Tra le (non) virgole di Alla cieca. Osservazioni sulla traduzione di Alla cieca e sul rapporto tra Claudio Magris e i suoi traduttori

Contributor(s): Barbara Ivancic

Le opere di Claudio Magris sono state tradotte in molte lingue; il primato spetta a Danubio (1986), che segnò il successo internazionale dello scrittore e germanista triestino, con ventidue traduzioni, seguono Un altro mare (1991), tradotto in quattordici lingue, e Microcosmi (1997), a quota...

The Presence of Myth in Claudio Magris’s Postmillennial Narrative

Contributor(s): Sandra Parmegiani

This article addresses Magris’s appropriation of classical myth in his postmillennial narrative. Since his early works of literary criticism Magris explored the world of myth and the mythopoeic power of literature, but only in his postmillennial texts has he undertaken the writing of what John J....

Nota del Direttore

Contributor(s): Gianni Cicali

Tongues of Fire and Fraud in Bolgia Eight

Contributor(s): Gabriella Ildiko Baika

The article revisits Inferno 26-27 from the perspective of the medieval pastoral debate on peccata linguae and focuses on the controversial phrase consiglio frodolente (Inf. 27.116). I begin my analysis by examining the notion of pravum consilium ‘evil counsel’ in two tracts on verbal sins:...

Reading Marsilio Ficino in Quattrocento Italy. The Case of Aragonese Naples

Contributor(s): Matteo Soranzo

This essay focuses on the reception of Marsilio Ficino’s works and ideas in Naples at the time of the Aragonese domination, and it offers a preliminary discussion of this neglected area of Renaissance Neoplatonism. Based on a contextualization of Ficino’s letters to Giovanni d’Aragona, four...

Salmacis et Hermaphrodite à la Renaissance et à l’Âge Baroque: Traductions et réecritures italiennes d’un mythe ovidien

Contributor(s): Janis Vanacker

Dans cette contribution nous examinons les versions italiennes du mythe ovidien de Salmacis et Hermaphrodite proposées par les volgarizzatori du XIVe et du XVIe siècles et par le poète baroque Girolamo Preti dans La Salmace. Avant d’entamer la lecture de ces textes, qui, jusqu’à présent, n’ont...

Leonardo’s Profezia: Moral Writings of a Hybrid Kind

Contributor(s): Filomena Calabrese

In the period 1490-99, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) wrote nearly three hundred literary writings that were later compiled by scholars into four primary collections: the Bestiario, Favole, Facezie, and Profezia. This article takes Leonardo’s Profezia as its main subject in order to give due...

“Et questa è la storia et la festa.” Il festival orvietano del 1508 e la microsocietà del capitolo della cattedrale

Contributor(s): Mara Nerbano

Nel periodo compreso tra il 7 maggio e il 20 agosto 1508, a Orvieto, furono messe in scena cinque suggestive sacre rappresentazioni. A darne notizia è il canonico del duomo ser Tommaso di Silvestro, autore di una cronaca degli anni 1482-1514. Il contesto in cui fiorirono tali eventi è quello...

Gianfrancesco Gemelli-Careri: “Vagabundu, spiuni, jettaturi”

Contributor(s): José Sarzi Amade

Cette recherche propose quelques considérations sur la vie de Gianfrancesco Gemelli-Careri, voyageur italien de la fin du XVIIe s. et une réflexion sur son oeuvre, Giro del mondo. Dans son ouvrage, l’auteur, qui passa une décennie de son existence hors de sa patrie, l’Italie, expose le récit de...

Rassegna di studi su Ippolito Nievo

Contributor(s): Stefania Segatori

Il saggio presenta un panorama delle edizioni dei testi di Ippolito Nievo e ripercorre la storia della critica nieviana dalle origini all’epoca presente. Al fine di fornire un quadro aggiornato sugli studi nieviani, la rassegna illustra con particolare attenzione l’Edizione nazionale delle opere...

The Short Play and Postmodernist Stage Directing: A Virtual Experiment with Pirandello’s Cecè

Contributor(s): Stefano Boselli

The one-act play Cecè (1913) by Luigi Pirandello belongs to the playwright’s early production and has been rightly praised for its perfect comic mechanism. Yet, it has heretofore attracted little attention in the academic world. Despite containing one of the first instances of the author’s...

Primo Levi and Hunger

Contributor(s): Daniela Bisello Antonucci

When Primo Levi was deported to Auschwitz in 1944, he suffered from physical hunger. But the association of this real hunger—the lack of food—with his other desperate hunger—his desire to tell his story—created the energy to make a connection with the world after the Lager experience. This study...

Carmen Covito’s La Bruttina Stagionata: Bridging Feminist and Post-Feminist Literature

Contributor(s): Laura A. Salsini

Carmen Covito’s 1992 novel La bruttina stagionata serves as a connective text between two significant moments in Italian women’s writing: the feminist works of the 1970s and those published in the 1990s. Covito’s text adopts the sensibilities of a feminist work in its description of the female...

Preface

Contributor(s): Gabriele Scardellato

Uncompromising Gaze: The Art of Albert Chiarandini O.S.A., F.I.I.A.L.

Contributor(s): Olga Zorzi Pugliese, Guido Pugliese, Angelo Principe

A close analysis of the paintings by Albert Chiarandini inscribed in several genres (portraiture, landscapes and compositions) and evaluated in light of the artist’s life experience, diary reflections, and personal interviews, reveals his fundamental concern for social justice. He chooses to...

Malocchio in Nino Ricci’s Lives Of The Saints

Contributor(s): Michela Baldo

The evil eye or malocchio has appeared in the works of a number of Italian-Canadian writers but for most its role has been limited. In Lives of the Saints, however, the first volume of the trilogy of the same name by Nino Ricci, its role is fundamental to the novel’s narrative construction. The...

CHIN Radio and its Listeners: A Negotiation in the Post-War Commerce of Ethnicity

Contributor(s): Michele Amatiello

Canadian broadcasting underwent a period of transition following the Second World War. Government officials attempted to restructure radio to serve as an instrument for assimilation which would assist new Canadians in understanding Canadian culture and customs. In 1966, CHIN Radio AM 1540 was...

“Manage, Negotiate, and Challenge Identities”: Young Italian-Canadian Identities from the Eyetalian Perspective

Contributor(s): Domenico Servello

This study is an investigation of identity and Italian-Canadian youth in the post-World War Two period. A thorough examination of the limited secondary literature on this topic, as well an analysis of the works of authors, journalists and others published in the Toronto-based magazine Eyetalian,...

Zoppola, Zoppolani and Migration to Western Canada: A Sample Study

Contributor(s): Gabriella Colussi Arthur

This paper investigates the departures and arrivals of a group of Zoppolani, Italians from the northeast of Italy who travelled through Ellis Island to British Columbia in search of work between 1906 and 1923. Zoppola is a municipality located in the center west of the autonomous Friuli...

Anti-Petrarchism in the Decameron’s Proem and Introduction

Contributor(s): Joseph Grossi

Similarities of purpose between the Proem of the Decameron and the opening sonnet of the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta have been noticed by several scholars. Students of Boccaccio and Petrarch are also becoming increasingly aware that the former was willing to criticize his friend, as he did when...