Review of A cosa serve Michelangelo?

Review | Contribuidor(es): Giulia Savio

Review of Scrivere la pittura. La ‘funzione Longhi’ nella letteratura italiana

Review | Contribuidor(es): Giancarla Periti

Review of Voci dal Sud

Review | Contribuidor(es): Christine Sansalone

Nota del Direttore

Article | Contribuidor(es): Gianni Cicali

Tongues of Fire and Fraud in Bolgia Eight

Article | Contribuidor(es): Gabriella Ildiko Baika

The article revisits Inferno 26-27 from the perspective of the medieval pastoral debate on peccata linguae and focuses on the controversial phrase consiglio frodolente (Inf. 27.116). I begin my analysis by examining the notion of pravum consilium ‘evil counsel’ in two tracts on verbal sins:...

Reading Marsilio Ficino in Quattrocento Italy. The Case of Aragonese Naples

Article | Contribuidor(es): Matteo Soranzo

This essay focuses on the reception of Marsilio Ficino’s works and ideas in Naples at the time of the Aragonese domination, and it offers a preliminary discussion of this neglected area of Renaissance Neoplatonism. Based on a contextualization of Ficino’s letters to Giovanni d’Aragona, four...

Salmacis et Hermaphrodite à la Renaissance et à l’Âge Baroque: Traductions et réecritures italiennes d’un mythe ovidien

Article | Contribuidor(es): Janis Vanacker

Dans cette contribution nous examinons les versions italiennes du mythe ovidien de Salmacis et Hermaphrodite proposées par les volgarizzatori du XIVe et du XVIe siècles et par le poète baroque Girolamo Preti dans La Salmace. Avant d’entamer la lecture de ces textes, qui, jusqu’à présent, n’ont...

Leonardo’s Profezia: Moral Writings of a Hybrid Kind

Article | Contribuidor(es): Filomena Calabrese

In the period 1490-99, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) wrote nearly three hundred literary writings that were later compiled by scholars into four primary collections: the Bestiario, Favole, Facezie, and Profezia. This article takes Leonardo’s Profezia as its main subject in order to give due...

“Et questa è la storia et la festa.” Il festival orvietano del 1508 e la microsocietà del capitolo della cattedrale

Article | Contribuidor(es): Mara Nerbano

Nel periodo compreso tra il 7 maggio e il 20 agosto 1508, a Orvieto, furono messe in scena cinque suggestive sacre rappresentazioni. A darne notizia è il canonico del duomo ser Tommaso di Silvestro, autore di una cronaca degli anni 1482-1514. Il contesto in cui fiorirono tali eventi è quello...

Gianfrancesco Gemelli-Careri: “Vagabundu, spiuni, jettaturi”

Article | Contribuidor(es): José Sarzi Amade

Cette recherche propose quelques considérations sur la vie de Gianfrancesco Gemelli-Careri, voyageur italien de la fin du XVIIe s. et une réflexion sur son oeuvre, Giro del mondo. Dans son ouvrage, l’auteur, qui passa une décennie de son existence hors de sa patrie, l’Italie, expose le récit de...

Rassegna di studi su Ippolito Nievo

Article | Contribuidor(es): Stefania Segatori

Il saggio presenta un panorama delle edizioni dei testi di Ippolito Nievo e ripercorre la storia della critica nieviana dalle origini all’epoca presente. Al fine di fornire un quadro aggiornato sugli studi nieviani, la rassegna illustra con particolare attenzione l’Edizione nazionale delle opere...

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

Article | Contribuidor(es): 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...

Primo Levi and Hunger

Article | Contribuidor(es): Daniela Bisello Antonucci

When Primo Levi was deported to Auschwitz in 1944, he suffered from physical hunger. But the association of this real hunger—the lack of food—with his other desperate hunger—his desire to tell his story—created the energy to make a connection with the world after the Lager experience. This study...

Carmen Covito’s La Bruttina Stagionata: Bridging Feminist and Post-Feminist Literature

Article | Contribuidor(es): Laura A. Salsini

Carmen Covito’s 1992 novel La bruttina stagionata serves as a connective text between two significant moments in Italian women’s writing: the feminist works of the 1970s and those published in the 1990s. Covito’s text adopts the sensibilities of a feminist work in its description of the female...

Review of Funzioni semantiche e metatestuali della musica in Dante, Petrarca e Boccaccio

Review | Contribuidor(es): Timothy McGee

Review of Freedom Readers. The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy

Review | Contribuidor(es): Antonio Rossini

Review of Scrittura, riscrittura, autoesegesi: voci autoriali intorno all’epica in volgare. Boccaccio, Tasso

Review | Contribuidor(es): Christopher Nissen

Review of Savonarola and Savonarolism

Review | Contribuidor(es): Mark Jurdjevic

Review of Celinda: A Tragedy

Review | Contribuidor(es): Laura Giannetti

Review of Selected philosophical poems

Review | Contribuidor(es): Anna Maria Grossi