Review of Poets of Divine Love. Franciscan Mystical Poetry of the Thirteenth Century

Review | Contributor(s): Sarah Melanie Rolfe

Review of Matteo Palmieri. Una biografia intellettuale

Review | Contributor(s): Guido M. Cappelli

Review of Sweet Fire. Tullia d'Aragona's Poetry of Dialogue and Selected Prose

Review | Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler

Review of At the Centre of the Old World. Trade and Manufacturing in Venice and the Venetian Mainland, 1400-1800

Review | Contributor(s): Paul F. Grendler

Review of Arcangela Tarabotti: A Literary Nun in Baroque Venice

Review | Contributor(s): Laura Prelipcean

Review of Writing to Delight. Italian Short Stories by Nineteenth Century Women Writers

Review | Contributor(s): Anne Urbancic

Review of Le Avventure di Pinocchio /The Adventures of Pinocchio the Puppet

Review | Contributor(s): Anne Urbancic

Review of Tutte le poesie. Edizione critica con antologia di testi tradotti

Review | Contributor(s): Anne Urbancic

Review of Arte d'avanguardia e società. L'esperienza del futurismo nel pensiero sociale e culturale contemporaneo

Review | Contributor(s): Luca Somigli

Review of Under Arturo's Star. The Cultural Legacies of Elsa Morante

Review | Contributor(s): Laura Benedetti

Review of Max Salvadori. L'uomo, il cittadino. Atti del Convegno, 14 marzo 1992

Review | Contributor(s): Angelo Principe

Review of L'Europa che comincia e finisce: la Sicilia

Review | Contributor(s): Jana Vizmuller-Zocco

Review of A History of Odessa, the Last Italian Black Sea Colony

Review | Contributor(s): Eric Dursteler

Review of Italian Through Film: The Classics

Review | Contributor(s): Patrizia Bettella

Review of The Selected Poetry and Prose of Andrea Zanzotto: A Bilingual Edition

Review | Contributor(s): Stefano Giannini

Dante fra le due mulieres: un 'redux'

Article | Contributor(s): Antonio Rossini

La breve nota intende completare l'analisi di Paradiso 15 avviata su questa rivista con l'articolo 'Dante tra la mulier fortis e la mulier aliena'. In particolare il saggio si propone di allargare l'analisi delle suggestive figure delle matrone fiorentine del 'buon tempo antico', passando dallo...

Style, the Muscle of the Soul. Theories on Reading and Writing in Petrarch's Texts

Article | Contributor(s): Unn Falkeid

With his deep passion for the Roman poets and historians and with his effort to transform the cultural agenda through a revival of Antiquity, Petrarch inaugurated new reading and writing practices that would influence and dominate future generations for centuries. Celebrated as the "father of...

La voce del narratore nel poema cavalleresco rinascimentale italiano

Article | Contributor(s): Enrico Musacchio

Il discorso sul ruolo della 'voce' del narratore nel racconto letterario è al centro della riflessione narratologica contemporanea. Ma già nel Cinquecento, e in particolare a proposito dei romanzi cavallereschi, sempre popolari ma ormai sospettati di infrangere le norme della...

Pastoral Therapies for the Heartbroken in Guarini's Pastor Fido and Monteverdi's Book V

Article | Contributor(s): Federico Schneider

The idea of pastoral poetry as therapy against love-melancholy is well rehearsed throughout the Renaissance. Guarini's Pastor Fido (1589) and Monteverdi Fifth Book of Madrigals (1605) represent two effective responses to the therapeutic urgencies of the pastoral. Guarini's famous pastoral ushers...

Of Golden Feathers and Light Reading: Guido Gozzano's "Piumadoro e Piombofino"

Article | Contributor(s): Cristina Mazzoni

Guido Gozzano's "Piumadoro e Piombofino" (1909) is a text light in terms of genre (a literary fairy tale), style (six short, poetic segments, rich in repetitions and fantastic elements), and, most obviously, content (the eponymous protagonist suffers from a spell that has made her body...