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  1. Review of Federico Fellini. Riprese, riletture, (re)visioni

    Review of Federico Fellini. Riprese, riletture, (re)visioni

    Review | Contributor(s): Francesca Della Ventura

  2. Review of The Italian Antimafia, New Media, and the Culture of Legality

    Review of The Italian Antimafia, New Media, and the Culture of Legality

    Review | Contributor(s): Cristina Mazzoni

  3. Review of New Italian Migrations to the United States. Volume 1: Politics and History since 1945

    Review of New Italian Migrations to the United States. Volume 1: Politics and History since 1945

    Review | Contributor(s): Annamaria Monaco

  4. Review of After Identity: Migration, Critique, Italian American Culture

    Review of After Identity: Migration, Critique, Italian American Culture

    Review | Contributor(s): Anna Ciamparella

  5. Review of Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy’s Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies

    Review of Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy’s Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies

    Review | Contributor(s): Tiziana Serafini

  6. Introduction: Dialogues on the Decameron

    Introduction: Dialogues on the Decameron

    Article | Contributor(s): Katherine A. Brown

  7. The Merchant and the Sacred: Artifice and Realism in Decameron I.1

    The Merchant and the Sacred: Artifice and Realism in Decameron I.1

    Article | Contributor(s): Susanna Barsella

    By investigating the first novella of the Decameron from the perspective of the sacred this article questions the notion of realism as privileged key to the interpretation of Boccaccio’s style, poetics, and even philosophy in his major work. Although with different nuances of definition, realism...

  8. Confession and Social Space in the Decameron

    Confession and Social Space in the Decameron

    Article | Contributor(s): Katherine A. Brown

    This essay argues that confession in the Decameron is a liminal activity, which affords characters and readers a milieu removed from the space of society in which transformation and ultimately a temporary moment of transcendence of the secular world (almost a return to paradise) are achieved. In...

  9. What a Difference a Sea Makes in the Decameron: The Mediterranean, a Structural Space of the Novella

    What a Difference a Sea Makes in the Decameron: The Mediterranean, a Structural Space of the Novella

    Article | Contributor(s): Roberta Morosini

    This essay presents a reading of the Mediterranean sea as a narrative space in the Decameron. Through a reading of text and images, the paper illustrates the categories of mobile/static and foreign/domestic at work in the Decameron. It also introduces a third epistemological category, hybridity,...

  10. Eros and Evanescence in the Decameron: The Weave of Love, Time, and Memory

    Eros and Evanescence in the Decameron: The Weave of Love, Time, and Memory

    Article | Contributor(s): Timothy Kircher

    This essay studies the interplay between the emotion of love and the sense of its transience, as the interplay is featured in the three authorial interventions of the Proem, the Introduction to Day 4, and the Conclusion. The author returns time and again to this interplay, emphasizing the role of...

  11. “Forgers of Falsehood, Physicians of Nought”: Retailing Fictions in Boccaccio’s Decameron

    “Forgers of Falsehood, Physicians of Nought”: Retailing Fictions in Boccaccio’s Decameron

    Article | Contributor(s): T. F. Gittes

    Whereas Petrarch’s portrait of his doctor in Invectives Against a Physician is deliberately caricatural and seized at a glance, Boccaccio’s attitude towards doctors in the Decameron is far harder to grasp and easily overlooked. Yet, doctors and medical science are a central concern of the...

  12. Fiction with Fiction: Confessing to Dante in Decameron I.1

    Fiction with Fiction: Confessing to Dante in Decameron I.1

    Article | Contributor(s): Simone Marchesi

    This essay addresses one specific element of Decameron I.1, the curious order in which the holy friar questions Ciappelletto in his confession, and relates it to the larger dialogue Boccaccio establishes with Dante’s Commedia. By avoiding the canonical models of confessing penitents, which...

  13. A Singular Boccaccio: Defending Poetry in the Decameron and the Genealogie

    A Singular Boccaccio: Defending Poetry in the Decameron and the Genealogie

    Article | Contributor(s): Martin Eisner

    This essay reconsiders the conventional division of Boccaccio’s career into two parts that is usually associated with his first meeting with Petrarch. Beginning with two fourteenth-century portraits of Boccaccio, it challenges this traditional account by calling attention to the continuities...

  14. Review of Dante and the Seven Deadly Sins

    Review of Dante and the Seven Deadly Sins

    Review | Contributor(s): Luca Fiorentini

  15. Review of Studi sul Boccaccio

    Review of Studi sul Boccaccio

    Review | Contributor(s): Laurie Shepard

  16. Review of Sentieri nascosti: Studi sulla letteratura italiana dell’Otto-Novecento

    Review of Sentieri nascosti: Studi sulla letteratura italiana dell’Otto-Novecento

    Review | Contributor(s): Corrado Federici

  17. Review of Novecento all’Indice. Gabriele D’Annunzio. I libri proibiti e i rapporti Stato-Chiesa all’ombra del Concordato

    Review of Novecento all’Indice. Gabriele D’Annunzio. I libri proibiti e i rapporti Stato-Chiesa all’ombra del Concordato

    Review | Contributor(s): Maria Härmänmaa

  18. Review of Pirandello in chiave esistenzialista

    Review of Pirandello in chiave esistenzialista

    Review | Contributor(s): Giuseppe Faustini

  19. Review of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The Artist and His Politics

    Review of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The Artist and His Politics

    Review | Contributor(s): Luca Somigli

  20. Review of Totalitarian Art: The Visual Arts, Fascism(s) and Mass-society

    Review of Totalitarian Art: The Visual Arts, Fascism(s) and Mass-society

    Review | Contributor(s): Eloisa Morra

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