Bøker av Rudolph M. Bell

The Italian peasantry has often been described as tragic, backward, hopeless, downtrodden, static, and passive

The Italian peasantry has often been described as tragic, backward, hopeless, downtrodden, static, and passive

An account which compares the contemporary anorexic teenager, counting every calorie in her single-minded pursuit of thinness, and the ascetic medieval saint, examining her every desire.

This work shows 16th-century Italy from an alternative perspective: through advice manuals which were staples in the households of middlebrow Italians just trying to lead a better life.