The present research work, devoted to the critical work of Edoardo Sanguineti, focuses mainly on the definition of “Italian literary canon of the twentieth century” formulated by Sanguineti, and on the relations between this Italian poet and literary critic and the avant-garde poetics of the last century, in relation to the question of the “sublime...
This dissertation is a comparative study of literary texts authored by sixteenth-century Italian women that treat female friendship across the genres of epistolary writing, lyric poetry, and heroic poetry. The primary works under consideration include the correspondence between Elisabetta Gonzaga (1471–1526) and Isabella d’Este (1474–1539), the lyr...
The essay investigates Vitaliano Brancati's narrative work, beyond any ideological or regionalistic reading, in the light of the dualism between youth and immaturity which characterizes the stories of several characters. Between nostalgia for the past and inability to face the present, Brancati's characters live in a dimension of existential immobi...
This dissertation is an investigation of the local/global tensions shaping the aesthetics of three Italian authors born in the 20th century: Cesare Pavese (1908-1950), Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), and Gianni Celati (b. 1937). I argue that the relational coexistence of different geopolitical spaces operates in their literary and cinematic aesthe...
The paper offers an overview of the complex, not easy period in which Antonio Panizzi was teaching at London University (1828-1831), innovatively suggesting that “a uniform program be adopted for the study of all modern languages and literatures” and nevertheless dedicating himself to research with care and passion. In the article, the teaching mat...
This article proposes the analysis of some narrative texts by the Sicilian writer Giuseppe Bonaviri, in search of the ways in which he rewrites topoi, archetypes, mythologemes, fables, according to a postmodern style and spirit. / L’articolo propone l’analisi di alcuni testi narrativi dello scrittore siciliano Giuseppe Bonaviri, alla ricerca dei mo...
Benedetta Cappa Marinetti does not simply write novels, she constructs them. Over the span of ten years, Benedetta pairs narrative first with images, then with performative elements, and lastly, with letters. She applies her abstract and conceptual style to observable and palpable works. In her first novel, Le forze umane (1926), Benedetta parallel...
Giannina Bertarelli (Italy, 1921- Cuba, 1994) has been cited on very few occasions as part of Cuba cultural panorama. However, she was an influential figure not only in the dissemination of Italian and French literature through her translations for the magazine Pensamiento Crítico and then for the Cuban Book Institute, but also as a pioneer in teac...
Storia di una malattia by Amelia Rosselli is a short text in which the narrator recounts the tortuous surveillance she allegedly suffers from the CIA. From the beginning, however, the reader warns of the persecutory mania that corrodes the narrator's mind. Delirium, encysted in his speech, articulates a problematic relationship between the true and...
Having influenced his intellectual growth since the outbreak of the Civil War, Spanish culture became a mirror through which Leonardo Sciascia would reread his Sicilian origins. In the various historical, cultural and literary investigations that he carried out about the island, therefore, he constantly mentions the Iberian dimension. Of that proli...
