato, dove la figura femminile viene rivestita della sua libertà e rispettata fino in fondo, dove si fanno scelte che non sono univoche: la slave conserva il libero arbitrio e la sua personalità. Esiste un un patto silenzioso, basato sul consenso e la reciproca fiducia, che sfocia nella completa appartenenza e nella fusione di anima, mente e corpo, carne e spirito. Il finale dimostrerà dove si può giungere quando l’appartenenza diventa assoluta, quando tutti i veli vengono lasciati cadere scoprendo la nuda anima. |
| francesca roberto: Oltre i confini- Il tocco degli spiriti antichi Noemi Gastaldi, 2014-07-03 “- Non sai chi sono? Allora non puoi liberarmi! - disse la bambina, pestando i piedi sul pavimento con rabbia. - Cerca di sbrigarti a capire come funzionano le cose, o diventerai come me! E non è divertente! - aggiunse ancora, prima di sparire dalla vista di Lucilla.” Lucilla soffre di allucinazioni fin da quando era molto piccola, si è talmente abituata alla situazione da reputarla normale. Non ha idea del rischio che sta correndo. Ha ormai ventidue anni, quando l’ossessione per una ragazza misteriosa di cui è innamorata fin dai tempi dell’adolescenza, la spinge a confrontarsi con una verità che ha sempre rifiutato: la realtà materiale e quella immateriale, sono separate da un velo sottile, e lei è una di quelle poche persone capaci di squarciare questo velo. Francesca è consapevole di questo già da molto tempo, ma non le basta: è alla continua ricerca di nuove conoscenze, determinata ad accrescere il suo potere. Saranno proprio le sue ricerche a farle incontrare Lucilla, nei vasti territori oltre i confini. Nessuna delle due, però, immagina quello in cui saranno coinvolte: dopo una lunga era di equilibrio, i potenti Spiriti Antichi stanno per scatenarsi gli uni contro gli altri, coinvolgendo coloro che hanno subito il loro tocco... |
| francesca roberto: Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library, 1980 |
| francesca roberto: Millard Meiss, American Art History, and Conservation Jennifer Cooke, 2020-09-28 A member of the art history generation from the golden age of the 1920s and 1930s, Millard Meiss (1904–1975) developed a new and multi-faceted methodological approach. This book lays the foundation for a reassessment of this key figure in post-war American and international art history. The book analyses his work alongside that of contemporary art historians, considering both those who influenced him and those who were receptive to his research. Jennifer Cooke uses extensive archival material to give Meiss the critical consideration that his extensive and important art historical, restoration and conservation work deserves. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, historiography and heritage management and conservation. |
| francesca roberto: Oltre i confini- Il Battito della Bestia Noemi Gastaldi, 2014-07-03 - Possiamo parlarne?- le chiese la bimba nel cuore della notte. Lucilla si svegliò e la vide: risplendeva nella stanza buia. - Parlarne?- rispose trafelata, senza realizzare del tutto che uno spettro fatto di freddo e di rabbia le stesse gentilmente rivolgendo la parola. - Ti ricordi di me?- Domandò ancora la Larius. - Anni fa ti chiesi di liberarmi. Ti chiesi di uccidermi. Ora non voglio più morire.- - Tu sei già morta...- riuscì a dire la Viator. Lucilla si risveglia dopo la battaglia, incredula, incapace di accettare l'idea che il mondo oltre i confini sia stato dissolto. Ma le basterà trovare il coraggio di affrontare la situazione, per accorgersi che le due facce della realtà, simbionti e inscindibili, sono soltanto cambiate. |
| francesca roberto: El último día antes de mañana Eduard Márquez, 2022-07-18 Desde una playa en Port de la Selva, un hombre desesperado por la muerte reciente de su hija hace un repaso de toda su vida, desde la época de adolescente hasta la adultez, en un intento de comprender que puede haber sucedido. Una novela magistral de Eduard Márquez llena de lírica y nostalgia, que habla con aires poéticos de toda una generación, de la amistad, la confianza y la fragilidad de la vida. Usando un hilo desordenado de hechos cronológicos para reflejar los pensamientos del personaje, estructurada en capítulos cortos e intensos, la novela de Márquez muestra una cotidianidad en la que el lector se podrá identificar fácilmente. Eduard Márquez (Barcelona, 1960) es un escritor de poesía, literatura infantil, juvenil y adulta, entre otros. Empezó como escritor de poesía con libros como La travesía innecesaria (1991), pero ya a partir del año 2000, se adentró en la literatura infantil, del cual es un autor prolífico. Con más de quince obras publicadas, ha quedado finalista en el premi Llibreter y ha ganado el premio de la Crítica de narrativa catalana, el QWERTY y el premio Octavi Pellissa. |
| francesca roberto: Fragmenta Paola Crisapulli, 2016-07-07 FRAGMENTA racchiude dieci racconti, ognuno dei quali offre spunto di riflessione e diversi piani interpretativi. Sono storie di donne in crisi, storie di donne piagate ma non per questo piegate. Donne che ancora oggi non riescono a liberarsi dalle catene e portano, giorno dopo giorno, la paura nei loro occhi. Il tutto espresso in un linguaggio semplice, scorrevole e nello stesso tempo intenso, sofferto. Vi sono spunti di attualità che guardano al vivere quotidiano, al personale e al sentire intimo: dalle piaghe degli incidenti stradali ai rapporti conflittuali tra colleghi di lavoro, dall’immigrazione al Nord a tante altre tematiche che guardano al mondo del lavoro e delle amicizie, con intense escursioni nella realtà dei rapporti familiari. Lo stile narrativo, tra prosa e poesia, rende accattivante la lettura, lasciando un qualcosa mai fine a sé stesso ed un messaggio da scoprire e ricordare. L’amore, la famiglia, gli affetti, l’amicizia sono nell’insieme l’unica possibile ancora di salvezza cui tenerci aggrappati per superare le tristezze del mondo d’oggi, riappropriandoci di quei valori apparentemente crollati, cercando tra i “frammenti” bellezza e verità. |
| francesca roberto: Croce e testa Michele Visconti, 2020-09-30 Roberto Russo è uno sfaccendato giovane playboy a cui piace recarsi nei night, osservare le ballerine, sceglierne una e trascorrere con lei la notte. Tra queste, la sua preferita è Michela, ragazza allegra e intelligente, sempre disposta ad ascoltarlo. Alle spalle, oltre a una carriera da agente immobiliare, ha un matrimonio finito, non senza strascichi, e una figlia. Ora vive in casa dei genitori, attingendo ai suoi magri risparmi e circondandosi di amicizie equivoche. Una sera, mentre si trova con la ballerina riceve la telefonata della madre che lo invita con urgenza a rientrare a casa perché è accaduto un evento che coinvolge tutta la famiglia. Roberto scopre così che è scomparso il fratello Paolo, il figlio prediletto, quello con famiglia e lavoro apparentemente perfetti. Cosa può essere accaduto? Nonostante la denuncia di scomparsa, le forze dell’ordine non hanno molto su cui basare le indagini. La mancanza di indizi anzi fa propendere per un allontanamento volontario. Mentre Roberto cerca di riprendere il filo della sua vita, alle spalle di un meschino deus ex machina si agitano passioni, ossessioni, tradimenti e gelosie. |
| francesca roberto: Unser italienischer Sommer Wolfgang Hengstmann, 2018-02-08 Eva und Peter, ein junges Paar aus Wien, haben sich ihren Traum erfüllt und bewirtschaften im Herzen der Toscana einen Weinbauernhof. Un ́ estate italiana - Italienische Momente Keine Frage, der Sommer kommt wieder. Gönnt Euch ein paar italienische Momente, lasst Euch von den Aromen des italienischen Sommers, dem Duft nach wildem Fenchel, Rosmarin und wildem Thymian verführen. Wenn der warme Sommerwind über die Reben streicht und der Wein die Hitze der Sonne mit vollen Zügen trinkt. Dann lauscht der Melodie der Singzikaden, begleitet Eva und Peter auf ihrem Weinbauernhof in La Bella Toscana. Ein Tischchen unter der Markise des kleinen Ristorante ist noch frei. Genießt ein Glas des unvergleichlich dunkelrot im Glase funkelnden Chiantis als Willkommenstrunk, schaut den vorüber flanierenden Italienerinnen hinterher, lauscht dabei den Klängen von Angelo Branduari, die sich mit den leisen Gläserklirren und den Gesprächsfetzen vom Nachbartisch vermischen und entspannt Euch. Ihr seid angekommen in einem der schönsten Fleckchen Erde, in der Toskana. Wie lautet ein toskanisches Sprichwort: Als Gott die Welt erschuf, hat er den Menschen mit der toskanischen Küche ein ganz besonderes Geschenk gemacht. |
| francesca roberto: American History J.L. Abramo, 2018-09-03 The families of Salvatore Leone and Luigi Agnello had already been long-time bitter enemies in Sicily by the turn of the twentieth century. In 1914, Vincenzo Leone, Salvatore’s oldest son, emigrates to Philadelphia to start a new life for himself and his family in the promised land. Several years later, Giuseppe Agnello, Luigi’s eldest, secretly marries Francesca Leone, Vincenzo’s sister, and the couple escape to New York City. Giuseppe leaves to serve his new country during the First World War. Francesca, alone and in need of support for herself and their infant son, Louis, travels to Philadelphia to live with her brother, his wife, and his two daughters. The Spanish Flu takes the lives of Vincenzo’s wife and sister in 1917, and Leone moves with his daughters and Francesca’s son to San Francisco. Vincenzo Leone decides to raise Louis Agnello as his own child. When Giuseppe returns from the war, he finds his wife and son gone. It takes more than five years for Agnello to learn the whereabouts of his family. Giuseppe travels to San Francisco with hopes of a reunion with Francesca and Louis, and becomes a victim of the hatred between the two families that has been recently transplanted in America by Vincenzo’s younger brother, Roberto. Vincenzo learns that Giuseppe had traveled to San Francisco to locate his wife and son, but Agnello had never reached Vincenzo’s door. Vincenzo begins to worry about the safety of sister’s son, and decides Louis will accompany him to New York City and to Sicily. A failed attempt on the boy’s life results in Vincenzo’s death, and instigates a fresh and fierce hostility between the Agnello and Leone families that rivals the hatred and vindictiveness experienced in the old country. American History is the epic, generational saga of the Agnellos and the Leones (in the Italian language the lambs and the lions)—a one-hundred-year conflict between Giuseppe’s descendants in New York City, law enforcers, and Vincenzo’s descendants in San Francisco, lawbreakers. Praise for AMERICAN HISTORY: “J.L. Abramo’s novel American History is a thrilling epic tale of two families crossing an ocean and a continent and spanning a century. An ambitious undertaking skillfully executed by a writer deserving wide recognition.” —Steve Hamilton, Edgar Award-winning author of Dead Man Running “American History is a beautifully written, ambitious crime epic. J.L. Abramo delivers an immersive, emotional and suspenseful gem that spans eras and nations and reminds us of who we are. A page-turning pleasure.” —Michael Koryta, New York Times bestselling author of How It Happened |
| francesca roberto: The New Yorker Harold Wallace Ross, Katharine Sergeant Angell White, 1972 |
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