Tobino's Ineffable: Cultural Identity Through Urban Landscape
Contributor(s): Gregory M. Pell
La funzione della musica nella narrativa di Niccolò Ammaniti: da Branchie A Io non ho paura
Contributor(s): Paolo Chirumbolo
Genius, Madness, and Knowledge: Ficino, Landino, and Ariosto's Lovers
Contributor(s): Julia M. Cozzarelli
Il potere di Judit
Contributor(s): Monica Bilotta
The Nightingale as Christ in L’Adone Vll
Contributor(s): Thomas E. Mussio
Trieste è una donna: Woman and Urban Space in Svevo's Senilità
Contributor(s): Elena Coda
Piagnone Exemplarity and the Florentine Literary Canon in the Vita di Girolamo Benivieni
Contributor(s): Sherry Roush
Banquets and Power: Boiardo's Innamorato and the Politics of Gastronomy
Contributor(s): Pina Palma
The Forbidden Fruit or the Taste for Sodomy in Renaissance Italy
Contributor(s): Laura Giannetti Ruggiero
Drammaturgia e sacre scritture nell'Età dei Lumi
Contributor(s): Francesco S. Minervini
Mona Lisa's Gaze: D'Annunzio, Cinema, and the 'Aura'
Contributor(s): Michael Syrimis
Remembering D'Annunzio and Il Duce: Modern Prophecy in Italy
Contributor(s): Timothy C. Campbell
Between the Visible and the Invisible: Calvino's Cities and Memory
Contributor(s): Luca Pocci
Dante fra la 'mulier aliena' e la 'mulier fortis'
Contributor(s): Antonio Rossini
Nel quindicesimo canto del Paradiso Dante affida a Cacciaguida il peana della Firenze 'del buon tempo antico'. La gran parte di questo panegirico è dedicata alle donne fiorentine. Dopo aver lodato i costumi muliebri dell'antica Firenze, l'avo di Dante rivolge alle contemporanee del poeta...
The Vitruvian Man by Leonardo: Image and Text
Contributor(s): Domenico Laurenza
This article analyses the nature and content of the so-called Vitruvian man by Leonardo, a study dealing with the proportions of the human body. The essay opens with an analysis of topics such as the image as the first element to be set out onto the page and its influence on the graphic...
L'occultamento del principe. Lorenzo il Magnifico e il Barlaam e Josafat di Bernardo Pulci
Contributor(s): Gianni Cicali
Il Barlaam e Josafat di Bernardo Pulci rappresenta sia un interessante testo drammaturgico, sia un altrettanto originale e interessante sottotesto encomiastico di Lorenzo il Magnifico. Rappresentata nel 1474, come evidenziato da alcuni documenti d'archi-vio, la trama di questa sacra...
Isabella Andreini (Comica Gelosa 1560-1604): Petrarchism for the Theatre Public
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...
Picturing Annie's Egypt. Terra di Cleopatra by Annie Vivanti
Contributor(s): Anne Urbancic
Her readers would not have found the Egyptian adventure portrayed in Terra di Cleopatra to have been too unusual or exotic for Annie Vivanti, a world traveller who had already described countless foreign locales and adventures in previous works. Some of these were presented as fiction; others...
Scar Narrative — Sore Narrative: The Liquidation of Realism in D’Annunzio's Giovanni Episcopo and L'Innocente
Contributor(s): Elena Lombardi
In the years 1880-1894, D'Annunzio actively took part in the debate on the future of the novel and in the transition between realism and decadence. This article argues that D'Annunzio's "battle of realism" is fought between two texts, Giovanni Episcopo and L'Innocente, closely composed in 1891,...
La Sagra e Il Signore della Nave di Luigi Pirandello
Contributor(s): Regina Dal Monte
Il decennio intercorso tra la pubblicazione della novella Il Signore della Nave (1916) e la trionfale messa in scena della Sagra del Signore della Nave (1925) — opera con la quale si inaugurò l'attività di Pirandello capocomico — individua un contesto cronologico ed...
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