Italian Culture articles from September 22 2001

Italian Culture archives from September 22 2001

Boccaccio's Lauretta: The Brigata's Bearer of Bad News
September 22, 2001... In order to preserve a salubrious emotional environment in their country retreat, and prevent it from becoming tainted with news of the Florentine outbreak of pestilence, Pampinea advises her friends to distract their minds by telling stories....

La "Citta Prestata": Consigli Di Politica Nelle Lettere Di Caterina Da Siena
September 22, 2001... Con desiderio di vedervi uomini virili, e non timorosi governatori della citta propria e della citta prestata. (Caterina da Siena, Lettera CXXIII, Vol. II, 297) E' proprio dei grandi personaggi vivere con intensita il dramma del loro tempo e,...

Where Have All the Brave Knights Gone? Sicilian Puppet Theater and the Tuscan-Emilian Epic Maggio *
September 22, 2001... Already in 1894 the Sicilian writer Luigi Capuana voiced his sadness over a profound transformation in his homeland that had led to the disappearance of many aspects of popular culture he had known as a youth. As he explained: "Non li...

Reticence and Aphasia in Deledda's Cosima
September 22, 2001... In the last two decades, 19th-century Italian women writers have gained a much wider audience in American academia. Although women's studies still have a hard time working its way up in Italian universities, American scholars have been more and...

Freedom of Imprisonment: Guareschi and the Primacy of Conscience
September 22, 2001... Since the late 1940s, over twenty-three million copies of anthologized Mondo Piccolo stories have been sold, helping to render Giovannino Guareschi the most translated Italian author of the twentieth-century, more so even than Lampedusa and...

Drooling on the Urn: The Keatsian Dimension of Michelangelo Antonioni's "Blow Up"
September 22, 2001... When Henry Fernandez published his article "From Cortazar to Antonioni: Study of an Adaptation" in the Winter 1968-1969 edition of Film Heritage, he was working on the assumption that his English-speaking readers would be largely unfamiliar with...

I Manicaretti Siciliani Di Montalbano: A Tavola Con Un Commissario
September 22, 2001... Se ne torno direttamente a Marinella. Appena trasuto, si rese conto che Adelina aveva ripigliato servizio, la biancheria e le camise erano sul letto, stirate. Rapri il frigorifero e lo trovo vacante fatta cizzione di passuluna,...

Is It Real or Is It Fiction? the Dimorphous World of Giose Rimanelli in Familia
September 22, 2001... At the very opening of his most recent narrative, Familia, Giose Rimanelli informs the reader, in his premessa, that: L'idea era quella d'intitolare questo libro Tre passi infamiglia, in quanto si compone di "3 libri", indipendenti...

Roberto Calasso. The Forty-Nine Steps.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Roberto Calasso. The Forty-Nine Steps. Translated by John Shepley. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. Pp. xi + 291. There is little doubt that this is one of the most intriguing books to have been recently published. It is...

Peter Bondanella. The Films of Federico Fellini.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Peter Bondanella. The Films of Federico Fellini. Cambridge Film Classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv + 205. Peter Bondanella is the author of numerous articles and book length studies on Fellini. He edited a book...

Dana E. Stewart and Alison Cornish, eds. Sparks and Seeds: Medieval Literature and its Afterlife. Essays in Honor of John Freccero.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Dana E. Stewart and Alison Cornish, eds. Sparks and Seeds: Medieval Literature and its Afterlife. Essays in Honor of John Freccero. Binghamton Medieval and Early Modern Studies 2. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2000. Pp. x + 347. Robert...

Franco Ricci, Painting with Words, Writing with Pictures. Word and Image in the Work of Italo Calvino.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Franco Ricci, Painting with Words, Writing with Pictures. Word and Image in the Work of Italo Calvino. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. Pp. ix + 344. A un certo punto del suo Painting with Words, Writing with Pictures, Ricci...

Giancarlo Breschi (ed.). L'opera di Gianfranco Contini. Bibliografia degli scritti.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Giancarlo Breschi (ed.). L'opera di Gianfranco Contini. Bibliografia degli scritti. Firenze: SISMEL--Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2000 (Carte e carteggi. Gli arehivi della Fondazione Ezio Franeesehini, 2). Pp. xvi + 125, 1 tav. f.t. Del...

Francesca Santovetti. Nella citta di Arcadia: Cultura fluviale e extraterritorialita nella poesia di occasione di Paolo Rolli.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Francesca Santovetti. Nella citta di Arcadia: Cultura fluviale e extraterritorialita nella poesia di occasione di Paolo Rolli. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 1997. Pp. 216. Pregio fondamentale di questo volume e la rivalutazione, attraverso il caso...

Ellen Nerenberg. Prison Terms. Representing Confinement During and After Italian Fascism.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Ellen Nerenberg. Prison Terms. Representing Confinement During and After Italian Fascism. Toronto-Buffalo-London: University of Toronto Press, 2001. Pp. xiii + 259. "What does the sexual difference of captivity tell us? And what does it...

Lina Bolzoni. The Gallery of Memory.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Lina Bolzoni. The Gallery of Memory. Trans. Jeremy Parzen. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2001. Pp. xxv + 332. Giordano Bruno. The Candlebearer. Trans. Gino Moliterno. Ottawa, Canada: Dovehouse Editions, 2000. Pp. 204. The first...

William Hope. Curzio Malaparte: the Narrative Contract Strained.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... William Hope. Curzio Malaparte: The Narrative Contract Strained. Hull Italian Texts. Leies, UK:Troubador. 2000. Pp. ix-159. Judith Kelly. Primo Levi: Recording and Reconstruction in the Testimonial Literature. Hull Italian Texts. Leies,...

Franco Zangrilli. Il bestiario di Pirandello.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Franco Zangrilli. Il bestiario di Pirandello. Fossombrone: Metauro Edizioni, 2001. Pp. 167. Franco Zangrilli. Pirandello hell'America Latina. Firenze: Edizioni Cadmo, 2001. Pp. 117. Usciti a distanza di un mese l'uno dall'altro, gli...

Bart Van den Bossche. "Nulla e veramente accaduto". Strategie discorsive del mito nell'opera di Cesare Pavese.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Bart Van den Bossche. "Nulla b veramente accaduto". Strategie discorsive del mito nell'opera di Cesare Pavese. Leuven-Florence: Leuven University Press-Franco Cesati Editore, 2001. Pp. 449. The centrality and pervasiveness of myth in...

Frank Burke and Marguerite R. Waller, eds. Federico Fellini: Contemporary Perspectives.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Frank Burke and Marguerite R. Waller, eds. Federico Fellini: Contemporary Perspectives. Toronto Italian Studies. Toronto-Buffalo-London: University of Toronto Press, 2002. Pp. xvi + photographs xvi + 240. In a recent essay on influence,...

Stefania Lucamante, ed. and trans. Italian Pulp Fiction: the New narrative of the Giovani Cannibali Writers.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Stefania Lucamante, eel. and trans. Italian Pulp Fiction: The New narrative of the Giovani Cannibali Writers. Madison--Teanek: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, London: Associated University Presses, 2001. Pp. 219. In the words of...

Honorable Thomas P. DiNapoli, ed. The Italian Jewish Experience.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Honorable Thomas P. DiNapoli, ed. The Italian Jewish Experience. Stony Brook, NY: Forum Italicum Publishing, 2000. Pp. xi + 253. Considerable scholarly attention has been concentrated of late on Italian Jewry. This timely book continues...

The Letters of Giacomo Leopardi (1817-1837).(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... The Letters of Giacomo Leopardi (1817-1837). Selected and translated by Prue Shaw. Leeds [England]: Northern Universities Press, 1998. Pp. 296 L'epistolario di Giacomo Leopardi e generalmente ritenuto come la testimonianza della...

Giovanni De Luna. La passione e la ragione. Fonti e metodi dello storico contemporaneo.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Giovanni De Luna. La passione e la ragione. Fonti e metodi dello storico contemporaneo. Milan: La Nuova Italia/RCS Libri, 2001. Pp. xii + 292. Giovanni De Luna is best known as the leading authority on Italy's Partito d'azione. However,...

Rita Wilson. Speculative Identities: Contemporary Italian Women's Narrative.(Book Review)
September 22, 2001... Rita Wilson. Speculative Identities: Contemporary Italian Women's Narrative. Leeds: Northern Universities Press, 2000. Pp. viii + 200. In the preface and introduction Rita Wilson defines her work as an attempt to foster critical...