Italica articles from June 2002

Italica archives from June 2002

Announcements.
June 22, 2002... AATI Annual Conference in Toronto The annual meeting of the AATI will be held in conjunction with the Canadian Society for Italian Studies in Toronto, 7-10 November 2002. The sessions of the conference will take place at the Ontario...

Twentieth-century musical interpretations of the `anti-music' of Dante's Inferno.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... While Dante-protagonist travels through Hell, he describes his experience with rich, vivid imagery. In this imagery he features music, often reporting his impressions first aurally and then visually. For example, as he enters Hell, he relates...

The price of sonnets and bonnets: how gender works in Luisa Bergalli's 'Le avventure del poeta'.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... Critics of Luisa Bergalli's 1730 comedy Le avventure del poeta, in which a bourgeois poet suffers repeated mistreatment by his noble patrons, pinpoint its achievement in its comic dramatization of 1) the contrast between aristocratic and middle...

Isabella inventrix: History and creativity in Maria Bellonci's Rinascimento privato: Romanzo.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... Maria Bellonci pointedly specifies that her 1985 book, Rinascimento privato, is a novel, a fact that should alert the attentive reader to a more complete interpretation of the work. Earlier works by Bellonci showcase her talents as an accurate,...

A world of ruins: the allegorical vision in Fabrizio Clerici, Vincenzo Consolo, and Luigi Malerba.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... Il paesaggio d'oggi, senza voler fare i romantici, sembra veramente un paesaggio di rovine. (Vincenzo Consolo) (1) Introduction When I began thinking about the form of this essay, I envisioned it as a retable, one of those...

Pascalian Quixotism in Umberto Eco's L'isola del giorno prima.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... Umberto Eco's third novel, L'isola del giorno prima, has been characterized as a postmodern collage," a "ludic postmodern hypertext," an "intertext in our cultural encyclopedia" (Capozzi 387, 402). As such characterizations indicate, Eco's...

Coming to her senses: the journey of the mother in 'La lunga vita di Marianna Ucria'.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... The story of Marianna Ucria, a deaf-mute woman who transcends her condition to achieve self-expression, has been interpreted as the affirmation of woman's voice in patriarchal culture and, more specifically, as a metaphor for the struggle of...

Letizia Panizza and Sharon Wood, eds. A History of Women's Writing in Italy.
June 22, 2002... Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000. This splendid collection of essays tracing the development of women writing in Italy accomplishes two important objectives. The first is to "map out the main features of women as writers," along with the...

Sabina Gola. Un demi-siecle de relations culturelles entre l'Italie et la Belgique, 1830-1880.
June 22, 2002... Bruxelles/Brussel-Rome: Institut Historique Beige de Rome/Belgisch Historisch Institute Rome, 1999. Creato a partire dallo spoglio della Bibliographie nationale belga, il cui sottotitolo (Dictionnaire des ecrivains belges et catalogue de...

Zygmunt G. Baranski. Dante e i segni. Saggi per una storia intellettuale di Dante Alighieri.
June 22, 2002... Naples: Liguori, 2000. One of the most wonderful things about this recent volume is not so much what Zygmunt Baranski says but how he says it. This is not to suggest that Dante e i segni is in any way lacking in content of import; quite...

Dantis Alagherii Comedia.
June 22, 2002... Edizione critica a cura di Federico Sanguineti. Tavarnuzze (Firenze): Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2001. Nel 1934 il noto dantista Michele Barbi aveva detto: "Sono convinto, sempre piu convinto che occorra fare nella gran massa dei codici de La...

Giovanni Cappello. La dimensione macrotestuale. Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarca.
June 22, 2002... Ravenna: Longo Editore, 1998. The book under review is a solid example of how textual excavation, typical of the philological theories and practices that are characteristic of the Italian tradition, can exist in a relationship of conjugal...

Maria Esposito Frank. Le insidie dell'allegoria: Ermolao Barbaro il Vecchio e la lezione degli antichi.
June 22, 2002... Venezia: Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 1999. This monograph is a welcome addition to the series Memorie della Classe di Scienze Morali, Lettere ed Arti, a collection that has yielded much careful and innovative scholarship....

Rinalda Russell, ed. Sister Maria Celeste's Letters to Her Father, Galileo.
June 22, 2002... Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Rinaldina Russell. Lincoln, NE: Writers Club Press, 2000. Galileo's relation to his daughter, Sister Maria Celeste, has lately been moving centerstage. Thanks largely to scholars interested in...

Marco Cerruti. Il piacer di pensare. Solitudini, rare amicizie, corrispondenze intorno al 1800.
June 22, 2002... Modena: Mucchi, 1999. Diviso in cinque aree di studio, il volume di Marco Cerruti esamina e contestualizza i sintomi del mutamento della sensibilita individuale tra fine Settecento e primo Ottocento, tra il declino dei Lumi e gli albori...

Italo Svevo. Emilio's Carnival.
June 22, 2002... Trans. Beth Archer Brombert. Intro. Victor Brombert. New Haven: Yale UP, 2001. Italo Svevo. Zeno's Conscience. Trans. and Intro. William Weaver. New York: Knopf, 2001. Italo Svevo's three novels Una vita (1892), Senilita (1898), and La...

Thomas E. Peterson. The Rose in Contemporary Italian Poetry.
June 22, 2002... Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2000. In una ricerca critica puntuale e approfondita, con un approccio particolarmente innovativo da un punto di vista contenutistico e formale, Thomas Peterson ci da una prospettiva quanto mai penetrante dello...

Norma Bouchard. Celine, Gadda, Beckett: Experimental Writings of the 1930s.
June 22, 2002... Gainsville: UP of Florida, 2000. Norma Bouchard's book is a welcome addition to the recent attention being paid to Gadda by North American scholarship. Her thesis is that Gadda shares with other European authors of the 1930s such as Celine...

Marco Bardini. Morante Elsa. Italiana. Di professione, poeta.
June 22, 2002... Pisa: Nistri-Lischi, 1999. Coupled with the associations Elsa Morante drew between literary creation and autobiography, her by now familiar words, "Io sono tutta nei miei libri," have understandably invited more than a few scholars to read...

Olga Ragusa. Gli anni americani di Giuseppe Prezzolini.
June 22, 2002... Il Dipartimento d'Italiano e la Casa Italiana della Columbia University con un testo di Giuseppe Prezzolini. Firenze: Le Monnier, 2001. Olga Ragusa needs no introduction to the American public. She was, from 1979 to 1992, chairperson of...

Cosma Siani. Libri all'Indice e altri.
June 22, 2002... Lecce: Manni, 2001. Il titolo capzioso ce lo spiega subito l'"Avvertenza" dell'autore: "Ho raccolto in questo volume una selezione di recensioni letterarie apparse prevalentemente su L'Indice dei libri del mese, ma anche su altri...

Gillian Banner. Holocaust Literature: Shulz, Levi, Spiegelman and the Memory of the Offence.
June 22, 2002... London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2000. Among the several studies on Primo Levi that have appeared in recent years, a new book that deserves attention is Gillian Banner's Holocaust Literature: Schulz, Levi, Spiegelman and the Memory of the...

Helen Barolini. More Italian Hours and Other Stories.
June 22, 2002... Boca Rotan, FL: Bordighera, 2001. Helen Barolini loves words--their origins, their seemingly fortuitous connections to other sounds and ideas, and their potential to liberate and redeem. Barolini's early work in translation honed her...

Howard Curle and Stephen Snyder, eds. Vittorio De Sica: Contemporary Perspectives.
June 22, 2002... Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2000. A book in English on Vittorio De Sica is, above all, a cause for celebration. There is an embarrassing scarcity of monographs and collections of essays on De Sica, particularly in comparison to his colleagues...

Gaetana Marrone. The Gaze and the Labyrinth: the Cinema of Liliana Cavani.
June 22, 2002... If Liliana Cavani's name is well-known in the United States, it is largely because of the controversy that surrounded her 1974 film Il portiere di notte [The Night Porter]. The film depicts the relationship between Max, a former Nazi guard, and...

Bibliography of Italian Studies in North America.(Bibliography)
June 22, 2002... The "Bibliography of Italian Studies in North America" includes books, articles, bibliographies, and reviews published here or abroad by scholars residing in the United States or Canada, as well as reviews of their writings. It also includes...