Review of The Formation of a National Audience in Italy, 1750–1890. Readers and Spectators of Italian Culture

Review | Contributor(s): Anne Urbancic

Review of The Codex Fori Mussolini: A Latin Text of Italian Fascism

Review | Contributor(s): Aaron A. Thomas

Review of A Croce Reader: Aesthetics, Philosophy, History, and Literary Criticism

Review | Contributor(s): Milena Sabato

Review of Fictions of Youth: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Adolescence, Fascisms

Review | Contributor(s): Ryan Calabretta-Sajder

Review of Anna Maria Ortese: Celestial Geographies

Review | Contributor(s): Melissa Coburn

Review of Il pensiero della poesia: da Leopardi ai contemporanei

Review | Contributor(s): Corrado Federici

Review of The Concept of Resistance in Italy. Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Review | Contributor(s): Mark Epstein

Review of La poetica dei Dialoghi con Leucò di Cesare Pavese

Review | Contributor(s): Andrea Quaini

Review of Sfumature di giallo nell’opera di Luigi Malerba

Review | Contributor(s): Angelo Castagnino

Review of Il Posto fisso. Rassegnazione, impresa e romanzi. Il caso del Sud Italia 1945–2015

Review | Contributor(s): Michela Barisonzi

Review of Federico Fellini. Riprese, riletture, (re)visioni

Review | Contributor(s): Francesca Della Ventura

Review of The Italian Antimafia, New Media, and the Culture of Legality

Review | Contributor(s): Cristina Mazzoni

Review of New Italian Migrations to the United States. Volume 1: Politics and History since 1945

Review | Contributor(s): Annamaria Monaco

Review of After Identity: Migration, Critique, Italian American Culture

Review | Contributor(s): Anna Ciamparella

Review of Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy’s Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies

Review | Contributor(s): Tiziana Serafini

Introduction: Dialogues on the Decameron

Article | Contributor(s): Katherine A. Brown

The Merchant and the Sacred: Artifice and Realism in Decameron I.1

Article | Contributor(s): Susanna Barsella

By investigating the first novella of the Decameron from the perspective of the sacred this article questions the notion of realism as privileged key to the interpretation of Boccaccio’s style, poetics, and even philosophy in his major work. Although with different nuances of definition, realism...

Confession and Social Space in the Decameron

Article | Contributor(s): Katherine A. Brown

This essay argues that confession in the Decameron is a liminal activity, which affords characters and readers a milieu removed from the space of society in which transformation and ultimately a temporary moment of transcendence of the secular world (almost a return to paradise) are achieved. In...

What a Difference a Sea Makes in the Decameron: The Mediterranean, a Structural Space of the Novella

Article | Contributor(s): Roberta Morosini

This essay presents a reading of the Mediterranean sea as a narrative space in the Decameron. Through a reading of text and images, the paper illustrates the categories of mobile/static and foreign/domestic at work in the Decameron. It also introduces a third epistemological category, hybridity,...

Eros and Evanescence in the Decameron: The Weave of Love, Time, and Memory

Article | Contributor(s): Timothy Kircher

This essay studies the interplay between the emotion of love and the sense of its transience, as the interplay is featured in the three authorial interventions of the Proem, the Introduction to Day 4, and the Conclusion. The author returns time and again to this interplay, emphasizing the role of...