Italica articles from March 2004

Italica archives from March 2004

From the editor.(Editorial)
March 22, 2004... In publishing the first issue of 2004, I would like to express my gratitude to the editorial committee of the AATI for having entrusted me with the delicate task of editing Italica. My sincere thanks go to the Dean of the College of Arts and...

"O cinquecento, e cinque, e diece guarda": a riddle poem and Dantesque mosaic (1).
March 22, 2004... Scholars have extensively researched the reception of Dante's works in the Quattrocento. Vittorio Rossi lists the following fifteenth-century works as demonstrating Dante's influence: Matteo Palmieri's Citta di vita, Marino Jonata's Anima...

Il narratore delle Novelle del Bandello e la funzione mediatrice della scrittura.
March 22, 2004... Questa istorietta, essendo io venuto a far riverenza al mio valoroso signor Pirro Gonzaga vostro zio, e ragionandosi dei vari casi che avvengano, comando esso signor Pirro al mio compar da bene messer Gian Matteo Olivo, mezzo cantore, che...

Letters from the Cloister: defending the literary self in Arcangela Tarabotti's Lettere familiari e di complimento.
March 22, 2004... When the Venetian nun and protofeminist writer Arcangela Tarabotti (1604-52) published her Lettere familiari e di complimento in 1650, she positioned herself within a literary tradition that had gained new momentum in the sixteenth century and...

Schismogenesis and national character: the D'Annunzio-Mussolini correspondence.
March 22, 2004... In 1911, Gabriele D'Annunzio, self-described "uomo d'azione," hoped to encourage the outbreak of World War I by going into "esilio volontario" in France, where he would dedicate himself to art, love, and life. Four years later, after...

The pregnant nun: Suor Attanasia and the metaphor of arrested maternity in Dacia Maraini.
March 22, 2004... There is no protection for the woman who sings. --Rodica Diaconescu-Blumenfeld The critic Judith Bryce, in reviewing the negative portrayal of mothers in Voci (1994), aptly summarizes the figure of the mother in Maraini's work as...

A master narrative in Italian cinema?
March 22, 2004... Andre Bazin wrote that when reduced to basic plot elements, Italian films are often structured like moralizing melodramas (264). Bazin was writing about the thematic debts that neorealism owed to the Italian professional cinema before World War...

Guglielmo Gorni. Dante prima della Commedia.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Guglielmo Gorni. Dante prima della Commedia. Florence: Cadmo, 2001. This is a collection of thirteen essays originally published between 1988 and 2000, all dealing with Dante's minor works, but ranging in focus from the evaluation of...

Maria Sabrina Titone. Cantiche del Novecento. Dante nell'opera di Luzi e Pasolini.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Mafia Sabrina Titone. Cantiche del Novecento. Dante nell'opera di Luzi e Pasolini. Citta di Castello: Fondazione Carlo Marchi/Leo S. Olschki, 2001. In un appassionato e rigoroso studio critico, puntualmente verificato sui testi, Maria...

Fabian Alfie. Comedy and Culture: Cecco Angiolieri's Poetry and Late Medieval Society.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Fabian Alfie. Comedy and Culture: Cecco Angiolieri's Poetry and Late Medieval Society. Leeds: Northern Universities Press, 2001. Fabian Alfie's book-length study of the prolific Sienese poet Cecco Angiolieri seeks to correct previous work...

Giovambattista Giraldi Cinzio. Discorso dei romanzi.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Giovambattista Giraldi Cinzio. Discorso dei romanzi. Ed. Laura Benedetti, Giuseppe Monorchio, and Enrico Musacchio. Bologna: Millennium, 1999. This is a much needed and superbly executed edition of the Discorso intorno al comporte dei...

Vittorio Zaccaria. Boccaccio narratore, storico, moralista e mitografo.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Vittorio Zaccaria. Boccaccio narratore, storico, moralista e mitografo. "Biblioteca di Lettere Italiane. Studi e testi," LVII. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 2001. Vittorio Zaccaria is the preeminent scholar today of Boccaccio's Latin writings....

Viaggiatori stranieri a Pisa dal Cinquecento al Novecento.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Viaggiatori stranieri a Pisa dal Cinquecento al Novecento. Testi introdotti e tradotti da Marina Bailo, Carlo Carmassi, Mario Curreli, Antonella Magliocchi, coordinatore Luigi Blasucci. Pisa: Nistri-Lischi, 2003. Questo ampio volume e,...

Jacqueline Boudard. Rome au XIXe siecle vue a travers les guides de l'epoque.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Jacqueline Boudard. Rome au XIXe siecle vue dt travers les guides de l'epoque. Preface et illustrations par Emanuele Kanceff. Moncalieri: Centro interuniversitario di ricerche sul Viaggio in Italia, 2003. Arrivato a Roma, al viaggiatore...

Alessandro Napoli. Il racconto e i colori: "storie" e "cartelli" dell'Opera dei Pupi catanese.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Alessandro Napoli. Il racconto e i colori: "storie" e "cartelli" dell'Opera dei Pupi catanese. Palermo: Sellerio, 2002. As the subtitle indicates, this volume explores two aspects of puppet theater in Catania: the illustrated cartelli that...

Grazia Deledda. The Church of Solitude.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Grazia Deledda. The Church of Solitude. Trans. E. Ann Matter. Albany, NY: SUNY, 2002. Sardinian novelist Grazia Deledda (1871-1936) was one of the most prolific writers of her time. Her numerous novels, set for the most part in the...

Fabio Girelli Carasi. Lavorare stanca. Canzoniere suo malgrado.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Fabio Girelli Carasi. Lavorare stanca. Canzoniere suo malgrado. Bolzano: Il Brennero/ Der Brenner, 2001. In un approfondito studio critico, puntualmente verificato sui testi, Fabio Girelli Carasi traccia un quadro quanto mai penetrante...

Simona Micali. Miti e riti del moderno. Marinetti, Bontempelli, Pirandello.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Simona Micali. Miti e riti del moderno. Marinetti, Bontempelli, Pirandello. Firenze: Le Monnier, 2002. Mito e riti del moderno di Simona Micah e uno studio scmpoloso e appassionato di tre scrittori, Marinetti, Bontempelli e Pirandello, i...

Giuliana Minghelli. In the Shadow of the Mammoth: Italo Sevo and the Emergence of Modernism.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Giuliana Minghelli. In the Shadow of the Mammoth: Italo Sevo and the Emergence of Modernism. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2002. In recent years, Italo Svevo's importance in the Anglo-American academy has grown, as attempts have been made to...

Flavia Brizio-Skov. Antonio Tabucchi. Navigazioni in un arcipelago narrativo.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Flavia Brizio-Skov. Antonio Tabucchi. Navigazioni in un arcipelago narrativo. Cosenza: Pellegrini, 2002. Those who have been following Flavia Brizio-Skov's critical work on Tabucchi will be sure to greet this physically handsome and...

Katia Pizzi. A City in Search of an Author: the Literary Identity of Trieste.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Katia Pizzi. A City in Search of an Author: The Literary Identity of Trieste. London: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001. Katia Pizzi might have titled her book "A City with Many Authors" since the evidence she provides to examine "the...

Nicoletta Simborowski. Secrets and Puzzles. Silence and the Unsaid in Contemporary Italian Writing.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Nicoletta Simborowski. Secrets and Puzzles. Silence and the Unsaid in Contemporary Italian Writing. Oxford: Legenda, 2003. Primo Levi, Cesare Pavese, Natalia Ginzburg, and Francesca Sanvitale are at the center of Nicoletta Simborowski's...

Janet Levarie Smarr and Daria Valentini, eds. Italian Women and the City.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Janet Levarie Smart and Daria Valentini, eds. Italian Women and the City. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 2003. In the past ten to fifteen years literary critics, sociologists, political scientists and historians have produced...

Antonio Vitti and Roberta Morosini, eds. In Search of Italia: Saggi sulla cultura dell'Italia contemporanea.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Antonio Vitti and Roberta Morosini, eds. In Search of Italia: Saggi sulla cultura dell'Italia contemporanea. Pesaro: Metauro, 2003. Antonio Vitti and Roberta Morosini have woven together a series of thirteen essays that explore various...

Carlo Testa. Masters of Two Arts: Re-creation of European Literatures in Italian Cinema.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Carlo Testa. Masters of Two Arts: Re-creation of European Literatures in Italian Cinema. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2002. Carlo Testa's volume Masters of Two Arts: Re-creation of European Literatures in Italian Cinema is a study of Italian...

Brief notices.(Bibliography)
March 22, 2004... Esperienze Letterarie, Anno XXVIII, Fascicolo 1 (2003): Marco Santoro, "In memoriam: Lorenzo Frattarolo (1912-2003)" (3-11); Georges Guntert, "Manzoni, Schiller e A. W. Schlegel: dalla teoria degli stili all'episodio della madre di Cecilia"...

Books received 2003.(Bibliography)
March 22, 2004... Alessandro Manzoni, Two Plays. Trans. Michael J. Curley. New York: Peter Lang, 2002. Pp. 233. Annoni, Carlo. La poesia di Parini e la citta secolare. Milan: Vita & Pensiero, 2002. Pp. 181. Balducci, Marino Alberto. Quartine d'amore....

AATI 2003 General Business Meeting.
March 22, 2004... The Annual Business Meeting of the AATI was convened on Saturday, November 22 at 6:00 p.m. at the Marriott Hotel in Philadelphia. President's Report President Christopher Kleinhenz welcomed those members in attendance at the Business...