-
Bruno Munari: The lightness of art Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Giulia Zompa
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
-
Transatlantic literary transfers in the Second Italian Renaissance: the circulation of Italian culture in the U.S. in the post-war era Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Cristina Iuli, Simone Cinotto
This article introduces the special issue “Transatlantic literary transfers in the Second Italian Renaissance: the circulation of Italian culture in the U.S. in the Post-war Era”, presenting new kn...
-
‘One of the last secret maestros’: Nicola Chiaromonte between Europe and America Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Amanda Swain
The article describes the transatlantic cultural mediation performed by Italian editor, critic and political activist Nicola Chiaromonte, focusing specifically on his relationships with figures fro...
-
Revolutionary domesticity in the Italian Risorgimento. Transnational Victorian feminism, 1850–1890 Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Simon Sarlin
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2024)
-
Storia dello Stato Sociale in Italia Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Luca Martino Levi
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2024)
-
The Noethers. A Family Saga in Advanced Mathematics and Transnational History Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 John A. Davis
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2024)
-
On the Other Shore. The Atlantic Worlds of Italians in South America During the Great War Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Tullio Pagano
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2024)
-
Disgruntled Italians – social capital and civic culture in Italy Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Paola Bordandini, Mauro Maltagliati, Nicolò Bellanca, Roberto Cartocci
The aim of this study was to analyse the geography of social capital in Italy thirty years after publication of the book Making Democracy Work – Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (Putnam etal. 1993)...
-
Commemorating the work of Percy Allum, Paul Ginsborg, Gianni Toniolo and Stuart Woolf Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 John A. Davis, Axel Körner
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2024)
-
Stuart Woolf (1936–2021) Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 John A. Davis
Born in London in 1936, Stuart completed his university studies at Oxford, where he graduated in History in 1956 and obtained his PhD in 1961. From 1961 to 1965 he was a Fellow of Pembroke College ...
-
Percy A. Allum (1933–2022) Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Luciano Brancaccio
Percy Allum began his studies with law and history and graduated from Queens’ College, Cambridge in 1956 before going on to study political science and international law at Sciences Po in Paris (19...
-
Paul Ginsborg (1945–2022) Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Kate Ferris
Paul Ginsborg was an academic historian, public intellectual and grass-roots political activist. He began his academic career at Queens College, Cambridge, as an undergraduate in 1963 and as a Rese...
-
International historiography of modern Italy since 1945. Developments and trends Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Thomas Kroll
The Italian historiography has changed considerably since 1945. This can be attributed to processes of societal and political transformation, and also to the internationalization of historical scie...
-
Italy’s sea: Empire and nation in the Mediterranean: 1895–1945 Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Claudio Fogu
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2024)
-
An ugly word. Rethinking race in Italy and the United States Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Silvana Patriarca
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2024)
-
Against redemption: democracy, memory, and literature in post-fascist Italy Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Rosario Forlenza
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2024)
-
‘Facts in search of a theory’. Gianni Toniolo’s economic history (1942–2022) Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Giovanni Farese
On Sunday, November 13, 2022, the cultural section of the ‘Il Corriere della Sera’ devoted its main article to the first volume of Gianni Toniolo’s latest opus, Storia della Banca d’Italia. Formazi...
-
Pavese controcorrente Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Ivan Tassi
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2024)
-
Rehumanizing the world: Paolo Milano’s transatlantic cultural politics Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Valerio Angeletti
This article examines the transatlantic cultural politics of Paolo Milano (1904–1988), an Italian-Jewish exile who acted as an editorial disseminator of both Italian literature in the United States...
-
Displacing perspectives on Renaissance: Cultural translation and the politics of Italian literature at the onset of the Cold War Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Giulia Pellizzato
While the popularity achieved by several Italian cultural objects in the United States during the aftermath of World War Two has been largely acknowledged, the meanings these artefacts took on in t...
-
The role of the left to the path to a minimum income policy in Italy Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Rosa Mulè, Stefano Toso
In 2018, Italy became the last of the E.U. member states to introduce a minimum income policy. Our work helps explain why Italy was a laggard in this field by investigating the role the Italian lef...
-
The Italian left at a critical juncture: disanchoring the past, embracing the present Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Rosa Mulè, Gianfranco Pasquino, Sofia Ventura
On September 25, 2022, the Italian left faced a significant electoral setback as the centre-right coalition, led by Giorgia Meloni, secured a remarkable electoral win. Historically, the left had be...
-
How a left-wing political party fails to keep up with the times Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Fortunato Musella
How can a political party, especially a progressive one, fail to understand and embrace the major changes of its time? The article examines the experience of the Italian Partito Democratico (Democr...
-
The American reception of Italian poetry after WWII Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Giorgio Alberti
Contemporary Italian poetry began to spread in the U.S. after World War II, appearing in literary magazines and anthologies along with neorealist films and novels. The reception of this genre requi...
-
Can the left respond to new cleavages in Italy? Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Nicola Pasini, Luciano Mario Fasano, Giovanni Antonio Cerutti
Over the last forty years, there has been a mounting societal shift towards post-materialist values in all countries adhering to the democratic tradition. This has fuelled demand for increasingly p...
-
The shifting landscape of the Italian left: Exploring its contemporary state Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 James L. Newell
This article asks, ‘What’s left of the Italian left?’ arguing that an answer to the question presupposes having the answer to four more specific questions, namely, what does the term ‘left’ mean? W...
-
Gastrofascismo e Impero: Il cibo nell’Africa Orientale Italiana, 1935–1941 Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Patrizia Sambuco
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2024)
-
Italian industrial literature and film. Perspectives on the representation of postwar labor Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Alessandro Ceteroni
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2024)
-
Gli Uomini della Marcia su Roma: Mussolini e i quadrumviri Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Ernest Ialongo
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2024)
-
Il Gramsci di Pasolini. Lingua, Letteratura e ideologia Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Yuri Brunello
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2024)
-
The Italian Democratic Party: the explanation for a ‘quasi-failure’ Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Sofia Ventura
The Italian Democratic Party (PD) has attracted scholarly attention for its low level of institutionalization and its lack of a clear political identity since its inception in 2007. Additionally, i...
-
On the disappearance of leftist political idea(l)s Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Gianfranco Pasquino
In this article, I have chosen a specific perspective from which to identify and analyse what has gone wrong for the Italian Left in the past thirty years. I will take as my starting point the demo...
-
Innesti: Primo Levi e i libri altrui Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Ariella Lang
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2024)
-
The Fishing Net and the Spider Web: Mediterranean Imaginaries and the Making of Italians Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Ernest Ialongo
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 28, No. 5, 2023)
-
La carta veloce. Figure, temi e politiche del giornalismo italiano dell’Ottocento Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Olivia Santovetti
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2024)
-
Modernist idealism: ambivalent legacies of German philosophy in Italian literature Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Alessandro Carrera
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2024)
-
Napoli/New York/Hollywood: film between Italy and the United States Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Mary Ann McDonald Carolan
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 28, No. 4, 2023)
-
Mussolini’s Nature: an environmental history of Italian fascism Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Angelo Matteo Caglioti
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 28, No. 5, 2023)
-
Storia della Brigata ebraica. Gli ebrei della Palestina che combatterono in Italia nella Seconda guerra mondiale Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 John Foot
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 28, No. 5, 2023)
-
Wandering women. Urban ecologies of Italian feminist filmmaking Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Serena Ferrando
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 28, No. 5, 2023)
-
Italian Prisons in the Age of Positivism, 1861–1914 Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Linda Reeder
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 28, No. 5, 2023)
-
1921 Squadrismo e violenza politica in Toscana Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Alessandro Saluppo
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 28, No. 5, 2023)
-
Italian political cinema: figures of the long ’68 Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Jim Carter
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 28, No. 4, 2023)
-
I fratelli e i profani. La massoneria nello spazio pubblico Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Lilith Mahmud
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 28, No. 4, 2023)
-
Gorgonzola: Italian taste in the world between banquets, exhibitions, and technology, 1850s–1930s Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Luciano Maffi, Martino Lorenzo Fagnani
This article analyses how Gorgonzola cheese achieved widespread success among the upper and middle classes in continental Europe, the British Isles, and North America between the 1850s and 1930s. D...
-
Towards the river’s mouth (verso la foce), by Gianni Celati. A critical edition Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Stefano Colangelo
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 28, No. 4, 2023)
-
Storia della Banca d’Italia, vol. I, Formazione ed evoluzione di una banca centrale, 1893–1943 Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Douglas J. Forsyth
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 29, No. 1, 2024)
-
Contradictory forces, facts and tendencies Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Justin Randolph Thompson
ABSTRACT This article draws upon the ‘contradictory forces, facts and tendencies’ central to sociologist, historian, activist and cultural theorist W.E.B. Du Bois’ framing of race, and places them within a metaphysical and sociological analysis of exclusionary frameworks in contemporary Italy. Problematizing the formation of global black perspectives, this text intends to initiate an exchange that
-
The Italian legacy in Philadelphia: history, culture, people, and ideas Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Alyssa M. Brophy
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 28, No. 4, 2023)
-
The futures of post-displacement Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Pamela Ballinger
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 28, No. 4, 2023)
-
Futures in post-displacement Italy Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Emma Bond, Stavroula Pipyrou
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 28, No. 4, 2023)
-
Opposing Patriarchy: Women and the Law in Action in Pre-Unificiation Italy (1815–1865) Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Catherine Ramsey-Portolano
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 28, No. 4, 2023)
-
Migrants, refugees, invaders: responses to the Riace Model’s inclusive citizenship project Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Marco Benoît Carbone
ABSTRACT In imagining a post-nationalistic and post-racialized future, the refugee hospitality and integration project implemented in Italy, known as the Modello Riace (Riace Model), sought to use state-funded, sustainable activities to encourage asylum seekers to mix with locals and settle in the economically depressed and depopulated areas of southern Italy. The project navigated legal frameworks
-
Mussolini in myth and memory. The first totalitarian dictator Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Luca de Caprariis
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 28, No. 3, 2023)
-
The shaping of Tuscany: landscape and society between tradition and modernity Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Carole Counihan
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 28, No. 3, 2023)
-
Migrant anxieties: Italian cinema in a transnational frame Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Alan O’Leary
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 28, No. 3, 2023)
-
Notice of duplicate publication: ‘The Italian economy’ Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-17
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 28, No. 3, 2023)
-
Parties between continuity and change since 1980s – Italy and beyond Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Lucia Bonfreschi, Pepijn Corduwener
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Vol. 28, No. 2, 2023)
-
The Italian Party System before the crash: parties and the challenge of renewal in the 1980s Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Lucia Bonfreschi, Pepijn Corduwener
ABSTRACT As many historians suggest, the collapse of the Italian party system in the early 1990s was the result of dynamics that had troubled the political system in the previous decade. This Special Issue examines the parties’ views on the loss of their capacity for representation and governance in the 1980s. The focus is on how aware the political actors themselves were of the ‘crisis’ of the political
-
My brilliant city: Naples, urban poverty and the ‘ethnographic imagination’ of Elena Ferrante Journal of Modern Italian Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Mario Trifuoggi, Francesco Sielo
ABSTRACT Elena Ferrante’s ‘Neapolitan Novels’, published in English between 2012 and 2015, tell the coming-of-age story of two women born in a poor neighbourhood in post-war Naples. The international success of this four-part series of novels – named in the Italian edition after the title of the first novel, L’amica geniale (‘My Brilliant Friend’) – testifies to the enduring popularity of the urban