A Century and More of Italians in Toronto: An Overview of Settlement

Article | Contributor(s): Gabriele Scardellato

Through the use of various published and original sources this study outlines the reception and settlement of Italian immigrants in a modern Canadian urban environment. Substantial Italian migration and immigration to Toronto began in the late nineteenth century. The first migrants and immigrants...

A Charitable 'Façade'? The Sculptural Decoration of the Scuola Grande di San Marco

Article | Contributor(s): Lorenzo G. Buonanno

The meetinghouse of the Scuola Grande di San Marco possessed the most extravagant façade of any confraternity in Venice. At the same time, however, its sculptural decoration contained more references to charity than were found on any other scuola’s meetinghouse. This essay posits...

A Checklist of French Political and Religious Pamphlets, 1560-1635, in the University of Toronto Library

2023-06-15 18:47:27 | Article | Contributor(s): Natalie Zemon Davis, John A. McClelland

A Collection of Books Relating to the History and Philosophy of Science

2023-04-18 19:20:05 | Article | Contributor(s): Stillman Drake

A colloquio con Antonio Porta

Article | Contributor(s): John Picchione

A Compendium of the Wondrous Deeds of Caterina da Racconigi: Hagiography or Philosophical Treatise?

Article | Contributor(s): Gabriella Zarri

Gianfrancesco Pico’s interest in Caterina da Racconigi, a mystic and prophet revered in Piedmont in the first decades of the sixteenth century, was born out of a scientific curiosity prior to becoming devout admiration. The Compendio delle cose mirabili, Gianfrancesco’s last work, written after...

A Confraternity of Florentine Noble Women

2023-06-02 18:55:05 | Article | Contributor(s): Ludovica Sebregondi

A Conversation with Elettra Bedon about Her Visionary Writing

Article | Contributor(s): Anna Ciampolini Foschi

A Cross-cultural, Trans-generational Portrait of Italian-Canadians in Adriana Monti’s Two Short Films

Article | Contributor(s): Anna Foschi Ciampolini

Adriana Monti is an Italian-Canadian independent producer, feminist filmmaker and author. She started her career in Italy in the late 1970s by developing a collaborative and experimental style that allowed the women object of her research to take an active and creative role in her films. This...

A Curatorial Model for Teaching Renaissance Book History in Canada

Article | Contributor(s): Janelle Jenstad, Erin E. Kelly

Only by holding early printed books can students learn both the strangeness of the past and its oddly familiar struggle with technological innovation. Even partial collections like the one at the University of Victoria have enough rare books to serve these purposes. But how do we teach book...

A défaut de dire tout: dire partout. Étude des modes énonciatifs dans Le mespris de la vie et consolation contre la mort de Jean-Baptiste Chassignet

Article | Contributor(s): Isabelle Lachance

Poésie maniériste? Baroque? Le mespris de la vie et consolation contre la mort (1594) peut-être le résultat de multiples influences, et chaque situation d'énonciation de ce recueil comporte sa manière propre de structurer les courants idéologiques de l'époque à laquelle il a été écrit, et ce,...

A Defense of the Excellence of Bradamante

Article | Contributor(s): Pamela Joseph Benson

A Different Thomas Deloney: Thomas of Reading Reconsidered

Article | Contributor(s): William Domnarski

A Digital Archive of the Architecture of Charity: Venice, c.1100–1797

Article | Contributor(s): Raymond Lifchez, Luca Trolese

The Architectural Visual Resources Library of the Department of Architecture, College of Environmental Design, University of California Berkeley, offers to scholars and students of Venetian social and architectural history a digital database of approximately a thousand images of 139 buildings and...

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...

A Family Secret

Article | Contributor(s): Nic Battigelli

A Fantastic Frenzy of Consumption in Early Modern France

Article | Contributor(s): Kathleen M. Llewellyn

The enthusiastic (even excessive) consumerism of contemporary western society has its roots, according to some, in the expansion of the consumption of goods in Renaissance Europe. Early modern men and women were ardent, even “passionate” consumers. Such self-indulgence was regarded as decadent...

A filo doppio. Un’antologia di scritture calabro-canadesi. A cura di Francesco Loriggio e Vito Teti. Roma: Donzelli Editore, 2017.

Article | Contributor(s): Cristina Carnevale

A Finding-List of Renaissance Legal Works to 1700. Part One: Introduction, with Sections I (Roman Civil Law) and II (Canon Law)

2023-04-18 19:30:15 | Article | Contributor(s): R. J. Schoeck, Natalie Zemon Davis, J. K. McConica, William Dean

A Finding-List of Renaissance Legal Works to 1700. Part Three: Section III (National and Customary Law, or Law Common) cont’d., and Section IV (Miscellaneous and Comparative Law)

2023-04-18 19:40:40 | Article | Contributor(s): R. J. Schoeck, Natalie Zemon Davis, J. K. McConica, William Dean