“Tasso among the Muses: Reading and Writing Women in Early Modern Italy” is the first study to address the dynamics of reciprocity and collaboration between Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) and women writers, performers, and patrons. This dissertation situates Tasso’s literary and cultural activities with women within social and historical contexts, espe...
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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...
In our geological and cultural epoch dominated by destructive anthropocentric practices, the radical inclusion of non-human perspectives seems more imperative than ever, and yet how to include non-human “voices” in the academy has been contested, particularly as speaking for non-humans is as problematic as speaking for any subaltern. Surprisingly l...
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...
My dissertation explores the way fear of Jewish identity haunts the Italian literary imagination and allows a new understanding of the Risorgimento as a negotiation between centuries-old religious struggles. My first chapter begins with the establishment of the Venetian ghetto in 1516 described in diaries by Marino Sanuto alongside Pietro Aretino’s...
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...
