Virgil's Golden Egg and Other Neapolitan Miracles by Michael A. Ledeen

Author:Michael A. Ledeen [Ledeen, Michael A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Europe, Italy, General, Social Science, Anthropology, Cultural & Social
ISBN: 9781412855280
Google: 7fHjCwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2014-10-08T04:59:40+00:00

Notes

1. Gustaw Herling, Volcano and Miracle (New York: Viking, 1996), p. 2.

2. The Diaries of Hans Christian Andersen, selected and translated by Patricia L. Conroy and Sven H. Rossel (Seattle & London: University of Washington Press, 1990), p. 83.

3. From The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley, quoted in the extraordinary blog, http://faculty.ed.umuc.edu/~jmatthew/naples/newAN.html

4. Norman Douglas, Siren Song and Fountains in the Sand (London: William Glowes, 1932), p. 15.

5. In non-Homeric Greek legend, the Sirens were companions of Persephone. For failing to protect her from Hades, they were condemned to be escorts of the dead.

6. There is an enormous body of work on the sirens. The most compact book is Dario Nicolella, Partenope la sirena di Napoli (Naples, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1999). The English-language classic is Siren Land by Norman Douglas (1911).

7. Ibid, pg. 3.

8. Elisabetta Moro La Santa e la Sirena (Ischia Ponte: Imagaenaria, 2005).

9. Ibid., p. 73.

10 Marino Niola, Totem e Tabu (Naples: Tullio Pironti, 2003), p. 11.

11. Cf. Antonio Baldi’s passionate book, Napoli geologica (Naples: Tempo Lungo, 1955), pp. 141 ff.

12. Curzio Malaparte, The Skin (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1952) pp. 237–38.

13. Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings, Vol. I, 1913–1926 (London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996), p. 414.

14. R.M. Johnston, The Napoleonic Empire in Southern Italy and the Rise of the Secret Societies (New York: Macmillan, 1904), p. 31.

15. Axel Munthe, The Story of San Michele (New York: Dutton, 1953), pp. 158–159.

16. Johnston, Napoleonic Empire in Southern Italy, p. 101.

17. Alessandro Cavalli, “Political Culture and ‘Italian National Character,’” Daedalus, Summer, 2001, p. 134. The earlier quotations are cited by Cavalli.

18. Antonio Martino, Semplicemente liberale (Macerata: Liberilibri, 2004), pp. 50–51.

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