Preface

Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler

A Century and More of Italians in Toronto: An Overview of Settlement

Contributor(s): Gabriele Scardellato

Through the use of various published and original sources this study outlines the reception and settlement of Italian immigrants in a modern Canadian urban environment. Substantial Italian migration and immigration to Toronto began in the late nineteenth century. The first migrants and immigrants...

Images Of Canadian Cities In Italy: Then And Now

Contributor(s): Matteo Sanfilippo

This article examines the writings of Italian travellers in Canada and discusses how they affected and affect the images of Canadian cities in Italian culture. The article begins by looking at recent writings by one famous Italian author, Pier Vittorio Tondelli, and then moves back to examine his...

The Relief Scandal In Montreal's Italian Community and Its Political Background: Fascio, Consulate and the Roman Catholic Parish of the Church of the Madonna della Difesa, October 1932-July 1933

Contributor(s): Angelo Principe

The following essay is divided into three inter-woven parts. The first deals with the ravage of the Great Depression in Canada; the second explores the Canadian clerical and secular establishment's view of fascism and its local Italian proponents; the last part unravels the cozy collaboration in...

Beautifying the City: 1960s Artistic Mosaics by Italian Canadians in Toronto

Contributor(s): Olga Zorzi Pugliese

Italian Canadian craftsmen deserve recognition for their contribution to the aesthetics of Toronto's architectural environment through their role in the production of mosaic artworks. After an early period in the 1930s (which witnessed the ROM and Foster Memorial projects) there was a second...

'Before the World Collapsed Because of the War': The City of Fiume in the Poetry of Gianni Angelo Grohovaz

Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler

The article examines how the "native city" is constructed and remembered in the works of the Italian refugee and later emigrant, Gianni Angelo Grohovaz. Born in Fiume (Italy) in 1926, Grohovaz was forced to abandon his city when it was ceded, as spoils of war, to Yugoslavia. After eventually...

Les objets-signes chez Nino Ricci et Bianca Zagolin

Contributor(s): Anne Marie Miraglia

Dans un nouveau pays, la présence d'objets familiers, dotés d'un sens spécial, réconfortent l'immigré et contribuent à la reconstruction dans son pays d'accueil d'un monde révolu et lointain. Cette analyse de deux romanciers canadiens d'origine...

A Self-Conscious Mise-en-scène: Experimenting with 'Disownment and Appropriation’

Contributor(s): Anthony Cristiano

While the historical definition of experimental films as highly personal works, marked by unconventional economic and aesthetic norms remains fundamentally unchanged, the context within which they are produced has evolved through the years. This article argues that the contemporary forms of...

Beatrice

Contributor(s): Luigi Scorrano

L'autore traccia un ritratto di Beatrice privilegiando un tema poco frequentato e presenta la donna amata da Dante come creatura della distanza. Dalla Vita Nuova alla Commedia la condizione di distanza è fondamentale perché pone sempre più avanti il traguardo da raggiungere e...

City of Lights: Natural and Transcendent Light Sources for Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Good City-Republic

Contributor(s): Norman Klassen

The question of the light source for Ambrogio Lorenzetti's fresco on the east wall of the Sala dei Nove, known as The Good City-Republic, has long attracted comment. In this article I argue for two light sources rather than one on the basis of internal evidence, historical contextualizing...

Actors and Structures in Machiavelli’s Istorie Fiorentine

Contributor(s): Sverre Bagge

This article examines Machiavelli's understanding of the relationship between actors and structures in the history of Florence through a study of five selected episodes in the Istorie Fiorentine. Together, these episodes show the gradual decline of virtue in the city, from the relatively healthy...

Un transfert cinquecentesco: Scipione l'Africano

Contributor(s): Vincenzo Caputo

L'intervento si pone l'obiettivo di analizzare la fortuna di Scipione l'Africano nel corso della seconda metà del XVI secolo. Sulla scia delle dispute quattrocentesche e dell'opera latina del Petrarca, il mito di Scipione si impone nel secondo Cinquecento attraverso la mediazione dei...

Vico lettore di Dante

Contributor(s): Massimo Verdicchio

La molta discussa questione del rapporto tra Dante e Vico, che ha visto la critica favorire una lettura di Dante come uno dei primi poeti vichiani subordinato alla maggiore filosofìa di Vico viene qui ripresa in esame e decisa nei termini di una distinzione del concetto di errore. Da...

Ipocondria, scienza medica e poesia. Una congiuntura settecentesca

Contributor(s): Sandra Parmegiani

This article opens with a survey of the works of those physicians who, in the eighteenth century, expanded on the Classical and Renaissance theorization of hypochondria. It then looks at the connections between hypochondria and literary creation, a theme which is explored by several Italian...

Nutrition as Dissolution: Paola Masino's Nascita e morte della massaia

Contributor(s): Enrico Cesaretti

Many scholars agree that Paola Masino's novel Nascita e morte della massaia is to be read as an allegory protesting Fascism censorship and suppression of women's creative powers, a sort of literal grave-stone and defeat of the possibility of feminine imagination and creativity. By focusing on the...

La rinascita al termine del viaggio. Seguendo i 'movimenti' di Camere separate di Pier Vittorio Tondelli

Contributor(s): Cristiana Furlan

"La rinascita al termine del viaggio. Seguendo i movimenti di Camere separate" esamina l'interazione fra il tema del viaggio e quello della rigenerazione nel romanzo di Pier Vittorio Tondelli. L'articolo procede investigando le modalità scelte dall'autore per descrivere il personale...

Dante fra le due mulieres: un 'redux'

Contributor(s): Antonio Rossini

La breve nota intende completare l'analisi di Paradiso 15 avviata su questa rivista con l'articolo 'Dante tra la mulier fortis e la mulier aliena'. In particolare il saggio si propone di allargare l'analisi delle suggestive figure delle matrone fiorentine del 'buon tempo antico', passando dallo...

Style, the Muscle of the Soul. Theories on Reading and Writing in Petrarch's Texts

Contributor(s): Unn Falkeid

With his deep passion for the Roman poets and historians and with his effort to transform the cultural agenda through a revival of Antiquity, Petrarch inaugurated new reading and writing practices that would influence and dominate future generations for centuries. Celebrated as the "father of...

La voce del narratore nel poema cavalleresco rinascimentale italiano

Contributor(s): Enrico Musacchio

Il discorso sul ruolo della 'voce' del narratore nel racconto letterario è al centro della riflessione narratologica contemporanea. Ma già nel Cinquecento, e in particolare a proposito dei romanzi cavallereschi, sempre popolari ma ormai sospettati di infrangere le norme della...

Pastoral Therapies for the Heartbroken in Guarini's Pastor Fido and Monteverdi's Book V

Contributor(s): Federico Schneider

The idea of pastoral poetry as therapy against love-melancholy is well rehearsed throughout the Renaissance. Guarini's Pastor Fido (1589) and Monteverdi Fifth Book of Madrigals (1605) represent two effective responses to the therapeutic urgencies of the pastoral. Guarini's famous pastoral ushers...