{"product_id":"de-jorio-la-mimica-degli-antichi-1832","title":"La mimica degli antichi investigata nel gestire napoletano","description":"\u003cp\u003e1832 First Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 8vo. Pp. [1] f.e., [4, XXXVI, 380, [4], 21 plates, [2], [1] r.e.\u003cbr\u003e\nNapoli (Naples)\u003cbr\u003e\nStamperia e Cartiera del Fibreno\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModern half-vellum binding over marbled boards; some rubbing at the edges. Editorial notes and decorations printed on the spine; marbled edges. Original editorial wrappers preserved inside, both front and back. Modern bookplate on the front pastedown, \"Ex Libris Major Bryan Palmes.\" Foxing throughout, except for the plates, which are printed on thicker, higher-quality paper. Wide margins. A sound and attractive copy. Very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition of the first ethnographic study of Italian gesture, and one of the earliest works to use contemporary ethnographic observation as a tool for interpreting antiquity.\u003cbr\u003e\nAndrea De Jorio wrote as a canon of Naples Cathedral and custodian of the Real Museo Borbonico vase collection, where his work included explaining the painted Greek vases to visitors. The book was written in particular Neapolitan moment: classical antiquities were being organized, displayed, and interpreted for scholars and foreign amateurs, while the streets outside the museum supplied a living repertory of signs. De Jorio argues that contemporary Neapolitan gestures preserve forms visible on ancient vases and Roman reliefs, and that modern practice and ancient art can interpret one another. He treats hands, heads, mockery, blessing, insult, and theatrical expression as legible acts with histories. Taken as a whole, the book is an antiquarian grammar of the body, using Naples to read antiquity and antiquity to read Naples.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book opens with an explanation of the occasion for the work: while describing painted Greek vases in the Royal Museum, De Jorio found gestures depicted on them that were still performed in Naples. It then defines the project as a specimen of \"linguaggio mimico\" (mimicry), while insisting that mimic action is not language in the strict sense. The alphabetic body runs from Abbiccì de' Gesti (ABC of Gestures) through over a hundred headings, including Beffeggiare (Mockery), Corna (Horns), Far le corna (Making the Horns), Danaro (Money), Mano in fica (Fig Hand), Iettatura (Evil Eye), Amuleto (Amulet), and Schioppetto (Pistol). Under Danaro (Money), thumb and forefinger rubbed together become a comparative test: Mason and Thomas Maguire of Quebec perform the same sign and report its use among Indigenous peoples of Canada.\u003cbr\u003e\nFive indices follow, covering titles, plates, gestures, significations, and monuments newly explained.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe first 16 aquatint plates were executed by Gaetano Gigante after drawings by the Baron Clugny de Nuis, as stated in the \"Avis aux lecteurs,\" where the Baron himself describes the scenes as \"Bambocciate,\" thus associating them with the seventeenth-century movement in Rome that specialized in small-scale, often earthy scenes of everyday street life. In fact they show staged Neapolitan street scenes with dialect captions, including \"Chi aggio da servire?\" (Whom shall I serve?), \"Benedica\" (Bless you), and \"Te faccio na fica\" (I'll give you the fig)\"; the remaining 5 plates give outline engravings after antique vase paintings and analytical sheets of isolated hands and heads.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDe Jorio does not use antiquity to explain Naples; he uses Naples to explain antiquity, treating the living repertory of the street as evidence for what is happening on a Greek or Roman vase. This fascinating reverse-engineering is why the book became a founding text for the study of gesture - and art.\u003cbr\u003e\nAlso, being La Fenice 100% Italian, we feel seen - they said, moving their hands emphatically...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49385894674667,"sku":"177-1832--1500.00-900.00-2026","price":2216000.0,"currency_code":"KRW","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00177_IMG_0409_1e4a39e9-e532-4398-87ec-af0452c74356.jpg?v=1789064687","url":"https:\/\/fenicebooks.com\/en-kr\/products\/de-jorio-la-mimica-degli-antichi-1832","provider":"La Fenice Antiquaria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}