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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Seven seasons in Siena
    sub title: my quixotic quest for acceptance among Italy's proudest people
  name:
    name part: Rodi, Robert
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  genre: Biographies.
  genre: Nonfiction.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2011
    edition: Fist edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 260 pages ; 22 cm
  abstract: "Siena seems at first glance a typical Italian city: Within its venerable medieval walls the citizens sport designer clothes, wield digital phones, and prize their dazzling local cuisine. But unlike neighboring Florence, Siena is still deeply rooted in ancient traditions--chiefly the spectacular Palio, in which seventeen independent societies known as contrade vie for bragging rights in an annual bareback horse race around the central piazza. Into this strange, closed world steps Robert Rodi. An Chicago writer with few friends in town and a shaky command of conversational Italian, he couldn't be more out of place. Yet something about the sense of belonging radiating from the ritual-obsessed Sienese excites him, and draws him back to witness firsthand how their passionate brand of community extends beyond the Palio into the entire calendar year. Smitten, Rodi undertakes a plan to insinuate himself into this body politic, learn its ways, and win its acceptance"--Page 2 of cover.
  table of contents: pt. 1. Summer 2003 -- Brucaioli -- Caterpillers -- pt. 2. Summer 2008 -- The four greens -- Arrival -- A painful extraction -- Luigina for lunch -- If you can't stand the heat -- pt. 3. Summer 2009 -- The debutants -- Out of pocket -- A lot of chianti, a little rosé -- Night owl -- pt. 4. Autumn 2009 -- Close encounters -- Summon the heroes -- Make jubilation -- History and legend -- Museum peace -- Deus ex machina -- My way -- Doubt -- pt. 5. Winter 2010 -- Warming trends -- "The Palio is dead" -- Intestinal fortitude -- Fish out of water -- Rectified -- pt. 6. Spring 2010 -- Winners/losers -- Ashen -- One day, two legends -- An uphill climb -- pt. 7. Summer 2010 -- Brucaiolo -- A caterpillar -- Epilogue -- Postscript.
  note: Robert Rodi.
  note: The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-it---
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Rodi, Robert
    topic: Homes and haunts
    geographic: Italy
    geographic: Siena
  subject:
    topic: Americans
    geographic: Italy
    geographic: Siena
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Acculturation
    geographic: Italy
    geographic: Siena
  subject:
    geographic: Siena (Italy)
    topic: Social life and customs
  subject:
    geographic: Siena (Italy)
    topic: Description and travel
  subject:
    geographic: Siena (Italy)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    geographic: Siena (Italy)
    topic: Ethnic relations
  subject:
    topic: Acculturation
  subject:
    topic: Americans
  subject:
    topic: Ethnic relations
  subject:
    topic: Homes
  subject:
    topic: Manners and customs
  subject:
    topic: Travel
  subject:
    geographic: Italy
    geographic: Siena
  classification: DG975.S5 R64 2011
  classification: 945/.591093092
  identifier: 9780345521057
  identifier: 0345521056
  identifier: 9780345521071
  identifier: 0345521072
  identifier: 2011010021
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 110307
    record change date: 20210305142327.0
    record identifier: in00004443517
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng