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  1. Research "Born in the Classroom": Students' Errors as a Source of Knowledge?

    Research "Born in the Classroom": Students' Errors as a Source of Knowledge?

    Article | Contributor(s): Raffaella Maiguashca, Anne Urbancic

  2. Michelangelo Reading Landino? The "Devil" in Michelangelo's Last Judgment

    Michelangelo Reading Landino? The "Devil" in Michelangelo's Last Judgment

    Article | Contributor(s): Sarah Melanie Rolfe

    In lieu of Satan, the Hell scene in Michelangelo's Last Judgment features Charon and Minos, two key figures present in Dante’s Inferno. These figures were given an interesting psychological interpretation in the well circulated fifteenth-century commentary on Dante's Commedia by Cristoforo...

  3. Dialogical Strategies, Volgarizzamento, and Ciceronian Ethos in Antonio Brucioli's Dialogi Della Morale Filosofia

    Dialogical Strategies, Volgarizzamento, and Ciceronian Ethos in Antonio Brucioli's Dialogi Della Morale Filosofia

    Article | Contributor(s): Reinier Leushuis

    In 1526, Antonio Brucioli (1487-1566) published a series of thirty dialogues that form a typical humanist compendium of moral and political wisdom in the vernacular. Scholars have considered these dialogues mainly from the perspective of Brucioli’s humanist and political allegiances, in...

  4. Women Writing Women in Lodovico Domenichi's Anthology of 1559

    Women Writing Women in Lodovico Domenichi's Anthology of 1559

    Article | Contributor(s): Gabriella Scarlatta Eschrich

    In his Rime diverse d’alcune nobilissime et virtuosissime donne (1559), Lodovico Domenichi publishes the poetry of fifty-three women authors across borders of nation, city, politics, religion, profession, class, and genre. Among them, thirty-five dedicate or address their compositions to...

  5. Virago Valorosa o “Marfisa Bizarra”? La Donna Guerriera ne La Pazzia d’Isabella (1611) di Flaminio Scala e ne Lo Schiavetto (1612) di Giovan Battista Andreini

    Virago Valorosa o “Marfisa Bizarra”? La Donna Guerriera ne La Pazzia d’Isabella (1611) di Flaminio Scala e ne Lo Schiavetto (1612) di Giovan Battista Andreini

    Article | Contributor(s): Valentina Denzel

    In questo articolo confrontiamo la messa in scena dei personaggi femminili delle due commedie La pazzia di Isabella (1611) di Flaminio Scala e Lo Schiavetto (1612) di Giovan Battista Andreini. Le protagoniste della commedia di Scala, Isabella e Flaminia, rievocano per la loro presa d’armi le...

  6. Calvino’s Encounter with the Animal: Anthropomorphism, Cognition and Ethics in Palomar

    Calvino’s Encounter with the Animal: Anthropomorphism, Cognition and Ethics in Palomar

    Article | Contributor(s): Eugenio Bolongaro

    This article examines the importance of the portrayal of animals in Palomar, Italo Calvino’s last major work of fiction. The discussion moves from some observations on the representation of animals in fiction, to a reflection on the ethical issues which emerge once the “question of...

  7. Food and Anthropology in the Early Works of Matilde Serao

    Food and Anthropology in the Early Works of Matilde Serao

    Article | Contributor(s): Daria Valentini

    Food has long been considered by anthropologists to be an integral part of self-representation, culture, and identity. The present study investigates the early works of Matilde Serao, focusing on food imagery and culinary customs of the city of Naples. Serao’s fiction and journalistic...

  8. Review of City and Community in Norman Italy

    Review of City and Community in Norman Italy

    Review | Contributor(s): Giulia Savio

  9. Review of Dante and the Making of a Modern Author

    Review of Dante and the Making of a Modern Author

    Review | Contributor(s): Antonio Rossini

  10. Review of Reading Dante Reading: A Postmodern Reading of Dante’s Commedia
  11. Review of Filologia e critica dantesca

    Review of Filologia e critica dantesca

    Review | Contributor(s): Sarah Melanie Rolfe

  12. Review of Ars Reminiscendi. Mind and Memory in Renaissance Culture
  13. Review of Fairy-Tale Science: Monstrous Generation in the Tales of Straparola and Basile
  14. Review of Alessandro Manzoni. A Critical Bibliography. 1950-2000; Come abbiamo letto Manzoni. Interpreti novecenteschi
  15. Review of World’s Fairs Italian Style: The Great Exposition in Turin and Their Narratives, 1860-1915
  16. Review of Resisting Bodies: Narratives of Italian Partisan Women
  17. Review of An Anthology of Modern Italian Poetry in English Translation, with Italian Text
  18. Review of The Selected Poetry and Prose of Vittorio Sereni. A Bilingual Edition
  19. Review of Cesare Pavese & Anthony Chiuminatto: Their Correspondence

    Review of Cesare Pavese & Anthony Chiuminatto: Their Correspondence

    Review | Contributor(s): Giovanni Di Lullo

  20. Review of Diario di un patriota perplesso negli USA

    Review of Diario di un patriota perplesso negli USA

    Review | Contributor(s): Matteo Ugolini