Gesture in Naples and Gesture in Classical Antiquity: A Translation of La Mimica Degli Antichi Investigata Nel Gestire Napoletano, Gestural Expression of the Ancients in the Light of Neapolitan GesturingIndiana University Press, 2000 - 517 من الصفحات "I had heard about this book for years. The person who put the word out, at least in lay circles, was probably Luigi Barzini, in The Italians (1964). Praising his countrymen's gift for talking with their hands, Barzini lamented that so little had been written on this subject. To his knowledge, only one person—Andrea de Jorio, a Neapolitan priest—had attempted a lexicon of Italian hand gestures, in an 1832 volume entitled La Mimica degli antichi investigata nel gestire napoletano. . . . Barzini offered a little sample . . . . Upon reading [it], you felt that if you could not get hold of de Jorio's book immediately, you would bite your elbows. . . . [N]ot until this year was de Jorio's treatise brought out in English. The translation, the copious notes, and the long, helpful introduction . . . [are] a source of wisdom and delight." —Joan Acocella, New York Review of Books |
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List of illustrations with sources acknowledged | viii |
INTRODUZIONE Introduction | 3 |
ABC DE GESTI ABC of gestures | 28 |
UNIONE DE GESTI Gestures in combination 28398 | 398 |
Pulcinella and the English sailors | 401 |
The itinerant secretary | 405 |
The cantatore di Rinaldo | 409 |
The water seller | 416 |
The vendor of dried figs | 444 |
The game of mora | 450 |
The adventuress goes for a walk | 454 |
The farmers indignation | 456 |
The chestnut seller | 458 |
The maker of franfellicchi | 461 |
Greek vase with Minerva | 464 |
Greek vase with Bacchus | 468 |
The corn seller | 419 |
The betrothal | 423 |
The bride enters her husbands house for the first time | 427 |
The foreigners in Baja | 431 |
Neapolitan quarrel | 434 |
The school for macaronieating | 440 |
APPENDIX | 478 |
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Bibliographical Appendix | 491 |
Editorial References and Sources | 504 |