Pub Date : 2023-08-15DOI: 10.1080/00751634.2023.2237828
P. Nasti
ABSTRACT The article examines the function and the significance of a quotation of Purgatorio xix, 7–73 on the margins of a copy of Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy which belonged to Bartolomeo Nerucci, a Tuscan grammar teacher who copied several Dante commentaries. The quotation attests to the slow but steady establishment of Dante’s vernacular authority among fifteenth-century readers, especially in scholastic circles; and the appreciation of Boethius’s as well as Dante’s philosophical poetry in Renaissance Tuscany. The study also considers Nerucci’s own contribution to the exegesis of the Commedia as well as of the Consolation and concludes that he was, to some extent, an original interpreter, offering an uncommon reading of Dante and Boethius among Renaissance readers of the Commedia.
{"title":"Glossing Boethius Through Dante: Auctoritas and Philosophical Poetry in BML MS Plut. 78.20 and the Dante Commentary Tradition","authors":"P. Nasti","doi":"10.1080/00751634.2023.2237828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2023.2237828","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article examines the function and the significance of a quotation of Purgatorio xix, 7–73 on the margins of a copy of Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy which belonged to Bartolomeo Nerucci, a Tuscan grammar teacher who copied several Dante commentaries. The quotation attests to the slow but steady establishment of Dante’s vernacular authority among fifteenth-century readers, especially in scholastic circles; and the appreciation of Boethius’s as well as Dante’s philosophical poetry in Renaissance Tuscany. The study also considers Nerucci’s own contribution to the exegesis of the Commedia as well as of the Consolation and concludes that he was, to some extent, an original interpreter, offering an uncommon reading of Dante and Boethius among Renaissance readers of the Commedia.","PeriodicalId":44221,"journal":{"name":"Italian Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41721416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1080/00751634.2023.2225231
Daniela Palmeri
ABSTRACT Il saggio propone un’indagine intertestuale del dramma I sogni di Clitennestra (1978) di Dacia Maraini, riscrittura originale che mostra il rovesciamento del mito a partire dalla figura di Clitennestra. Nella prima parte si ricostruiscono i legami intessuti con le reinterpretazioni teatrali dell’Orestea sia di Pier Paolo Pasolini sia di Luca Ronconi. Nella seconda parte si analizza la revisione di Clitennestra nella tradizione femminista letteraria, teatrale e filosofica (da Marguerite Yourcenar a Martha Graham, da Simone De Beauvoir a Adrienne Rich). Nella terza parte si esamina il testo sul piano letterario e su quello di genere, con particolare attenzione alle connessioni intertestuali e ai temi centrali del sogno e della follia. L’indagine permette di evidenziare luci e ombre presenti nella storia della ricezione del mito classico e di sottolineare cosa il dramma di Maraini eredita e in cosa innova rispetto al contesto teatrale e femminista.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-31DOI: 10.1080/00751634.2023.2233350
P. Hainsworth, M. McLaughlin, D. Robey
{"title":"In Memoriam: John Woodhouse (1937–2023)","authors":"P. Hainsworth, M. McLaughlin, D. Robey","doi":"10.1080/00751634.2023.2233350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2023.2233350","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44221,"journal":{"name":"Italian Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46989715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-21DOI: 10.1080/00751634.2023.2230543
Luca Di Nardo
ABSTRACT Il presente articolo, alla luce della riflessione moderna sul tragico che Peter Szondi ricostruì e sistematizzò nel Saggio sul tragico, dimostra come sia possibile rintracciare, all’interno di due capitoli specifici dei Promessi sposi, riferimenti stilistici e formali al tragico e alla tragedia – più espliciti in alcuni luoghi testuali, meno espliciti quando si deve guardare all’architettura generale del romanzo manzoniano. In particolare il discorso si concentra sui capitoli XX e XXI all’interno dei quali domina la presenza dell’innominato.
{"title":"Uno scrittore su più tavoli: il concetto di tragico nei capitoli XX e XXI dei Promessi sposi","authors":"Luca Di Nardo","doi":"10.1080/00751634.2023.2230543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2023.2230543","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Il presente articolo, alla luce della riflessione moderna sul tragico che Peter Szondi ricostruì e sistematizzò nel Saggio sul tragico, dimostra come sia possibile rintracciare, all’interno di due capitoli specifici dei Promessi sposi, riferimenti stilistici e formali al tragico e alla tragedia – più espliciti in alcuni luoghi testuali, meno espliciti quando si deve guardare all’architettura generale del romanzo manzoniano. In particolare il discorso si concentra sui capitoli XX e XXI all’interno dei quali domina la presenza dell’innominato.","PeriodicalId":44221,"journal":{"name":"Italian Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48939560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-16DOI: 10.1080/00751634.2023.2208937
Leonora Masini
{"title":"We Will Set You Free: Representations of the ‘Antislavery Argument’ in British and Italian Missionary Films (1925–1939)","authors":"Leonora Masini","doi":"10.1080/00751634.2023.2208937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2023.2208937","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44221,"journal":{"name":"Italian Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42574233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-08DOI: 10.1080/00751634.2023.2211494
G. Altea
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Pub Date : 2023-05-30DOI: 10.1080/00751634.2023.2201037
Frances Clemente
Nel 1865 la letterata tedesca Anna Vivanti-Lindau lascia la sua abitazione londinese per compiere un viaggio nel Mediterraneo assieme al marito Anselmo. Tappa fondamentale del tour è Firenze, dove la letterata, grande estimatrice di Dante, si reca con l’intento di assistere alle celebrazioni del seicentenario dantesco. Nel suo resoconto di viaggio A Journey to Crete, Costantinople, Naples and Florence. Three Months Abroad, Vivanti-Lindau rievoca il soggiorno fiorentino, offrendo un report del festival dantesco. Riflettendo la ricezione ottocentesca politico-risorgimentale di Dante, ella individua nell’autore della Commedia il padre e profeta dell’Unità italiana e, insieme, il simbolo di una libertà che andava oltre i confini del territorio italiano. Il presente contributo propone una lettura analitica delle pagine del Journey dedicate al seicentenario, contestualizzandole nel quadro della fortuna ottocentesca di Dante nel periodo in cui si muove Vivanti-Lindau, con particolare attenzione alla ricezione britannica del poeta negli anni a cavallo dell’unificazione italiana.
{"title":"‘And Now the Great Day Had Come, the 14th of May, 1865!’: Anna Vivanti-Lindau e il seicentenario dantesco<sup>*</sup>","authors":"Frances Clemente","doi":"10.1080/00751634.2023.2201037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2023.2201037","url":null,"abstract":"Nel 1865 la letterata tedesca Anna Vivanti-Lindau lascia la sua abitazione londinese per compiere un viaggio nel Mediterraneo assieme al marito Anselmo. Tappa fondamentale del tour è Firenze, dove la letterata, grande estimatrice di Dante, si reca con l’intento di assistere alle celebrazioni del seicentenario dantesco. Nel suo resoconto di viaggio A Journey to Crete, Costantinople, Naples and Florence. Three Months Abroad, Vivanti-Lindau rievoca il soggiorno fiorentino, offrendo un report del festival dantesco. Riflettendo la ricezione ottocentesca politico-risorgimentale di Dante, ella individua nell’autore della Commedia il padre e profeta dell’Unità italiana e, insieme, il simbolo di una libertà che andava oltre i confini del territorio italiano. Il presente contributo propone una lettura analitica delle pagine del Journey dedicate al seicentenario, contestualizzandole nel quadro della fortuna ottocentesca di Dante nel periodo in cui si muove Vivanti-Lindau, con particolare attenzione alla ricezione britannica del poeta negli anni a cavallo dell’unificazione italiana.","PeriodicalId":44221,"journal":{"name":"Italian Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135643314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00751634.2023.2221057
E. Baldi
ABSTRACT This article investigates the relation between science and narration through the lens of gender and anthropocentrism. By analysing Calvino’s long, ‘biocomic’ triptych ‘Priscilla’ (published in T con zero in 1967) alongside (popular) scientific tales on (a)sexual reproduction, patterns in fictional and scientific storytelling are individuated. The three parts of Calvino’s story, starting from a unicellular organism and ending in the (primordial) sea, tell a remarkably non-anthropocentric tale. Different life forms and sexualities are explored alongside the microbiology of human reproduction. The binary terms and gendered hierarchies through which the meeting of egg and sperm is often recounted in scientific narratives are much less pronounced in ‘Priscilla’. By exploring the posthuman and non-speciesist aspects of Calvino’s story, the entanglement between past and future, pre-human and post-human, human and animal, can be reappraised in an original manner.
本文从性别和人类中心主义的角度考察科学与叙事的关系。通过分析卡尔维诺的长篇“生物喜剧”三联画《普丽西拉》(1967年出版于《T con zero》)和(流行的)关于有性生殖的科学故事，小说和科学故事的模式都是个性化的。卡尔维诺的故事分为三个部分，从单细胞生物开始，到(原始)海洋结束，讲述了一个非常不以人类为中心的故事。不同的生命形式和性与人类生殖微生物一起探索。在科学叙事中，卵子和精子的相遇常常通过二元术语和性别等级来叙述，而在《普莉希拉》中却不那么明显。通过探索卡尔维诺故事的后人类和非物种方面，可以以一种新颖的方式重新评估过去与未来、前人类与后人类、人与动物之间的纠缠。
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00751634.2023.2200272
Charlotte Ross
Michael Caesar, Emeritus Serena Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Birmingham (UK), or Mike (as he was to many of us), left a lasting impact on many academic colleagues who came to know him over his long career in Italian Studies. Having graduated in Modern Languages from Trinity Hall, Cambridge he took up a position at the University of Kent soon after. In 1994 he was appointed as Chair of Italian Studies at the University of Birmingham, where he remained until his retirement in 2014. He was a regular presence at Society for Italian Studies conferences, and contributed greatly to Italian Studies research through his impressively wide-ranging work: this includes his monograph on Umberto Eco: Philosophy, Semiotics, and the Work of Fiction (Cambridge: Polity, 1999); the coauthored book, with Ann Hallamore Caesar, Modern Italian Literature (Cambridge: Polity, 2007); edited collections, such as Dante. The Critical Heritage (New York: Routledge, 1996); Orality and Literacy in Modern Italian Culture, co-edited with Marina Spunta (New York: Routledge, 2006); many articles interrogating theoretical reflections by Gaetano Della Volpe, Eco, the neo-avantgarde, Franco Moretti; and analyses of key modern Italian authors, including Elsa Morante, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italo Calvino, and Gianni Celati. Mike’s publications helped to open up the field of Italian Studies in crucial ways, paying serious scholarly attention to topics and authors that had not previously been explored, grappling with complex theoretical ideas and making connections across genres, periods, and themes. His most significant contribution is perhaps his work on Giacomo Leopardi: Mike established the Leopardi Centre at Birmingham in 1998, which led to a swathe of exciting Ph.D. projects and important publications that were transformative for Leopardi Studies. Together with Franco D’Intino he also edited the first complete critical English edition of Leopardi’s notebooks, the Zibaldone, with translations by Kathleen Baldwin, Richard Dixon, David Gibbons, Ann Goldstein, Gerry Slowey, Martin Thom and Pamela Williams (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013). In what follows, several colleagues remember Mike’s good humour, passion for Italian culture, and his impact on themselves and on the field of Italian Studies. These memories confirm how transformative our relationships with academic colleagues can be, to ourselves, and for future generations of scholars. They reveal the many and variegated activities that make up an academic career: individual and collaborative research projects; teaching; mentoring; developing departments, programmes, and the discipline itself; opening up broader debate. Moreover, these recollections reveal how seemingly small moments can remain with us with startling clarity, and the importance of being listened to with kindness as well as with exactitude. Mike was a great (and exacting) listener, as well as a dynamic presence in Italian Studies, and he
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