On Dark Laughter: Leopardi’s and Beckett’s Humour

Contributor(s): Roberta Cauchi-Santoro

The desire not to desire is crucial to Samuel Beckett and Giacomo Leopardi. Beckett explores this theme in Proust where Leopardi’s poem “A Se Stesso” is thrice quoted. Before citing this poem, Beckett catalogues Leopardi as one of the philosophers who proposed the only impossible solution—the...

On Editing Elizabethan Plays

2023-06-22 19:39:50 | Contributor(s): Cyrus Hoy

On First Looking into Lumley's Euripides

Contributor(s): Patricia Demers

This essay explores the text of Lady Jane Lumley's Tudor translation of Iphigeneia at Aulis in an attempt to see the mind of an erudite, privileged young woman at work. By braiding domestic and political contexts in Lumley's adroitly oblique allusions to her time, it attends to her interest in...

On Justice and Liberty in Natalia Ginzburg's Non-Fictional Writings

Contributor(s): Joseph Francese

Natalia Ginzburg's value system impacted her poetics and her artistic production over her entire career as a writer. After the publication of Lessico famigliare (1963) through her death (1991) her youthful belief in the ideals of justice and liberty evolved to reflect the growing importance, for...

On Lesbian Acts and Female Pleasures in Juvenal Commentaries from Antiquity to 1500

Contributor(s): Marc D. Schachter

This article explores the representation of sex between women in an understudied archive: commentaries on Juvenal’s Satires from antiquity to the end of the fifteenth century. By tracking the changes in glosses to a passage in the Sixth Satire that refers to sex between women, it contributes to...

On Philosophy and the Sciences in Antiquity

Contributor(s): Andrew Barker

On Reading La Puce de Madame Des-Roches: Catherine des Roches's Responces (1583)

Contributor(s): Anne R. Larsen

Catherine des Roches's authorial participation in the famous poetic flea contest during the Grands Jours of Poitiers in 1579 was all but forgotten a decade and a half after her death when Estienne Pasquier claimed the volume of La Puce de Madame Des-Roches as his own by eliminating her name from...

On the Clauses in a Scenario of Flaminio Scala

Contributor(s): Steen Jansen

On the Dancing in Romeo and Juliet

Contributor(s): Philip C. McGuire

On the Dignity of Voluptas: Valla's Philosophy of Pleasure

Contributor(s): Domenico Pietropaolo

On the Legacy and Cultural Significance of Italian Grocers in Ontario

Contributor(s): Jim Zucchero

On the Seriousness of Things: Pirandello’s Ma non è una cosa seria from Page to Screen

Contributor(s): Michael Syrimis

A study of Mario Camerini’s Ma non è una cosa seria (But It’s Nothing Serious [1936]), a film based on Luigi Pirandello’s eponymous 1918 play and typical of the 1930s Italian romantic comedy genre, elucidates the transformations that a literary conception undergoes when adapted for the screen,...

On Writing and Dreaming

Contributor(s): Venera Fazio

Open Scholarship in Australia: A Review of Needs, Barriers, and Opportunities

2021-03-30 18:33:11 | Contributor(s): Paul Arthur, Lydia Hearn, Lucy Montgomery, Hugh Craig, Alyssa Arbuckle, Ray Siemens | https://doi.org/10.80230/HSS-86K9-H108

Open Scholarship

Open Social Scholarship in Action

2022-06-13 21:48:47 | Contributor(s): Randa El Khatib, Alyssa Arbuckle, Caroline Winter, Ray Siemens, ETCL Research Group | https://doi.org/10.25547/M1T4-JC65

Digital Humanities

Open Source Shakespeare

2023-05-11 21:47:12 | Contributor(s): Rachel Aanstad, Laura Estill

This is a review of Open Source Shakespeare. 

Open+: Versioning Open Social Scholarship

2022-06-23 19:16:10 | Contributor(s): Alyssa Arbuckle | https://doi.org/10.25547/8B2Q-5N55

open scholarship, open access, community engagement, public humanities, digital scholarship

Operationalizing sustainable food systems through food programs in elementary schools

2025-03-19 22:13:04 | Contributor(s): Tracy Everitt, Rachel Engler-Stringer, Wanda Martin | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i3.482

Healthy eating supports optimal growth, development, and academic achievement. Yet, the diet quality of school-aged children is poor. Food insecurity and chronic disease are concerns, as are unsustainable agricultural practices. Sustainable food systems have a low environmental impact and can...

Opportunities and challenges for school food programs in Canada: Lessons from the United States

2025-03-19 22:12:53 | Contributor(s): Amberley T. Ruetz, Janet Poppendieck | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.665

As Canada works towards developing a national school food program, it is timely to examine the lessons learned from the programs of other countries. Analyzing these insights can help Canada avoid key pitfalls and replicate promising practices in program design and implementation. The...

Opus servile

Contributor(s): Franco Fortini