“Forgers of Falsehood, Physicians of Nought”: Retailing Fictions in Boccaccio’s Decameron

Contributor(s): T. F. Gittes

Whereas Petrarch’s portrait of his doctor in Invectives Against a Physician is deliberately caricatural and seized at a glance, Boccaccio’s attitude towards doctors in the Decameron is far harder to grasp and easily overlooked. Yet, doctors and medical science are a central concern of the...

“Francis and the Minstrels of God:” Performing the Music of the Medieval Italian Laudesi Companies

2023-06-02 18:54:32 | Contributor(s): Chris Smith

“God may open more than man maye vnderstande”: Lady Margaret Beaufort’s Translation of the De Imitatione Christi

Contributor(s): Patricia Demers

Bien que l’oeuvre de Lady Margaret Beaufort, première femme anglaise à être publiée, ait été le plus souvent négligée au profit de ses talents de stratège du camp des Lancastre ou de son rôle de fondatrice de la dynastie des Tudor, les analyses de Brenda Hosington et de Stephanie Morley ont...

“Godo d’essere italiano” : Saverio Almatura tra letteratura e arti figurative del Risorgimento

Contributor(s): Vincenzo Caputo

L’intervento si pone l’obiettivo di analizzare lo scritto autobiografico del pittore Saverio Altamura (1896). Tra la fine dell’Ottocento e l’inizio del Novecento numerosi artisti, napoletani di nascita o d’adozione (Altamura era nato a Foggia, ma si era formato nella città partenopea), elaborano...

“I am as I have Spoken”: The Act of Naming in Macbeth

Contributor(s): Carmine G. Di Biase

Beaucoup de l’action de Macbeth se caractérise par ce que la théorie des actes de parole appellerait des actes performatifs, des actes de nomination qui non seulement identifient la personne ou la chose nommée mais aussi effectuent un changement dans le monde de la pièce. Tels actes de parole,...

“I am Just a Policeman”: The Case of Carlo Lucarelli’s and Maurizio de Giovanni’s Historical Crime Novels Set during Fascism

Contributor(s): Barbara Pezzotti

This article analyzes two successful Italian novels set during the Ventennio and the Second World War, namely Carlo Lucarelli’s Carta bianca (1990) and Maurizio De Giovanni’s Per mano mia (2011). It shows how Lucarelli confronts the troubling adherence to Fascism through a novel in which...

“I am that I preach”: Tyndale as Mediator in The Parable of the Wicked Mammon

Contributor(s): Rudolph P. Almasy

Cet article explore le climat discursif de The Parable of the Wicked Mammon de William Tyndale pour proposer que la théologie réformatrice de Tyndale lui imposait une confrontation avec les problèmes posés par la rhétorique et la médiation, lorqu’il a composé ce qui semble être un traité...

“I buoni ammaestramenti che a ogni ora e sopra a ogni caso e’ riceverà da lui.” Un nuovo archetipo di padre mercante nei Ricordi di Giovanni di Pagolo Morelli

Contributor(s): Deborah Pellegrino

Questo saggio propone una nuova lettura dei Ricordi di Giovanni Morelli, un’opera composita e funzionale in cui l’autore intesse un ritratto estremamente potente di sé, che diventa tanto più deciso quanto più contrasta con quello del padre Pagolo, e che si concretizza chiaramente negli...

“I Buonomini di San Martino: Patrons and Facilitators of the Visual Arts in Quattrocento Florence”

Contributor(s): Samantha Hughes-Johnson

The charitable activities carried out by the Buonomini di San Martino during the Quattrocento have been reasonably well documented by modern historians. Nevertheless, the patronage and financial aid bestowed on fifteenth-century Florentine artists and artisans by this lay confraternity remains...

“I did not die, nor did I stay alive:” The Dark Grace of Nonexistence in Inferno XXXIV

Contributor(s): Francis J. Caponi

In the final canto of Inferno, Dante confronts Dis, “la creatura ch’ebbe il bel sembiante” (XXXIV.18). In response, the poet declares: “Io non mori’ e non rimasi vivo; / pensa oggimai per te, s’hai fior d’ingegno, / qual io divenni, d’uno e d’altro privo.” (XXXIV.22-27) Beneath this apparently...

“I don’t want to say I’m broke”: Student experiences of food insecurity at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada

2025-03-19 22:03:20 | Contributor(s): Elaine Power, Julie Dietrich, Zoe Walter, Susan Belyea | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i1.423

Food insecurity, the inadequate or insecure access to food because of financial constraints, is an important public health concern, associated with poor physical and mental health. Recent research among post-secondary students shows that it also has consequences for academic performance; food...

“I haue often such a sickly inclination” Biography and the Critical Interpretation of Donne's Suicide Tract, Biathanatos

2022-06-13 18:32:48 | Contributor(s): Ray Siemens | https://doi.org/10.25547/VAP8-W194

Literary Studies

“Il ridervi de la goffezza del dire”: Niccolò Franco et la satire napolitaine du pétrarquisme

Contributor(s): Roland Béhar

This essay explores the Neapolitan background of Niccolò Franco and argues that although the main purpose of his Il Petrarchista (Venice, 1539) was certainly a kind of Erasmian and Aretinian satire of the Petrarchist mode which grounded Pietro Bembo’s Prose della volgar lingua (1525), still not...

“Illegal” Pawns for “Immoral” Loans: Testing the Limits of the Monti di Pietà in Late Fifteenth-Century Tuscany

Contributor(s): Paola Pinelli

Les archives toscanes contiennent une importante documentation illustrant divers aspects des premières années des prêteurs sur gages des Monti di Pietà. On y trouve de riches informations sur le sexe et le statut des emprunteurs, sur les montants empruntés, sur les intérêts, ainsi que sur les...

“INKE-cubating” Research Networks, Projects, and Partnerships: Reflections on INKE’s Fifth Year

2022-06-13 18:28:23 | Contributor(s): Lynne Siemens | https://doi.org/10.25547/NDCD-XP47

Digital humanities

“It is the Wild West out here”: Prairie farmers’ perspectives on farmland investment and land concentration

2025-03-19 22:13:03 | Contributor(s): André Magnan, Mengistu Wendimu, Annette Desmarais, Katherine Aske | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i3.518

This research builds on the emerging body of literature investigating the implications of changing land tenure relations in the Prairie Provinces, where over 70% of Canada’s farmland is located. Through an analysis of survey data collected in 2019 from 400 grain farmers, we address the...

“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...

“La «Sacra Rappresentazione»: Entre les Médicis et Saint-Marc.” Thèse de Doctorat, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, 2009.

Contributor(s): Sophie Stallini

“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,...

“Men that are Safe, and Sure”: Jonson’s “Tribe of Ben” Epistle in its Patronage Context

Contributor(s): Robert C. Evans