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  1. Review of Montale e la parola riflessa. Dal disincanto linguistico degli Ossi attraverso le incarnazioni poetiche della Bufera alla lirica decostruttiva dei Diari
  2. Review of The Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi

    Review of The Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi

    Review | Contributor(s): Henry Veggian

  3. Review of Sul palco c'è l'autore. Scrivere, filmare, interpretare: Carmelo Bene, Gianni Celati, Ascanio Celestini, Vincenzo Cerami, Roberto De Simone, Mario Martone
  4. Review of The Cinema of Silvio Soldini: Dream-Image-Voyage

    Review of The Cinema of Silvio Soldini: Dream-Image-Voyage

    Review | Contributor(s): Anthony Cristiano

  5. Review of Reading and Writing the Mediterranean. Essays by Vincenzo Consolo
  6. Review of The Politics of the Piazza. The History and Meaning of the Italian Square
  7. Review of Rewriting the Journey in Contemporary Italian Literature
  8. Review of Spiriti costretti. Racconti biografici

    Review of Spiriti costretti. Racconti biografici

    Review | Contributor(s): Anne Urbancic

  9. Review of Migration Italy: The Art of Talking Back in a Destination Culture
  10. Review of Fiume. Città della memoria (1868-1945)

    Review of Fiume. Città della memoria (1868-1945)

    Review | Contributor(s): Robert Buranello

  11. Research "Born in the Classroom": Students' Errors as a Source of Knowledge?

    Research "Born in the Classroom": Students' Errors as a Source of Knowledge?

    Article | Contributor(s): Raffaella Maiguashca, Anne Urbancic

  12. Michelangelo Reading Landino? The "Devil" in Michelangelo's Last Judgment

    Michelangelo Reading Landino? The "Devil" in Michelangelo's Last Judgment

    Article | Contributor(s): Sarah Melanie Rolfe

    In lieu of Satan, the Hell scene in Michelangelo's Last Judgment features Charon and Minos, two key figures present in Dante’s Inferno. These figures were given an interesting psychological interpretation in the well circulated fifteenth-century commentary on Dante's Commedia by Cristoforo...

  13. Dialogical Strategies, Volgarizzamento, and Ciceronian Ethos in Antonio Brucioli's Dialogi Della Morale Filosofia

    Dialogical Strategies, Volgarizzamento, and Ciceronian Ethos in Antonio Brucioli's Dialogi Della Morale Filosofia

    Article | Contributor(s): Reinier Leushuis

    In 1526, Antonio Brucioli (1487-1566) published a series of thirty dialogues that form a typical humanist compendium of moral and political wisdom in the vernacular. Scholars have considered these dialogues mainly from the perspective of Brucioli’s humanist and political allegiances, in...

  14. Women Writing Women in Lodovico Domenichi's Anthology of 1559

    Women Writing Women in Lodovico Domenichi's Anthology of 1559

    Article | Contributor(s): Gabriella Scarlatta Eschrich

    In his Rime diverse d’alcune nobilissime et virtuosissime donne (1559), Lodovico Domenichi publishes the poetry of fifty-three women authors across borders of nation, city, politics, religion, profession, class, and genre. Among them, thirty-five dedicate or address their compositions to...

  15. Virago Valorosa o “Marfisa Bizarra”? La Donna Guerriera ne La Pazzia d’Isabella (1611) di Flaminio Scala e ne Lo Schiavetto (1612) di Giovan Battista Andreini

    Virago Valorosa o “Marfisa Bizarra”? La Donna Guerriera ne La Pazzia d’Isabella (1611) di Flaminio Scala e ne Lo Schiavetto (1612) di Giovan Battista Andreini

    Article | Contributor(s): Valentina Denzel

    In questo articolo confrontiamo la messa in scena dei personaggi femminili delle due commedie La pazzia di Isabella (1611) di Flaminio Scala e Lo Schiavetto (1612) di Giovan Battista Andreini. Le protagoniste della commedia di Scala, Isabella e Flaminia, rievocano per la loro presa d’armi le...

  16. Calvino’s Encounter with the Animal: Anthropomorphism, Cognition and Ethics in Palomar

    Calvino’s Encounter with the Animal: Anthropomorphism, Cognition and Ethics in Palomar

    Article | Contributor(s): Eugenio Bolongaro

    This article examines the importance of the portrayal of animals in Palomar, Italo Calvino’s last major work of fiction. The discussion moves from some observations on the representation of animals in fiction, to a reflection on the ethical issues which emerge once the “question of...

  17. Food and Anthropology in the Early Works of Matilde Serao

    Food and Anthropology in the Early Works of Matilde Serao

    Article | Contributor(s): Daria Valentini

    Food has long been considered by anthropologists to be an integral part of self-representation, culture, and identity. The present study investigates the early works of Matilde Serao, focusing on food imagery and culinary customs of the city of Naples. Serao’s fiction and journalistic...

  18. Review of City and Community in Norman Italy

    Review of City and Community in Norman Italy

    Review | Contributor(s): Giulia Savio

  19. Review of Dante and the Making of a Modern Author

    Review of Dante and the Making of a Modern Author

    Review | Contributor(s): Antonio Rossini

  20. Review of Reading Dante Reading: A Postmodern Reading of Dante’s Commedia