L’autobiografia come dislocamento. Motivi allegorici ne La chiave a stella di Primo Levi

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Gianluca Cinelli

L’articolo analizza La chiave a stella (1978) di Primo Levi in chiave ermeneutica come un testo costruito allegoricamente attorno all’idea della dissimulazione dell’identità autobiografica. La compresenza nell’opera di un personaggio autobiografico e di un...

La festa della fratellanza italiana: Gianni Grohovaz and the Celebrations of Italian Memorial Day in Toronto, 1960-1975

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Paul Baxa

This article examines the Italian Memorial Day celebrations held in Toronto between 1960 and 1975. These celebrations were organized and conceived by poet-activist-exile Gianni Grohovaz during his tenure as director of the now defunct Italo-Canadian Recreation Club (ICRC) in Toronto. Using the...

Review of Cleopatra and Rome

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Alison Keith

Review of Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and His Times

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Sarah Melanie Rolfe

Review of La svolta di Enea. Retorica ed esistenza in Giorgio Caproni (1932-1956)

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Stefano Giannini

Review of Tra coscienza e autocoscienza. Saggi sulla narrativa degli anni sessanta. Volponi-Calvino-Sanguineti

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Raffaella Antinucci

Review of A Multitude of Women: The Challenges of the Contemporary Italian Novel

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Carol Lazzaro-Weis

Review of Anglo-American Modernity and the Mediterranean

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Luca Somigli

Review of Tra la storia e la libertà. Luce Fabbri e l’anarchismo contemporaneo

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Angelo Principe

Review of Enrico Sappia, cospiratore e agente segreto di Mazzini

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Angelo Principe

Review of New Approaches to Teaching Italian Language and Culture: Case Studies from an International Perspective

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Anne Urbancic

In Memoriam: Marina Frescura

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Olga Zorzi Pugliese

Human Generation, Memory and Poetic Creation: From the Purgatorio to the Paradiso

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Paola Ureni

Statius’ scientific digression on the generation of the fetus and the formation of the fictive body in the afterlife occupies a large part of canto XXV of Dante’s Purgatorio. This article will examine the metaphorical relevance of that technical exposition to Dante’s poetics....

Why Did the Monkey Kill the Giant? Another Look at Margutte’s Death

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Pina Palma

In the Morgante through Margutte’s death-by-laughter Pulci voices a caustic critique of Ficino’s philosophical theories while obliquely denouncing Lorenzo de Medici’s acceptance of them. The spectacle of the monkey wearing and taking off Margutte’s boots follows...

'The Country is Large, and Beautiful and Happy.' Lelio Pecci’s Travel Journal of his 1549 Mission to Flanders

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Elena Brizio

Lelio Pecci’s travel journal for his mission to Emperor Charles V in Flanders offers modern readers a layman’s description of a large section of Europe (from northern Italy to France, Flanders, Germany, and Austria), as well as a priviledged view into the mind of a learned man from a...

Galileo’s Rhetoric of Fable

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Crystal Hall

In annotations, drafts, and published materials, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) consistently uses fables to ridicule his philosophical opponents’ forma mentis. An analysis of the revisions made to these short pieces argues that the fable was a deliberate rhetorical tool with dual effect: the...

Leopardi e il segreto dell’ Infinito

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Giampiero Marzi

L’infinito di Leopardi è una poesia sublime, ma anche difficile, in quanto densa di mistero fin dal primo verso. La sua difficoltà interpretativa, dimostrata dalle diverse letture fornite dalla critica, potrebbe dipendere da una forma di scrittura à clef....

Violence and the Law in Gianrico Carofiglio’s Literary Courtroom

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Elena Past

Gianrico Carofiglio’s novels featuring attorney-protagonist Guido Guerrieri have gained popularity in Italy and abroad since the first in the series emerged in 2002. Although often discussed alongside other popular crime fiction, Carofiglio’s work also has a wider resonance,...

Adoption, Motherhood, Domestication: The Role of the Child in Antonio Capuano’s La guerra di Mario

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Patrizia Bettella

The long-lasting interest for the child as vehicle of social critique in Italian cinema from Neorealism to the present leads to some reflection on the film La Guerra di Mario (2005) by Neapolitan director  Antonio Capuano. Capuano tackles the modern theme of the failed adoption of Mario, a...

La critica postcoloniale della liminalità: la scrittura delle autrici afro-italiane

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Moira Luraschi

Le scrittrici italo-africane originarie del Corno d’Africa propongono nei loro testi una visione della condizione esistenziale e psicologica di chi vive a cavallo di due culture che, riprendendo un concetto mutuato dall’antropologia culturale, si può definire liminale. Le...