Italica articles from December 2007

Italica archives from December 2007

Claudian's de raptu Proserpinae and Dante's Vanquished Giants.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2007... With the resurgence of interest in late antiquity, Claudian is emerging as a poet who has been unjustly neglected. Based at the Court of Milan, he wrote a series of panegyrics celebrating Stilicho, the general who ruled the West from 395 to...

Boccaccio's Decameron as a primary literary source for the musical movement of Ars Nova in Italy.(Giovanni Boccaccio)(Essay)
December 22, 2007... Giovanni Boccaccio's time-honored work Decameron provides the primary literary account (Testi 228) of the drastically altered attitude regarding the role and influence of music, which occurred in response to the Ars Nova movement. Originated by...

Alla palestra dell'intelletto: una lettura del Candelaio di Giordano Bruno.
December 22, 2007... Il Candelaio di Giordano Bruno ci mette davanti a un evento unico nel teatro rinascimentale e probabilmente anche nella tradizione italiana, ovvero il caso di un pensatore che ha scritto opere di filosofia, mnemotecnica, astronomia, geometria,...

Scrittura del tumulto e tumulto della scrittua. Aspetti metanarrativi e metalinguistici in Promessi sposi XI-XVI.
December 22, 2007... Nei capitoli dei Promessi sposi dedicati ai tumulti di San Martino e alla prima avventura di Renzo nella grande citta di Milano, la nozione di scrittura (narrativa in ispecie e letteraria in generale) sembra essere oggetto di particolare...

"Oh, la disobbedienza...!" Meditazioni su una novella giovanile di Grazia Deledda.
December 22, 2007... And, by the way, what is the moral of the story? I always forget the moral. (J. Laforgue, "Perseus and Andromedas," Moralites legendaires) Nell'azzurro (1890) e il titolo della prima raccolta di novelle pubbliata da Grazia Deledda...

Pavese lettore di Sinclair Lewis.
December 22, 2007... 12 marzo 1930: e una lettera a Enrico Bemporad a segnare ufficialmente l'inizio di un'attivita traduttoria che portera Pavese, tra riflessioni sulle innovazioni espressive introdotte dagli scrittori d'oltreoceano e l'individuazione delle...

Resistance-at-risk: the critique of fascism and the ethics of writing in Natalia Ginzburg's Lessico famigliare.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2007... In this essay, I explore Natalia Ginzburg's multiple narrative strategies against Fascism and, by extension, racism within the memorialistic novel Lessico famigliare. Ginzburg uses a complex connection between narrative and the struggle against...

Un successo di "genere': il commissario Bordelli di Marco Vichi.
December 22, 2007... "Un commissario che sta dalla parte dei piu deboli, un poliziotto che si la amare subito dai lettori": cosi inizia l'introduzione all'intervista (1) di Lauta Guglielmini a Marco Vichi. Bordelli, il commissario in questione, e il protagonista di...

Film, literature, and terrorism: mapping Italy's political landscape by cinematic means (1).
December 22, 2007... 1. Cinema as Protocol vs. Cinema as Argument Political violence can hardly be said to escape, bote, or deter Italian film directors; indeed, in all of its variants it might well be counted among the most productive themes--in both quality...

A home of one's own: illness and writing as metaphors of difference in pier Vittorio Tondelli's Camere separate.(Notes and Discussions)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2007... Camere separate, Pier Vittorio Tondelli's last novel, was published in 1989, just two years before his death at age 36, and it constitutes a touching testament to the author's capacity to present illness as a metaphor for desire; in this case,...

A scandalous intimacy: author and reader in pier Vittorio Tondelli's Camere separate.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2007... Introduction: From Text to Work In 1973, Roland Barthes, one of the most influential literary critics of the second half of the twentieth century, published Le plaisir du texte, his most sustained meditation on reading. The central...

Uno sguardo sulla gioventu a Napoli in Vento di terra di Vincenzo Marra e Certi bambini di Andrea e Antonio Frazzi.
December 22, 2007... Eincoraggiante l'attenzione che molti registi italiani dimostrano per la condizione dei bambini e dei giovani della periferia di Napoli. Basta ricordare Vito e gli altri (1991) di Antonio Capuano, che racconta la storia di un bambino di dodici...

Intervista ad Andrea de Carlo, a cura di Giovanna de Luca.(Interview)
December 22, 2007... Andrea De Carlo e uno dei pochi scrittori italiani contemporanei molto letto sia in Italia che all'estero. I suoi romanzi sono stati tradotti finora in piu di venti lingue. Le tematiche affrontate nelle sue opera: problemi legati alla...

Two Recent Translations of Manzoni's Plays.(Alessandro Manzoni, Two Plays; The Count of Carmagnola and Adelchis)(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Something unexpected and entirely welcome has happened recently to Manzoni's reception in this country. Echoing the sudden surge of interest in I promessi sposi motivated by Archibald Colquhoun's translation of I promessi sposi (The Betrothed,...

Stephen Kolsky. The Ghost of Boccaccio. Writings on Famous Women in Renaissance Italy.(Joining the Conversation: Dialogues by Renaissance Women)(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Stephen Kolsky. The Ghost of Boccaccio. Writings on Famous Women in Renaissance Italy. Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies 7. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005. Janet Levarie Smarr. Joining the Conversation. Dialogues by Renaissance Women. Ann Arbor:...

Teodolinda Barolini. Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Teodolinda Barolini. Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture. New York: Fordham UP, 2006. This volume collects essays written by the eminent Columbia University Dante scholar between 1983 and 2005, most of them written after the...

Simon A. Gilson. Dante and Renaissance Florence.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Simon A. Gilson. Dante and Renaissance Florence. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2005. Domenico Michelino's painting of Dante and his Comedy (1465), now located on the north wall of the Florentine cathedral, juxtaposes the realms of the...

Mary Alexandra Watt. The Cross That Dante Bears: Pilgrimage, Crusade, and the Cruciform Church in the Divine Comedy.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Mary Alexandra Watt. The Cross That Dante Bears: Pilgrimage, Crusade, and the Cruciform Church in the Divine Comedy. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2005. The cross is arguably the most salient feature of Christianity, a symbol of journey and...

Enrico Malato. Per una nuova edizione commentata delle opere di Dante.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Enrico Malato. Per una nuova edizione commentata delle opere di Dante. Quaderni della rivista Studi danteschi 1. Roma: Salerno, 2004. Nel presente saggio Enrico Malato ricostruisce analiticamente il quadro storico ele problematiche relative...

Margaret Franklin. Boccaccio's Heroines. Power and Virtue in Renaissance Society. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Margaret Franklin. Boccaccio's Heroines. Power and Virtue in Renaissance Society. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World.Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2006. Margaret Franklin's study has two main aims, each of which is given roughly half the...

Richard Kuhns. Decameron and the Philosophy of Storytelling: Author as Midwife and Pimp.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Richard Kuhns. Decameron and the Philosophy of Storytelling: Author as Midwife and Pimp. New York: Colombia UP, 2005. Philosopher and professor emeritus from Colombia University, Richard Kuhns here explores the relationship between...

Marco Santoro. Storia del libro italiano. Libro e societa in Italia dal quattrocento al nuovo millennio. Nuova edizione riveduta e ampliata.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Marco Santoro. Storia del libro italiano. Libro e societa in Italia dal quattrocento al nuovo millennio. Nuova edizione riveduta e ampliata. Milano: Bibliografica, 2008. La storia dell'editoria non ha ancora in Italia un delineato...

Massimiliano Rossi e Fiorella Gioffredi Superbi, a cura di. L'arme e gli amori: Ariosto, Tasso and Guarini in Late Renaissance Florence: Acts of an International Conference, Florence, Villa I Tatti, June 27-29, 2001.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Massimiliano Rossi e Fiorella Gioffredi Superbi, a cura di. L'arme e gli amori: Ariosto, Tasso and Guarini in Late Renaissance Florence: Acts of an International Conference, Florence, Villa I Tatti, June 27-29, 2001. Firenze: Olschki, 2004. ...

Fabio Finotti. Retorica della diffrazione. Bembo, Aretino, Giulio Romano e Tasso: let teratura e scena cortigiana.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Fabio Finotti. Retorica della diffrazione. Bembo, Aretino, Giulio Romano e Tasso: let teratura e scena cortigiana. Firenze: Olschki, 2004. Il centro propulsore di questo importante e ambizioso libro di Finotti si trova nella sua decisione...

Giovanni Sagredo. L'Arcadia in Brenta.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Giovanni Sagredo. L'Arcadia in Brenta. Ed. Quinto Marini. Roma: Salerno, 2004. Quinto Marini's edition of L'Arcadia in Brenta by Giovanni Sagredo Cavaliero marks another step in Salerno Editrice's enterprise to offer readers (in its "I...

Roberto Salsano. Pirandello. Scrittura e alterita.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Roberto Salsano. Pirandello. Scrittura e alterita. Firenze: Cesati, 2005. Il libro di Roberto Salsano, diviso in quattro capitoli, individua e delinea con perizia critica e metodologica i vari momenti dello sviluppo letterario delle...

Luca Somigli e Mario Moroni, a cura di. Italian Modernism.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Luca Somigli e Mario Moroni, a cura di. Italian Modernism. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2004. C'era proprio bisogno del solido libro curato da Luca Somigli e Mario Moroni, Italian Modernism, per ravvivare energicamente il dibattito sul...

Anthony Julian Tamburri, Graziella Parati, Ben Lawton, and Myriam Swennen Ruthenberg, eds. Italian Cultural Studies (2001). Selected Essays.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Anthony Julian Tamburri, Graziella Parati, Ben Lawton, and Myriam Swennen Ruthenberg, eds. Italian Cultural Studies (2001). Selected Essays . West Lafayette, IN: Bordighera P, 2004. Italian Cultural Studies (2001). Selected Essays, is a...

Rudolph M. Bell and Cristina Mazzoni. The Voices of Gemma Galgani.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Rudolph M. Bell and Cristina Mazzoni. The Voices of Gemma Galgani. Chicago: U of Chicago E 2003. The Voices of Gemma Galgani, by Rudolph M. Bell and Cristina Mazzoni, discusses the sainthood of the first saint beatified in the twentieth...

Fabio Fernando Rizi. Benedetto Croce and Italian Fascism.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Fabio Fernando Rizi. Benedetto Croce and Italian Fascism. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2003. There has always been a stigma attached to the figure of Benedetto Croce in the form of a random but insistent accusation that Croce was a supporter...

Harry Thomas, ed. Montale in English.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Harry Thomas, ed. Montale in English. New York: Handsel P, 2005. The paperback version of Montale in English, published in April 2005, marks the definitive answer to a new template for translation work. Never before has a translation of...

Manlio Calegari. La sega di Hitler.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Manlio Calegari. La sega di Hitler. Milano: Selene, 2004. Il 16 aprile 1985, in "localita Coronelli di Begato frazione collinare dell'antico comune di Rivarolo Ligure," uno smottamento di terreno causato dalle piogge primaverili porta alla...

Stefania Lucamante and Sharon Wood, eds. Under Arturo's Star. The Cultural Legacies of Elsa Morante.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Stefania Lucamante and Sharon Wood, eds. Under Arturo's Star. The Cultural Legacies of Elsa Morante. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2006. Under Arturo's' Star is a collection of essays about Elsa Morante's cultural legacies by scholars from...

Rita C. Cavigioli. Women of a Certain Age: Contemporary Italian Fictions of Female Aging.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Rita C. Cavigioli. Women of a Certain Age: Contemporary Italian Fictions of Female Aging. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2005. I should state from the outset that my review of this extraordinary book must by necessity reflect an intense...