Italian Culture articles

Recent articles from Italian Culture

Editor's note.
March 1, 2009... This issue of Italian Culture inaugurates a new publishing schedule and a new format: henceforth the journal will appear twice a year, and will be published by Maney Publishing. We look forward to a long partnership with Maney. These changes, as was the case with our honorable mention in...

"Ego tanquam centrum circuli:" la Vita nuova, percorso di reminiscenza e psicocosmogramma.(article in Italian)
March 1, 2009... Negli anni del secondo dopoguerra, Charles Singleton e James Eustace Shaw argomentarono sui possibili significati dell'immagine del cerchio e del suo centro, additata da Amore nel capitolo 12 della Vita nuova (suddivisione Barbi) come figura di pienezza che il giovane poeta alle prese con i...

Images of animal predation in Giacomo Leopardi's Dialogo della Natura e di un Islandese.(Critical essay)
March 1, 2009... This article explores the relationship between the philosophies of "Leopardi, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche. Three figures deeply concerned with the relationship of the human to the animal, their different engagements with animal philosophy reveal a great deal not only about their anxieties...

La novita di Maciste alpino.(article in Italian)
March 1, 2009... Nel contesto cinematografico e storiografico del primo conflitto mondiale, Maciste alpino (1916) occupa una posizione decisamente particolare. Superando per la prima volta la stretta maglia della censura che imponeva un severo veto alla rappresentazione diretta della guerra, il film di...

Publishing Women: Salons, The Presses, and the Counter-Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Italy.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Publishing Women: Salons, The Presses, and the Counter-Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Italy. By DIANA ROBIN. Pp. xxvi + 365. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007 In this volume Diana Robin crafts a gripping narrative of elite women who "worked at forging a cultural hegemony" (1)...