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Edward Corsi's La Settimana: Italianità as a guiding principle of progress in a new land Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Mark Pietralunga
This article explores how the Italian American bilingual weekly La Settimana, which ran from December 1935 to November 1937, represented an excellent platform not only to promote the extraordinary achievements of Italians in America, but also to educate its wide readership about the need to be more united, more focused in their aims, and more respectful and understanding of the values of culture. This
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Book Review: Rappresentare per includere. Metodi, strumenti e testi per un italiano plurale by Daniela D’Eugenio and e Alberto Gelmi Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Antonia Rubino
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Verga, Tozzi e il “progresso del realismo”. Sul primo Rimanelli romanziere e critico Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Alessio Bottone
Il saggio propone un’indagine sull’influenza esercitata da Verga e Tozzi sui romanzi degli anni Cinquanta di Giose Rimanelli. Si tratta di una vicenda per molti versi esemplare del valore assunto dalle opere dei due grandi scrittori nel ventennio precedente, come testimoniano i necessari agganci alle produzioni di Corrado Alvaro e Francesco Jovine, con cui Rimanelli dialoga serratamente. Le scelte
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The Italian Scapigliatura in New York Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Alberto Carli
In 1884, Dario Papa and Ferdinando Fontana, both well known in the milieu of Scapigliatura, published a reportage that is a kind of written photograph of New York at the time. Papa had travelled to America with Fontana to discover the secrets of modern journalism. Another well-known writer of the Scapigliatura, Giuseppe Giacosa, friend of Arrigo Boito and Emilio Praga, travelled to the USA a few years
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Ethics between two worlds: The moral significance of Italian places in Henry James’s literature Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Fabrizia Abbate
This article questions the ethical profile of some of the characters in Henry James’s literature in relation to concrete life places and situations. It refers first to the Diary of a Man of Fifty, because this short tale anticipates the themes that would dominate James's later works. It focuses in particular on Portrait of a Lady, not without mentioning Daisy Miller, because the descriptions of Italy
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Dana Gioia's transcultural ecopoetics: The Latin legacy of a California poet Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Sabrina Vellucci
This article discusses Dana Gioia's poetics of place in its intersections with the author's multiple diasporic legacies (Italian, Mexican, mestizo), which he often refers to as ‘Latin’. It explores the forms of cultural poiesis that has been fashioned by the Californian environments of diaspora and the role played by nature and the environment in the linguistic and literary dialogue resulting from
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Giorgio's return to New York: The so-called ‘late’ de Chirico and American criticism (1972–2023) Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Lorenzo Canova
This article focuses on the relationship between Giorgio de Chirico's artwork and American criticism. It starts from the distorted and misrepresented view created by André Breton (and widely disseminated in the USA especially through James Thrall Soby's exhibitions and books) of an ‘early’ de Chirico, a leading painter of international art until 1917–1918, and a ‘late’ de Chirico, artistically doomed
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Multiple transitions in the works of Susan Caperna Lloyd Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Elisabetta Marino
This article aims to analyse Susan Caperna Lloyd's literary output, emphasizing the writer's multiple transitions. No Pictures in My Grave, her 1992 travel memoir, followed by The Crucifixion of Lucy Reyes (2017) and Dance It Up (2023) – both currently in manuscript form – will serve as the primary objects of investigation. As will be shown, the exploration of her cultural roots as an American of Italian
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The Bear: New (stereotypical) representations of Italian Americans in contemporary television series Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Alessandra Olga Grazia Serra
This article investigates the representations of Italian Americans in the successful TV series The Bear (2022–), following Ryan Calabretta-Sajder and Alan J Gravano's innovative critical framework according to which the field of Italian American cinema, TV and media studies needs to go beyond the strict notion of ethnicity and be, instead, reconsidered as an intersectional area including issues as
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The Road to Los Angeles: John Fante and the scene of writing Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Francesco Marroni
Written in the first person, The Road to Los Angeles is a posthumous novel in which John Fante addresses the topos of literary vocation for the first time through Arturo Bandini, the hero of the saga. The novel's salient aspect concerns 17-year-old Arturo who, completely captivated by his heterogeneous readings, feels an irresistible desire to become like his favourite writers. Thus, he continually
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From Italy to the Indian subcontinent: Dante and his Divine Comedy in Urdu Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Hafiz Abid Masood
Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) is one of the most important Italian writers, well-known for his magnum opus the Divine Comedy. This article investigates the Urduphone world's engagement with Dante from the late 19th century to the post-colonial period. As India was ruled by the British, English writers, specifically Shakespeare and Milton, were the most famous foreign literary figures in colonial India
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Remediating family memories of Italian colonialism: Beyond the Frame as process and product Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Simone Brioni, Gianmarco Mancosu
The article analyzes Beyond the Frame (Oltre i bordi, 2023), a film based on Simone Brioni's fortuitous discovery of a family archive: a box of photographs taken in Italian East Africa in the 1930s...
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Leone Traverso traduttore e interprete del Torquato Tasso di Goethe Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Marco Menicacci
La traduzione del Torquato Tasso di Goethe rappresenta un fondamentale punto di svolta nell’attività del germanista e grecista Leone Traverso: dopo aver fatto chiarezza sulla cronologia di tale imp...
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The Transnational Italian Studies major at UCSB: A paradigm shift Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Claudio Fogu
This article illustrates the three criteria underpinning the creation of a Transnational Italian Studies major at UCSB in 2020: translation, imaginary, and nation-ness.
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Teaching as a way of creating Italian transnational literature: A mission of the Italian Diaspora Studies Seminar at the University of Calabria Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Margherita Ganeri
In this essay, I will illustrate the mission and the most significant innovative teaching activities promoted by the Italian Diaspora Studies Seminar, a research center founded in 2017 at the Unive...
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Join or die: How deontological moral intuitions complicate cooperation amid the COVID-19 pandemic Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Alessandro Del Ponte
Tackling COVID-19 requires universal collective action: everyone must play their part to reduce the spread of the virus and quell the pandemic. Yet, some people obstinately refuse to cooperate, irr...
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La Sicilia di Carlo Levi fra mito e realtà Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Cinzia Gallo
Nei vari episodi che compongono Le parole sono pietre, il volto variegato della Sicilia appare nella sua veste più autentica. All’episodio incentrato sul signor Impellitteri, con cui rivive il mito...
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My air Armada: Italo Balbo's transatlantic flights as a multimedia storytelling machine Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Francesca Cavarocchi
This article reconstructs the steps that, starting in 1928–1929, led to the planning of Italo Balbo's most famous transatlantic flights. These events were characterized by a narrative that addresse...
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The Italian Americans’ pro-fascist lobby in the United States: Continuities and discontinuities with the liberal regime Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Stefano Luconi
Studies have highlighted the role of fascism in shaping Italian immigrants in the United States and their progeny into a pressure group that influenced Washington's foreign policy to the benefit of...
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Un’altra casa I. La proposta culturale per l’emigrazione italoamericana di Divagando (1943–63) Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Martino Marazzi
AbstractIn its twenty years of publication, the Italian-language, New York-based weekly magazine Divagando (1943–1963) showcased – in its very diversified columns, in its eye-catching covers and la...
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The New York Times in the face of fascism Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Massimiliano Paniga
The aim of this article is to understand how the New York Times, one of the most important US newspapers, explained the events that set off the ascent of fascism to power in Italy. In particular, I...
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Giovanni Gentile's standing in the United States (1922–1938) Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Stefano Zappoli
In his preface to The Social Philosophy of Giovanni Gentile, HS Harris wrote that “[Gentile's] association with Fascism, of which he was an ardent supporter from 1923 until his own death during the...
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“The cleanest, neatest, most effectively operating piece of social machinery I’ve ever seen”: On the reception of Fascist corporatism in the USA Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Matteo Pasetti
In the era between the two world wars, the spread of corporatist laws and institutions in many countries, flourishing mostly in the 1930s, was marked by a transnational hybridization of projects an...
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“Dalle due sponde: Fascisms in Italy and the USA”: Then and now Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2023-03-21 David Ward
This is an introduction to the articles that form the special issue on fascism in Italy and the USA in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.
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Convenzioni matrimoniali, emancipazione e consenso femminile in epoca medioevale: La voce della Compiuta Donzella di Firenze Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Valentina Graziuso
Dando voce al lamento di una giovane donna obbligata dal padre a sposarsi contro la propria volontà, i celebri versi della Compiuta Donzella di Firenze portano alla luce alcune delle dinamiche oppr...
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Un’altra casa II: La proposta culturale per l’emigrazione italiana di Cronache d’Italia (1948–63) Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Martino Marazzi
Single-handedly conceived and crafted by its creator, the hyper-active but relatively unknown Milan-based journalist Annibale Del Mare, the monthly Cronache d’Italia (1948–1963) was more than an ec...
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Bel canto among the barricades: Rossini, his music, and history Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Richard M Tristano
Rossini is often historicized by placing him in the context of the Restoration period (1815–1848). This article uses a historical methodology to examine that assumption in order to propose new insi...
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When life imitates art Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Alberto Castelli
When Oscar Wilde defiantly observed that life is imitation of art, literary criticism had found another role to the complicated relationship between literature and reality. The issue is most centra...
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“Dove terra ha cielo”. Il teatro di Enrico Pea e la favola del Cristo incantatore Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Francesca Golia
Questo articolo intende esplorare la dimensione del sacro nell’ambito della produzione teatrale di Enrico Pea, colmando, in tal modo, una lacuna negli studi dedicati all'autore toscano. Tale tema s...
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Il disaccordo tra commentatori sulle pagine Facebook dei politici: indicatori tecnici e linguistici della reattività Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Filippo Pecorari
L’articolo indaga le forme del disaccordo nei commenti alle pagine Facebook di quattro politici svizzeri di lingua italiana, concentrandosi sugli indicatori della reattività verso uno o più turni p...
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Da Milano a Londra. Paolo Valera tra reportage, giornalismo e letteratura Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Arianna Mazzola
Il presente saggio ridefinisce i rapporti di Paolo Valera con la Scapigliatura democratica e propone la forte influenza del Naturalismo francese sull’autore. Inoltre, l’analisi si concentra sulla f...
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Edward Lear, the Illustrated Excursions in Italy and the Making of a Tourist Imaginary Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2022-10-09 Francesca D’Alfonso
My essay intends to demonstrate the significance of the Abruzzi region in Edward Lear's artistic vision. In particular, it aims to show that, in a certain sense, two contrasting personalities coexi...
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Papini esoterico: L’occultismo come “millenario intruglio di ermetismo e di cabala” Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2022-10-05 Daria Bozzato
Agli inizi del Novecento, grazie alla frequentazione di fucine esoteriche come la Biblioteca Filosofica di Firenze e il caffè delle Giubbe Rosse, Giovanni Papini alimentò il suo interesse nei confr...
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Gender, Homeland, and Homecoming in Sarrocchi's Scanderbeide Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2022-10-05 Sarah S.V. Cantor
This article considers the gendering of Scanderbeg, the protagonist of Margherita Sarrocchi's 1623 historical epic, the Scanderbeide, arguing that his tendency to femininity is part of an overall p...
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Translation and colonial landscapes: Ethiopia in A Time to Kill by Ennio Flaiano Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2022-10-02 Renato Tomei
This paper investigates the (un)translatability of landscape at the time of the fascist invasion of Ethiopia (1935) as narrated in Ennio Flaiano's A Time to Kill which was published soon after the ...
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Resisting the Mafia's oppression through children's literature Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2022-10-02 Giordana Poggioli-Kaftan
Attraverso l’analisi di quattro libri per l’infanzia ed adolescenza sulla mafia ed antimafia, questo articolo mette in risalto sia le funzioni narrative di tali racconti che quelle più propriamente...
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Between private matters and public engagement: Conflicted partisan fighters in the resistance novels of Vittorini and Fenoglio Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Daniele Biffanti
In this article I explore the representation of partisan fighters provided by Elio Vittorini and Beppe Fenoglio in their novels Uomini e no (1945) and Una questione privata (1963), through the lens...
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Buzzati and Nabokov: It is not about desire Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Alberto Castelli
Dino Buzzati's Un Amore has been largely defined as a consequence of the progressive development of the phenomenon of “lolitism,” and a few years before, Nabokov's Lolita had been accused of being ...
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Book Review: Il mondo si allontana? Il COVID-19 e le nuove migrazioni italiane by Maddalena Tirabassi and Alvise Del Pra’ Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Matteo Brera
Further to Del Pra’ and Tirabassi's publication of La meglio Italia: Le mobilità italiane nel XXI secolo (Turin: Accademia University Press, 2014), Il mondo si allontana? promises to be another key addition to the scholarship on contemporary Italian diasporas. Indeed, it offers a first-hand impression of the state of the new Italian mobilities, including the efforts put in place by individuals, communities
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Extremes of ‘narrative by proxy’: ‘Memory’ in Umberto Eco’s The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana and The Prague Cemetery and ‘Oblivion’ in Jhumpa Lahiri’s In Other Words and Whereabouts Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Neda Alizadeh Kashani
This research is a comparative study of narrative strategies by Umberto Eco (1932–2016) and Jhumpa Lahiri (1967–) as the most extreme and diverse examples of the ‘narrative by proxy.’ Eco, in his n...
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Analisi corpus-based e didattica della lingua italiana. I risultati di una sperimentazione di linguistica educativa Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Paolo Nitti
Corpus linguistics has developed significantly as a branch of applied linguistics in recent times, in relation to the possibilities of employment in research both in linguistics and in related disciplines. This field of study, furthermore, aims at assaying and describing the salient characteristics of a language by questioning collected and stored data on computer support, in the most applicable way
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Primo Levi the princess in the fridge Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Valentina Zucchi
The paper discusses the similarities between Primo Levi's documentary novel Se questo è un uomo (1947) and his short science fiction story La bella addormentata nel frigo from the collection Storie naturali (1966), on the basis of the themes of the novel. The concentration camps form an element of continuity between the novel, which bears witness to the horrors Levi experienced, and the seemingly light-hearted
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Roberto Roversi e il cinema: documentari, articoli e progetti Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Rinaldo Vignati
L’articolo è uno studio sui lavori per il cinema (soggetti e sceneggiature) e sui testi di argomenti cinematografico del poeta Roberto Roversi. L’articolo esamina anzitutto i film realizzati: tre lungometraggi di finzione e vari documentari (diretti soprattutto da Carlo Di Carlo). Successivamente prende in considerazione gli articoli sul cinema che Roversi ha scritto per quotidiani e riviste. La terza
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Anglicisms in Ladin: Loanwords and Local Perceptions Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2022-06-12 Silvia Erardi, Ronald L. Gardner, Sara Comploi
Italy counts approximately 12 minority groups within its territory. Among these are the Ladins located in the Autonomous Provinces of Trento and Bolzano. This thesis is the first known sociolinguistic research on English loanword usage in Ladin publications and broadcasts, and individual perceptions of their use. Its findings were acquired from a survey of one Italian Ladin community’s perception of
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«Accetto, ma vorrei nascere a caso». Alcune considerazioni su Procacciatori d'affari Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Teresa Agovino
Procacciatori d'affari è un breve racconto contenuto all'interno della raccolta Vizio di forma. Il racconto è incentrato sul tema della condizione prenatale e dell'analisi dei pro e i contro della vita sulla Terra, cui il protagonista S. deciderà infine di aderire senza vantaggio alcuno nascendo, appunto, del tutto casualmente. Vi si aggiunge, così, anche l'atavica riflessione sul tema del libero arbitrio
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Nel cuore dell’apocalisse. Un percorso all’interno della scrittura “postuma” di Antonio Tabucchi Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2022-04-24 Anna Małgorzata Brysiak
L’articolo approfondisce la dimensione postuma della scrittura di Antonio Tabucchi attraverso l’analisi di Per Isabel. Un mandala (2013) per analizzare le caratteristiche di una ricerca sospesa fra rappresentazione della fine e rivelazione, in dialogo con la simbologia del mandala, così come con quella apocalittica. Viene altresì evidenziato il procedere di Tabucchi, assieme ai suoi personaggi, in
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Re-reading Manzoni at the time of COVID-19: Contagion, ethics and justice Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2022-04-06 Massimo Lollini
The article contributes to the rediscovery of the depth and complexity of Manzoni's thought, which too often has been reduced to an uncritical expression of Catholicism. Narrating the plague that struck Milan in 1630 in The Betrothed and the History of the Column of Infamy Manzoni reveals political, social, and cultural mechanisms remarkably similar to ours while struggling with the Coronavirus pandemic
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Book Review: Mario Masini, I miei film con Carmelo Bene, a cura di Carlo Alberto Petruzzi Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Piergiorgio Giacchè
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Connettivi e unità fraseologiche in italiano L2: un’indagine parallela Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2022-03-08 Francesca Malagnini, Irene Fioravanti
Questo studio presenta un’analisi corpus-based dell’uso e della produzione dei connettivi e delle unità fraseologiche dell’italiano in apprendenti di italiano L2 di diversi livelli di competenza linguistica. I connettivi e le unità fraseologiche rivestono un ruolo chiave nell’uso di una L2. Da un lato, i connettivi aiutano gli apprendenti a organizzare la struttura informativa del testo e a collegare
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Renaissance domestic affairs on stage: Cliziaas Machiavelli's reading of Alberti'sOn Family Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Enrico Carnevali
In this article, I challenge the critical assumption that the Clizia is only a pedestrian imitation of Plautus’ Casina and set out to demonstrate that, drawing heavily on Leon Battista Alberti's household theorization, Machiavelli structured his last play around key Albertian concepts, such as Fortune, marriage, social reputation, and thriftiness. Taking this intertext into account, I argue that Alberti's
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The king and the beast: Political and poetic shifts in Boccaccio's Alcestus Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2022-02-25 Adir Fonseca, Jr.
Alcestus is the sixth among fifteen eclogues in Giovanni Boccaccio's Buccolicum carmen (c. 1362–63). Like most poems in this book, Alcestus presents an allegorical narrative based upon a specific historical episode. More particularly, Alcestus takes the form of a political panegyric in honour of Louis of Taranto (the husband of Queen Johanna), who returned to Naples in 1348, after a long conflict involving
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Il racconto innominato. Analisi del paratesto di Centuria. Cento piccoli romanzi fiume di Giorgio Manganelli Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2022-02-24 Paolo Remorini
Il presente saggio analizza gli elementi del peritesto editoriale, autoriale e allografo che compongono l’edizione di Centuria. Cento piccoli romanzi fiume di Giorgio Manganelli che dal 1995 pubblica Adelphi, evidenziando come le chiavi di lettura e di interpretazione del testo manganelliano proposte e veicolate cerchino di suggerire un’idea di sperimentazione, di caso unico e singolare all’interno
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Book review: Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, Katherine Hill and Jill Richards The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Derek Lake Berghuis
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Book review: Giuseppe Pierino, Fausto Gullo: Un Comunista Nella Storia D’Italia Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Joseph Francese
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Labor of love? Cooking, chaos, and consumption in Clara Sereni's Keeping House Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2022-02-04 Eilis Kierans
In Clara Sereni's (1946–2018) semi-autobiographical (cook)book, non-chronological recollections are evoked by a variety of recipes that mark crucial moments in the narrator's life. At first glance, Sereni portrays herself as a patient and perceptive housewife who learns how to read a room and cook accordingly. She describes her individuality and imagination in the kitchen as an adolescent, and later
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Le regole del gioco narrativo di Umberto Eco: La lettura dei romanzi di Eco alla luce di Sei passeggiate nei boschi narrativi Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Neda Alizadeh Kashani
Questo articolo è una lettura dei sette romanzi di Umberto Eco da Il nome della rosa (1980) al Numero zero (2015) alla luce delle sei conferenze che ha tenuto alla Harvard University (1992–1993), pubblicate col titolo Sei passeggiate nei boschi narrativi. È un tentativo di trovare la chiave di lettura dei suoi romanzi e le regole del gioco narrativo che nella veste dell’“autore modello” ci pone. Eco
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Far from the homeland: Dishonour and redemption in Mario Monicelli's The Girl with the Gun Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2021-11-25 Giona Tuccini
The journey undertaken by the protagonist Assunta Patanè in Mario Monicelli's film The Girl with the Gun is far more than a mere spatial displacement fired by a desire for revenge, but it gradually takes the form of an itinerary of an individualistic and cultural nature that is eventually to overturn the stereotypes of Assunta's native Sicilian community, thus enabling her to embrace modernity and
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Italian Canadian italophone fiction: The works of Nino Famà Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2021-11-25 Francesco Loriggio
Within the Italian Canadian literary corpus, fiction written in Italian has occupied a special spot. Because Italian Canadian authors have written primarily in English or, secondarily, in French, works by italophone writers have had an even more meagre circulation than that, already itself quite reduced, enjoyed by their anglophone or francophone counterparts. Yet, despite this limitation or perhaps
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Forza emozionale? National discourse and La Battaglia di Legnano Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2021-11-04 Conor Broughton
This article will suggest how the audience interpreted the music and messages held within Verdi's La Battaglia di Legnano and suggest how far the sentiment within the opera was understood, in turn asking how effective a canone of nationalist images within culture would have been. The use of musical psychological and philosophical studies – such as those by Peter Kivy and Anthony Storr, among others
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