The Renaissance in Toronto: Early Modern Italian Books in the Collections of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

Article | Contributor(s): Antonio Ricci

The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto has significant holdings of books printed in Italy during the Renaissance. These volumes cover a wide variety of disciplines and represent a major resource for scholars of literature, philosophy, science, and print culture. The...

The Reopening of the National Central Library in Florence, January 8, 1968

2023-04-20 19:46:13 | Article | Contributor(s): Paul Grendler

The Representation of Italy in Caterina Edwards’ The Sicilian Wife and Rita Ciresi’s Sometimes I Dream in Italian

Article | Contributor(s): Maria Giuseppina Cesari

This paper wishes to explore how Caterina Edwards, an Italian Canadian writer, and Rita Ciresi, an Italian American writer, share a strong, although very different, personal and authorial relation to Italy and the Italian language. I shall be focusing on their similarities rather than...

The Residence and Loggia della Misericordia ("Il Bigallo"): Art and Architecture of Confraternal Piety, Charity, and Virtue in Late Medieval Florence

Article | Contributor(s): Philip J. Earenfight

The Residence and Loggia della Misericordia (il Bigallo): Art and Architecture of Confraternal Piety, Charity, and Virtue in Late Medieval Florence

Article | Contributor(s): Phillip Joseph Earenfight

The Revenger's Tragedy: A Play on the Revenge Play

2023-06-20 19:33:09 | Article | Contributor(s): Leslie Sanders

The Review, Promotion, and Tenure Project at the ScholCommLab

2024-04-11 20:48:37 | Report | Contributor(s): Caroline Winter | https://doi.org/10.25547/Z928-1002

Review, promotion, and tenure guidelines have been criticized by some as impediments to a transition to open scholarship (see The Film Paywall: The Business of Scholarship and Partner Response to Tri-Agency Statement of Principles on Digital Data Management). The Review, Promotion, and Tenure...

The Rhetoric of Deviation in Lorenzo Valla’s The Profession of the Religious

Article | Contributor(s): Olga Z. Pugliese

The Rhetoric of Martyrdom and the Anti-Nicodemite Discourses in France, 1550-1570

Article | Contributor(s): Nikki Shepardson

L’expression du martyre et de la souffrance a marqué et défini le mouvement de réforme qui a eu lieu en France au seizième siècle. Ce langage a servi à unir la collectivité, à réécrire et à réinterpréter l’histoire et à former la mémoire collective. Mais si le martyre a valorisé la collectivité,...

The role of alcohol in Canadian family food practices: Commensality, identity, and everyday tastes

2025-03-19 22:03:32 | Article | Contributor(s): Brent Hammer, Helen Vallianatos | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i2.334

The authors use an anthropological lens to examine the role of alcoholic beverages and their consumption within everyday food practices of contemporary Canadian families. Anthropology and anthropologists have a long history of interest and fascination in the ceremonial and ritual use of...

The Role of Personal Correspondence in the Exchange of Scientific Information in Early Modern France

Article | Contributor(s): J. L. Pearl

The Rulers of Venice, 1332–1524

Article | Contributor(s): Giorgos Plakotos

This is a review of The Rulers of Venice, 1332–1524.

The Salzburg Collection

2023-04-20 19:46:51 | Article | Contributor(s): G Hermansen

The Semantic Evolution of the Latin Terms domina, femina and mulier in the Italian Language

Article | Contributor(s): Elsa Passera

The Semiotics of the Circus: A Note on the Italian Version of Bouissac's Analysis of Nonsense

Article | Contributor(s): Marcel Danesi

The Sexual Identities of Moll Cutpurse in Dekker and Middleton’s The Roaring Girl and in London

Article | Contributor(s): Susan E. Krantz

Moll Cutpurse dramatically demonstrates the insufficiency of gender categories both in The Roaring Girl and in her life. The fictional Moll’s sex/gender ambiguity is explored through three distinct sexual identities (prostitute, hermaphrodite, bisexual ideal) and is further complicated through...

The Shakespeare-Hemp-Cannabis (SHC) Hypothesis

2022-12-07 11:25:17 | Essay | Contributor(s): Francis Thackeray | https://doi.org/10.25547/CYZ7-JR19

Shakespeare, Cannabis

The Shifting Role of Magic in Ariosto's Il Negromante

Article | Contributor(s): Cinzia Sartini Blum

The Short and Tragic Life of Vigio Pietro Favro: Recreating a Lost Life in Words and Images

Article | Contributor(s): Ron Edding, Terri Favro

The Short Play and Postmodernist Stage Directing: A Virtual Experiment with Pirandello’s Cecè

Article | Contributor(s): Stefano Boselli

The one-act play Cecè (1913) by Luigi Pirandello belongs to the playwright’s early production and has been rightly praised for its perfect comic mechanism. Yet, it has heretofore attracted little attention in the academic world. Despite containing one of the first instances of the author’s...