Corrado Cagli: The American Years
In the 1930’s the young Italian artist, Corrado Cagli was a rising star of the Scuola Romana, supported by the…
Nuto Revelli: the History of the Present
For the rest of his life, Revelli did not stop studying and conducting interviews about the war and its devastating…
A Thousand Years Deep
In and of itself, this beam that, from the prison of Via Piangipane illuminates the land beneath which —in Carlo…
Silvio Zamorani: Through Books One Thinks the World
One of the most challenging projects was an Aramaic grammar book. To begin with, who is going to buy such…
The Aryanization of Italian Musical Life
Thus, by following denigration with reassurance, he began the slow process of building up racist philosophy, which had appeared to…
Ghetto and Not
Overcoming the paradigm of insularity and unscalable walls – which the ghetto symbolizes – allows us to identify systems of…
Roman Policies Towards the Jews
Scholars have often wondered whether the documents presented by Josephus are at all genuine. Josephus is the only ancient author…
He Was and Old Man in a Cold Season
But here he was, in this room, in this chair, trying once more to explain – to explain the war,…
History and Art as Means of Universal Dialogue
Against the backdrop of the menorah’s disappearance, the counterpoint of art and history reinforces the power of this object and…
The Jewish War and Rome’s Urban Renewal
In Rome, two arches built by the last Flavian ruler, Domitian, are the main memento of the Roman triumph on…
Remembering Carlo and Nello Rosselli
A new enlarged edition of Gaetano Salvemini’s Carlo and Nello Rosselli, A memoir, curated by Marina Calloni, to be published…
Bound by Books: Alex Goren and Tallone Editore
The Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia — and consequently New York City at large— have been fortunate to receive…
