Sorciers et philosophes : la duplicité des Gitans dans le théâtre italien de la Renaissance

Article | Contribuidor(es): Matteo Leta

This article examines the depiction of Gypsies in sixteenth-century Italian theatre. By staging Gypsies, dramatists consciously and unconsciously reflected contemporary attitudes and biases towards this itinerant foreign population. They also exposed their own insecurities : while portraying...

Destouches e Goldoni tra nobildonne, arcadi e liberi muratori. Percorsi della riforma del teatro comico italiano del Settecento

Article | Contribuidor(es): Gianni Cicali

Fisionomia di una raccolta poetica dimenticata: L’alba ai vetri di Giorgio Bassani (1963)

Article | Contribuidor(es): Massimo Colella

Mutiny in the House: Domestic Rebellion in Fausta Cialente’s Natalia

Article | Contribuidor(es): Laura A. Salsini

The cult of domesticity positions women into a state of subservience while reinforcing gendered roles. The ideology was propagated in post-Unification Italy by Catholic doctrine as well as Fascist propaganda and practices that consigned women to the roles of wives and mothers. The physical site...

Post-Unification Gender Dissonances and Ideological Counter-Discourse in Capuana’s Rassegnazione

Article | Contribuidor(es): Brian Zuccala

The article offers a (re)reading of Capuana’s often neglected novel Rassegnazione (1907), which revolves around the notion of gender-based violence as a central thematic trope. My reading illustrates Capuana’s deployment of the theme of femminicidio as a narrative tool through which to develop a...

Negotiations of a Woman’s Self: Liminal Experiences and Dialogic Reconsiderations in Anna Banti’s Un grido lacerante

Article | Contribuidor(es): Torunn Haaland

This article focuses on the authorial figure in Anna Banti’s last work, Un grido lacerante. An introspective portrait of an aging author whose life and career have been shaped by remorse over a lost vocation, the novel has traditionally been interpreted as an expression of the autobiographical...

Simone Brioni and Daniele Comberiati. Italian Science Fiction: The Other in Literature and Film

Article | Contribuidor(es): Elisabetta Carraro

Piero Garofalo, Elizabeth Leake and Dana Renga. Internal exile in Fascist Italy. History and representation of confino

Article | Contribuidor(es): Giuseppe Tosi

Danielle Hipkins. Italy’s Other Women: Gender and Prostitution in Italian Cinema (1940–1965)

Article | Contribuidor(es): Paolo Frascà

Catherine Ramsey-Portolano. Performing Bodies. Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema (1860–1920)

Article | Contribuidor(es): Serena Ferrando

Giovanna Miceli Jeffries. Bitter Trades: A Memoir

Article | Contribuidor(es): Carla Cornette

Paula M. Salvio. The Story-Takers. Public Pedagogy, Transitional Justice, and Italy’s Non-Violent Protest against the Mafia

Article | Contribuidor(es): Viktor Berberi

Jo Ann Cavallo, ed. Teaching the Italian Renaissance Romance Epic

Article | Contribuidor(es): Madison U. Sowell

Tatiana Korneeva. The Dramaturgy of the Spectator: Italian Theatre and the Public Sphere: 1600–1800

Article | Contribuidor(es): Lauren Surovi

Adam Ledgeway and Martin Maiden, eds. The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages

Article | Contribuidor(es): Kevin B. Reynolds

Roberta Cauchi-Santoro. Beyond the Suffering of Being: Desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett

Article | Contribuidor(es): Marina Bettaglio

Lavinia Spalanca. Il governo della menzogna. Antonfrancesco Grazzini e l’allegoria del potere

Article | Contribuidor(es): Paolo Pucci

Simona Storchi, Marina Spunta and Maria Morelli, eds. Women and the Public Sphere in Modern and Contemporary Italy. Essays for Sharon Wood

Article | Contribuidor(es): Anne Urbancic

E. R. Dursteler, trans. and ed. In the Sultan’s Realm: Two Venetian Ambassadorial Reports on the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

Article | Contribuidor(es): Nicholas Terpstra

Federica Capoferri. La Roma di MAMMA ROMA

Article | Contribuidor(es): Alberto Zambenedetti