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

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

    Article | Contributor(s): 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...

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

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

    Article | Contributor(s): 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...

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

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

    Article | Contributor(s): 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...

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

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

    Article | Contributor(s): 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...

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

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

    Article | Contributor(s): 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...

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

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

    Article | Contributor(s): 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...

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

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

    Article | Contributor(s): 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...

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

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

    Article | Contributor(s): 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...

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

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

    Article | Contributor(s): 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...

  10. De Roberto and Faenza: Ideological Shifts in I Viceré

    De Roberto and Faenza: Ideological Shifts in I Viceré

    Article | Contributor(s): 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...

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

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

    Review | Contributor(s): Francesco Ciabattoni

  12. Review of Marriage in Premodern Europe: Italy and Beyond

    Review of Marriage in Premodern Europe: Italy and Beyond

    Review | Contributor(s): Maria G. Traub

  13. Review of The Pleasant Nights. Volume 1

    Review of The Pleasant Nights. Volume 1

    Review | Contributor(s): Anna Maria Grossi

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

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

    Review | Contributor(s): Kevin B. Reynolds

  15. Review of Renaissance Letters and Learning. In Memoriam Giovanni Aquilecchia

    Review of Renaissance Letters and Learning. In Memoriam Giovanni Aquilecchia

    Review | Contributor(s): Thomas Patrick Wisniewski

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

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

    Review | Contributor(s): Adriana Grimaldi

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

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

    Review | Contributor(s): Johnny L. Bertolio

  18. Review of Prose. Scritti polemici (1756-1760)

    Review of Prose. Scritti polemici (1756-1760)

    Review | Contributor(s): Sabrina Ferri

  19. Review of Leopardi politico e il Risorgimento

    Review of Leopardi politico e il Risorgimento

    Review | Contributor(s): Marcello Sabbatino

  20. Review of Irresistible Signs. The Genius of the Language and Italian National Identity

    Review of Irresistible Signs. The Genius of the Language and Italian National Identity

    Review | Contributor(s): Franco Pierno

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