From Motherhood to Fatherhood: The Eclipse of Reason in the Taviani Brothers’ Tu ridi

Article | Contributor(s): Manuela Gieri

The paper presents an in-depth analysis of Tu ridi, a free adaptation of some of Luigi Pirandello’s short stories, realized by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani in 1998. Within a filmography largely characterized by an attention to the historical, social, and political transformations that Italy...

On the Seriousness of Things: Pirandello’s Ma non è una cosa seria from Page to Screen

Article | Contributor(s): Michael Syrimis

A study of Mario Camerini’s Ma non è una cosa seria (But It’s Nothing Serious [1936]), a film based on Luigi Pirandello’s eponymous 1918 play and typical of the 1930s Italian romantic comedy genre, elucidates the transformations that a literary conception undergoes when adapted for the screen,...

Beppe Fenoglio’s Partigiano Archive: Translation, Resistenza, Testimony

Article | 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...

A Fairy-Tale Noir: Rewriting Fairy Tales into Feminist Narratives of Exposure

Article | Contributor(s): Danila Cannamela

This article introduces the fairy-tale noir, a subgenre of fantasy-noir fiction that is particularly present in the work of Italian women writers, including Laura Pugno, Simona Vinci, Nicoletta Vallorani, and Alda Teodorani. This subgenre adopts fairy-tale topoi and characters to elaborate on the...

Stories of Blogs, E-books and Time: Slowdown, Participation and Resistance in Wu Ming’s Giap and L’archivio e la strada

Article | Contributor(s): Paolo Saporito

This paper analyses the relationship between Wu Ming’s blog Giap and the e-book Giap: L’archivio e la strada, where the writing collective gathered a selection of blog posts published between 2010 and 2012. Focusing on the temporal dimension of on-line and off-line reading practices, this paper...

Mapping the Reception of English Novels in Italy During the Long 18th Century: A Digital Approach

Article | Contributor(s): Sandra Parmegiani Parmegiani, Andrea Penso, Dirk Vanden Berghe

Review of The Complete Poetry

Review | Contributor(s): Kevin B. Reynolds

Review of Doubting the Divine in Early Modern Europe: The Revival of Momus, the Agnostic God

Review | Contributor(s): Anthony Cristiano

Review of Giuliano de’ Medici: Machiavelli’s Prince in Life and Art

Review | Contributor(s): Paolo Pucci

Review of Mirtilla, A Pastoral. A Bilingual Edition

Review | Contributor(s): Nicla Riverso

Review of Primo Levi e Anna Frank: tra testimonianza e letteratura

Review | Contributor(s): Francesca Pangallo

The Growth of Minds and Cultures: A Unified Interpretation of the Structure of Human Experience

Article | Contributor(s): Willem H. Vanderburg

Review of Transmissions of Memory. Echoes, Traumas and Nostalgia in Post-World War II Italian Culture

Review | Contributor(s): Anne Urbancic

Review of Encounters with the Real in Contemporary Italian Literature and Cinema

Review | Contributor(s): Meriel Tulante

Editor’s Note

Article | Contributor(s): Luca Somigli

«Se il savio uomo debba prender moglie». Boccaccio e la questione matrimoniale nel XIV e XV secolo

Article | Contributor(s): Marcello Sabbatino

La contesa tra Venere celeste e Venere terrena, tra l’amore onesto e coniugale, che regola la comunità, e l’amore dilettevole e extraconiugale, che è fonte inesauribile di valore guerriero e di virtù cavalleresche nella società cortese, affascina il Boccaccio durante il soggiorno nella Napoli...

Irredentist Propaganda “Baedeker Style:” Anna Franchi’s and Willy Dias’ Nationalist Geographical Fantasy

Article | Contributor(s): Cristina Gragnani

This article analyzes how Anna Franchi and Willy Dias (Fortuna Morpurgo) utilized the language of tourism in their irredentist writings during the first two years of World War I. I look at how they adopted specific features of travel guidebooks to create a nationalistic geographical fantasy. I...

“La parola «rammendare».” Natalia Ginzburg’s Gemeinschaft

Article | Contributor(s): Mimmo Cangiano

My article has a dual purpose: on the one hand I will discuss the concept of social community that emerges from the public activity of Ginzburg. I will look at the political practice that Ginzburg sketched out, clarifying how this would become that “politica della memoria” aimed at defending and...

Albino, la scrittura, la nevrosi. Ipotesi in margine all’eziologia nevrotica in Memoriale di Paolo Volponi

Article | Contributor(s): Maurizio Masi

Il seguente articolo intende valutare più approfonditamente alcune ipotesi sull’eziologia della nevrosi in Memoriale di Paolo Volponi, partendo proprio dall’originaria definizione di questa fornitaci da Freud. Spesso l’interpretazione del testo è rimasta troppo confinata ad un’esclusiva lettura...

The Trauma of “Fear-Induced Exodus:” The Case of Victor Magiar and the Italian Jews of Libya

Article | Contributor(s): Rosario Pollicino

The Italian/Italophone Jewish community is amongst those that suffered from the Holocaust and other traumas. Drawing on the work of thinkers of trauma theory such as Dori Laub and Cathy Caruth, this paper aims to add to the current discourse on literary production by Italian/Italophone Jews by...