Le lettere di e a Cesarotti nella Biblioteca Nazionale di Parigi (con documenti inediti)

Contributor(s): Andrea Penso

L’articolo presenta due lettere di Melchiorre Cesarotti ritrovate dall’A. durante alcune ricerche condotte alla Bibliothèque Nationale de France su materiali manoscritti. La prima lettera è indirizzata a Voltaire, e riguarda la traduzione delle due tragedie Le Fanatisme, ou Mahomet e La Mort de...

Guido Gozzano e la poesia crepuscolare tra innovazione modernista e interferenze d’oltralpe

Contributor(s): Marilena Ceccarelli

Il movimento crepuscolare italiano di inizio Novecen­to — riconosciuto e definito come tale non senza perplessità — appa­re segnare, per la sua intrinseca vocazione da un lato all’identificazione nell’esperienza delle esistenze più umili con cui il poeta è a colloquio, dall’altro alla...

La memoria del confine. Il motivo della patria perduta nel romanzo Il cavallo di cartapesta di Osvaldo Ramous

Contributor(s): Marinko Lazzarich

Nei testi letterari degli anni 1945–1956 che parlano dell’e­sodo degli italiani dalla città di Fiume il motivo del confine diventa il simbolo della conservazione di un’identità nazionale divisa. Al con­tempo, il tema della terra natale perduta lega direttamente la lette­ratura fiumana a quella...

Marco Paolini’s Theatre of Trauma: Vajont

Contributor(s): Andrea Bini

This paper analyzes the work of actor/writer Marco Paolini, and his acclaimed monologue Il racconto del Vajont in particular. In the wake of Dario Fo and Franca Rame’s teatro civile, Paolini’s monolo­gues contributed to the birth of the so-called teatro di narrazione in the 1990s, which can also...

Food Consumption in Ferzan Ozpetek’s Hamam and Luca Guadagnino’s Io sono l’amore: A Gender Issue

Contributor(s): Patrizia Sambuco

Within the wide range of scholarly works on food studies, the topic of food and cinema has gained increasing attention in recent years. This article contributes to the discussion offering a gender per­spective in the analysis of Italian films. It examines cinematic represen­tations of food...

Le vie verso la ragione: i segni del nuovo realismo in Gomorra

Contributor(s): Torunn Haaland

Il saggio si concentra sui concetti di realtà e impegno etico e civile in Gomorra. Il romanzo-inchiesta di Roberto Saviano viene in­serito nel contesto del ritorno al realismo e dell’emergere di “oggetti narrativi non-identificati” nella narrativa contemporanea, per poi es­sere associato al...

(Un)Human Relations: Transhumanism in Francesco Verso’s Nexhuman

Contributor(s): Jana Vizmuller-Zocco

Transhumanism is an international movement which es­pouses the idea that any human organ, function, sense, ability, can be augmented and ameliorated with the judicious use of technology. The ethical, cultural, social, biological, economic implications for this view are far-reaching and point to a...

Introduction: Becoming Italian American

Contributor(s): Franco Pierno, Alberto Zambenedetti

Primo Bartolini and the “Eye-talians” of Nashville: Becoming American in the Athens of the South

Contributor(s): Matteo Brera

This essay describes how the Italians who settled in Nashville between the end of the nineteenth century and before the outburst of the First World War favoured first and foremost their occupational mobility thus prioritizing their integration in the economic fabric of a thriving city. Initially,...

Nuovomondo, Ellis Island, and Italian Immigrants: A New Appraisal by Emanuele Crialese

Contributor(s): Marie-Christine Michaud

Ellis Island remains in the American collective consciousness a centre of immigration where thousands of Europeans who expected to enter the United States between 1892 and 1954, went through. As such, Ellis Island was a symbolic bridge between the Old World and the New. It is the vision of this...

Italian Americans, Education, and Italian Language: 1880–1921

Contributor(s): Matteo Pretelli

Italian migrants in the United States have been often associated to the tendency to neglect the importance of culture as an instrument of upward social mobility. Traditionally perceiving culture as a hegemonic tool of the elites, Italian migrants in the United States, who had a predominantly...

An Imagined Community of Their Own: Voices of Italian Immigrants in Il Lavoratore Italiano

Contributor(s): Thierry Rinaldetti

This contribution proposes to reflect on the experience and sense of identity of Italians through the analysis of Il Lavoratore Italiano, an Italian-language radical weekly newspaper published in Kansas from 1905 to 1927. A mouthpiece for Italian rank-and-file radicals in the U.S., the periodical...

Between Reality and Symbol: Fierce Dogs and Ferocious Wolves in the Decameron

Contributor(s): Julia M. Cozzarelli

Non-human animals have a long history of being utilized to understand human nature, and both wild and domestic canines have been particularly intertwined with humanity since ancient times. This article examines the representation of animals, and specifically of dogs and wolves, in Boccaccio’s...

The Influence of Milan on the Development of the Lombard Koiné in Fifteenth-Century Italy: the Letters of Elisabetta of Pavia

Contributor(s): Josh Brown

The main tendency characterizing the development of language in Lombardy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries is the formation of a koiné. The extent to which Milan influenced the Lombard koiné is the subject of ongoing debate. On the one hand, scholars suggest that Milan provided a...

The Nineteenth-Century Italian Translators of Lord Byron’s Marino Faliero

Contributor(s): Sergio Portelli

The tragic story of Marino Faliero, the Doge of Venice who was executed for high treason in 1355, came to the attention of writers and artists of various European countries during the early nineteenth century thanks to a number of historians who published insightful works on the history of the...

Rhizomatic Cities in Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities

Contributor(s): Sambit Panigrahi

Italo Calvino’s highly successful novel Invisible Cities thoroughly explains Deleuze and Guattari’s famous postmodern concept of rhizome. The cities in the novel do not possess a fixed and coherent structure; rather they exude a structurality that is immensely fleeting and continually evolving....

Vladimir Mayakovsky as Exemplary Character: Two Interpretations by Dario Fo and Carmelo Bene

Contributor(s): Malcolm Angelucci, Stephen Kolsky

This article contributes to the mapping of the role played by the Russian poet, playwright, artist and performer Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) in the Italian context of the 60s and 70s, concentrating on Dario Fo’s L’operaio conosce 300 parole, il padrone 1000, per questo lui è il padrone...

Fables and Faith: Favoleggiare in the Commedia

Contributor(s): Mary-Michelle DeCoste

The verb favoleggiare appears twice in Dante’s Divina commedia, both times in the Paradiso. An examination of the use of this word, alongside a secondary consideration of the word favola as it is used elsewhere in the Paradiso, suggests the poet’s concern with the relationship between knowledge,...

L’arte del realismo onirico: architettura, pittura e letteratura nell’opera di Arduino Cantàfora

Contributor(s): Nicola Delledonne

Il presente contributo critico interpreta l’opera di Arduino Cantàfora (1945) — architetto, pittore e scrittore — attraverso la nozione di realismo onirico, coniata per evidenziare la propensione dell’artista milanese a trasfigurare gli elementi della realtà secondo un processo tipico del mondo...

Petrarch’s Fragmenta: The Narrative and Theological Unity of Rerum vulgarium fragmenta

Contributor(s): Joel S. Pastor