Rassegna alfieriana (1982-1984) Parte prima

Contributor(s): Bianca Maria Da Rif

Rassegna alfieriana (1982-1984) Parte seconda

Contributor(s): Bianca Maria Da Rif

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...

Rassegna di studi su Marco Polo

Contributor(s): Enrico Vicentini

Re-examining Female Desire: Inheritance Law, Colonialism, and Folklore in Grazia Deledda's "La Volpe"

Contributor(s): Rebecca Hopkins

Re-reading Brunetto Latini and Inferno xv

Contributor(s): Massimo Verdicchio

Re-Reading Folly: Rabelais’s Praise of Triboullet

Contributor(s): Camilla J. Nilles

Rabelais's praise of Triboullet differs from earlier works on folly by using the fool's differing perspective to conduct its search for authentic meaning. The descriptions of the sage mondain and the divine fool initiate the process, establishing folly and wisdom as relative terms, whose meaning...

Re-Reading John Ford’s ’ Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Re-Writing Tragedy: Margaret Cavendish’s The Unnatural Tragedy

Contributor(s): Linda Avril Burnett

Dans cet article, l’auteur développe et appuie la revendication d’originalité de Margaret Cavendish. L’auteur présente The Unnatural Tragedy (1662), une relecture de ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore (1633), comme faisant partie de la tradition des femmes écrivaines dans laquelle deux textes sont publiés...

Re-reading the folie: Louise Labé's Sonnet XVIII and the Renaissance Love Heritage

Contributor(s): Deborah Lesko Baker

Louise Labé’s Sonnet XVIII is far from subtle in its forceful representation of sexual intimacy. After François Rigolot and Ann Rosalind Jones, Deborah Lesko Baker suggests a new reading of this most famous poem, and attempts to demonstrate how Louise Labé employs and ironizes the Petrarchan...

Re-viewing the Image of Confraternities in Renaissance Visual Culture

Contributor(s): Barbara Wisch

Reading and Viewing Sex in Early Modern French Vernacular Medicine

Contributor(s): Sarah E. Parker

Discussions of sex in early modern medical discourse did not simply legitimize a titillating topic. Medicine was engaged in a broader struggle to establish itself as a legitimate and professionally defined discipline; yet many practitioners marketed their ideas to a non-professional public...

Reading Dante's Vita Nuova

Contributor(s): Mary-Michelle Decoste

Reading Giovanni Pascoli's "Italy": A Migration Perspective

Contributor(s): Lucilla Bonavita

Reading Italian "Readers": a review article

Contributor(s): Claudia Persi Haines

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...

Reading Ritual: Biblical Hermeneutics and the Liturgical “Text” in Pre-Reformation England

Contributor(s): Matthew J. Rinkevich

This article argues that orthodox English writers during the pre-Reformation period conceptualized the liturgy as a type of biblical text interpreted with traditional exegetical tools, especially allegoresis. In particular, it focuses upon three devotional works produced during the first several...

Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy). Corpus Diacrónico del Español (CORDE; Diachronic corpus of Spanish). Database.

Contributor(s): Dale Shuger

Reason, Deception, and Franciscan Spirituality in Inferno 26 and 27

Contributor(s): Santa Casciani

Recasting Recantation in 1540s England: Thomas Becon, Robert Wisdom, and Robert Crowley

Contributor(s): Kate Roddy

The legacy of John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments has urged scholars of the English Reformation to consider martyrdom the ultimate act of resistance, and recantation as an embarrassing lapse of faith. However, more recent criticism has drawn attention to the subversive potential of the false...

Recent Acquisitions at the Newberry Library

2023-06-15 18:41:58 | Contributor(s): John A. Tedeschi, Natalie Zemon