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...
Magistrska naloga obravnava slovenske prevode italijanske literature v obdobju med letoma 1850 (čas pomladi narodov) in 1915 (1. svetovna vojna). V teoretičnem delu je opisana prevodna dejavnost pred letom 1850, odnos do prevodne literature v primerjavi z izvirno slovensko po letu 1850, razmah slovenskega časopisja in odnos do knjižnih prevodov ita...
Although a handful of neumations for the thirty-nine poems of Boethius’ final and most widely read work, On the Consolation of Philosophy, have been known since the inception of modern musicological study, reconstructions have rarely been attempted due to an almost complete absence of surviving pitched versions of the melodies. Following a systemat...
The aim of this study is to prepare an analysis of the critic that certain literature, typical of the end of last century, brought forward toward capitalistic society and it’s consequences not only on the life style of the individuals, but also on their psychology and social behaviour. Social changes and the increase of the influence of the market ...
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This dissertation explores the relationship between Italian cinema and the United States’ imagery and bodily practices in the years between the fascist regime and the Italian “economic miracle.” I analyze objects such as magazines, consumer goods and design furniture, the conditions of their consumption and production, and their presence in Italian...
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This dissertation focuses on the representation of feminine figures in fairy tales from the seventeenth century to the present day. Using a narratological and feminist critical approach, I consider textual variations of three canonical fairy tales: "The Three Fruits," "Bluebeard," and "The Old Woman Who Was Skinned." Each of these fairy tales can b...
In 1575 George Gascoigne broke with tradition, by attempting to describe the English verse line neither as a Romance accumulation of syllables nor as a classically ordered disposition of longs and shorts but as a grid of prominent and non-prominent accents. I will discuss elsewhere Gascoigne’s peculiar achievement in repurposing the terminology of ...
La thèse compare les récits viatiques de trois voyageuses européennes dans certains pays de l’Afrique du Nord et du Moyen Orient à une époque précédant et durant l’expansion coloniale européenne. Ida Pfeiffer (1797), une voyageuse et écrivaine viennoise et Amalia Nizzoli (1806), originaire d’Italie, non encore autonome et unifiée, connaissent l’Ori...
