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

    Il giallo in colonia: Italian Post-Imperial Crime Novels

    Article | Contributeur(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...

  2. “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 | Contributeur(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...

  3. 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 | Contributeur(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...

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

    Local Colour: Investigating Social Transformations in Transcultural Crime Fiction

    Article | Contributeur(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...

  5. 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 | Contributeur(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...

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

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

    Review | Contributeur(s): Mary Watt

  7. Review of Reading as the Angels Read: Speculation and Politics in Dante’s Banquet
  8. Review of The Ethical Dimension of the Decameron

    Review of The Ethical Dimension of the Decameron

    Review | Contributeur(s): Andrea Privitera

  9. Review of After Civic Humanism: Learning and Politics in Renaissance Italy
  10. Review of I cento sonetti

    Review of I cento sonetti

    Review | Contributeur(s): Sebastiano Bazzichetto

  11. Review of Love, War, and Classical Tradition in the Early Modern Transatlantic World: Alonso de Ercilla and Edmund Spenser
  12. Review of Voice of a Virtuosa and Courtesan: Selected Poems of Margherita Costa
  13. Review of Foscolo e i commentatori danteschi

    Review of Foscolo e i commentatori danteschi

    Review | Contributeur(s): Isabella Magni

  14. Review of Aspetti della mimesi nella modernità letteraria

    Review of Aspetti della mimesi nella modernità letteraria

    Review | Contributeur(s): Letizia Tesi

  15. Review of Le roman d’un maître d’école

    Review of Le roman d’un maître d’école

    Review | Contributeur(s): Lucandrea Campanelli

  16. Review of Postal Culture. Writing and Reading Letters in Post-Unification Italy
  17. Review of Thinking Italian Animals. Human and Posthuman in Modern and Italian Literature and Film
  18. Review of Mussolini’s Decennale: Aura and Mythmaking in Fascist Italy
  19. Review of Approaches to Teaching the Works of Primo Levi

    Review of Approaches to Teaching the Works of Primo Levi

    Review | Contributeur(s): Paola Basile

  20. Review of Europe and Empire: On the Political Forms of Globalization

    Review of Europe and Empire: On the Political Forms of Globalization

    Review | Contributeur(s): Alexander Bertland