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...

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...