Author: Edoardo Albinati
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374717451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1280
Book Description
A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, framed by the harrowing 1975 Circeo massacre Edoardo Albinati’s The Catholic School, the winner of Italy’s most prestigious award, The Strega Prize, is a powerful investigation of the heart and soul of contemporary Italy. Three well-off young men—former students at Rome’s prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno—brutally tortured, raped, and murdered two young women in 1975. The event, which came to be known as the Circeo massacre, shocked and captivated the country, exposing the violence and dark underbelly of the upper middle class at a moment when the traditional structures of family and religion were seen as under threat. It is this environment, the halls of San Leone Magno in the late 1960s and the 1970s, that Edoardo Albinati takes as his subject. His experience at the school, reflections on his adolescence, and thoughts on the forces that produced contemporary Italy are painstakingly and thoughtfully rendered, producing a remarkable blend of memoir, coming-of-age novel, and true-crime story. Along with indelible portraits of his teachers and fellow classmates—the charming Arbus, the literature teacher Cosmos, and his only Fascist friend, Max—Albinati also gives us his nuanced reflections on the legacy of abuse, the Italian bourgeoisie, and the relationship between sex, violence, and masculinity.
The Catholic School
Author: Edoardo Albinati
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374717451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1280
Book Description
A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, framed by the harrowing 1975 Circeo massacre Edoardo Albinati’s The Catholic School, the winner of Italy’s most prestigious award, The Strega Prize, is a powerful investigation of the heart and soul of contemporary Italy. Three well-off young men—former students at Rome’s prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno—brutally tortured, raped, and murdered two young women in 1975. The event, which came to be known as the Circeo massacre, shocked and captivated the country, exposing the violence and dark underbelly of the upper middle class at a moment when the traditional structures of family and religion were seen as under threat. It is this environment, the halls of San Leone Magno in the late 1960s and the 1970s, that Edoardo Albinati takes as his subject. His experience at the school, reflections on his adolescence, and thoughts on the forces that produced contemporary Italy are painstakingly and thoughtfully rendered, producing a remarkable blend of memoir, coming-of-age novel, and true-crime story. Along with indelible portraits of his teachers and fellow classmates—the charming Arbus, the literature teacher Cosmos, and his only Fascist friend, Max—Albinati also gives us his nuanced reflections on the legacy of abuse, the Italian bourgeoisie, and the relationship between sex, violence, and masculinity.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374717451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1280
Book Description
A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, framed by the harrowing 1975 Circeo massacre Edoardo Albinati’s The Catholic School, the winner of Italy’s most prestigious award, The Strega Prize, is a powerful investigation of the heart and soul of contemporary Italy. Three well-off young men—former students at Rome’s prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno—brutally tortured, raped, and murdered two young women in 1975. The event, which came to be known as the Circeo massacre, shocked and captivated the country, exposing the violence and dark underbelly of the upper middle class at a moment when the traditional structures of family and religion were seen as under threat. It is this environment, the halls of San Leone Magno in the late 1960s and the 1970s, that Edoardo Albinati takes as his subject. His experience at the school, reflections on his adolescence, and thoughts on the forces that produced contemporary Italy are painstakingly and thoughtfully rendered, producing a remarkable blend of memoir, coming-of-age novel, and true-crime story. Along with indelible portraits of his teachers and fellow classmates—the charming Arbus, the literature teacher Cosmos, and his only Fascist friend, Max—Albinati also gives us his nuanced reflections on the legacy of abuse, the Italian bourgeoisie, and the relationship between sex, violence, and masculinity.
Parish School
Author: Timothy Walch
Publisher: Herder & Herder
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Walch presents the dramatic story of a social institution that has adapted itself to constant change without abandoning its goals of preserving the faith of its children and preparing them for productive roles in American society.
Publisher: Herder & Herder
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Walch presents the dramatic story of a social institution that has adapted itself to constant change without abandoning its goals of preserving the faith of its children and preparing them for productive roles in American society.
Lost Classroom, Lost Community
Author: Margaret F. Brinig
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022612214X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
In the past two decades in the United States, more than 1,600 Catholic elementary and secondary schools have closed, and more than 4,500 charter schools—public schools that are often privately operated and freed from certain regulations—have opened, many in urban areas. With a particular emphasis on Catholic school closures, Lost Classroom, Lost Community examines the implications of these dramatic shifts in the urban educational landscape. More than just educational institutions, Catholic schools promote the development of social capital—the social networks and mutual trust that form the foundation of safe and cohesive communities. Drawing on data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods and crime reports collected at the police beat or census tract level in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles, Margaret F. Brinig and Nicole Stelle Garnett demonstrate that the loss of Catholic schools triggers disorder, crime, and an overall decline in community cohesiveness, and suggest that new charter schools fail to fill the gaps left behind. This book shows that the closing of Catholic schools harms the very communities they were created to bring together and serve, and it will have vital implications for both education and policing policy debates.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022612214X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
In the past two decades in the United States, more than 1,600 Catholic elementary and secondary schools have closed, and more than 4,500 charter schools—public schools that are often privately operated and freed from certain regulations—have opened, many in urban areas. With a particular emphasis on Catholic school closures, Lost Classroom, Lost Community examines the implications of these dramatic shifts in the urban educational landscape. More than just educational institutions, Catholic schools promote the development of social capital—the social networks and mutual trust that form the foundation of safe and cohesive communities. Drawing on data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods and crime reports collected at the police beat or census tract level in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles, Margaret F. Brinig and Nicole Stelle Garnett demonstrate that the loss of Catholic schools triggers disorder, crime, and an overall decline in community cohesiveness, and suggest that new charter schools fail to fill the gaps left behind. This book shows that the closing of Catholic schools harms the very communities they were created to bring together and serve, and it will have vital implications for both education and policing policy debates.
What Makes Education Catholic
Author: Groome, Thomas H.
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608339106
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
"Offers the spiritual foundations that should define/suffuse Catholic education, at every level, to ensure that Catholic schools are providing the education that they promise"--
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608339106
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
"Offers the spiritual foundations that should define/suffuse Catholic education, at every level, to ensure that Catholic schools are providing the education that they promise"--
The Religious Dimension of Education in a Catholic School
Author: Congregation for Catholic Education
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780949080349
Category : Catholic Church
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780949080349
Category : Catholic Church
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Growth and Development of the Catholic School System in the United States
Author: James Aloysius Burns
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catholic church in the United States
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catholic church in the United States
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The Catholic School System in the United States
Author: James Aloysius Burns
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catholic church in the United States
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catholic church in the United States
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The Parochial School
Author: Jeremiah J. Crowley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church schools
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church schools
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
The Parochial School, a Curse to the Church, a Menace to the Nation
Author: Jeremiah J. Crowley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church schools
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church schools
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description