Is there something like open digital humanities?

2023-11-10 00:37:02 | Presentation | Contributor(s): Gimena del Rio | https://doi.org/10.25547/F4ET-ZG38

digital humanities, open science, Latin America

Is Virgil Naked? Clothing in Dante’s Commedia

Article | Contributor(s): Thomas Rendall

Dante’s poem presents the humiliation of nakedness as part of the punishment of the souls in hell. But what about those in purgatory and limbo, and what about Virgil himself? Although most readers cannot imagine a naked Virgil, Dante gives only a hint of the state of clothing of the souls in...

Isabella Andreini (Comica Gelosa 1560-1604): Petrarchism for the Theatre Public

Article | Contributor(s): Rosalind Kerr

This article locates Isabella Andreini as a self-reflexive mannerist artist who used her incarnation as an idealized neoplatonic innamorata to practise her sixteenth-century petrarchism on the stage. Examples from her poetry, letters and other writings show how consciously she worked to bring her...

Isabella Colalillo-Katz. Marlene Dietrich’s Eyes. Victoria, B.C.: Ekstasis Editions, 2014.

Article | Contributor(s): Josie Di Sciascio-Andrews

Italian Americans, Education, and Italian Language: 1880–1921

Article | Contributor(s): Matteo Pretelli

Italian migrants in the United States have been often associated to the tendency to neglect the importance of culture as an instrument of upward social mobility. Traditionally perceiving culture as a hegemonic tool of the elites, Italian migrants in the United States, who had a predominantly...

Italian Heritage and the Experience of Migration and Nostos in Canadian Poetry

Article | Contributor(s): Francesca Cadel

The article addresses the theme of nostos by referring to the journeys of three authors of Italian heritage: Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, Mary di Michele, and Gianna Patriarca. Their poetry allows the possibility to revisit their journeys and to consider migration as a source of knowledge, and positive...

Italian Paleography

2023-05-11 22:10:55 | Article | Contributor(s): Crystal Hall

This is a review of Italian Paleography. 

Italian Sociolinguistics in Toronto: A Case Study

Article | Contributor(s): Simone Casini, Michelle Galati, Jennifer Tatiana Fimognari, Laura Colacci

Italian Women Writers

Article | Contributor(s): Amanda Madden

This is a review of the Italian Women Writers (IWW) project.

Italianismi e pseudoitalianismi: uno sguardo semiotico sull'italiano a Toronto

Article | Contributor(s): Simone Casini

Italians in Australia: Exploring An Ongoing Trilingual Journey

Article | Contributor(s): Antonia Rubino

Italiese as a Literary Language (The Example of Le maschere laurenziane)

Article | Contributor(s): Paul Colilli, Diana Iuele-Colilli

It’s Not Personal: Modernist Remediations of William James’s “Personal Religion”

2022-06-13 18:49:47 | Article | Contributor(s): Graham Jensen | https://doi.org/10.25547/1FQ5-CV03

literary modernism, literature and religion, Canadian literature, Canadian modernism, William James, E.J. Pratt, personal religion, spiritualism, syncretism

Jacques Sesiano, An Ancient Greek Treatise on Magic Squares

2023-05-18 22:22:26 | Article | Contributor(s): Jeffrey A. Oaks

The two earliest Arabic treatises explaining the construction of magic squares date from the 10th century ad. One is found in the Commentary on the Arithmetical [Introduction] (Kitāb tafsīr al-Arithmāṭīqī) by ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Anṭākī (d. 376 H/ad 987). Only book 3 of the original three books is...

James VI, Prince Henry, and A True Reportarie of Baptism at Stirling 1594

Article | Contributor(s): Rick Bowers

Traditionnellement, le baptême d’un premier né royal — en particulier un fils — donne lieu à bien des célébrations et festivités à caractère politique. En 1594, Jacques VI d’Écosse a élevé le baptême de son fils à un degré surprenant d’art politique à travers le medium imprimé. Pourtant, malgré...

James, Carolyn. A Renaissance Marriage: The Political and Personal Alliance of Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490–1519

Article | Contributor(s): Johanna Sinclair

Jane Grey, 'Manful' Combat, and the Female Reader in Early Modern England

Article | Contributor(s): Edith Snook

Cet essai considère Jane Grey et les idéaux de la lecture féminine au début des temps modernes. À travers trois avenues de recherche, cet essai met en lumière l'influence de l'idéologie politique sur les pratiques de lecture de Jane Grey et sur l'émergence historique de la lecture féminine....

Janus Cornarius éditeur et commentateur du traité de Galien Sur la composition des médicaments selon les lieux

Article | Contributor(s): Alessia Guardasole

The Saxon humanist Janus Cornarius (ca. 1500–1558) devoted himself to edit, translate, and comment the extant works of Galen of Pergamon (129–ca. 216). In this study I deal with the Latin translation and commentary of Galen’s work On the composition of drugs by site, edited by Cornarius (Basel,...

Jean de Brébeuf and the Wendat Voices of Seventeenth-Century New France

Article | Contributor(s): Carolyn Podruchny, Kathryn Magee Labelle

Les relations des Jésuites, datant du XVIIe siècle, sont habitées par les voix des autochtones que les Jésuites ont tenté de convertir au catholicisme. Ces voix peuvent révéler beaucoup de l’histoire des autochtones et de leur rencontre avec les européens, une fois que l’on saisit la nature du...

Jean de Sponde: l'écriture poétique

Article | Contributor(s): Semplice Ambiana