20. Gargoyles, p.680
21. Honegger, p.267
22. Ibid., p.295
Let Sleeping Beauties Lie
1. Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher, trans. Joachim Neugroschel (London, Serpent’s Tail, 1999), p.141
2. Ibid., p.90
3. Ibid., p.74
4. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2004/index.html
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfriede_Jelinek
6. Hans-Jürgen Heinrichs, Schreiben is das bessere Leben (Munich, Kunstmann, 2006), p.21 (my translation)
7. Elfride Jelinek, Women as Lovers, trans. Martin Chalmers (London, Serpent’s Tail, 1994), p.9
8. Ibid., p.22
9. Ibid., p.9
10. Ibid., p.153
11. Ibid., p.32
12. Elfriede Jelinek, Wonderful Wonderful Times, trans. Michael Hulse (London, Serpent’s Tail, 1990), p.16
13. Elfreide Jelinek, Greed, trans. Martin Chalmers (New York, Seven Stories Press, 2007), p.192
14. Ibid., p.136
15. Elfriede Jelinek in interview with Gitta Honegger in the journal Theater 36(2) (Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2006), p.29
16. Loc. cit.
17. Loc. cit.
18. Wonderful, p.20
19. Greed, p.11
20. Ibid., p.39
21. Heinrichs, p.17
22. Piano, p.24
23. Ibid., p.14
24. Ibid., p.243
25. Ibid., p.251
26. Ibid., p.193
27. Ibid., pp.176–7
28. Heinrichs, p.23
29. Elfriede Jelinek, Lust, trans. Michael Hulse (London, Serpent’s Tail, 1992), p.3
30. Ibid., pp.14–15
31. Ibid., p.18
32. Ibid., p.22
33. Theater 36(2), p.26
34. Greed, p.117
35. Ibid., p.193
36. Ibid., p.323
37. Ibid., p.73
38. Ibid., p.135
39. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfriede_Jelinek
40. Greed, p.13
41. Elfriede Jelinek, Gier (Hamburg, Rowohlt, 2005), p.15
42. Heinrichs, p.49
A Polished Pessimism
1. E. M. Cioran, La Chute dans le temps (Paris, Gallimard, 1964), p.1
2. Ibid., p.35
3. Ibid., p.36
4. Ibid., p.37
5. Ibid., p.167
6. E. M. Cioran, History and Utopia, trans. Richard Howard (London, Quartet, 1966), p.90
7. Ibid., p.88
8. Ibid., p.89
9. Ibid., p.96
10. Ibid., p.91
11. Ibid., p.61
12. Ibid., p.75
13. Loc. cit.
14. Ibid., p.136
15. Loc. cit.
16. Ibid., p.69
17. Ibid., p.67
1. Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, trans. George Bull (London, Folio Society, 2006), p.77
2. Ibid., p.81
3. Ibid., p.57
4. Loc. cit.
5. Ibid., p.59
6. Ibid., p.87
7. Ibid., p.96
8. Ibid., p.36
9. Ibid., p.43
A Model Anomaly
1. Italian Politics, The Faltering Transition, eds. Mark Gilbert and Gianfranco Pasquino for the Istituto Cattaneo (New York/Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2000), these titles listed on pp.v, vi
2. Marco Travaglio, L’odore dei soldi, Origini e misteri delle fortune di Silvio Berlusconi (Rome, Editori Riuniti, 2001), p.9
3. Anna Cento Bull, Social Identities and Political Cultures in Italy (New York, Berghahn Books, 2000), p.2
4. Loc. cit.
5. Travaglio, p.15
6. The Economist, 26 April 2001
7. Bull, p.3
8. Ibid., p.225
9. Satyricon, RAI 2, 14 March 2001
10. Travaglio, p.50
11. Ibid., p.28
12. Ibid., pp.275–6
13. Bull, p.219
14. Silvio Berlusconi, L’Italia che ho in mente (Milan, Mondadori, 2000)
15. Corriere della Sera, 15 March 2000
16. Italian Politics, The Return of Politics, eds. David Hine and Salvatore Vassallo, for the Istituto Cattaneo (New York/Oxford, Berghahn Books, 1999), p.110
17. Guest book of Hellas Verona official website, now deleted (www.hellasverona.it)
Mad at the Medici
1. Nicolai Rubinstein, Il governo di Firenze sotto i Medici (1434–1494) (Milan, La Nuova Italia, 1999), p.232
2. Loc. cit.
3. Mark Phillips, The Memoir of Marco Parenti: A Life in Medici Florence (Toronto, Encore Editions, 2000), p.223
4. Niccolò Machiavelli, Florentine Histories, trans. Laura F. Banfield and Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1988), p.176
5. Rubinstein, p.33
6. Lauro Martines, April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici (London, Jonathan Cape, 2003), p.158
7. Ibid., p.216
8. Ibid., p.220
Love Letter
1. Fleur Jaeggy, Sweet Days of Discipline, trans. Tim Parks (New York, New Directions, 1993), pp.23–4
2. Ibid., p.13
3. Fleur Jaeggy, SS Proleterka, trans. Alastair McEwen (New York, New Directions, 2003), p.87
4. Proleterka, p.87
5. Ibid., p.114
6. Ibid., p.88
7. Ibid., pp.6–7
8. Ibid., p.93
9. Ibid., p.39
10. Ibid., p.83
11. Loc. cit.
12. Ibid., p.84
13. Ibid., p.92
14. Ibid., p.78
15. E. M. Cioran, La Chute dans le temps (Paris, Gallimard, 1964), p.1
16. Proleterka, p.106
17. Ibid., pp.106–7
18. Ibid., p.109
19. Ibid., p.3
Tales Told by a Computer
1. N. Katherine Hayles, Writing Machines (Boston, The MIT Press, 2002), p.138
2. Robert Coover, ‘The End of Books’, New York Times Book Review, 21 June 1992
3. Shelley Jackson, Patchwork Girl CD-ROM (Eastgate Systems Inc., 1995)
4. Loc. cit.
5. Loc. cit.
6. Loc. cit.
8. Coover
9. Mark C. Taylor and Esa Saarinen, ‘Telewriting’ Imagologies: Media Philosophy (New York, Routledge, 1994), p.6. Also available at http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/essays/crossroads/saarinen/saarinen2.html
10. Stuart Moulthrop, Hegirascope, http://iat.ubalt.edu/moulthrop/hypertexts/HGS/HGS243.html
11. Talan Memmott, Lolli’s Apartment, http://www.heelstone.com/meridian/talan/preface.html
12. Ibid., http://www.heelstone.com/meridian/talan/f.html
13. Zahra Safavian, Berceuse, http://www.drunkenboat.com/db3/safavian/berceuse.html
14. Stephanie Strickland, ‘Dalí Clocks: Time Dimensions of Hypermedia’, Electronic Book Review, 2001, http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/webarts/hypertext
15. Mundaka Upanishad, I, p.1
16. Dante, Inferno, trans. Robert & Jean Hollander (New York, Doubleday, 2001), Canto XXIX, ll.1–3
17. Ibid., ll.11–12
18. Felix Jung, ‘Cruelty’, http://webdelsol.com/Synesthesia/2/cruelty.html
Real Dreams
1. Émile Zola, The Dream, trans. Andrew Brown (London, Hesperus Press, 2005), pp.21–4
2. Ibid., p.29
A Matter of Love and Hate
1. B. Butler, The Official History of the Football Association (London, Queen Anne Press, 1991)
2. Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, televised address to the nation, broadcast RAI 1, 31 December 1999
3. Guest book of Hellas Verona official website, now deleted (www.hellasverona.it), 1 January 2000
4. Adriano Raganella et al., Il calcio a Verona (Verona, Unione Stampa Sportiva I
taliana, 1999), p.25
5. Ibid., p.14
6. E. M. Cioran
7. Ian Buruma, Voltaire’s Coconuts (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999), p.176
8. Ibid., p.178
9. Guest book of Hellas Verona official website, now deleted (www.hellasverona.it), 5 June 2002
Hero Betrayed
1. Lucy Riall, Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero (New Haven, CT, and London, Yale University Press, 2007) p.83
2. G. M. Trevelyan, Garibaldi and the Thousand, (Phoenix Press, London, 2001), p.112
3. Riall, p.175
4. Ibid., p.183
5. Trevelyan, p.210
6. Riall, p.306
7. Ibid., p.339
8. Denis Mack Smith, Garibaldi (Italian edition), p.220
9. Mack Smith (Italian edition), p.241
10. From the back cover of Garibaldi and the Thousand, Trevelyan
11. Riall, p.14
12. Ibid., p.213
13. Ibid., p.346
14. Ibid., p.181
15. Ibid., p.206
16. Ibid., p.391
17. Ibid., p.291
18. Ibid., p.392
19. Ibid., p.244
20. Ibid., p.155
21. Giuseppe Garibaldi, My Life (London, Hesperus Press, 2004), p.126
Siege of the Serenissima
1. Jacob Burckhardt, The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (London, Penguin, 1990), p.27
2. Giacomo Leopardi, Discorso sopra lo stato presente dei costume degl’italiani (Milan, Feltrinelli, 1991), p.70
3. Ibid., p.57
4. Loc. cit.
5. Loc. cit.
6. Jonathan Keates, The Siege of Venice (London, Chatto & Windus, 2005), p.17
7. Keates, p.174
8. Leopardi, p.50
The Superman’s Virgins
1. Gabriele D’Annunzio, The Book of the Virgins, trans. J. G. Nichols (London, Hesperus Press, 2003), p.36
2. Ibid., p.57
3. Ibid., p.15
A Pagan in Italy
1. D. H. Lawrence, D. H. Lawrence and Italy: Etruscan Places, Sea and Sardinia, Twilight in Italy (London, Penguin, 1972), p.10
2. Ibid., p.7
3. Ibid., p.81
4. Ibid., p.4
5. Ibid., p.21
6. Ibid., p.45
7. Ibid., p.10
8. Ibid., p.21
9. Ibid., p.22
10. Ibid., p.23
11. Ibid., p.23
12. Ibid., p.25
13. Ibid., p.26
14. Ibid., p.30
15. Ibid., p.28
16. Ibid., p.29
17. Ibid., p.30
18. Ibid., p.76
19. Ibid., p.34
20. Ibid., p.154
21. Jeffrey Meyers, D. H. Lawrence: A Biography (New York, Cooper Square Press, 1990), p.280
22. Lawrence and Italy: Sea and Sardinia, p.7
23. Ibid., p.11
24. Ibid., p.31
25. Ibid., p.4
26. Ibid., p.90
27. Ibid., p.91
28. Ibid., p.67
29. Loc. cit.
30. Ibid., p.100
31. Ibid., p.48
32. Ibid., p.189
33. Loc. cit.
34. Ibid., p.190
35. Lawrence and Italy: Etruscan Places, p.9
36. Ibid., p.14
37. Ibid., p.12
38. Ibid., p.9
39. Ibid., p.12
40. Ibid., p.10
41. Ibid., p.52
42. Ibid., p.51
43. D. H. Lawrence, Complete Poems (London, Penguin, 1993), p.718
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