Buy this book on-line REATO, DANILO: : LE MASCHERE VENEZIANEITALY.VERONA.ARSENALE EDITIRCE,2001. ISBN 8877430559.
ITALY,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price to dw/dj's front, inner flap.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj,with b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,white+grey paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,grey ink printed letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain grey endpapers.ITALY,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5-130pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,an introduction,5 sections comprising 24 articles,profuse contemporary b/w+colour illustration reproductions and photographs interspersed throughout the text and
the book,a bibliography,a summary,and a resume. Plus [unpaginated] 2pp blanks,a title page and 2pp blanks at rear.The majority of the text is in Italian,but there are texts in English,French and German towards the rear,after all the illustrations.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's age,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.Really is an exceptional copy for brightness and cleanliness.
Description of the 15th-19thC history of the masks and other accoutrements,costumes etc.,worn during the Carnival of Venice,or indeed Venetian culture and society.
Carnival - the headstrong desire to lose yourself in a collective universe,to live in that other world in the face of everyday life.
Venetian society comes to life.Here we see it in its unrefined reality but with a touch of irreverence that takes the veil of false modesty away and enters into the sphere of private lives.In it there are shrewd courtesans, informers of the Serene Republic,painted boy-lovers (cicisebos) and noblewomen pomaded out of all the bounds of good taste - or good sense - all of them with that ancestral fever that possesses all of us,to be yet not be,to forsake the hypocrisies of everyday life to take on a freer form,in mask and costume.The mask,which
"invents" the new personality to outward view and the costume which makes the wearer feel he or she is a different person,and lets them behave in a different way,both satisfy long-dormant desires,searched for in blind obedience to the new divinities in that temple of
hedonism that was Venice.
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