Piero Garofalo, Elizabeth Leake and Dana Renga. Internal exile in Fascist Italy. History and representation of confino

Article | Contributor(s): Giuseppe Tosi

Danielle Hipkins. Italy’s Other Women: Gender and Prostitution in Italian Cinema (1940–1965)

Article | Contributor(s): Paolo Frascà

Catherine Ramsey-Portolano. Performing Bodies. Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema (1860–1920)

Article | Contributor(s): Serena Ferrando

Giovanna Miceli Jeffries. Bitter Trades: A Memoir

Article | Contributor(s): Carla Cornette

Paula M. Salvio. The Story-Takers. Public Pedagogy, Transitional Justice, and Italy’s Non-Violent Protest against the Mafia

Article | Contributor(s): Viktor Berberi

Jo Ann Cavallo, ed. Teaching the Italian Renaissance Romance Epic

Article | Contributor(s): Madison U. Sowell

Tatiana Korneeva. The Dramaturgy of the Spectator: Italian Theatre and the Public Sphere: 1600–1800

Article | Contributor(s): Lauren Surovi

Adam Ledgeway and Martin Maiden, eds. The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages

Article | Contributor(s): Kevin B. Reynolds

Roberta Cauchi-Santoro. Beyond the Suffering of Being: Desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett

Article | Contributor(s): Marina Bettaglio

Lavinia Spalanca. Il governo della menzogna. Antonfrancesco Grazzini e l’allegoria del potere

Article | Contributor(s): Paolo Pucci

Simona Storchi, Marina Spunta and Maria Morelli, eds. Women and the Public Sphere in Modern and Contemporary Italy. Essays for Sharon Wood

Article | Contributor(s): Anne Urbancic

E. R. Dursteler, trans. and ed. In the Sultan’s Realm: Two Venetian Ambassadorial Reports on the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

Article | Contributor(s): Nicholas Terpstra

Federica Capoferri. La Roma di MAMMA ROMA

Article | Contributor(s): Alberto Zambenedetti

Between Divinity and Dullness: The Advent of Personal Computers in Italian Literature

Article | Contributor(s): Eleonora Lima

This article examines the cultural impact of personal computers in Italian literature in the first decade of their mass diffusion (from the mid-1980s to the second half of the 1990s) through the analysis of four texts written by some of the most respected writers of the time: Primo Levi’s article...

(Ri)scoprire la Spagna attraverso la traduzione: Leonardo Sciascia e l’affaire Lorca

Article | Contributor(s): Marco Pioli

Female Theology Meets Poietic Writing: Michela Murgia’s L’incontro (2012)

Article | Contributor(s): Margherita Heyer-Cáput

One of the most acclaimed (female) voices of contemporary Sardinian and Italian literature, Michela Murgia offers in her short novel L’incontro a powerful expression of poietic writing. Writing as poiēsis, as creative force capable of shaping reality through theoretical reflection, expresses...

The Art of Writing from the Border: Narrative Decentralisation and Pluricultural Identity Construction in Tomizza’s Franziska (1996)

Article | Contributor(s): Torunn Haaland

This article examines one of Tomizza’s unjustifiably understudied texts within two primary contexts: one formed around the historical, political and social background of early 20th-Century Trieste, the other around the author’s recurrent concern with hybrid characters and geopolitical, cultural...

Paesaggio culturale italiano e secolarizzazione. Idiomi e narrazione dei monumenti nella rappresentazione novecentesca del sacro

Article | Contributor(s): Saverio Carillo

Ann Lawson Lucas. Emilio Salgari. Una mitologia tra letteratura, politica, società. Vol. I: Fine secolo 1883–1915. La verità di una vita letteraria

Article | Contributor(s): Paola Basile

Luca Cottini. The Art of Objects: The Birth of Italian Industrial Culture, 1878–1928

Article | Contributor(s): Elena Bellina