Banquets and Power: Boiardo's Innamorato and the Politics of Gastronomy

Article | Contributor(s): Pina Palma

The Forbidden Fruit or the Taste for Sodomy in Renaissance Italy

Article | Contributor(s): Laura Giannetti Ruggiero

Drammaturgia e sacre scritture nell'Età dei Lumi

Article | Contributor(s): Francesco S. Minervini

Mona Lisa's Gaze: D'Annunzio, Cinema, and the 'Aura'

Article | Contributor(s): Michael Syrimis

Remembering D'Annunzio and Il Duce: Modern Prophecy in Italy

Article | Contributor(s): Timothy C. Campbell

Between the Visible and the Invisible: Calvino's Cities and Memory

Article | Contributor(s): Luca Pocci

Review of Sacrilege and Redemption in Renaissance Florence. The Case of Antonio Rinaldeschi

Review | Contributor(s): Jacqueline Murray

Review of Sonnets for Michelangelo. A Bilingual Edition

Review | Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler

Review of Sins of the Flesh. Responding to Sexual Disease in Early Modern Europe

Review | Contributor(s): Cristian Berco

Review of Aretino's Satyr Sexuality, Satire, and Self-Projection in Sixteenth-Century Literature and Art

Review | Contributor(s): Mauda Bregoli-Russo

Review of The Contest for Knowledge: Debates over Women's Learning in Eighteenth-Century Italy

Review | Contributor(s): Vanessa McCarthy

Review of The Culture of Profession in Late Renaissance Italy

Review | Contributor(s): Sally Hickson

Review of The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery

Review | Contributor(s): Adriana Grimaldi

Review of Addio Caro Orco. Lettere e ricordi (1889-1906); Racconti americani

Review | Contributor(s): Anne Urbancic

Dante fra la 'mulier aliena' e la 'mulier fortis'

Article | Contributor(s): Antonio Rossini

Nel quindicesimo canto del Paradiso Dante affida a Cacciaguida il peana della Firenze 'del buon tempo antico'. La gran parte di questo panegirico è dedicata alle donne fiorentine. Dopo aver lodato i costumi muliebri dell'antica Firenze, l'avo di Dante rivolge alle contemporanee del poeta...

The Vitruvian Man by Leonardo: Image and Text

Article | Contributor(s): Domenico Laurenza

This article analyses the nature and content of the so-called Vitruvian man by Leonardo, a study dealing with the proportions of the human body. The essay opens with an analysis of topics such as the image as the first element to be set out onto the page and its influence on the graphic...

L'occultamento del principe. Lorenzo il Magnifico e il Barlaam e Josafat di Bernardo Pulci

Article | Contributor(s): Gianni Cicali

Il Barlaam e Josafat di Bernardo Pulci rappresenta sia un interessante testo drammaturgico, sia un altrettanto originale e interessante sottotesto encomiastico di Lorenzo il Magnifico. Rappresentata nel 1474, come evidenziato da alcuni documenti d'archi-vio, la trama di questa sacra...

Isabella Andreini (Comica Gelosa 1560-1604): Petrarchism for the Theatre Public

Article | Contributor(s): Rosalind Kerr

This article locates Isabella Andreini as a self-reflexive mannerist artist who used her incarnation as an idealized neoplatonic innamorata to practise her sixteenth-century petrarchism on the stage. Examples from her poetry, letters and other writings show how consciously she worked to bring her...

Picturing Annie's Egypt. Terra di Cleopatra by Annie Vivanti

Article | Contributor(s): Anne Urbancic

Her readers would not have found the Egyptian adventure portrayed in Terra di Cleopatra to have been too unusual or exotic for Annie Vivanti, a world traveller who had already described countless foreign locales and adventures in previous works. Some of these were presented as fiction; others...

Scar Narrative — Sore Narrative: The Liquidation of Realism in D’Annunzio's Giovanni Episcopo and L'Innocente

Article | Contributor(s): Elena Lombardi

In the years 1880-1894, D'Annunzio actively took part in the debate on the future of the novel and in the transition between realism and decadence. This article argues that D'Annunzio's "battle of realism" is fought between two texts, Giovanni Episcopo and L'Innocente, closely composed in 1891,...