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An epic tale of love, lies, and a family’s disgrace in the unforgiving south of Italy.After receiving stunning critical acclaim and France’s most prestigious literary award, the Goncourt Prize, Laurent Gaudé’s The House of Scorta (published in France as Le Soleil des Scorta) has sold more than 400,000 copies. Spanning five generations in a small village in southern Italy, Gaudé’s novel is laced with infamous crimes, forsaken loves, and lifelong secrets. The saga of the Scortas opens in 1870 with Rocco Scorta Mascalzone, the bastard product of a rape and a notorious scoundrel whose legacy the family is forced to confront. While their lineage seems doomed to struggle, the Scortas are blessed with an imposing pride and a relentless faith in their own power. Besides a little tobacco shop they manage to open with their years of savings, their wealth all but lies in their memories and their collective belief in the pursuit of happiness. Gaudé’s omniscient, linear narrative is interwoven with the recollections of the old Carmela as she delivers her last confession to the family priest, exposing the family’s deep-buried secret.

An epic tale of love, lies, and a family’s disgrace in the unforgiving south of Italy.After receiving stunning critical acclaim and France’s most prestigious literary award, the Goncourt Prize, Laurent Gaudé’s The House of Scorta (published in France as Le Soleil des Scorta) has sold more than 400,000 copies. Spanning five generations in a small village in southern Italy, Gaudé’s novel is laced with infamous crimes, forsaken loves, and lifelong secrets. The saga of the Scortas opens in 1870 with Rocco Scorta Mascalzone, the bastard product of a rape and a notorious scoundrel whose legacy the family is forced to confront. While their lineage seems doomed to struggle, the Scortas are blessed with an imposing pride and a relentless faith in their own power. Besides a little tobacco shop they manage to open with their years of savings, their wealth all but lies in their memories and their collective belief in the pursuit of happiness. Gaudé’s omniscient, linear narrative is interwoven with the recollections of the old Carmela as she delivers her last confession to the family priest, exposing the family’s deep-buried secret.

256pages. in8. broché. Sous le soleil écrasant du sud italien le sang des Scorta transmet, de père en fils, l'orgueil indomptable, la démence et la rage de vivre de ceux qui, seuls, défient un destin retors. Par l'auteur de La Mort du Roi Tsongor, prix Goncourt des lycéens 2002, prix des libraires 2003. Un homme avance sur sa mule dans un paysage pétrifié de chaleur, sous l'implacable soleil des Pouilles, en direction du minuscule village de Montepuccio, où il vient assouvir, au risque d'y perdre la vie, son désir et sa vengeance. Ses fautes de jeunesse -vols, violences, crimes de toutes sortes -, il les a payées de dix-sept ans de prison. Désormais libre, il entend bien, de gré ou de force, faire sienne une femme que dans sa jeunesse il convoitait. De cette vengeance -on pourrait même dire: de cette scène primitive -va surgir la lignée des Scorta, une famille de pouilleux marqués par l'opprobre et la faute orignielle, mais qui, peu à peu, sur quatre générations, parvient à subsister, à planter ses racines dans un sol fruste, à saisir sa chance, transmettre ses valeurs et s'accorder aux beautés de sa terre natale. L'histoire de la famille Scorta se déroule sur un siècle, de 1870 à nos jours. Elle prend le double aspect d'un récit objectif et linéaire que viennent scander les soliloques d'un des personnages, Carmela, vieillarde qui, avant de perdre la mémoire, se hâte de confier à l'ancien curé de Montepuccio ce qu'elle n'a pu raconter à personne: son voyage à New York avec ses frères, la création du bureau de tabac de Montepuccio, et plus largement sa vision subjective de l'aventure des Scorta. Car ce roman puissamment sudiste et solaire n'est nullement, au sens où on l'entend couramment, une saga familiale. Marqué par la force de la parole, par la sincér...

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La sorprendente analogia tra lingua e cucina come espressioni della cultura di un popolo permette di avviare con la scorta della linguistica generale una riflessione teorica sull'arte culinaria, individuandone gli elementi sistematici e il loro funzionamento; mentre il metodo comparativo della linguistica storica consente di ricostruire le cucine morte, l'etimologia delle vivande e la storia gastronomica, scoprendo in particolare nella trafila arabo-normanno-sveva l'origine della cucina italiana ed europea.

A cura di Giuliana Berti. I Ricordi, iniziati nel 1500 e proseguiti sino alla morte nel 1524, sono un documento privato per eccellenza. Deposito di riflessioni condotte dall'autore sulla scorta di notizie pervenutegli dalle diverse parti del mondo e sugli avvenimenti più vari. (Nei Ricordi il Cerretani parla di un affresco che Leonardo da Vinci sta eseguendo nel salone dei cinquecento: La battaglia di Anghiari, il famoso affresco andato disperso, si dice a causa della deperibilità del colore.) cm.17x24, pp.XIV,480, Coll.Ist.Naz.di Studi sul Rinascimento. Coll.Studi e Testi,29. Firenze, Olschki cm.17x24, pp.XIV,480, brossura Coll.Ist.Naz.di Studi sul Rinascimento. Coll.Studi e Testi,29.