The Transparencies of Marisa Madieri: Autobiography as Farewell

Contributor(s): Ernestina Pellegrini

This article analyses Marisa Madieri’s narrative with particular attention to its stylistic traits. It focuses on her autobiographical style, characterized by nostalgia and—at the same time—a puzzling and enchanting detachment. Madieri’s writing closely looks at the earthly and the physical world...

The Trauma of “Fear-Induced Exodus:” The Case of Victor Magiar and the Italian Jews of Libya

Contributor(s): Rosario Pollicino

The Italian/Italophone Jewish community is amongst those that suffered from the Holocaust and other traumas. Drawing on the work of thinkers of trauma theory such as Dori Laub and Cathy Caruth, this paper aims to add to the current discourse on literary production by Italian/Italophone Jews by...

The Trend of Naturalism in Libertine Poetry of the Later English Renaissance

Contributor(s): Saad El-Gabalawy

The Tridentine Ruling on the Vulgate and Ecclesiastical Censorship in the 1580s

Contributor(s): William McCuaig

Four works by the historian Carlo Sigonio (1523-1584) were made the target of censures by ecclesiastical authorities in the early 1580s. His works were never put on the index of prohibited books, but the censures reveal the mentality and concerns of the censors more clearly than any other...

The Triumphal Entry in Sixteenth-Century France

Contributor(s): V. E. Graham

The Typology of Woman in Donne's Anniversaries

Contributor(s): Lindsay A. Mann

The UK Reading Experience Database

2023-05-11 21:53:31 | Contributor(s): Rebecca Munson

This is a review of The UK Reading Experience Database.

The Unabridged Acts and Monuments Online (TAMO)

2023-05-11 18:52:54 | Contributor(s): Joseph L Black

This is a review of The Unabridged Acts and Monuments Online (TAMO).

The Unfulfilled Form of The Faerie Queene: Spenser’s Frustrated Fore-Conceit

Contributor(s): Daniel Vitkus

Cet article propose une reconstruction des intentions autoriales d’Edmund Spenser, au moment où il compose un poème épique en douze livres. Afin d’atteindre cet objectif, l’auteur y réexamine le processus compositionnel qui a donné lieu à la forme « inachevée » de l’oeuvre. Elle fait valoir que...

The Universality of Discipline: Restoration of the English Episcopacy 1660–1688

Contributor(s): Marcus Harmes

Cet article offre une analyse d’un aspect relativement négligé de la pensé épiscopalienne anglaise du dix-septième siècle. Il s’agit de la dégradation et des violences éprouvées par des membres épiscopaliens durant les guerres civiles, qui ont ensuite servi d’arguments en faveur de la puissance...

The University of Florence and Pisa in the High Renaissance

Contributor(s): Paul F. Grendler

The Veltro and Dante's Prologue to the Commedia

Contributor(s): Massimo Verdicchio

The Vichian Resurrection of Commedia dell’Arte: Michelet, Sand, and De Sanctis

Contributor(s): Rocco Rubini

This essay seeks to reconnect two intellectual events of major import in nineteenth-century France: Jules Michelet’s “rediscovery” of Giambattista Vico as a viable source for a critical review of modernity’s task and the scholarly, artistic, and moral accreditation of commedia dell’arte,...

The Viol da Gamba as a Sexual Metaphor in Elizabethan Music and literature

Contributor(s): Gustav Ungerer

The Virgin and Saint Cecilia: Music and the Confraternal Puys of Rouen

Contributor(s): Dylan Reid

The Virtue of Ruin in Machiavelli's Florentine Histories

Contributor(s): Jack D'Amico

The Visitor

Contributor(s): Domenic Cusmano

The Visual Culture of the Foundling Hospital in Central Italy, 1400–1600

Contributor(s): Megan Holmes

The Vitruvian Man by Leonardo: Image and Text

Contributor(s): Domenico Laurenza

This article analyses the nature and content of the so-called Vitruvian man by Leonardo, a study dealing with the proportions of the human body. The essay opens with an analysis of topics such as the image as the first element to be set out onto the page and its influence on the graphic...

The Way of Caution: Elenchus in Bacon’s Essays

Contributor(s): K. J. H. Berland