Pub Date : 2023-07-07DOI: 10.1080/01614622.2023.2228133
Francesco Ciabattoni
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Pub Date : 2023-07-07DOI: 10.1080/01614622.2023.2228132
Patrizia Bettella
{"title":"Food Culture and Literary Imagination in Early Modern Italy. The Renaissance of Taste","authors":"Patrizia Bettella","doi":"10.1080/01614622.2023.2228132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01614622.2023.2228132","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41506,"journal":{"name":"Italian Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49446264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-07DOI: 10.1080/01614622.2023.2228135
Joseph Francese
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Pub Date : 2023-03-24eCollection Date: 2023-01-01DOI: 10.3389/fopht.2023.1130202
Sindhu Saraswathy, Narsing A Rao
Introduction: Uveitis and related intraocular inflammations are a major cause of blindness due to retinal damage caused by degeneration and loss of the photoreceptor cells. In mouse experimental autoimmune uveitis (EAU) previously we have shown mitochondrial oxidative stress with marked upregulation of αA crystallin in the inner segments of the photoreceptors. Furthermore, αA crystallin treatment prevented photoreceptor mitochondrial oxidative stress by suppressing innate and adaptive immunity in EAU.
Methods: Since these immune processes are modulated by microRNAs, in this study we investigated (a) modulation of microRNAs during development of EAU by αA crystallin administration and (b) microRNA therapeutic intervention.
Results: Few microRNAs were significantly upregulated in EAU mice with intravenous injection of αA crystallin and among these, computational bioinformatic analysis revealed that the upregulated microRNA 146a targets the innate and adaptive immune responses. In EAU, intravenous as well as intravitreal administration of this microRNA prevented inflammatory cell infiltration in uvea and retina and preserved photoreceptor cells.
Discussion: This protective function suggests that microRNA146a can be a novel therapeutic agent in preventing retinal damage in uveitis.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/01614622.2023.2167311
Maria Galli Stampino
{"title":"Commedia e civiltà. Dinamiche anticonflittuali nella letteratura italiana del Cinquecento","authors":"Maria Galli Stampino","doi":"10.1080/01614622.2023.2167311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01614622.2023.2167311","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41506,"journal":{"name":"Italian Culture","volume":"41 1","pages":"106 - 108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48553681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/01614622.2023.2167325
G. Ricco
This essay brings to light how the Italian loss at Adwa of 1896 inspires Enrico Corradini to reimagine the dream of an imperial Italy in his novel La patria lontana (1910). By turning to a little-known episode in the history of Italo-Brazilian relations that forms part of the backdrop for La patria lontana, this essay reveals that Brazil functions as a stand-in for Ethiopia in Corradini’s imaginary. In this highly Africanized, tropical, South American country, where large numbers of Italians had confronted hostile and resistant natives at the turn of the twentieth century, Corradini discovered a space that offered an opportunity to restage the First Italo-Ethiopian War as one in which Italians emerge victorious.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/01614622.2023.2167310
Vincent Leung
In his 1920 essay, “La metodologia della critica letteraria e laDivina Commedia,” Benedetto Croce levied a notable rebuke against Dantean erudites, grammarians, and philologists for their conjoining of allegorical and aesthetico-historical criticism, advocating instead for a more rigorous focus on the historical, intellectual, and political contexts of creation. Building upon seminal studies of the last two centuries by Michele Barbi (1890), Carlo Dionisotti (1965) and Saverio Bellomo (2004), recent work such as that of Simon Gilson (2018) has done just this by producing valuable historicized accounts of Dante’s Italian production, dissemination, and reception between the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In spite of the excellent work done here, the concentration upon reception has not been matched by attention to the medieval Italian civic space. These contexts merit further critical consideration, not least because of their influences on authorship and reception. Against the foil of these approaches, David Lummus’s monograph impressively stages literary and documentary evidence alongside a reconstruction of the intellectual, social, and political landscapes of the medieval Italian city state. The work is divided into four chapters, accompanied by an introduction and epilogue. Read independently, the chapters constitute rich standalone studies on the negotiations between poets and the medieval civic space; in its entirety, the book offers a coherent and compelling account of the often interweaving rapport between civic institutions and the burgeoning poetic profession. In his introduction, Lummus describes the emergence of a poet extra textum—that is, one who (re)actively constructs authority both internal and external to the textual space. He approaches this civic and poetic interplay via a declaredly clear and impartial methodological framework which seeks to address “how each poet’s ideas about poetry both emerge from and react to specific historical circumstances, without passing judgment on their respective ideologies or on their associations with power” (15). While the historical documents collated appear to tell their own stories, in actuality Lummus organizes and presents them in a mode conducive to understanding a rich and complex network of relations between poets as well as their conceptions of poetry. The first chapter, “Albertino Mussato, Poet of the City”, examines the politically charged poetics of Padovan statesman Albertino Mussato. For Lummus, longstanding scholarly concentration upon the vernacular has inadvertently resulted in unwarranted judgments towards the literary production of the Middle Ages (5–6). In view of this, Lummus’s chapter constitutes an important reorientation towards the relatively neglected Latin output of the period. Building upon the work of Zardo (1884), Hyde (1966), Witt (2000), and Rippe (2003), the chapter begins with an overview of Mussato’s political trajectory within the civic turmoil of ear
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/01614622.2023.2171569
R. Falkoff
My book, Possessed , which came out with Cornell University Press in 2021, is a cultural history of hoarding that tropes its theme with an accretive logic, defying and disordering disciplinary boundaries. An illustrative — if dubious — example: Possessed is currently ranked in such disparate Amazon categories as Modern Literary History, Culture and Cultural Studies, Social Psychology, Compulsive Behaviors, Salute e benessere in lingua straniera
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/01614622.2023.2167312
Valerio Cappozzo
{"title":"Da Venezia al Cairo. Il viaggio di Zaccaria Pagani nel primo cinquecento","authors":"Valerio Cappozzo","doi":"10.1080/01614622.2023.2167312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01614622.2023.2167312","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41506,"journal":{"name":"Italian Culture","volume":"41 1","pages":"109 - 110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47149035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/01614622.2023.2167324
Cezary Bronowski
Intento di questo saggio è studiare la presenza di tracce di umorismo pirandelliano nella cinematografia polacca degli anni Ottanta. Questo periodo segna una svolta decisiva nella poetica del cinema polacco rispetto al periodo comunista. L’articolo si interroga sulla funzione del cosiddetto “effetto umoristico” di Pirandello nel cinema polacco. L’autore prende in considerazione Wir/Nel gorgo (1984), Bo oszalałem dla niej/Sono diventato pazzo di lei (Chęciński, 1980) e Baryton/Baritono (Zaorski, 1985), film che sviluppano il concetto di umorismo pirandelliano e sono il punto di arrivo di un percorso di ricerca caratterizzato da una decostruzione del linguaggio cinematografico. In questo intervento si discutono anche la nuova tipologia di personaggi che emerge in questi film e le affinità nel modo di essere e di agire che li contraddistinguono.
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