Italica back issues from March 2004:
From the editor.(Editorial)
Mar 22, 2004 ... In publishing the first issue of 2004, I would like to express my gratitude to the editorial committee of the AATI for having entrusted me with the delicate task of editing Italica. My sincere thanks go to the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Kumble R. Subbaswamy, the Chancellor, ...
"O cinquecento, e cinque, e diece guarda": a riddle poem and Dantesque mosaic (1).
Mar 22, 2004; ... Scholars have extensively researched the reception of Dante's works in the Quattrocento. Vittorio Rossi lists the following fifteenth-century works as demonstrating Dante's influence: Matteo Palmieri's Citta di vita, Marino Jonata's Anima peregrina, an untitled work by Bartolomeo Gentile ...
Il narratore delle Novelle del Bandello e la funzione mediatrice della scrittura.
Mar 22, 2004; ... Questa istorietta, essendo io venuto a far riverenza al mio valoroso signor Pirro Gonzaga vostro zio, e ragionandosi dei vari casi che avvengano, comando esso signor Pirro al mio compar da bene messer Gian Matteo Olivo, mezzo cantore, che narrasse. (Novelle 1-VII 126) Ecco il ...
Letters from the Cloister: defending the literary self in Arcangela Tarabotti's Lettere familiari e di complimento.
Mar 22, 2004; ... When the Venetian nun and protofeminist writer Arcangela Tarabotti (1604-52) published her Lettere familiari e di complimento in 1650, she positioned herself within a literary tradition that had gained new momentum in the sixteenth century and retained its cachet well into the next. No ...
Schismogenesis and national character: the D'Annunzio-Mussolini correspondence.
Mar 22, 2004; ... In 1911, Gabriele D'Annunzio, self-described "uomo d'azione," hoped to encourage the outbreak of World War I by going into "esilio volontario" in France, where he would dedicate himself to art, love, and life. Four years later, after polemicizing against Franz Joseph, he returned to Italy ...
The pregnant nun: Suor Attanasia and the metaphor of arrested maternity in Dacia Maraini.
Mar 22, 2004; ... There is no protection for the woman who sings. --Rodica Diaconescu-Blumenfeld The critic Judith Bryce, in reviewing the negative portrayal of mothers in Voci (1994), aptly summarizes the figure of the mother in Maraini's work as "problematic" (200). Even a quick ...
A master narrative in Italian cinema?
Mar 22, 2004; ... Andre Bazin wrote that when reduced to basic plot elements, Italian films are often structured like moralizing melodramas (264). Bazin was writing about the thematic debts that neorealism owed to the Italian professional cinema before World War II. But when the Italian film canon is ...
Guglielmo Gorni. Dante prima della Commedia.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Guglielmo Gorni. Dante prima della Commedia. Florence: Cadmo, 2001. This is a collection of thirteen essays originally published between 1988 and 2000, all dealing with Dante's minor works, but ranging in focus from the evaluation of Duecento poets connected with Dante to ...
Maria Sabrina Titone. Cantiche del Novecento. Dante nell'opera di Luzi e Pasolini.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Mafia Sabrina Titone. Cantiche del Novecento. Dante nell'opera di Luzi e Pasolini. Citta di Castello: Fondazione Carlo Marchi/Leo S. Olschki, 2001. In un appassionato e rigoroso studio critico, puntualmente verificato sui testi, Maria Sabrina Titone traccia un quadro quanto mal ...
Fabian Alfie. Comedy and Culture: Cecco Angiolieri's Poetry and Late Medieval Society.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Fabian Alfie. Comedy and Culture: Cecco Angiolieri's Poetry and Late Medieval Society. Leeds: Northern Universities Press, 2001. Fabian Alfie's book-length study of the prolific Sienese poet Cecco Angiolieri seeks to correct previous work on this poet in two major ways: to ...
Giovambattista Giraldi Cinzio. Discorso dei romanzi.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Giovambattista Giraldi Cinzio. Discorso dei romanzi. Ed. Laura Benedetti, Giuseppe Monorchio, and Enrico Musacchio. Bologna: Millennium, 1999. This is a much needed and superbly executed edition of the Discorso intorno al comporte dei romanzi, first printed in Venice in 1554. As ...
Vittorio Zaccaria. Boccaccio narratore, storico, moralista e mitografo.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Vittorio Zaccaria. Boccaccio narratore, storico, moralista e mitografo. "Biblioteca di Lettere Italiane. Studi e testi," LVII. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 2001. Vittorio Zaccaria is the preeminent scholar today of Boccaccio's Latin writings. Editor of the De mulieribus claris, the ...
Viaggiatori stranieri a Pisa dal Cinquecento al Novecento.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Viaggiatori stranieri a Pisa dal Cinquecento al Novecento. Testi introdotti e tradotti da Marina Bailo, Carlo Carmassi, Mario Curreli, Antonella Magliocchi, coordinatore Luigi Blasucci. Pisa: Nistri-Lischi, 2003. Questo ampio volume e, come dal titolo, una raccolta di ...
Jacqueline Boudard. Rome au XIXe siecle vue a travers les guides de l'epoque.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Jacqueline Boudard. Rome au XIXe siecle vue dt travers les guides de l'epoque. Preface et illustrations par Emanuele Kanceff. Moncalieri: Centro interuniversitario di ricerche sul Viaggio in Italia, 2003. Arrivato a Roma, al viaggiatore che stilava le proprie esperienze di ...
Alessandro Napoli. Il racconto e i colori: "storie" e "cartelli" dell'Opera dei Pupi catanese.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Alessandro Napoli. Il racconto e i colori: "storie" e "cartelli" dell'Opera dei Pupi catanese. Palermo: Sellerio, 2002. As the subtitle indicates, this volume explores two aspects of puppet theater in Catania: the illustrated cartelli that regularly announced puppet ...
Grazia Deledda. The Church of Solitude.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Grazia Deledda. The Church of Solitude. Trans. E. Ann Matter. Albany, NY: SUNY, 2002. Sardinian novelist Grazia Deledda (1871-1936) was one of the most prolific writers of her time. Her numerous novels, set for the most part in the primitive world of her island, are concerned ...
Fabio Girelli Carasi. Lavorare stanca. Canzoniere suo malgrado.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Fabio Girelli Carasi. Lavorare stanca. Canzoniere suo malgrado. Bolzano: Il Brennero/ Der Brenner, 2001. In un approfondito studio critico, puntualmente verificato sui testi, Fabio Girelli Carasi traccia un quadro quanto mai penetrante della silioge poetica pavesiana Lavorare ...
Simona Micali. Miti e riti del moderno. Marinetti, Bontempelli, Pirandello.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Simona Micali. Miti e riti del moderno. Marinetti, Bontempelli, Pirandello. Firenze: Le Monnier, 2002. Mito e riti del moderno di Simona Micah e uno studio scmpoloso e appassionato di tre scrittori, Marinetti, Bontempelli e Pirandello, i quali invece di confrontarsi con la ...
Giuliana Minghelli. In the Shadow of the Mammoth: Italo Sevo and the Emergence of Modernism.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Giuliana Minghelli. In the Shadow of the Mammoth: Italo Sevo and the Emergence of Modernism. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2002. In recent years, Italo Svevo's importance in the Anglo-American academy has grown, as attempts have been made to include Italian artists among those who ...
Flavia Brizio-Skov. Antonio Tabucchi. Navigazioni in un arcipelago narrativo.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Flavia Brizio-Skov. Antonio Tabucchi. Navigazioni in un arcipelago narrativo. Cosenza: Pellegrini, 2002. Those who have been following Flavia Brizio-Skov's critical work on Tabucchi will be sure to greet this physically handsome and engagingly rifled volume with interest and ...
Katia Pizzi. A City in Search of an Author: the Literary Identity of Trieste.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Katia Pizzi. A City in Search of an Author: The Literary Identity of Trieste. London: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001. Katia Pizzi might have titled her book "A City with Many Authors" since the evidence she provides to examine "the literary identity of Trieste in the Twentieth ...
Nicoletta Simborowski. Secrets and Puzzles. Silence and the Unsaid in Contemporary Italian Writing.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Nicoletta Simborowski. Secrets and Puzzles. Silence and the Unsaid in Contemporary Italian Writing. Oxford: Legenda, 2003. Primo Levi, Cesare Pavese, Natalia Ginzburg, and Francesca Sanvitale are at the center of Nicoletta Simborowski's study of the poetics of the unsaid that ...
Janet Levarie Smarr and Daria Valentini, eds. Italian Women and the City.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Janet Levarie Smart and Daria Valentini, eds. Italian Women and the City. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 2003. In the past ten to fifteen years literary critics, sociologists, political scientists and historians have produced studies that restore the historical ...
Antonio Vitti and Roberta Morosini, eds. In Search of Italia: Saggi sulla cultura dell'Italia contemporanea.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Antonio Vitti and Roberta Morosini, eds. In Search of Italia: Saggi sulla cultura dell'Italia contemporanea. Pesaro: Metauro, 2003. Antonio Vitti and Roberta Morosini have woven together a series of thirteen essays that explore various aspects of contemporary Italian culture ....
Carlo Testa. Masters of Two Arts: Re-creation of European Literatures in Italian Cinema.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Carlo Testa. Masters of Two Arts: Re-creation of European Literatures in Italian Cinema. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2002. Carlo Testa's volume Masters of Two Arts: Re-creation of European Literatures in Italian Cinema is a study of Italian cinematic adaptations of European ...
Brief notices.(Bibliography)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Esperienze Letterarie, Anno XXVIII, Fascicolo 1 (2003): Marco Santoro, "In memoriam: Lorenzo Frattarolo (1912-2003)" (3-11); Georges Guntert, "Manzoni, Schiller e A. W. Schlegel: dalla teoria degli stili all'episodio della madre di Cecilia" (13-34); Dante Delia Terza, "'Ricordo tutto ma ...
Books received 2003.(Bibliography)
Mar 22, 2004; ... Alessandro Manzoni, Two Plays. Trans. Michael J. Curley. New York: Peter Lang, 2002. Pp. 233. Annoni, Carlo. La poesia di Parini e la citta secolare. Milan: Vita & Pensiero, 2002. Pp. 181. Balducci, Marino Alberto. Quartine d'amore. Monsummano-Firenze: Carla Rossi ...
AATI 2003 General Business Meeting.
Mar 22, 2004 ... The Annual Business Meeting of the AATI was convened on Saturday, November 22 at 6:00 p.m. at the Marriott Hotel in Philadelphia. President's Report President Christopher Kleinhenz welcomed those members in attendance at the Business Meeting and expressed his thanks ...