Gesture in Naples and Gesture in Classical Antiquity
Gesture in Naples and Gesture in Classical Antiquity "I had heard about this book for years. Praising his countrymen's gift for talking with their hands, Barzini lamented that so little had been…
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Gesture in Naples and Gesture in Classical Antiquity
"I had heard about this book for years. Praising his countrymen's gift for talking with their hands, Barzini lamented that so little had been written on this subject. The person who put the word out, at least in lay circles, was probably Luigi Barzini, in The Italians (1964).
Barzini offered a little sample . . . . To his knowledge, only one person--Andrea de Jorio, a Neapolitan priest--had attempted a lexicon of Italian hand gestures, in an 1832 volume entitled La Mimica degli antichi investigata nel gestire napoletano. . . . Upon reading [it], you felt that if you could not get hold of de Jorio's book immediately, you would bite your elbows. . . .
[N]ot until this year was de Jorio's treatise brought out in English. The translation, the copious notes, and the long, helpful introduction . . . [are] a source of wisdom and delight." --Joan Acocella, New York Review of