Métamorphoser les sorcières : une satire picturale de Salvator Rosa ?
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Status and Lived Experience in Medieval Italian Communes
Throughout the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the communes of Florence and Bologna opened participation in government to large portions of their adult male populations. As these efforts to broaden political power unfolded, popular régimes sought to protect their monopolies on political power by targeting specific groups for exclusion from a v...
El pensamiento anti postmodernista de Anna Maria Ortese: el análisis histórico a través de la experiencia desde el marge...
This work is an exercise of re-vision (Rich 1972) that aims to carry out an intertextual examination which will confront the ideas of the Italian writer Anna Maria Ortese presented in Corpo celeste (1997) with other academic works that analyze the transformation of the postmodern society, considering that Ortese wrote outside any academic or intell...
The Other Others: Negotiating Alterity in Postwar Triestine Literature
The present study explores negotiations of alterity in the Triestine literature of Claudio Magris, Boris Pahor, Giuliana Morandini and Giorgio Pressburger. Nestled between the Adriatic and Slovenia, the former major port and commercial hub of the Austro-Hungarian Empire has long been recognized as an intersection of Germanic, Italian and Slavic cul...
The Fold & the Limit: Baroque Revival & Anti-Fascist Resistance in Modern Italian Literature
The rediscovery of the Baroque at the turn of the twentieth century revolutionized Italian culture, and the Italian Novecento has been called a “new Baroque.” The present study, "The Fold & the Limit: Baroque Revival & Anti-Fascist Resistance in Modern Italian Literature," investigates how and why three major Italian writers—Giuseppe Ungaretti (188...
Dlaczego komedia? Rozważania Giorgia Agambena jako próba odpowiedzi / Why a Comedy? Giorgio Agamben’s Reflection as an A...
In his text titled Comedy, included in the collection of essays named The End of the Poem, Giorgio Agamben — the famous contemporary Italian philosopher — took up the problem of the ambiguity of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy title. This issue has always been present in Dante studies since the Comedy itself was written. However, Agamben’s essay co...
Intertestualità ed echi leonardiani nelle Considerazioni sulla pittura di Giulio Mancini
La ricezione degli scritti sulla pittura di Leonardo da Vinci nella letteratura artistica della prima metà del Seicento è una preoccupazione recente negli studi leonardiani che non è mai arrivata fino alle Considerazioni sulla pittura di Giulio Mancini (1559-1630). Oltre all’analisi dello statuto di Leonardo artista all’interno delle biografie, ved...
Désastres (XIVe-XVIIe siècle)
Disasters and catastrophes are considered here through forms of response that primarily relate to the capacity of late medieval and early modern Italian societies to place calamities in a realm of collective understanding through language, literature or philosophy. The interpretive tension that we observe throughout these centuries unfolds through ...
Bold Fantasy: The Macaronic Epic of Teofilo Folengo Between Ariosto and Rabelais
The Baldus, a lengthy macaronic epic crafted over the course of a lifetime by one of Italy's greatest poets, is a masterpiece of Christian serio ludere which presents to readers a rousing and protracted rebuttal to the Platonic critique of poetry. This dissertation performs a three-chapter examination of the language, genre, and text of the four ed...
From Constitutional Transitions to the Great National Transition: A Constant and Obstinate Italian Narrative
Published in Pólemos
The essay aims to illustrate the ways in which Italian literature deals with transitions (constitutional or political). After having clarified the methodological approach, the author identifies and describes in the national literature some historical phases, analysing the trends emerging from the reading of famous novels. In conclusion, some observ...
