Volume 43, Number 20 · December 19, 1996
The Art & Politics of the Nativity
By Garry Wills
BOOKS ON PRESEPI CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
The Angel Tree: A Christmas Celebration (1993)
by Linn Howard, by Mary Jane Pool
Abrams, 88 pp., $25.95
Scene e scenografie del presepe Napoletano (1991)
by Gennaro Borrelli
Naples: Tullio Pironti Editore, 279 pp., L180,000
Il presepio: Otto secoli di storia, arte, tradizione (1995)
by Pietro Gargano
Milan: Fenice 2000, 190 pp., L70,000
El belén: Historia, tradición y actualidad (1992)
by Pablo Martínez-Palomero
AURA Communicación, 207 pp.
Il presepe Napoletano del settecento (1995)
by Teodoro Fittipaldi
Milan: Electa, 96 pp., L70,000
Venite Adoremus: Note sul presepe Genovese (1993)
catalog of the 1993-1994 exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale, Genoa.
Genoa: Tormena Editore, 95 pp., L70,000
Il presepe riscoperto: Un "unicum" Napoletano del seicento a Genova (1989)
by Giuliana Biavati, by Giulio Sommariva
Genoa: Editoriale Bieffe, 142 pp.
Il presepe Italiano (1993)
by Pietro Gasperini
Ivrea: Priuli & Verlucca Editori, 132 pp., L120,000
Il presepe Napoletano (1990)
by Gennaro Borrelli
Naples: Tullio Pironti Editore, 99 pp., L200,000
Ten years ago, my wife and I, passing through Italy shortly after Christmas, were surprised at the omnipresence of ambitiously staged Nativity scenes—what the French call crèches, the Spanish belenes, the Germans Krippen, Americans cribs or crèches, but the Italians presepi (the plural of presepio
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