Italica articles from June 2005

Italica archives from June 2005

From the editor.(Editorial)
June 22, 2005... This issue, as usual, is the fruit of the work of many people, amongst them, the specialized readers who have cooperated with the usual generosity and critical acumen. My thanks, as always, to Deborah Starewich for her excellent and prompt...

Dante's Heaven of the Sun and the wisdom of Solomon (1).
June 22, 2005... The wisdom of Solomon is proverbial; it is exalted among others by St. Thomas and St. Bonaventure, Dante's two spokespersons in the two circles of the wise in the Heaven of the Sun. Indicating the brightest light Thomas says that there never...

Autobiografia e struttura nel mezzo delle rime sparse.
June 22, 2005... Omnia in mensura et numero et pondere disposuisti (Liber Sapientiae XI: 21) La vicenda editoriale del Canzoniere ci ha lungamente dimostrato la rilevanza dei singoli testi ordinati poi in un libro organico. I recenti interventi condotti...

La riflessione manzoniana di Pietro Piovani.
June 22, 2005... Pietro Piovani, nato a Napoli nel 1922, e una figura importante nella storia della filosofia italiana per l' originalita con cui ha rielaborato le lezioni dello storicismo e dell'esistenzialismo. (1) Ha avuto un genuino interesse per la...

Fable and reality in Comencini's Voltati Eugenio.
June 22, 2005... In his diverse multitude of films devoted to children, (1) Luigi Comencini has often expressed the belief that "childhood is the only great moment of freedom for the human being." The means to liberate childhood from the coercive power of...

Creating the ideal posthuman body? Cyborg sex and gender in the work of Buzzati, Vacca, and Ammaniti.
June 22, 2005... In recent years much critical attention has been focused on the figure of the cyborg or cybernetic organism: a hybrid being that evolves where the boundaries between human and machine are open to transgression. (1) Yet despite its implicit...

Dana E. Stewart. The Arrow of Love: Optics, Gender, and Subjectivity in Medieval Love Poetry.
June 22, 2005... Dana E. Stewart. The Arrow of Love: Optics, Gender, and Subjectivity in Medieval Love Poetry. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2003. Stewart's wide-ranging book on medieval optics and love lyric reflects growing scholarly interest in the fascinating...

Elissa B. Weaver, ed. The Decameron: First Day in Perspective, Volume One of the Lectura Boccaccii.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Elissa B. Weaver, ed. The Decameron: First Day in Perspective. Volume One of the Lectura Boccaccii. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2004. For this first book of lecturae Boccaccii sponsored by the American Boccaccio Association, Elissa B. Weaver...

Rinaldo Rinaldi. "Melancholia Christiana." Studi sulle fonti di Leon Battista Alberti.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Rinaldo Rinaldi. "Melancholia Christiana." Studi sulle fonti di Leon Battista Alberti. Firenze: Olschki, 2002. Rinaldi's volume is, as announced in the title, a study of Alberti's sources, which are many, and of disparate kinds. The study...

Falconetto (1483). Testo Critico e Commento a cura di Andrea Canova.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Falconetto (1483). Testo Critico e Commento a cura di Andrea Canova. Mantova: Gianluigi Arcari Editore, 2001. Sentiamo la necessite di far conoscere al nostro pubblico accademico americano questa originalissima edizione del Falconetto...

Niccolo Machiavelli. The Prince.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Niccolo Machiavelli. The Prince. Trans. Rufus Goodwin and illustrated by Benjamin Martinez. Introd. William Edward C. Baynes. Ed. and with an essay by Adolph Caso. Boston: Dante UP, 2003. Tra esperienza e lezione Il dialogo tra la...

Cristina Bracchi, ed. L'alterita nella parola. Storia e scrittura di donne nel Piemonte di epoca moderna.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Cristina Bracchi, ed. L'alterita nella parola. Storia e scrittura di donne nel Piemonte di epoca moderna. La collana "Donne del Piemonte." Torino: Theleme, 2002. Questo volume uscito nella collana "Donne del Piemonte," pubblicata sotto...

Willard Bohn. The Other Futurism: Futurist Activity in Venice, Padua, and Verona.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Willard Bohn. The Other Futurism. Futurist Activity in Venice, Padua, and Verona. Toronto: U of Toronto E 2004. The Other Futurism fornisce un'importante riconsiderazione del movimento futurista nel suo insieme e compie una revisione della...

Wiley Feinstein. The Civilization of the Holocaust in Italy: Poets, Artists, Saints, Anti-Semites.
June 22, 2005... Wiley Feinstein. The Civilization of the Holocaust in Italy: Poets, Artists, Saints, Anti-Semites. Madison: Associated University Presses, 2003. In this provocative and ambitious volume, Wiley Feinstein argues that, far from a betrayal of...

Karen Pinkus. The Montesi Scandal: The Death of Wilma Montesi and the Birth of the Paparazzi in Fellini's Rome.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Karen Pinkus. The Montesi Scandal: The Death of Wilma Montesi and the Birth of the Paparazzi in Fellini's Rome. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003. The body of Wilma Montesi, a seemingly ordinary "ragazza qualunque" was found on the beach at...

Giuseppe De Marco. Caproni poeta dell'antagonismo e altre occasioni esegetiche novecentesche.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Giuseppe De Marco. Caproni poeta dell'antagonismo e altre occasioni esegetiche novecentesche. Genova: II Melangolo, 2004. La silloge di Giuseppe De Marco si compone di sette studi sulla poesia italiana del Novecento e di altrettante...

Franco Fortini. Saggi ed epigrammi.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Franco Fortini. Saggi ed epigrammi. A cura e con un saggio introduttivo di Luca Lenzini e uno scritto di Rossana Rossanda. Milano: Mondadori, 2003. This volume in the authoritative "Meridiano" series includes a selection of Fortini's...

Cristina Farronato. Eco's Chaosmos: From the Middle Ages to Postmodernity.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Cristina Farronato. Eco's Chaosmos: From the Middle Ages to Postmodernity. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. The aim of Cristina Farronato's study is to map the blending of medieval and postmodern philosophy that informs Umberto...

Bibliography of Italian Studies in North America--2004 (1).(Bibliography)
June 22, 2005... The "Bibliography of Italian Studies in North America" includes books, articles, selected book chapters, bibliographies, and reviews published here or abroad by scholars residing in the United States or Canada, as well as reviews of their...