Ben Jonson's Politics

Contributor(s): Joseph John Kelly

Ben Jonson, Catholic Poet

Contributor(s): Robert S. Miola

Cet article considère les éléments biographiques portant sur le Catholicisme déclaré de Jonson et propose que cette religion encadrait et infléchissait sa poésie. Maintenu à travers ses années de production littéraire les plus importantes, le Catholicisme de Jonson met son art sous une lumière...

Ben Jonson’s Vocation and the “Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland”

Contributor(s): John Baxter

Cet article explore une série de questions concernant l’engagement de Ben Jonson dans la poésie en tant que profession: cette profession, quand la trouva-t-il? en quoi consiste-elle? quel est son prix? qui en tire le profit? La conclusion, mettant en valeur les épigrammes adressés à ses...

Benedetto Bacchini and the "Progetto ai letterati d'Italia" of Giovannartico di Porcìa

Contributor(s): Jordan Lancaster

Benjamin's "Baudelaire," Allegory, Interpretation

Contributor(s): Romano Luperini

Bennett, Susan, and Sonia Massai, project leaders. Performance Shakespeare 2016. Other.

Contributor(s): Ricardo Rocha

Benvenuto Cellini’s Bid for Membership in the Florentine Confraternity of San Giovanni Battista detta dello Scalzo

Contributor(s): Douglas N. Dow

An unpublished notice in the records of the confraternity of San Giovanni Battista detta dello Scalzo reveals that Benvenuto Cellini initiated a bid for membership in the company in 1557. Although Cellini seems an unlikely confratello, membership in a confraternity would have proved especially...

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...

Beretta, Marco. La rivoluzione culturale di Lucrezio. Filosofia e scienza nell’antica Roma

Contributor(s): Fabio Tutrone

Bertolet, Anna Riehl, and Carole Levin, eds. Creating the Premodern in the Postmodern Classroom: Creativity in Early English Literature and History Courses

Contributor(s): Shaun Ross

Berzal de Dios, Javier. Visual Experiences in Cinquecento Theatrical Spaces

Contributor(s): Sergius Kodera

Bess of Hardwick’s Letters: The Complete Correspondence, c.1550–1608

2023-05-11 22:07:51 | Contributor(s): Leah Knight

This is a review of Bess of Hardwick’s Letters: The Complete Correspondence, c.1550–1608. 

Bestiality and Gluttony in Theory and Practice in the Comedies of Giovan Battista Della Porta

Contributor(s): Sergius Kodera

Giovan Battista Della Porta (1535–1615), Neapolitan nobleman, scholar/scientist, and writer famed for books on natural magic and physiognomy, expressed quite explicit views on bestiality—that is, on human beings having sex with animals. Della Porta populated his plays with characters who allude...

Between Court and Village: The Evolution of Aristocratic Spaces in Early Modern Spain

Contributor(s): Santiago Martínez Hernández

In May 1561, King Philip II informed the town hall of Madrid that he had chosen their town as the site for his royal residence and court. That year, the city was swiftly transformed into the Catholic king’s court and the heart of his vast monarchy. It also became the principal political and...

Between Divinity and Dullness: The Advent of Personal Computers in Italian Literature

Contributor(s): Eleonora Lima

This article examines the cultural impact of personal computers in Italian literature in the first decade of their mass diffusion (from the mid-1980s to the second half of the 1990s) through the analysis of four texts written by some of the most respected writers of the time: Primo Levi’s article...

Between Ecclesiology and Diplomacy: Francisco de Vargas and the Council of Trent

Contributor(s): Xavier Tubau

This article examines the letters and reports of Francisco de Vargas (ca. 1500–66), a jurist who served in different positions under Charles V and Philip II during the three phases of the Council of Trent. Vargas defended the superiority of the council over the pope in matters of faith and...

Between Piety and Sin: Zaragoza's Confraternity of San Roque, Syphilis, and Sodomy

Contributor(s): Cristian Berco

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...

Between the Visible and the Invisible: Calvino's Cities and Memory

Contributor(s): Luca Pocci

Between “New Realism” and “Weak Thought”: Umberto Eco’s “Negative Realism” and the Discourse of Late Postmodern Impegno

Contributor(s): Loredana Di Martino

The recent theory of a return of realism has sparked a lively and somewhat heated debate among contemporary italian thinkers, generating a split between the supporters of the philosophy of weak thought, and those who argue for an overcoming of postmodernism and the development of a new philosophy...