Beschreibung:
Writing Architecture in Modern Italy tells the history of an intellectual group connected to the small but influential Italian Einaudi publishing house between the 1930s and 1950s.
Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Americana - Origins, Myths, and the Prehistoric Myth of a New World Chapter 2: From Building Interiors to Real Estate: Italo Calvino's Urban Fictive Chronicles Chapter 3: From Chronicles to Storia: the Transition and Attempted Integration of Chronicles into History Chapter 4: Officina Einaudi. The Stories behind the History of a Publishing House Chapter 5: Storia 'quasi una fantasia': Giulio Carlo Argan and the Fictive in Historical Writing Conclusion: Meta-History and the New Historiographical Babel