MAREMMA

märāmˈmä, coastal area in Tuscany, central Italy, along the Tyrrhenian Sea and extending E to the Apennines. A flourishing region in Etruscan and early Roman times, it became marshy and was largely abandoned in the Middle Ages because of malaria. Reclamation was begun (19th cent.) by the grand dukes of Tuscany and was continued in the 20th cent. by the Italian government. There are now wide fertile areas, rich borax mines, and good hunting grounds; cattle and a noted breed of horses are raised. Cities include Piombino (a port) and Grosetto (an inland agricultural center).

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books on: Maremma  - 256 results

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Le Rivage Des Syrtes
Book by Julien Gracq; Corti, 1951
Subjects: Fiction
...la voiture de lAmiraute les emportait a Maremma, la bourgade la plus proche; ces excursions...allait chercher presque chaque semaine a Maremma. Je nen avais plus besoin. Le denuement...de conge ou la voiture, roulant vers Maremma, vidait lAmiraute pour quelques heures...
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The Road in Tuscany: A Commentary - Vol. 2
Book by Maurice Hewlett; Macmillan, 1904
Subjects: Tuscany (Italy)--Description And Travel
...The Frontier Fort in the Maremma 149...Lucca, at Rigoli you are in the Pisan Maremma. From the very edge of this treeless...After the drab outskirts of Pisa, the Maremma and the dyked road, I gained Cascina...
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Concise Dictionary of Proper Names and Notable Matters in the Works of Dante
Book by Paget Toynbee; Clarendon Press, 1914
Subjects: Dante Alighieri--1265-1321--Dictionaries, Indexes, Etc
...Aldighiero. Alighieri. Aldobrandeschi , ancient and powerful Ghibelline family, Counts of Santafiora in the Sienese Maremma, where they had been settled since Cent. ix. D. mentions Santafiora, whence the counts took their title, Purg. vi...
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Types of Rural Economy: Studies in World Agriculture
Book by René Dumont; Methuen & Co., 1957
Subjects: Agriculture--Economic Aspects
...owner-farmer and a poor metayer in Tuscany. 5. The metayage system in danger in the Valle di Chiana. 6. The lati fundia of the Maremma and agrarian reforms. 7. The inadequacy of these reforms; solutions outside the sphere of agriculture...
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Etruscan Places
Book by D. H. Lawrence; The Viking Press, 1957
Subjects: Art, Etruscan, Etruria--Antiquities
...nonmoral calm. Only the deflowered faces survive. So much for a Maremma shepherd! We went out into the sunny April street of this...station from Civita Vecchia-- about twenty minutes over the flat Maremma country, with the sea on the left, and the green wheat growing...
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From Gothic Italy to Italy as Gothic Archive: Italian Narratives and the Late Romantic Metrical Tale
Journal article by Diego Saglia; Gothic Studies, Vol. 8, 2006
...malariainfested coastal district of the Maremma where she died, leaving him free to marry...was elaborated by Felicia Hemans in The Maremma, a narrative poem published in the Edinburgh...sentimentalism and gender issues. The Maremma is indeed a combination of Hemanss interest...
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The Traumas of Translation and the Translation of Trauma: Translation and Cultural Plurality in Fremd and Yasbincek
Journal article by Russell West-Pavlov; Australian Literary Studies, Vol. 23, 2007
Subjects: Fremd, Angelika--Criticism and interpretation, Fremd, Angelika--Works, Heartland (Short fiction)--Criticism and interpretation, Heartland (Short fiction)--Translations and translating, Language and languages--Translations and translating, Liv (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Liv (Novel)--Translations and translating, Multiculturalism--Social aspects, Translations--Analysis, Yasbincek, Morgan--Criticism and interpretation, Yasbincek, Morgan--Works
...edition of that memoir also describes his polyglot domicile in a Maremma village, in a gesture which may appear compensatory. When Remembering...invited the translator, Robert Pepin, to stay with him in the Maremma. Pepin worked in the same room where most of the novel had...
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The Spread of Malaria to Southern Europe in Antiquity: New Approaches to Old Problems
Journal article by Robert Sallares, Abigail Bouwman, Cecilia Anderung; Medical History, Vol. 48, 2004
...Etruscan cities such as Vulci and Vetulonia flourished in the Maremma, the coastal region of Tuscany, which was described as pestilential...the first century AD.29 Vulci occupies a lowland site in the Maremma in an area where there was intense malaria in the early modern...
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Antonio Tabucchi: Postmodern Catholic Writer
Journal article by Charles D. Klopp; World Literature Today, Vol. 71, 1997
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism
...and the Christian-Democrat hegemony that began in the late 1940s. In that novel the inhabitants of a village in the Tuscan Maremma lead their lives in mortal struggle with a series of political and economic oppressors. The worst of these are without doubt...
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Melville, Garibaldi, and the Medusa of Revolution
Journal article by Dennis Berthold; American Literary History, Vol. 9, 1997
Subjects: American Literature--History And Criticism
...Swart Tiber, dredged, may rich repay -- The Pontine Marsh, too, drained away. And, far along the Tuscan shore The weird Maremma reassume Her ancient tilth and wheaten plume. (81; 1.94-98) Garibaldi advocated all of these projects, and, while they...
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The Mass Bells of Maremma: The Waning of European Christianity
Magazine article by Eamon Duffy; Commonweal, Vol. 131, November 5, 2004
Subjects: Authors--Personal narratives, Christianity--Religious aspects, Christianity--Social aspects, Duffy, Eamon--Personal narratives, Writers--Personal narratives
The Mass Bells of Maremma: The Waning of European Christianity...recently in the hills of the western Maremma, miles from the tourist route. In this...once deeply Christian countryside of the Maremma. The practical alienation of Italians...
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Socialism Loses Another Old Star
Magazine article by John Lloyd; New Statesman, Vol. 129, August 7, 2000
Subjects: Communist Party (Italy)--Newspapers and periodicals, Italy--Politics and government, L'Unita (Newspaper)--Evaluation, Newspaper publishing--Political aspects, Newspapers--Political aspects
...Lloyd mourns the passing of LUnita, the organ of Italys far left The village of Alberese, in the midst of the district of Maremma in the south of Tuscany, held its annual Festa dell Unita, or Festival of the Communist Party, all last week. It was, on the...
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The Return of Il Lupo
Magazine article by Thomas McNamee; Natural History, Vol. 105, December 1996
Subjects: Animal populations, Italy, Wolves
...is the very old guard dog of Italy, the Maremma," says Tedesco, "but these shepherds come...wolves, and they dont know how to train the Maremma, and when the wolves come, the dogs run...shepherds to train the guard dogs. The Maremma is very good at his job; after all, he...
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A Historian's Faith & Hope: Eamon Duffy & the Uses of Tradition
Magazine article by Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, Robert Ellsberg, Elizabeth A. Johnson, John L. Allen Jr.; Commonweal, Vol. 132, March 11, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Faith of Our Fathers (Book)--Book reviews
...imposition of Protestantism, but a vital and cherished practice. Commonweal readers will remember the essay "The Mass Bells of Maremma," which Duffy wrote for our eightieth-anniversary issue about the ongoing de-Christianization of Europe (November 5, 2004...
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Raise a Glass to Carthage: Hannibal's Tipple, Montepulciano, Fortifies Both Man and Beast, Writes Roger Scruton
Magazine article by Roger Scruton; New Statesman, Vol. 136, November 12, 2007
Subjects: Wine--Product/service Evaluations
...From the same growers comes the white Vermentino, grown at Maremma in Tuscany. The Vermentino recalls, in name and taste, the...otherwise it would have been a case of "Siena mi fe, disfece mi Maremma", so deadly are its thrusts. Those who like zucchini in batter...
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newspaper articles on: Maremma  - 25 results

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MAREMMA MIA; If Your Lust for Italian Food Outweighs Your Appetite for Culture, Head for Maremma, the Corner of Italy That Bypassed the Renaissance in Favour of Ragu. Sasha Slater Tucks intoTuscany
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 16, 2006
MAREMMA MIA; If Your Lust for Italian Food Outweighs Your Appetite for Culture, Head for Maremma, the Corner of Italy That Bypassed the Renaissance in Favour...visit Tuscany, but only one really good reason to visit the Maremma region: the food. So while tourists unwise enough to set...
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Treat Yourself to a Tuscan Retreat
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), May 2, 2007
...sale at Santa Croce, a 17th-century former monastery in The Maremma, southwest Tuscany, writes Cathy Hawker. Adam Pollock, Londons...sale at Santa Croce, a 17th-century former monastery in The Maremma, southwest Tuscany, writes Cathy Hawker. Adam Pollock, Londons...
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Treat Yourself to a Tuscan Retreat
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), May 2, 2007
Subjects: Musicians
...Retreat. Byline: LORNA BURKE A DESIGNER slice of Italy is on sale at Santa Croce, a 17th-century former monastery in The Maremma, southwest Tuscany, writes Cathy Hawker. Adam Pollock, Londons most fashionable interior designer in the swinging 1960s and...
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Twenty-Four Hours in Tuscany
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 9, 2006
...the proud ochre edifice of LAndana, a stately former villa in Maremma, an area in the south of Tuscany not far from Pisa, Rome and...undiscovered and noticeably warmer and quieter than northern Tuscany, Maremma lies off the beaten track with few tourists, sandy beaches...
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The Rugged Charm of a Still-Secret Side of Italy
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 19, 2006
...not forever England, one unfamiliar even to most Italians, namely the low-lying stretch of coastline above Rome known as the Maremma. The reason for its obscurity is malaria, which until the Fifties blighted the region. Though now freed of that shadow, centuries...
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encyclopedia articles on: Maremma  - 4 results

 
 
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Maremma
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MAREMMA maram ma, coastal area in Tuscany, central Italy, along the Tyrrhenian Sea and extending E to the Apennines. A flourishing region...
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Grosseto
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Italy, capital of Grosseto prov., Tuscany region, on the Ombrone River near the Tyrrhenian Sea. Situated in the reclaimed Maremma area, it is an agricultural market. Nearby are the ruins of Russellae, an Etruscan town deserted in the 12th cent...
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Ouida
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...was a prolific writer of flamboyant, romantic tales, the best of which are Under Two Flags (1867), Moths (1880), and In Maremma (1882). Her stories for children include Two Little Wooden Shoes (1874), Bimbi (1882), and the well-known Dog of Flanders...
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Tuscany
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...fertile soil, especially in the Arno River valley and in the Maremma , a coastal strip. The Apennines are in northern and eastern...quicksilver are produced. In addition, borax is produced in the Maremma, and iron is mined on Elba island. Along the northern coast...


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