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Italica articles from September 2002

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Italica archives from September 2002

The pathways of knowledge in Boiardo and Ariosto: the case of Rodamonte.
September 22, 2002... "All men by nature desire to know."--Aristotle, Metaphysics How do we come to know? What can be known? How can true knowledge be distinguished from belief and opinion? What are the effects of knowledge? How does knowledge shape the course...

Boccaccio ambiguo maestro di Della Casa: "il donare cortesia" nell'episodio de "Il discreto famigliare" del Galateo.(text in Italian; Giovanni Boccaccio)
September 22, 2002... Con un trattato radicato nella realta effettuale, rappresentazione di un mondo in cui la discrezione non e facolta umana ma divina e le cattive maniere prevalgono sulle buone, Giovanni Della Casa consegna al lettore un ideale, l'utopia della...

Maria Ginanni: futurist woman and visual writer.
September 22, 2002... Maria Ginanni, called Maria Crisi before her marriage to Count Arnaldo Ginanni-Corradini (who adopted Ginna as his pseudonym), made a major contribution to Florentine Futurism. She promoted cultural debates, collaborated in publishing the...

Il segno culinario come campo di tensione nella narrativa di Ignazio Silone.(text in Italian)
September 22, 2002... I. Silone regionale e campi tematici Nella conclusione al "Viaggio a Parigi," dall'omonima raccolta di novelle pubblicata a Zurigo nel 1934, Ignazio Silone cosi riflette sul cammino del suo protagonista, per voce del vecchio ciabattino...

Artemisia: the invention of a `real' woman.(Anna Banti; Artemisia Gentileschi)
September 22, 2002... In 1985, the Florentine daily La Nazione announced the death of Anna Banti with the heading "Addio Artemisia!" (Wood 119). Although Banti published many other novels, short stories, and art history essays, Artemisia was, and still is, her...

Performance, or getting a piece of the other, or in the name of the father, or the dark continent of femininity, or just like a woman: Anna Maria Ortese's L'iguana.
September 22, 2002... There was a young gaucho named Bruno Who said about love, This I do know: Women are fine, and sheep are divine, But iguanas are--Numero Uno! (Tennessee Williams, The Night of the Iguana) Nothing is true, everything is permitted. (Friedrich...

Interpreting the Risorgimento: Blasetti's 1860 and the legacy of motherly love.(Alessandro Blasetti)
September 22, 2002... Alessandro Blasetti's 1860 has recently been the focus of literary and film criticism, which analyzed various aspects of the film, including the didactic and ideological nature of the director's interpretation of the Risorgimento. (1) For his...

Massimo Lollini. Il vuoto della forma. Scrittura, testimonianza e verita.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Genova: Marietti, 2001. Massimo Lollini e professore associato di Letteratura Italiana alla University of Oregon a Eugene, ed e gia autore di Le muse, le maschere e il sublime. Giambattista Vico e la poesia nell'eta della "ragione...

Elvio Guagnini. Viaggi d'inchiostro: note su viaggi e letteratura in Italia.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Pasian di Prato: Campanotto Editore, 2000. Among the most encouraging recent trends in literary studies is the growth of interest in the literature of travel. In a world that has become decidedly small and familiar, scholars have developed...

Antonello Borra. Guittone d'Arezzo e le maschere del poeta. La lirica cortese tra ironia e palinodia.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2000. The mystery of the Italian poetry of the Duecento might well find its epicenter in Guittone d'Arezzo. Antonello Borra's Guittone d'Arezzo e le maschere del poeta. La lirica cortese tra ironia e palinodia,...

Dante Alighieri. The Divine Comedy: Selected Cantos / La divina commedia: Canti scelti. A Dual-Language Book.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Trans. Stanley Appelbaum. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2000. In this edition, Stanley Appelbaum performs what can be called a line-by-line translation of the Commedia. In other words, each canto is reproduced in English with a canto of the exact...

Vickie B. Sullivan, ed. The Comedy and Tragedy of Machiavelli: Essays on the Literary Works.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... New Haven: Yale UP, 2000. The eight contributors to this collection of scholarly essays focus mostly on the question of whether Machiavelli's vision of the world is comic or tragic, that is, whether he believes that humans can, at times,...

Ronnie Ferguson. The Theatre of Angelo Beolco (Ruzante). Text, Context and Performance.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Ravenna: Longo, 2000. L'opera del Ruzante ha sempre occupato uno spazio tutto suo nell'ambito del teatro rinnascimentale, tanto per la nota complessita linguistica, quanto per la varieta di genere, differenziandosi non solo dalla commedia...

Torquato Tasso. Aminta.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Ed. and trans. Charles Jemingan and Irene Marchegiani Jones. New York: Italica, 2000. When Tasso wrote his Aminta he had no doubt that he had created a new pastoral genre. In the Renaissance the pastoral form (and its origin identifiable...

Jeanne Chenault Porter, ed. and intro. Baroque Naples: A Documentary History, 1600-1800.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... New York: Italica Press, 2000. In his "Foreword" to Jeanne Chenault Porter's anthology of Neapolitan sourcewritings, Baroque Naples: A Documentary History, 1600-1800, Ronald G. Musto explains the neglect Naples has suffered as a historical...

Paola Trivero. Tragiche donne. Tipologie femminili nel teatro italiano del Settecento.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Alessandria: Edizioni Dell'Orso, 2000. Scelta felice, quella di Paola Trivero, di analizzare alcune tipologie femminili della tragedia italiana del Settecento, sia perche consente di osservare l'impiego e l'evoluzione dei modelli classici...

Jacques Misan-Montefiore. Venise des voyageurs romantiques francais.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Moncalieri: Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerche sul Viaggio in Italia, 2000. Il fascino che la Serenissima ha esercitato sull'animo dei Romantici francesi e innegabile e i testi che lo illustrano sono numerosissimi. L'attrazione di...

Enrico Cesaretti. Castelli di carta: retorica della dimora tra Scapigliatura e Surrealismo.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2001. In Castelli di carta, Enrico Cesaretti gives a provocative reading of nineteenth--and twentieth-century Italian and European literature from Scapigliatura to Surrealism. By sketching a typology or "retorica...

Pier Massimo Prosio. Da Palazzo Madama al Valentino, Torino, e Gozzano. Studi sulla letteratura del primo Novecento in Piemonte.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Turin: Centro Studi Piemontesi--Ca de Studi Piemonteis, 2000. With this volume Pier Massimo Prosio adds to his already extensive production of works on Piedmontese authors and on the culture of the Piedmont region. These include Dal Meleto...

Francois Orsini. Pirandello e l'Europa.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Cosenza: Luigi Pellegrini Editore, 2001. With his latest volume, Francois Orsini provides a cogent discussion of Pirandello's work within the context of German Expressionism and French culture. Orsini's analyses of Pirandello's debt to...

Guido Bonsaver. Elio Vittorini. The Writer and the Written.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Leeds: Northern Universities Press, 2000. Guido Bonsaver propone in questo libro una rivisitazione avvincente ed accurata della figura intellettuale ed artistica di Vittorini collocandone allo stesso tempo la vicenda umana e la produzione...

Roberta S. Kremer, ed. Memory and Mastery: Primo Levi as Writer and Witness.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Albany: State U of New York P, 2001. Primo Levi's first Holocaust memoir, Se questo e un uomo, was published in 1947 and sold fewer than 2,000 copies. However, due to the success of this work's republication by Einaudi in 1956 and of...

Giuseppe Conte. The Seasons.(text in Italian)(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Ed. and trans. Laura Stortoni-Hager. Chapel Hill, NC: Annali d'Italianistica, 2001. Poeta, romanziere, drammaturgo, critico letterario e traduttore, Giuseppe Conte emerge come una delle figure piu dinamiche ed interessanti nel panorama...

Franco Nasi, ed. Intorno alla Via Emilia. Per una geografia culturale dell'Italia contemporanea.(text in Italian)(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Boca Raton: Bordighera, 2001. "[...] longh, ch'u n fineva mai, / l'era cme un viaz, e de la perta dla / e un u i pareva d'es un furistir, / ench' la zenta i zcureva t'un elt modi [...] (lungo, che non finiva mai, / era come un viaggio, e...

Carlo Celli. The Divine Comic: the Cinema of Roberto Benigni.(text in Italian)(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2001. Il libro di Carlo Celli, parte della collana dedicata ai registi della Casa Editrice Scarecrow, e il primo importante studio in lingua inglese sul funambolico attore e cineasta Roberto Benigni. La monografia...

Errata corrige.(Correction Notice)
September 22, 2002... In our Summer issue, Italica 79.2, on page 285 the place and year of publication of the book reviewed were omitted. The review written by Judith Mayne, of The Ohio State University, should bave been titled: Gaetana Marrone. The Gaze and the...

Brief notices.
September 22, 2002... In Esperienze letterarie, Anno 26, Fascicolo 1 (2001), found are the following articles: Paolo Cherchi, "La `Selva' de I marmi doniani" (3-40); Michele Cataudella, "Le sette stanze sulla vita di S. Benedetto di Torquato Tasso" (41-50); David...

In memoriam Robert S. Dombroski (1939-2002).(Obituary)
September 22, 2002... Robert S. Dombroski, Professor Emeritus at the University of Connecticut and Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School at the City University of New York, died of infectious endocarditis in Paris on May 10, 2002. The first time I laid...

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