Italian culture

The turn of the twentieth century sparked the change of European culture as people experienced the power struggle between nations. As World War I heightened in the early 1900s, devastation was brought to many families when the men were sent to battle, while the remaining working class struggled to control their own lives at home. Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis exemplifies the constraints wrapped around the working class as World War I was underway beginning in 1914. Gregor Samsa’s bug…

Friar Alberigo’s murder of several of his family members at a banquet takes on a new atrocity in the context of Italian culture of the time. Betraying a guest,, suggests the Friar contorted the traditional Italian values of hospitality and banquets which were popular and contorted it to suit his own despicable, sinful desires. For this crime against one’s guest the Friar is designated to the lowermost circles where…

Culture is a unique way that family forms itself in terms of rules roles habit activities and beliefs. Every family is different in its own way as seen in the Angelino family factor such as the: Tradition. As we are told the Angelino family grand parents emigrated from Italy in 1904,the family was famous of its own Italian sausage which can be seen as part of their tradition, they had larger family of five expecting the sixth one showing a tradition of many children, there grandparent mama…

Examples of these prevailing narrative themes are evident in two works by earlier Italian Renaissance artists, the Self-Portrait in a Studio of Lavinia Fontana, and the Self-Portrait While Painting the Madonna and Child of Sofonisba Anguissola1. Both pieces show the artists in their place of work, Fontana in a studio showcasing her ability…

Have you ever sat at home and just got the urge for a pizza? We all do this but some of us simply go to the closest pizza shop and get a greasy, overpriced pizza, feel unhealthy the next morning and regret buying the pizza, as well as having less money in our pockets. I have done this plenty of times. I would be much better off if I thought about my decision before just jumping in the car and going to the nearest place. From this moment onwards, I know where I will be going for a pizza even if…

of these changes impacted women, education and youth movements. Women in a fascist society were expected to stay at home, be submissive and nurturing . Mussolini launched the battle for births , aiming to keep women out of work and increase the Italian population. In return for women bearing more children, marriage loans and tax cuts were offered, while providing health care for mothers and children . He enforced the laws against abortion and contraception , leaving women with no alternative.…

Following the end of World War I, a new political doctrine emerged in Italy and Germany and was strongly enforced and spread by two extremely influential figures: Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. This new political ideology was named fascism by Mussolini, and according to him, was different than all ideologies before it; he lists in The Doctrine of Fascism ideologies such as socialism and democracy that fascism specifically opposes. Both Mussolini and Hitler rejected most ideologies that came…

Contrapasso in Inferno by Dante Alighieri as Illustration of Justice Dante Alighieri, who lived from 1265 to 1321, was one of the major Italian poet and political figures during the Middle Ages period. He is particularly famous for a piece of literature which later made a major impact on the development of the Italian literature and the world literature – Divine Comedy, which he composed during the final years of his life. Dante 's Divine Comedy belongs to the list of the most gorgeous pieces…

The mediums he used were, “woodcuts, painted altarpieces, and portraits,” (Art: A Brief History, 359). Cranach was a German artist during the time of the Italian renaissance and often has his work compared to Titian because of the women in his work; his “Nymph of the Spring” is constantly compared to Titians “Venus of Umbrio” because of the subject matter. Both are paintings of women, but both evoke different…

About the author Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639) was an English poet, diplomat and politician. His family was well- to-do and he received a good education. Wotton was appointed ambassador to the court of Venice and later the provost of Eton College. He served as Member of Parliament in 1614 and 1625. He was knighted by James VI. His love for classical architecture developed during his stay in Venice. His book ‘The Elements of Architecture’ sought to familiarize the English man with…