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  1. Review of The Great Black Spider on Its Knock-Kneed Tripod. Reflections of Cinema in Early Twentieth-Century Italy
  2. Review of La rappresentazione del paesaggio nella letteratura e nel cinema dell’Italia contemporanea. The Representation of Landscape in Contemporary Italian Literature and Cinema
  3. Review of Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture
  4. Per l’edizione critica della rime di Baldassarre Castiglione e Cesare Gonzaga. Censimento e questioni attributive

    Per l’edizione critica della rime di Baldassarre Castiglione e Cesare Gonzaga. Censimento e questioni attributive

    Article | Contributor(s): Matteo Fadini

    L’articolo offre i risultati del primo censimento dei testimoni delle rime di B. Castiglione e C. Gonzaga. Alla luce della tradizione vengono affrontate le questioni attributive riguardanti i testi poetici: prima del presente intervento le rime ritenute castiglionesche erano 421 — tra le quali...

  5. Impious Heretics or Simple Birds? Alexander Farnese and Dutch Rebels in Post-Tassian Italian Poems

    Impious Heretics or Simple Birds? Alexander Farnese and Dutch Rebels in Post-Tassian Italian Poems

    Article | Contributor(s): Emma Grootveld, Nina Lamal

    This article examines the poetical construction of a hero and his enemies in two early seventeenth-century Italian poems about the siege of Antwerp (1584–85), <i>Anversa Liberata</i> and <i>Anversa Conquistata</i> (1609). It explores the adaptations of Tasso’s...

  6. Stabat Venus dolorosa nell’Adone di Marino

    Stabat Venus dolorosa nell’Adone di Marino

    Article | Contributor(s): Johnny L. Bertolio

    Il presente studio intende verificare e sviluppare una linea interpretativa dell’<i>Adone</i> tracciata a più riprese da Francesco Guardiani (specialmente: <i>La meravigliosa retorica</i> 52–56; “I trastulli” 313; “A Christological Metamorphosis” 187–94) e già rilevata...

  7. Minimal Departures: Narratives of Younger Female Mobility in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Italian Children’s Literature

    Minimal Departures: Narratives of Younger Female Mobility in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Italian Children’s Literature

    Article | Contributor(s): Rita Caviglioli

    Mobility narratives in late nineteenth- and early twentieth- century Italian literature for children reflect the dramatic conditions of vagrancy, abandonment and forced relocation, as well as the situation of child-labor exploitation and child trade through apprenticeship contracts. They also...

  8. More Becoming to a Man: Fathers, Sons, and the Novel of Education in Giorgio Bassani’s Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini

    More Becoming to a Man: Fathers, Sons, and the Novel of Education in Giorgio Bassani’s Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini

    Article | Contributor(s): Andrea Malaguti

    The article examines the dynamics of interaction between fathers and sons in Giorgio Bassani’s <i>The Garden of the Finzi-Contini</i> in a Lacanian perspective. In doing so, it discusses the often uncritically ascribed label of <i>Bildungsroman</i> as belonging to the...

  9. Interiorizzazione e straniamento: co-originarietà di tempo, forma e contenuto nell’Orologio di Carlo Levi

    Interiorizzazione e straniamento: co-originarietà di tempo, forma e contenuto nell’Orologio di Carlo Levi

    Article | Contributor(s): Stefania Lucamante

    <i>L’orologio</i>, as the title of Carlo Levi’s 1950 work alludes to, marks an important time in the narrator’s life. This is a time in which the poetics of childhood and family hold a strategic importance for the narrator’s ability to come to terms with his own present and presence...

  10. Due gialli a Roma tra via Merulana e Piazza Vittorio: Gadda e Lakhous a confronto

    Due gialli a Roma tra via Merulana e Piazza Vittorio: Gadda e Lakhous a confronto

    Article | Contributor(s): Mahmoud Jaran

    <i>Quer Pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana</i> di Carlo Emilio Gadda (1957) e <i>Scontro di civiltà per un ascensore a Piazza Vittorio</i> di Amara Lakhous (2006) raccontano entrambi un omicidio che sconvolge la quotidianità di due quartieri romani: il primo,...

  11. Antonio Scurati e Il bambino che sognava la fine del mondo: uno scrittore ai confini tra realtà, finzione e autofinzione

    Antonio Scurati e Il bambino che sognava la fine del mondo: uno scrittore ai confini tra realtà, finzione e autofinzione

    Article | Contributor(s): Anna Chiafele

    Il seguente saggio intende analizzare un romanzo di Antonio Scurati: <i>Il bambino che sognava la fine del mondo</i> (2009). Quest’opera, ai confini tra realtà, finzione e autofinzione, si inserisce perfettamente all’interno del dibattito sul <i>New Realism</i>. Scurati...

  12. Eat, Pray, Buy a House: Utopian Visions of Italy in the New Millennium

    Eat, Pray, Buy a House: Utopian Visions of Italy in the New Millennium

    Article | Contributor(s): Cristina Perissinotto

    This article explores the peculiar combination of literary memoir, utopian dream and material culture that sprung from a number of books written about Italy (living in Italy, buying a home in Italy, moving back to Italy) in the new millennium. The famous <i>Under the Tuscan Sun</i>,...

  13. Review of Boccaccio umanista. Studi su Boccaccio e Apuleio

    Review of Boccaccio umanista. Studi su Boccaccio e Apuleio

    Review | Contributor(s): Francesco Ciabattoni

  14. Review of The English Boccaccio: A History in Books

    Review of The English Boccaccio: A History in Books

    Review | Contributor(s): Christina Vani

  15. Review of The World beyond Europe in the Romance Epics of Boiardo and Ariosto
  16. Review of Princely Citizen: Lorenzo de’ Medici and Renaissance Florence
  17. Review of Friendship and Sociability in Premodern Europe: Contexts, Concepts, and Expressions
  18. Review of Hollow Men. Writing, Objects, and Public Image in Renaissance Italy
  19. Review of In Dialogue with the Other Voice in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Literary and Social Contexts for Women’s Writing
  20. Review of Alessandro Manzoni nei paesi anglosassoni

    Review of Alessandro Manzoni nei paesi anglosassoni

    Review | Contributor(s): Patrizia Bettella