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  1. Review of Unfinished Business. Screening the Italian Mafia in the New Millennium

    Review of Unfinished Business. Screening the Italian Mafia in the New Millennium

    Review | Contributor(s): Flavia Laviosa

  2. Review of Scuola di Formazione di Italiano Lingua Seconda / Straniera competenze d’uso e integrazione.

    Review of Scuola di Formazione di Italiano Lingua Seconda / Straniera competenze d’uso e integrazione.

    Review | Contributor(s): Gabriella Colussi Arthur

  3. Guido Pugliese (1940–2016): In Memoriam

    Guido Pugliese (1940–2016): In Memoriam

    Article | Contributor(s): Sandra Parmegiani

  4. Introduction: Hybridity in Giallo: The Fruitful Marriage between Italian Crime Fiction and Theatre, Literary Geographies, and Historical and Literary Fiction

    Introduction: Hybridity in Giallo: The Fruitful Marriage between Italian Crime Fiction and Theatre, Literary Geographies, and Historical and Literary Fiction

    Article | Contributor(s): Brigid Maher, Barbara Pezzotti

  5. Spunti per un’analisi del processo di ibridismo tra l’hard-boiled americano e il giallo italiano nella serie Duca Lamberti di Giorgio Scerbanenco

    Spunti per un’analisi del processo di ibridismo tra l’hard-boiled americano e il giallo italiano nella serie Duca Lamberti di Giorgio Scerbanenco

    Article | Contributor(s): Marco Paoli

    Nelle opere di Giorgio Scerbanenco il giallo ha quasi sempre avuto un ruolo prominente che tuttavia ha lasciato spazio a una vasta possibilità di intrecci con forme stilistiche, tematiche e narrative di varia natura. Uno dei principali riconoscimenti che fanno di Scerbanenco uno dei padri...

  6. Female Detectives in 1950s Salesian Educational Theatre

    Female Detectives in 1950s Salesian Educational Theatre

    Article | Contributor(s): Daniela Cavallaro

    This article considers a little-known type of gialli: those staged by all-women casts in educational theatre performances in Italy between the early 1940s and the early 1960s. It shows how the Salesian priests and sisters who authored educational gialli focused not so much on identifying and...

  7. Narratives of Murder and Knowledge: Pellegrino Artusi and Dante Alighieri as Sleuths

    Narratives of Murder and Knowledge: Pellegrino Artusi and Dante Alighieri as Sleuths

    Article | Contributor(s): Mirna Cicioni

    Using McHale’s notions of “epistemological” and “ontological” dominants, this article analyzes three historical crime novels that have real historical characters as their protagonist: Marco Malvaldi’s Odore di chiuso (2011), featuring Pellegrino Artusi as the detective, and Giulio Leoni’s I...

  8. Il giallo in colonia: Italian Post-Imperial Crime Novels

    Il giallo in colonia: Italian Post-Imperial Crime Novels

    Article | Contributor(s): Luciana D’Arcangeli, Laura Lori

    This article analyzes several crime stories set during Italian imperial history, in particular Andrea Camilleri’s La presa di Macallè (2003) and Il nipote del Negus (2010); Carlo Lucarelli’s L’ottava vibrazione (2008) and Albergo Italia (2014); and Giorgio Ballario’s Morire è un attimo (2008) and...

  9. “I am Just a Policeman”: The Case of Carlo Lucarelli’s and Maurizio de Giovanni’s Historical Crime Novels Set during Fascism

    “I am Just a Policeman”: The Case of Carlo Lucarelli’s and Maurizio de Giovanni’s Historical Crime Novels Set during Fascism

    Article | Contributor(s): Barbara Pezzotti

    This article analyzes two successful Italian novels set during the Ventennio and the Second World War, namely Carlo Lucarelli’s Carta bianca (1990) and Maurizio De Giovanni’s Per mano mia (2011). It shows how Lucarelli confronts the troubling adherence to Fascism through a novel in which...

  10. From a Local to a Global Perspective in Crime Writing: On Massimo Carlotto, Impegno, and Respiro corto

    From a Local to a Global Perspective in Crime Writing: On Massimo Carlotto, Impegno, and Respiro corto

    Article | Contributor(s): Enrichetta Lucilla Frezzato

    Having conducted a thorough analysis of the social and economic environment of the Northeast of Italy and having exposed a scenario of widespread illegality and culpable collusion in his Alligatore series and noir novels, Massimo Carlotto concluded a narrative cycle by enlarging his object of...

  11. Local Colour: Investigating Social Transformations in Transcultural Crime Fiction

    Local Colour: Investigating Social Transformations in Transcultural Crime Fiction

    Article | Contributor(s): Rita Wilson

    Over the last twenty years, Italian “migration literature” has made significant contributions to the redefinition of the country’s literary and cultural scene. While the initial phase can best be conceptualized as a generic “micro-system” encompassing canonical genres such as (auto)biography and...

  12. Murders in Shocking Pink: Women, Love and Desire in Rossana Campo’s Noir Fiction

    Murders in Shocking Pink: Women, Love and Desire in Rossana Campo’s Noir Fiction

    Article | Contributor(s): Claudia Bernardi

    This article analyzes Rossana Campo’s Mentre la mia bella dorme (1999), Duro come l’amore (2005) and Il posto delle donne (2013) in the context of Campo’s work in general, showing how her use of crime genre conventions is specifically designed to reveal flaws and pitfalls inherent in romance...

  13. Review of Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy: Volume 1

    Review of Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy: Volume 1

    Review | Contributor(s): Mary Watt

  14. Review of Reading as the Angels Read: Speculation and Politics in Dante’s Banquet

    Review of Reading as the Angels Read: Speculation and Politics in Dante’s Banquet

    Review | Contributor(s): Alessandro Carrera

  15. Review of The Ethical Dimension of the Decameron

    Review of The Ethical Dimension of the Decameron

    Review | Contributor(s): Andrea Privitera

  16. Review of After Civic Humanism: Learning and Politics in Renaissance Italy

    Review of After Civic Humanism: Learning and Politics in Renaissance Italy

    Review | Contributor(s): Michael Sherberg

  17. Review of I cento sonetti

    Review of I cento sonetti

    Review | Contributor(s): Sebastiano Bazzichetto

  18. Review of Love, War, and Classical Tradition in the Early Modern Transatlantic World: Alonso de Ercilla and Edmund Spenser

    Review of Love, War, and Classical Tradition in the Early Modern Transatlantic World: Alonso de Ercilla and Edmund Spenser

    Review | Contributor(s): Lucia Gemmani

  19. Review of Voice of a Virtuosa and Courtesan: Selected Poems of Margherita Costa

    Review of Voice of a Virtuosa and Courtesan: Selected Poems of Margherita Costa

    Review | Contributor(s): Patrizia Bettella

  20. Review of Foscolo e i commentatori danteschi

    Review of Foscolo e i commentatori danteschi

    Review | Contributor(s): Isabella Magni

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