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...
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Starting from a brief summary of the history of translation into Spanish of Leopardi’s poem L’infinito, this article means to show, through an analysis of two translation (one by the Spanish poet Antonio Colinas and one by the Spanish philologist Mª de las Nieves Muñiz) how deeply the philosophical interpretation of the text, as much as their own t...
“The Orphan-Hero in Italian Renaissance Epic” investigates a commonplace present in epic poetry from antiquity to the Renaissance: the orphan-hero, a protagonist who grows up without the guidance of biological parents. The study traces this figure from its origins to the early modern period, beginning with classical epic in the introduction and foc...
After a first part dedicated to the relationship of four Sicilian writers with the cinema, this article focuses on some characteristics with which the cinematographic representation of Sicily takes shape in The Leopard, a film directed by Luchino Visconti in 1963 and transposition of the historical novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. / Después d...
In early modern Europe, love was not a feeling, but a physiological change in the body. In its extreme, love was lovesickness, a deadly disease. Love makes the patient a desiring subject who seeks to author his own experience. The disease raises the stakes: if he cannot fulfill his desire, he will die. Yet lovesickness decreases the subject’s agenc...
In Antonio Dal Masetto’s narrative, the experience of the uprooting lived in his childhood is palpable. In order to demonstrate the transversality of the migratory theme in his work, we will analyze symbolic scenes from Siete de oro (1969), his first novel; La tierra incomparable (1994), written after the author’s return to his native land; and Imi...
