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  1. Human Generation, Memory and Poetic Creation: From the Purgatorio to the Paradiso

    Human Generation, Memory and Poetic Creation: From the Purgatorio to the Paradiso

    Article | Contributor(s): Paola Ureni

    Statius’ scientific digression on the generation of the fetus and the formation of the fictive body in the afterlife occupies a large part of canto XXV of Dante’s Purgatorio. This article will examine the metaphorical relevance of that technical exposition to Dante’s poetics....

  2. Why Did the Monkey Kill the Giant? Another Look at Margutte’s Death

    Why Did the Monkey Kill the Giant? Another Look at Margutte’s Death

    Article | Contributor(s): Pina Palma

    In the Morgante through Margutte’s death-by-laughter Pulci voices a caustic critique of Ficino’s philosophical theories while obliquely denouncing Lorenzo de Medici’s acceptance of them. The spectacle of the monkey wearing and taking off Margutte’s boots follows...

  3. 'The Country is Large, and Beautiful and Happy.' Lelio Pecci’s Travel Journal of his 1549 Mission to Flanders

    'The Country is Large, and Beautiful and Happy.' Lelio Pecci’s Travel Journal of his 1549 Mission to Flanders

    Article | Contributor(s): Elena Brizio

    Lelio Pecci’s travel journal for his mission to Emperor Charles V in Flanders offers modern readers a layman’s description of a large section of Europe (from northern Italy to France, Flanders, Germany, and Austria), as well as a priviledged view into the mind of a learned man from a...

  4. Galileo’s Rhetoric of Fable

    Galileo’s Rhetoric of Fable

    Article | Contributor(s): Crystal Hall

    In annotations, drafts, and published materials, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) consistently uses fables to ridicule his philosophical opponents’ forma mentis. An analysis of the revisions made to these short pieces argues that the fable was a deliberate rhetorical tool with dual effect: the...

  5. Leopardi e il segreto dell’ Infinito

    Leopardi e il segreto dell’ Infinito

    Article | Contributor(s): Giampiero Marzi

    L’infinito di Leopardi è una poesia sublime, ma anche difficile, in quanto densa di mistero fin dal primo verso. La sua difficoltà interpretativa, dimostrata dalle diverse letture fornite dalla critica, potrebbe dipendere da una forma di scrittura à clef....

  6. Violence and the Law in Gianrico Carofiglio’s Literary Courtroom

    Violence and the Law in Gianrico Carofiglio’s Literary Courtroom

    Article | Contributor(s): Elena Past

    Gianrico Carofiglio’s novels featuring attorney-protagonist Guido Guerrieri have gained popularity in Italy and abroad since the first in the series emerged in 2002. Although often discussed alongside other popular crime fiction, Carofiglio’s work also has a wider resonance,...

  7. Adoption, Motherhood, Domestication: The Role of the Child in Antonio Capuano’s La guerra di Mario

    Adoption, Motherhood, Domestication: The Role of the Child in Antonio Capuano’s La guerra di Mario

    Article | Contributor(s): Patrizia Bettella

    The long-lasting interest for the child as vehicle of social critique in Italian cinema from Neorealism to the present leads to some reflection on the film La Guerra di Mario (2005) by Neapolitan director  Antonio Capuano. Capuano tackles the modern theme of the failed adoption of Mario, a...

  8. La critica postcoloniale della liminalità: la scrittura delle autrici afro-italiane

    La critica postcoloniale della liminalità: la scrittura delle autrici afro-italiane

    Article | Contributor(s): Moira Luraschi

    Le scrittrici italo-africane originarie del Corno d’Africa propongono nei loro testi una visione della condizione esistenziale e psicologica di chi vive a cavallo di due culture che, riprendendo un concetto mutuato dall’antropologia culturale, si può definire liminale. Le...

  9. Review of Voices of the Body. Liminal Grammar in Guido Cavalcanti’s ‘Rime’. Voci del corpo. Grammatica liminale nelle ‘Rime’ di Guido Cavalcanti

    Review of Voices of the Body. Liminal Grammar in Guido Cavalcanti’s ‘Rime’. Voci del corpo. Grammatica liminale nelle ‘Rime’ di Guido Cavalcanti

    Review | Contributor(s): Sarah Rolfe Prodan

  10. Review of Virgil the Blind Guide. Marking the Way Through the Divine Comedy

    Review of Virgil the Blind Guide. Marking the Way Through the Divine Comedy

    Review | Contributor(s): Mary Watt

  11. Review of The Poetics of Dante’s Paradiso

    Review of The Poetics of Dante’s Paradiso

    Review | Contributor(s): Tobias Foster Gittes

  12. Review of Il Dante sapienziale. Dionigi e la bellezza di Beatrice

    Review of Il Dante sapienziale. Dionigi e la bellezza di Beatrice

    Review | Contributor(s): Maria Clara Iglesias

  13. Review of Hopeless Love. Boiardo, Ariosto, and Narratives of Queer Female Desire

    Review of Hopeless Love. Boiardo, Ariosto, and Narratives of Queer Female Desire

    Review | Contributor(s): Amyrose McCue Gill

  14. Review of A Renaissance Education. Schooling in Bergamo and the Venetian Republic, 1500-1650

    Review of A Renaissance Education. Schooling in Bergamo and the Venetian Republic, 1500-1650

    Review | Contributor(s): Paul F. Grendler

  15. Review of Altre carceri d’invenzione. Studi gaddiani

    Review of Altre carceri d’invenzione. Studi gaddiani

    Review | Contributor(s): Deborah Amberson

  16. Review of Dictionary of Literary Biography. (Volume 339: Seventeenth-Century Italian Poets and Dramatists)

    Review of Dictionary of Literary Biography. (Volume 339: Seventeenth-Century Italian Poets and Dramatists)

    Review | Contributor(s): Viviana Comensoli

  17. Review of Sisifo felice. Vincenzo Cerami, drammaturgo

    Review of Sisifo felice. Vincenzo Cerami, drammaturgo

    Review | Contributor(s): Patrizia Bettella

  18. Review of Addressing the Letter: Italian Women Writers’ Epistolary Fiction

    Review of Addressing the Letter: Italian Women Writers’ Epistolary Fiction

    Review | Contributor(s): Sonia Cancian

  19. Review of Reasonable Doubt (Complice il dubbio)

    Review of Reasonable Doubt (Complice il dubbio)

    Review | Contributor(s): Carol Lazzaro-Weis

  20. Review of Il cibo e le donne nella cultura e nella storia. Prospettive interdisciplinari

    Review of Il cibo e le donne nella cultura e nella storia. Prospettive interdisciplinari

    Review | Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler

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