From Motherhood to Fatherhood: The Eclipse of Reason in the Taviani Brothers’ Tu ridi

Contributor(s): Manuela Gieri

The paper presents an in-depth analysis of Tu ridi, a free adaptation of some of Luigi Pirandello’s short stories, realized by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani in 1998. Within a filmography largely characterized by an attention to the historical, social, and political transformations that Italy...

On the Seriousness of Things: Pirandello’s Ma non è una cosa seria from Page to Screen

Contributor(s): Michael Syrimis

A study of Mario Camerini’s Ma non è una cosa seria (But It’s Nothing Serious [1936]), a film based on Luigi Pirandello’s eponymous 1918 play and typical of the 1930s Italian romantic comedy genre, elucidates the transformations that a literary conception undergoes when adapted for the screen,...

Beppe Fenoglio’s Partigiano Archive: Translation, Resistenza, Testimony

Contributor(s): Marisa Escolar

Beppe Fenoglio’s most famous novel, Partigiano Johnny, is not actually a novel at all, but a posthumous philological reconstruction of a series of typescripts that inspired one of the fiercest Italian literary debates of the postwar period. This debate reached a fever pitch in the 1990s as Italy...

A Fairy-Tale Noir: Rewriting Fairy Tales into Feminist Narratives of Exposure

Contributor(s): Danila Cannamela

This article introduces the fairy-tale noir, a subgenre of fantasy-noir fiction that is particularly present in the work of Italian women writers, including Laura Pugno, Simona Vinci, Nicoletta Vallorani, and Alda Teodorani. This subgenre adopts fairy-tale topoi and characters to elaborate on the...

Stories of Blogs, E-books and Time: Slowdown, Participation and Resistance in Wu Ming’s Giap and L’archivio e la strada

Contributor(s): Paolo Saporito

This paper analyses the relationship between Wu Ming’s blog Giap and the e-book Giap: L’archivio e la strada, where the writing collective gathered a selection of blog posts published between 2010 and 2012. Focusing on the temporal dimension of on-line and off-line reading practices, this paper...

Mapping the Reception of English Novels in Italy During the Long 18th Century: A Digital Approach

Contributor(s): Sandra Parmegiani Parmegiani, Andrea Penso, Dirk Vanden Berghe

The Growth of Minds and Cultures: A Unified Interpretation of the Structure of Human Experience

Contributor(s): Willem H. Vanderburg

Editor’s Note

Contributor(s): Luca Somigli

«Se il savio uomo debba prender moglie». Boccaccio e la questione matrimoniale nel XIV e XV secolo

Contributor(s): Marcello Sabbatino

La contesa tra Venere celeste e Venere terrena, tra l’amore onesto e coniugale, che regola la comunità, e l’amore dilettevole e extraconiugale, che è fonte inesauribile di valore guerriero e di virtù cavalleresche nella società cortese, affascina il Boccaccio durante il soggiorno nella Napoli...

Irredentist Propaganda “Baedeker Style:” Anna Franchi’s and Willy Dias’ Nationalist Geographical Fantasy

Contributor(s): Cristina Gragnani

This article analyzes how Anna Franchi and Willy Dias (Fortuna Morpurgo) utilized the language of tourism in their irredentist writings during the first two years of World War I. I look at how they adopted specific features of travel guidebooks to create a nationalistic geographical fantasy. I...

“La parola «rammendare».” Natalia Ginzburg’s Gemeinschaft

Contributor(s): Mimmo Cangiano

My article has a dual purpose: on the one hand I will discuss the concept of social community that emerges from the public activity of Ginzburg. I will look at the political practice that Ginzburg sketched out, clarifying how this would become that “politica della memoria” aimed at defending and...

Albino, la scrittura, la nevrosi. Ipotesi in margine all’eziologia nevrotica in Memoriale di Paolo Volponi

Contributor(s): Maurizio Masi

Il seguente articolo intende valutare più approfonditamente alcune ipotesi sull’eziologia della nevrosi in Memoriale di Paolo Volponi, partendo proprio dall’originaria definizione di questa fornitaci da Freud. Spesso l’interpretazione del testo è rimasta troppo confinata ad un’esclusiva lettura...

The Trauma of “Fear-Induced Exodus:” The Case of Victor Magiar and the Italian Jews of Libya

Contributor(s): Rosario Pollicino

The Italian/Italophone Jewish community is amongst those that suffered from the Holocaust and other traumas. Drawing on the work of thinkers of trauma theory such as Dori Laub and Cathy Caruth, this paper aims to add to the current discourse on literary production by Italian/Italophone Jews by...

The Evolution of the Garden-Myth? Tales from Eden, Boccaccio, and Fellini

Contributor(s): Anthony Cristiano

The Garden of Eden narrative has been woven, in one form or another in several literary traditions, particularly those of the Western world. The symbolic and socio-cultural significance of the ancient account have continued to inform gender relations, as well as those with the numinous, and/or...

Plurilingualism and Language Contact in Friuli Venezia Giulia: The State of the Research

Contributor(s): Fabiana Fusco

As a crossroads between Eastern and Western Europe, throughout its history Friuli Venezia Giulia has always been a strategic political and economic site and has had several rulers (German patriarchs, Venetians, etc.). Consequently, the language of the ruling classes usually differed from that of...

Burchiello. The Poetry of Burchiello: Deep-fried Nouns, Hunchbacked Pumpkins, and Other Nonsense. Translation, introduction, and notes by Fabian Alfie and Aileen A. Feng.

Contributor(s): Sherry Roush

Alessandro Giardino, ed. Corporeality and Performativity in Baroque Naples. The Body of Naples

Contributor(s): Nicla Riverso

Margherita Costa. The Buffoons, A Ridiculous Comedy. A Bilingual Edition. Edited and translated by Sara E. Díaz and Jessica Goethals.

Contributor(s): Patrizia Bettela

Simona Cigliana. Due secoli di fantasmi. Case infestate, tavoli giranti, apparizioni, spiritisti, magnetizzatori e medium

Contributor(s): Mauro Ruggiero

Julius Evola. Teoria e pratica dell’arte d’avanguardia. A c. di Gianfranco De Turris.

Contributor(s): Simona Cigliana