Italian 5

Fairy tales are supposed to be magical, surprising, and exhilarating, an enchanting counterpoint to everyday life that nonetheless helps us understand and deal with the anxieties of that life. Today……続きを見る

After years of obscurity, Anna Maria Ortese (1914–1998) is emerging as one of the most important Italian authors of the twentieth-century, taking her place alongside such luminaries as Italo Calvino……続きを見る

C’est à tort que les hommes se plaignent de leur condition, sous prétexte que leur vie, si faible et si courte, serait gouvernée par le hasard plutôt que par la vertu. Loin de là ; quiconque voudra ……続きを見る

La plupart des livres sont dédiés aux puissants, dans l’espérance d’en obtenir crédit, protection ou même récompense : tes brillantes étincelles, &oci……続きを見る

Quelques auteurs modernes, de temps en temps, nous découvrent, dans leurs écrits, quelques-uns de tes droits les plus sacrés et les plus violés ; mais ces livres aux aute……続きを見る

With The Ethical Dimension of the “Decameron” Marilyn Migiel, author of A Rhetoric of the “Decameron” (winner of the MLA’s 2004 Marraro Prize), returns to Giovanni Boccaccio’s masterpiece, this time……続きを見る

In questo libro l’Autore si oppone alla visione tradizionale di un Dante che sarebbe caduto – chissà perché, proprio alla fine dell’apocalittico 1300 (mentre le strade di Firenze si insanguinavano p……続きを見る

In 1816 a violent literary quarrel engulfed Bourbon Restoration Italy. On one side the Romantics wanted an opening up of Italian culture towards Europe, and on the other the Classicists favoured an ……続きを見る

In the ancient world, friendship was a virtue of great philosophical importance. Aristotle wrote extensively about it, as did Cicero. Their conception of friendship as a relationship based on reason……続きを見る

Using an array of cultural documents from 1990 to the present, including diaries, testimonies, fiction, online video postings, and anti-mafia social networks, Robin Pickering-Iazzi examines the myth……続きを見る

The issue of a woman’s placeーand the possibility that she might stray from itーwas one of early modern Italy’s most persistent social concerns. Ladies Errant takes as its starting point the vast li……続きを見る

Textual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice is a provocative analysis of the pornographic poetry written in patrician poet Domenico Venier’s social circle. While Venier and h……続きを見る

«L’“italianista” è, in qualsiasi punto della carta geografica, storica, sociale e istituzionale esso si collochi, colui che garantisce al massimo grado la persistenza dei valori umanistici, non ideo……続きを見る

The book focuses on literary representations of the northern Italian region of Liguria, whose landscape has been portrayed by internationally-known Italian poets and novelists, from Eugenio Montale ……続きを見る

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis En général, on tend à voir dans Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873) l’auteur d’un seul roman : Les Fiancés. La vérité est qu’il a écrit tr……続きを見る

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Le recueil des trente-six poèmes et cinq fragments poétiques de Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837), publié à Florence en 1831 puis, augment……続きを見る

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Giorgio Bassani (1916-2000), qui a réuni ses nouvelles sous le titre d’Histoires ferraraises et baptisé Le Roman de Ferrare l’édition……続きを見る

Dacia Maraini’s Narratives of Survival: (Re)Constructed focuses on Dacia Maraini’s narrative from about 1984 to 2004 and makes substantive use of her interviews and essays. While acknowledging the i……続きを見る

The birthplace of Boccaccio, Machiavelli, and the powerful Medici family, Florence was also the first great banking and commercial centre of continental Europe. The city’s middle-class merchants, th……続きを見る

Ovid’s Fasti, his poem on the Roman calendar, became especially influential during the fifteenth century as a guide to classical Roman culture. Ovid’s treatment of mythological and astronomical lore……続きを見る

The year 1932, the tenth anniversary of Mussolini’s March on Rome, was fascism’s Decennale. Commemorating Italian fascism’s seizure of power, the Decennale was celebrated by the regime in a delibera……続きを見る

Intricate, expressive, given to grandeur and even excess, Baroque art as a style is inseparable from the meanings it seeks to convey. Vernon Hyde Minor’s Baroque Visual Rhetoric probes this combinat……続きを見る

Indica Rodolfo Alonso que "sólo Campana, sí, nada más y nada menos que Dino Campana, la única voz de la península que resulta auténtica y original en un momento suspendido entre uno y otro siglo, an……続きを見る

With Secular Scriptures: Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante, William Franke reexamines the role that literature plays in theological revelation. In the modern world, secularism typicall……続きを見る

This interdisciplinary volume interrogates bodily thinking in avant-garde texts from Spain and Italy during the early twentieth century and their relevance to larger modernist preoccupations with co……続きを見る

Though Bartolomeo Scappi's Opera (1570), the first illustrated cookbook, is well known to historians of food, up to now there has been no study of its illustrations, unique in printed books through ……続きを見る

Robert Durling's spirited new prose translation of the Paradiso completes his masterful rendering of the Divine Comedy. Durling's earlier translations of the Inferno and the Purgatorio garnered high……続きを見る

In the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri set out to write the three volumes which make the up The Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the second volume in this set and opens with Dante the poet picturing Dante ……続きを見る

With the Paduan playwright Angelo Beolco, aka Ruzante, as a focal point, this book sheds new light on his oeuvre and times - and on Venetian patrician interest in him - by embedding the Venetian asp……続きを見る

One of the first and most important Italian playwrights to move away from the commedia dell’arte tradition of improvisation, Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793) wrote more naturalistic “comedies of character”……続きを見る