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,...
La Sagra e Il Signore della Nave di Luigi Pirandello
Article | Contributor(s): Regina Dal Monte
Il decennio intercorso tra la pubblicazione della novella Il Signore della Nave (1916) e la trionfale messa in scena della Sagra del Signore della Nave (1925) — opera con la quale si inaugurò l'attività di Pirandello capocomico — individua un contesto cronologico ed...
Review of Dante and Renaissance Florence
Review | Contributor(s): Mary A. Watt
Review of Iconografia di Girolamo Savonarola 1498-1998
Review | Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler
Review of Albrecht Dürer and the Venetian Renaissance
Review | Contributor(s): Ethan Matt Kavaler
Review of An Italian Renaissance Sextet: Six Tales in Historical Context
Review | Contributor(s): Sarah Melanie Rolfe
Review of The Manly Masquerade. Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance
Review | Contributor(s): Jacqueline Murray
Review of Agents of Empire. Spanish Ambassadors in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Review | Contributor(s): Jennifer Mara DeSilva
Review of The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors and Architects. A New Translation and Critical Edition
Review | Contributor(s): Sally Hickson
Review of Attori e ruoli nell'opera buffa italiana del Settecento
Review | Contributor(s): Francesco Cotticelli
Review of Colloqui con Pirandello
Review | Contributor(s): Antonio Alessio
Review of La stanza segreta
Review | Contributor(s): Monica Stellin
Review of Legitimizing the Artist. Manifesto Writing and European Modernism 1885-1915
Review | Contributor(s): Peter Carravetta
Review of The Cinema of Economic Miracles — Visuality and Modernization in the Italian Art Film
Review | Contributor(s): Sara A. Carey
Review of Il felice vanverare. Ironia e parodia nell'opera narrativa di Giorgio Manganelli
Review | Contributor(s): Anna Chiafele
Review of A Tragedy Revealed: The Story of the Italian Population from Istria, Dalmatia, and Venezia-Giulia, 1943-1956
Review | Contributor(s): Henry Veggian
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