Review of Ecocritcism and Italy. Ecology, Resistance, and Liberation

Review | Contributor(s): Thomas Simpson

Review of The Heart and the Island: A Critical Study of Sicilian American Literature

Review | Contributor(s): Rosario Pollicino

Review of La réécriture de l’Histoire dans les romans de la postmodernité

Review | Contributor(s): Fadil Moslemani

Review of Le competenze dei docenti e dei formatori di italiano L2

Review | Contributor(s): Giuliana Salvato

Giovanni Kreglianovich’s Orazio: An Exemplum of the Process of Rewriting

Article | Contributor(s): Joanne Granata

Rewriting and reinvention of previously told stories and recognizable themes build upon an established literary canon, creating new connections amongst texts, while creating increasingly hypertextual works. This article explores the nature of rewriting, the reinvention of previously existing...

Fighting Eve: Women on the Stage in Early Modern Italy

Article | Contributor(s): Nicla Riverso

The Catholic revival in the sixteenth century coincides with the opening of the commedia dell’arte stage to women, leading to progress for female performers. However, the presence of women in the commedia dell’arte immediately shows contradictions and disagreements with the teaching of the...

The Vichian Resurrection of Commedia dell’Arte: Michelet, Sand, and De Sanctis

Article | Contributor(s): Rocco Rubini

This essay seeks to reconnect two intellectual events of major import in nineteenth-century France: Jules Michelet’s “rediscovery” of Giambattista Vico as a viable source for a critical review of modernity’s task and the scholarly, artistic, and moral accreditation of commedia dell’arte,...

Le lettere di e a Cesarotti nella Biblioteca Nazionale di Parigi (con documenti inediti)

Article | Contributor(s): Andrea Penso

L’articolo presenta due lettere di Melchiorre Cesarotti ritrovate dall’A. durante alcune ricerche condotte alla Bibliothèque Nationale de France su materiali manoscritti. La prima lettera è indirizzata a Voltaire, e riguarda la traduzione delle due tragedie Le Fanatisme, ou Mahomet e La Mort de...

Guido Gozzano e la poesia crepuscolare tra innovazione modernista e interferenze d’oltralpe

Article | Contributor(s): Marilena Ceccarelli

Il movimento crepuscolare italiano di inizio Novecen­to — riconosciuto e definito come tale non senza perplessità — appa­re segnare, per la sua intrinseca vocazione da un lato all’identificazione nell’esperienza delle esistenze più umili con cui il poeta è a colloquio, dall’altro alla...

La memoria del confine. Il motivo della patria perduta nel romanzo Il cavallo di cartapesta di Osvaldo Ramous

Article | Contributor(s): Marinko Lazzarich

Nei testi letterari degli anni 1945–1956 che parlano dell’e­sodo degli italiani dalla città di Fiume il motivo del confine diventa il simbolo della conservazione di un’identità nazionale divisa. Al con­tempo, il tema della terra natale perduta lega direttamente la lette­ratura fiumana a quella...

Marco Paolini’s Theatre of Trauma: Vajont

Article | Contributor(s): Andrea Bini

This paper analyzes the work of actor/writer Marco Paolini, and his acclaimed monologue Il racconto del Vajont in particular. In the wake of Dario Fo and Franca Rame’s teatro civile, Paolini’s monolo­gues contributed to the birth of the so-called teatro di narrazione in the 1990s, which can also...

Food Consumption in Ferzan Ozpetek’s Hamam and Luca Guadagnino’s Io sono l’amore: A Gender Issue

Article | Contributor(s): Patrizia Sambuco

Within the wide range of scholarly works on food studies, the topic of food and cinema has gained increasing attention in recent years. This article contributes to the discussion offering a gender per­spective in the analysis of Italian films. It examines cinematic represen­tations of food...

Le vie verso la ragione: i segni del nuovo realismo in Gomorra

Article | Contributor(s): Torunn Haaland

Il saggio si concentra sui concetti di realtà e impegno etico e civile in Gomorra. Il romanzo-inchiesta di Roberto Saviano viene in­serito nel contesto del ritorno al realismo e dell’emergere di “oggetti narrativi non-identificati” nella narrativa contemporanea, per poi es­sere associato al...

(Un)Human Relations: Transhumanism in Francesco Verso’s Nexhuman

Article | Contributor(s): Jana Vizmuller-Zocco

Transhumanism is an international movement which es­pouses the idea that any human organ, function, sense, ability, can be augmented and ameliorated with the judicious use of technology. The ethical, cultural, social, biological, economic implications for this view are far-reaching and point to a...

Review of In Dante’s Wake: Reading from Medieval to Modern in the Augustinian Tradition

Review | Contributor(s): Emmanuele Riu

Review of Approaches to Teaching Petrarch’s Canzoniere and the Petrarchan Tradition

Review | Contributor(s): Bryan Brazeau

Review of From Byzantium to Italy: Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance

Review | Contributor(s): Jessica Greenfield

Review of Lettere volgari

Review | Contributor(s): Suzanne Magnanini

Review of Two Renaissance Friends: Baldassarre Castiglione, Domizio Falcone and Their Neo-Latin Poetry

Review | Contributor(s): Mara Nerbano

Review of Senza te son nulla. Studi sulla poesia sacra di Torquato Tasso

Review | Contributor(s): Paola Ugolini