Contrappunti / Counterpoints: Selected Prose of Giovanni Cecchetti

by Giovanni Cecchetti and Raymond Petrillo

The bilingual title of this volume, Contrappunti / Counterpoints, addresses the culturally interrelated dynamic of its substance: the reflections and stories of Giovanni Cecchetti, exquisitely written in his native Italian, but from the psychocultural perspective of contemporary Americana, and with illuminating forays into the Greek and Latin classics. To have grappled, asserts Cecchetti, with different languages and clashing cultures has...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820431346
• ISBN13: 9780820431345
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 325 Pages