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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. 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...

  7. 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,...

  8. 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...

  9. 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>,...

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

    Review of Boccaccio umanista. Studi su Boccaccio e Apuleio

    Review | Contributor(s): Francesco Ciabattoni

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

    Review of The English Boccaccio: A History in Books

    Review | Contributor(s): Christina Vani

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

    Review of Alessandro Manzoni nei paesi anglosassoni

    Review | Contributor(s): Patrizia Bettella

  18. Review of Zibaldone

    Review of Zibaldone

    Review | Contributor(s): Johnny L. Bertolio

  19. Review of Carducci contemporaneo

    Review of Carducci contemporaneo

    Review | Contributor(s): Giuseppe Gazzola

  20. Review of The Drama of the Assimilated Jew: Giorgio Bassani’s Romanzo di Ferrara