Review of Tra li fijeume/Between the Rivers

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Zachary D’Onofrio

Review of Biopolitics and Social Change in Italy. From Gramsci to Pasolini to Negri

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Sciltian Gastaldi

"Colenda poesis, et inde Poete" (Gen. deor. gent., XIV, 22, 11): Boccaccio, la novità della letteratura e la libertà dei poeti

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Matteo Bosisio

L’articolo, dopo aver mostrato le esigenze storiche e culturali che spinsero intellettuali quali Mussato e Petrarca a ricodificare lo statuto della letteratura, si sofferma sulla difesa della poesia operata da Boccaccio. Il certaldese non solo giunge a un risultato innovativo, totalmente...

Humanism’s Other Inheritance: The Brutal Intertextuality of Boiardo’s Rocca Crudele

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Natalie Cleaver

In Book I of the Orlando innamorato, Ranaldo travels from Palazo Zoioso to Rocca Crudele, a distinct adventure that exists almost as a separate novella within the poem. At Rocca Crudele, he encounters an exceptionally violent scene that is composed of the most horrific moments of cruelty drawn...

Troubling Doubling, Exceptional Oeconomia, and Compensation in Gl’Ingannati

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Catherine Scott Burriss

Recent studies of Gl’Ingannati have offered keen insights into its ground-breaking take on the intersection of gender confusion and erotic attraction, often locating the play’s importance in its cross-dressing heroine, Lelia. Yet this research leaves room for considerations of the whole context...

Foreignizing the Imagi-nation: Giovanni Ruffini’s Contrapuntal Risorgimento

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Nicoletta Pireddu

Giovanni Ruffini, author of the 1855 novel Doctor Antonio, is mainly remembered as the quintessential exiled Risorgimento patriot who, in Mazzini’s footsteps, from London advocated Italy’s freedom and unification. This article presents Ruffini as a more complex contributor to the politics of...

La costruzione retorica e le implicazioni etiche dell’uso dell’immagine dell’eroe nel discorso interventista di Quarto di Gabrielle d’Annunzio

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Patrizia Piredda

Questo articolo è uno studio sulle implicazioni etiche che soggiacciono alla retorica del linguaggio dannunziano, in particolar modo alla costruzione dell’immagine dell’eroe nei discorsi a favore dell’interventismo. Scopo dell’articolo è mostrare che d’Annunzio utilizza un nuovo modo di...

Appunti in margine a Il castello di Udine: tra presunta prosa d’arte e la narratività della forma raccolta

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Mathijs Duyck

L’articolo prende spunto dalla definizione di prosatore attribuita a Gadda dai primi recensori negli anni ’30 e recuperata di recente da una parte della critica gaddiana. Tale definizione fa riferimento alla categoria della prosa d’arte, la quale però, per quanto solesse fungere da contenitore...

Tre donne sole: Pavese’s Women in Search of a Modern Identity

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Stacy Giufre

“Tre Donne Sole: Pavese’s Women in Search of a Modern Identity” analyzes the representation of women in three of Cesare Pavese’s works: “Pensieri di Dina,” La bella estate, and Tra donne sole. This article argues that the depiction of women and gender in these texts is more modern and complex...

La Filosofia del Rifiuto ne La solitudine del satiro di Ennio Flaiano

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Jessy Carton

In questo articolo si esamina la presunta ‘esclusione’ di Ennio Flaiano dal campo letterario del secondo Novecento tramite l’analisi della Solitudine del satiro, opera uscita postuma nel 1973. Nell’atteggiarsi a scrittore escluso e restio, Flaiano crea una distanza da cui criticare gli ideali...

Military Camping: Pier Vittorio Tondelli’s Homosexualized Barracks in Pao Pao

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Sciltian Gastaldi

Pier Vittorio Tondelli’s second novel, Pao Pao (1982), has often been considered as an example of hedonism and lack of structural criticism against the military institution. This study contradicts the vulgate by demonstrating its full readability through the lenses of queer theory via an explicit...

Per una traduzione multidimensionale della poesia: “Notte, strada, lampione, farmacia” di Aleksandr Blok tra esistenzialismo e simbolismo

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Carlo Testa

Questo articolo propone al pubblico di lingua italiana una nuova traduzione in verso e rima, commentata e ragionata, della classica poesia blokiana “Notte, strada, lampione, farmacia,” anche nota come Danza macabra II (1912), tratta dalla raccolta Un mondo terribile (Strashnyi mir). La mia...

De Roberto and Faenza: Ideological Shifts in I Viceré

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Annamaria Pagliaro

This article examines the relationship between De Roberto’s I Viceré and Faenza’s film adaptation focusing on the two texts’ different ideological positions and narrative strategies. Both texts depict the mechanisms employed by a ruling caste to remain in power through a period of acute social...

Review of Dante, il nodo e il volume. Una lectura di Paradiso 33

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Francesco Ciabattoni

Review of Marriage in Premodern Europe: Italy and Beyond

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Maria G. Traub

Review of The Pleasant Nights. Volume 1

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Anna Maria Grossi

Review of Women, Language and Grammar in Italy 1500-1900

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Kevin B. Reynolds

Review of Renaissance Letters and Learning. In Memoriam Giovanni Aquilecchia

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Thomas Patrick Wisniewski

Review of Education, Civic Virtue, and Colonialism in Fifteenth-Century Italy. The Ogdoas of Alberto Alfieri

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Adriana Grimaldi

Review of On the Causes of the Greatness and Magnificence of Cities

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Johnny L. Bertolio