Italica articles from September 2004

Italica archives from September 2004

From the editor.(Editorial)
September 22, 2004... In this issue, we commemorate the sad departure of Vittore Branca and Luigi Monga, two beloved scholars and colleagues who have, in different ways, contributed to the dissemination of Italian literature and culture. I was fortunate enough to...

Laurus semper castissimus sed non redemptor.
September 22, 2004... Il mito laurano nel Canzoniere e stato oggetto di numerosissimi studi, perlopiu concentrati sulla simbologia del mito e sul suo legame con la tradizione classica. (1) Non e stato finora rilevato in modo esauriente, il legame di tale mito alla...

Chaucer's Miller's Tale and Reeve's Tale, Boccaccio's Decameron, and the French fabliaux.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... While the indebtedness of Chaucer's versified comic tales to thirteenth-century French fabliaux has been closely studied by scholars, their relationship to the prose tales of Boccaccio's Decameron has been studied less and with greater...

Alcina's island: from imitation to innovation in the Orlando furioso.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... Beyond the pillars of Hercules and the Continental landmass, far from the busy central action of the Orlando furioso, lies Alcina's island. In canto VI, Ruggiero, the Furioso's dynastic hero, is carried to the island by the mythical ippogrifo....

Neera the verist woman writer.
September 22, 2004... Widely published and read in her day, the novels, short stories, and theoretical volumes of late-nineteenth-century writer Anna Radius Zuccari, in art Neera, have today been much forgotten not only by the public but by official Italian literary...

Nanni Moretti: intellettuale ibrido. Il cinema come specchio della crisi di un maitre a penser.
September 22, 2004... Il ventesimo secolo ha visto fiorire una varieta quasi illimitata d'intellettuali la cui ampia diversificazione, come sostiene Remo Ceserani, e dovuta principalmente alla complessita delle moderne societa a cui i suddetti nouveaux philosophes...

On "Cultural Studies": a response to Remo Ceserani.(Notes and Discussions)
September 22, 2004... Theory travels, as Edward Said taught us, and where there is travel, there is an economy of loss and gain. Cultural Studies is no exception. Born in Birmingham, UK, it made its way across the Atlantic in what Georges van Den Abbeele has argued...

Sette domande a Claudio Magris: a cura di Andrea Ciccarelli.(Intervista/Interview)
September 22, 2004... Notizia biografica: Claudio Magris e uno dei piu noti scrittori, critici e saggisti europei. Professore nel dipartimento di civilta germaniche all'Universita di Trieste e "visiting professor" in molti atenei europei e nordamericani ha...

Gary P. Cestaro. Dante and the Grammar of the Nursing Body.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Gary P. Cestaro. Dante and the Grammar ofthe Nursing Body. Notre Dame, IN: U of Notre Dame P, 2003. Gary Cestaro's study, the fifth book in "The William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies" through the University of Notre Dame...

Massimo Ciavolella and Roberto Fedi, eds. Giacomo Filippo Tomasini, Petrarcha Redivivus (Padua, 1635).(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Massimo Ciavolella and Roberto Fedi, eds. Giacomo Filippo Tomasini, Petrarcha Redivivus (Padua, 1635). Facsimile edition. Trans. Edoardo Bianchini and Tommaso Braccini. Pistoia: Libreria dell'Orso, 2004. The big news coming out of the...

Maurizio Vitale e Vittore Branca. Il capolavoro del Boccaccio e due diverse redazioni.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Maurizio Vitale e Vittore Branca. Il capolavoro del Boccaccio e due diverse redazioni. 2 Vols. Venezia: Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, "Memorie," 2002. Vol. 1: Maurizio Vitale, "La riscrittura del Decameron. I mutamenti...

Carmela Pesca. La citta maschera: geometria e dinamica della citta Rinascimentale.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Carmela Pesca. La citta maschera: geometria e dinamica della citta Rinascimentale. Ravenna: Longo, 2002. Il volnmetto consiste di una breve introduzione e di otto capitoli di cui quattro ripropongono, modificano, abbozzano, approfondiscono...

Francesco Buoninsegni and Suor Arcangela Tarabotti. Satira e Antisatira.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Francesco Buoninsegni and Suor Arcangela Tarabotti. Satira e Antisatira. Ed. Elissa Weaver. Rome: Salerno, 1998. This slim but precious volume edited by Elissa Weaver is comprised of two seventeenth-century treatises. Contro 'l lusso...

Elisabetta Caminer Turra. Selected Writings of an Eighteenth-Century Venetian Woman of Letters.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Elisabetta Caminer Turra. Selected Writings of an Eighteenth-Century Venetian Woman of Letters. Ed. and trans. Catherine M. Sama. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003. The book under review is part of the series, "The Other Voice in Early Modern...

Grazia Deledda. Ashes.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Grazia Deledda. Ashes. Trans. Jan Kozma. Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2004. It is always a pleasure to learn that another translation of Grazia Deledda's fiction has made its way into print, an occasion one always hopes will help boost her...

Valerio Ferme. Tradurre e tradire: la traduzione come sovversione culturale sotto il Fascismo.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Valerio Ferme. Tradurre e tradire: la traduzione come sovversione culturale sotto il Fascismo. Ravenna: Londo Editore, 2002. In the opening chapter of this impressive volume, Valerio Ferme notes that the literary translation has been...

Daria Valentini and Paola Caru, eds. Beyond Artemisia: Female Subjectivity, History, and Culture in Anna Banti.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Daria Valentini and Paola Caru, eds. Beyond Artemisia: Female Subjectivity, History, and Culture in Anna Banti. Chapel Hill, NC: Annali d'Italianisrica, 2003. Comprised of an introduction, four sections and concluding remarks, this volume...

Anthony Julian Tamburri. Semiotics of Re-Reading: Guido Gozzano, Aldo Palazzeschi, and Italo Calvino.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Anthony Julian Tamburri. Semiotics of re-reading: Guido Gozzano, Aldo Palazzeschi, and Italo Calvino. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2003. Anthony Tamburri's latest book marks a return, after years dedicated to the discovery and...

Millicent Marcus. After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Millicent Marcus. After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2002. Con la morte di Federico Fellini, gennaio del 1994, regista che nel mondo era la firma del cinema italiano di un periodo d'oro in cui...

Ricordo di Vittore Branca (1913-2004) *.
September 22, 2004... (Convegno della AATI, Novembre 18-21, 1988, Monterey, California) Presentare il Professor Vittore Branca ai membri della AATI che partecipano a questo convegno annuale della nostra associazione e, per me, motivo di particolare compiacimento...

In memoriam: Luigi Monga (1941-2004).(Biography)
September 22, 2004... The scholarly community was shocked and saddened by the news that Luigi Monga, professor of French and Italian at Vanderbilt University, died July 10, after suffering a stroke July 7 (Chronicle of Higher Education [July 18, 2004]). He is...