Italica articles from March 2003

Italica archives from March 2003

`Occult' power: the politics of witchcraft and superstition in Renaissance Florence.
March 22, 2003... D.H. Lawrence introduced his translation of the last novella of Antonfrancesco Grazzini's collection Le cene by stating that it would be "difficult to find a work more typical of the times" (ix). Grazzini, a "typical Florentine" has written...

A ciascuno il suo. L'abito, il corpo e il profumo in Rube di Giuseppe Antonio Borgese.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... Nell'atto della creazione letteraria un artista non solo sceglie coscientemente un nome per il proprio personaggio, ma gli attribuisce determinati connotati fisici, gestualita, parole ed infine, abiti, profumi, odori particolari. Questi...

Vita postuma del Gattopardo: recuperi, commenti e singolarita.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... Un livre n'est pas acheve par son auteur, il l'est par le lecteur, par la philosophie du lecteur.... Le sens que prendra l'oeuvre de Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ne saurait etre que celui de l'histoire.--Louis Aragon, Lettres francaises, 17-23...

Dal "pedinamento" all'affabulazione cinematografica in Stanno tutti bene.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... Stanno tutti bene, un film di Giuseppe Tornatore (1) del 1990, (2) e un saggio di costume, che si pone obiettivi polemici nel ritrarre la vita di una famiglia siciliana e nel sottolineare il comportamento di un genitore e del figli che non...

Primo Levi: the biographer's challenge and the reader's double bind.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Carole Angier. The Double Bond: Primo Levi. A Biography. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002. I must begin with an apology for the fact that this review will be as much about my own double bind in evaluating Angier's biography as it...

Manganelli and Niccolai: the unlikely bond between a Junghian "bishop" and a Buddhist nun.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Giulia Niccolai. Esoterico biliardo. Archinto: Milano, 2001. Emanuele Trevi, ed. Manganelli, Giorgio. Il vescovo e il ciarlatano. Inconscio, casi clinici, psicologia del profondo. Scritti 1969-1987. Quiritta: Roma, 2001. Two of the most...

Italinemo: un sito per le riviste di italianistica nel mondo.
March 22, 2003... Nel novembre del 2000 la rivista Esperienze letterarie ha promosso un convegno internazionale, tenutosi a Napoli, dal titolo "Le riviste di italianistica nel mondo." Durante tale evento nacque il progetto ITALINEMO (Italianistica nel mondo)...

Giorgio Baroni e Mario Puppo. Manuale critico-bibliografico per lo studio della letteratura italiana.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Torino: SEI, 2002. Sui tavoli di quelli che allora erano detti Istituti, aperto e consultato, piu spesso che tenuto sotto vetro nelle teche o negli armadi della biblioteca, il Manuale di Mario Puppo forniva indicazioni bibliografiche di...

Graziella Parati and Ben Lawton, eds. Italian Cultural Studies.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Boca Raton, FL: Bordighera, 2001. This fine volume includes 14 essays that were originally presented at the First Annual Italian Cultural Studies conference, held at Dartmouth College in October 1999. The editors divide the book into two...

Valeria Finucci and Kevin Brownlee, eds. Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity to Early Modern Europe.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Durham: Duke UP, 2001. As diverse as they may seem, the articles contained in this volume share a common purpose when dealing with what could be termed an "archaeology of the body," insofar as they investigate sexual identity and gender...

Luigi Scorrano. Il Dante "fascista." Saggi, letture, note dantesche.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2001. Luigi Scorrano's book is comprised of nine studies, seven of which have been previously published as articles in European scholarly journals. Thus, it is primarily, although not exclusively, a compendium of...

Victoria Kirkham. Fabulous Vernacular. Boccaccio's Filocolo and the Art of Medieval Fiction.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2001. Fabulous Vernacular presents a set of chapters that can be read separately but also connect closely to form what Kirkham calls a "topology" of Boccaccio's massive Filocolo, mapped into the broader context...

Eugenio Giusti. Dall'amore cortese alla comprensione. Il viaggio ideologico di Giovanni Boccaccio dalla Caccia di Diana al Decameron.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Milano: Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto, 1999. Dalla Caccia di Diana al Decameron si snoda il "viaggio ideologico" di Giovanni Boccaccio dagli angusti e circoscritti lidi dell'eros alle tranquille acque nel porto...

Luca Chiavoni, Gianfranco Ferlisi, e Maria Vittoria Grassi, eds. Leon Battista Alberti e il Quattrocento. Studi in onore di Cecil Grayson e Ernst Gombrich.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Atti del convegno, Mantova, 1998. Firenze: Olschki, 2001 ("Ingenium," n. 3). Thanks to the Centro Studi Leon Battista Alberti of Mantua with its steadfast cultural initiatives, we have now at our disposal a number of volumes devoted to the...

Leonardo Bruni. History of the Florentine People. Volume I: Books I-IV.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Ed. and trans. James Hankins. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2001. The appearance of this volume is an event to be celebrated. It is the third component of a new series known as the "I Tatti Renaissance Library," named for the villa near...

Salvatore Di Maria. The Italian Tragedy in the Renaissance--Cultural Realities and Theatrical Innovations.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2002. In this book, Salvatore Di Maria takes issue with the established critical view that for centuries has characterized Italian Renaissance playwrights as "slavish imitators." He argues most successfully that...

Luciana Morelli, ed. Il carteggio tra Amaduzzi e Corilla Olimpica 1775-1792.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Firenze: Olschki, 2000. Il presente libro, decimo volume della collana "Cultura e memoria" promossa dalla Provincia di Firenze, contiene 451 lettere scambiate fra l'erudito ecclesiastico Giovanni Cristofano Amaduzzi, professore di lingua...

Arnaldo Di Benedetto. Dal tramonto dei lumi al Romanticismo.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Valutazioni. "Il vaglio" 46. Modena: Mucchi Editore, 2000. Di Benedetto, italianista di alto livello, legato al prestigioso Giornale storico della letteratura italiana, non ha certo bisogno di essere presentato ai lettori di Italica. In...

Ellen Nerenberg. Prison Terms: Representing Confinement During and After Italian Fascism.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Toronto: Toronto UP, 2002. This provocative study analyzes the experience of confinement in Italy during and immediately following the twenty-year role of the Fascist Regime; it covers the period 1930-1960. The recent burgeoning of...

Franco Zangrilli. Pirandello nell'America latina.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Fiesole: Cadmo, 2001. This is another scholarly work on Pirandello by Franco Zangrilli, who teaches Italian and Comparative Literature at Baruch College, CUNY. From the blurb on the back cover, and indeed throughout the work, one learns...

Anna Grimaldi Morosoff. Transfigurations. The Autobiographical Novels of Sibilla Aleramo.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... New York: Peter Lang, 1999. Piace avvicinarsi a questo sentito lavoro di Anna Grimaldi Morosoff rifacendosi al titolo, Transfigurations, ed al suo immediato legarsi a quella lettera di Sibilla Aleramo, scritta nel 1912 e pubblicata nel...

Esperienze letterarie Cesare Pavese.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... 25.3-4 (2000). Marco Santoro, in his short but insightful preface to the special volume of Esperienze letterarie dedicated to the memory of Cesare Pavese on the 50th anniversary of his passing, refers to Pavese as "uno degli intellettuali...

Alan R. Perry. Il santo partigiano martire. La retorica del sacrificio nelle biografie commemorative.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Ravenna: Longo, 2001. Alan Perry has gathered an anthology of commemorative biographies of Italian partisans who were executed by German and Italian fascists in Italy during the waning years of World War II. He maintains that these...

Maricla Boggio, a cura di. Le Isabelle. Dal teatro della Maddalena alla Isabella Andreini.
March 22, 2003... Nardo: Besa Editrice, 2002. In un articolo citato da Tony Mitchell (Theatre Journal 42 [1990]: 338), Dacia Maraini rifletteva sull'esperienza della Maddalena e commentava che di tutto il lavoro di quegli anni non era rimasta quasi traccia....

John Kirby. Secrets of the Muses Retold: Classical Influences on Italian Authors of the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2000. At first glance, John Kirby's original and supple book appears to be a work of comparative literary criticism notable for its semiotic approach and broad classical erudition. He examines key texts of five...

Brief notices.
March 22, 2003... The contents of Esperienze letterarie, Anno 27, Fascicolo 2 (2002) are the following: Antonello Perli, "L'essere e il nulla nella poesia di Michelstaedter" (3-28); Marco Santoro, "Italinemo" (29-54); Natalia Costa-Zalessow, "Le Fantasie...

In memoriam: David Ralph Hershberg (1935-2002).(Obituary)
March 22, 2003... Dr. David R. Hershberg's many friends and colleagues lament his loss resulting from a long battle with multiple myeloma, a deadly form of bone cancer on December 22, 2002. David Hershberg's prolonged fight with that lethal ailment symbolized...

Books received 2002.(Bibliography)
March 22, 2003... Alfie, Fabian. Comedy and Culture. Cecco Angiolieri's Poetry and Late Medieval Society. Leeds: Northern UP, 2001. Pp. 216. Ardizzone, Maria Luisa. Guido Cavalcanti. The Other Middle Ages. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2002. Pp. 231. ...

AATI 2002 general business meeting.(American Association Teachers of Italian)
March 22, 2003... The Annual Business meeting of the AATI was convened at 6:00 pm by the President, Christopher Kleinhenz, at 5:00 p.m. in the Auditorium of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. President's Report President Christopher...