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{"title":"Giovanni Gentile's standing in the United States (1922–1938)","authors":"S. Zappoli","doi":"10.1177/00145858231161636","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00145858231161636","url":null,"abstract":"In his preface to The Social Philosophy of Giovanni Gentile, HS Harris wrote that “[Gentile's] association with Fascism, of which he was an ardent supporter from 1923 until his own death during the last throes of the Fascist Social Republic, prejudiced the issue. Critical evaluation of his political and social thought has been almost impossible for the Italians themselves because of the general climate of political opinion both before and after his death; and almost everyone outside Italy followed the lead given by Croce and dismissed Gentile's practical philosophy as unworthy of serious critical examination.” This statement undoubtedly points at an effective historiographical question. The present article aims to shed light on this issue, taking into consideration specifically the writings published about Gentile in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. Some research has already been undertaken in this field, but it seems ripe for being further developed. Interest in the work of Gentile came especially from the intellectual circles of Columbia University and his work has usually been interpreted by historians as resulting from pro-fascist leanings. Yet, a closer examination of sources and consequently a more analytical reconstruction of the context suggests that the reception of the educational thought of Gentile and the knowledge of his political activity during the Fascist regime took place in the United States quite independently from political sympathies.","PeriodicalId":12355,"journal":{"name":"Forum Italicum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44635852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The New York Times in the face of fascism","authors":"M. Paniga","doi":"10.1177/00145858231161638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00145858231161638","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this article is to understand how the New York Times, one of the most important US newspapers, explained the events that set off the ascent of fascism to power in Italy. In particular, I will focus on the period between the march on Rome, after which Mussolini became Prime Minister, and 1925–1926, when a dictatorial turning point, a consolidated position not only in Italian historiography, was imposed on the country. In fact, the march on Rome revealed Mussolini for the first time to the American newspapers (he was previously an almost unknown political entity in the United States), before the infamous speech at the House of Deputies on June 3, 1925, following the assassination of Giacomo Matteotti and the fascistissime laws passed shortly after marked the end of freedom and democracy in Italy. How did the New York Times correspondents explain these events? I answer this question analyzing the most significant articles dedicated to the topic and focusing on the political and ideological stand of the newspaper and on the factors that led it to support the fascist regime at least until the late 1930s.","PeriodicalId":12355,"journal":{"name":"Forum Italicum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41868743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book review: Serena Ferrando, The Navigli Project","authors":"C. Hall","doi":"10.1177/00145858231161639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00145858231161639","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12355,"journal":{"name":"Forum Italicum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48327634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Convenzioni matrimoniali, emancipazione e consenso femminile in epoca medioevale: La voce della Compiuta Donzella di Firenze","authors":"Valentina Graziuso","doi":"10.1177/00145858221143694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00145858221143694","url":null,"abstract":"Dando voce al lamento di una giovane donna obbligata dal padre a sposarsi contro la propria volontà, i celebri versi della Compiuta Donzella di Firenze portano alla luce alcune delle dinamiche oppressive e problematiche del mondo femminile, in un contesto socialmente e culturalmente dominato da uomini. Esplorando le ragioni che avrebbero indotto una giovane donna del Duecento a difendere il proprio diritto al consenso coniugale, si ipotizza che la stessa avrebbe avuto modo di conoscere l’esistenza della clausola matrimoniale con la quale il giurista bolognese Giovanni Graziano riconosceva l’importanza del consenso reciproco da parte dei coniugi come condizione essenziale alle nozze. Questo studio parte dall’idea che i versi della rimatrice fiorentina acquistano un grande valore se interpretati sulla base delle dinamiche politiche e sociali della sua epoca e in relazione agli altri componimenti del manoscritto, tralasciando la tanto discussa questione dell’identità biologica che si cela dietro il suo nome. Parole chiave: Compiuta Donzella di Firenze, consenso femminile, Decreto Graziano, matrimonio medievale, uguaglianza di genere.","PeriodicalId":12355,"journal":{"name":"Forum Italicum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48977399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Un’altra casa II: La proposta culturale per l’emigrazione italiana di Cronache d’Italia (1948–63)","authors":"M. Marazzi","doi":"10.1177/00145858221143696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00145858221143696","url":null,"abstract":"Single-handedly conceived and crafted by its creator, the hyper-active but relatively unknown Milan-based journalist Annibale Del Mare, the monthly Cronache d’Italia (1948–1963) was more than an eclectic bulletin of Italian news (with a special flair for entertainment, the arts, tourism, and local attractions). Supported by a discreet but consistent political backing, the magazine succeeded in weaving a veritable world wide web of Italian immigrant readers and Italophiles (well beyond the usual destinations of the Italian diaspora) – as witnessed by its gigantic epistolary archive, a treasure trove of the plights and expressive creativity of Italian immigrants worldwide.","PeriodicalId":12355,"journal":{"name":"Forum Italicum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43623193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bel canto among the barricades: Rossini, his music, and history","authors":"Richard M. Tristano","doi":"10.1177/00145858221139415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00145858221139415","url":null,"abstract":"Rossini is often historicized by placing him in the context of the Restoration period (1815–1848). This article uses a historical methodology to examine that assumption in order to propose new insights into Rossini, his music, and his place in Italian history, culture, and opera. Rossini's experience shows how one of the great cultural icons of the Ottocento navigated the vicissitudes of one of Italy's most tumultuous centuries. The history is in dialogue with musicological research, especially by analyzing what listeners heard in his music. His music evoked strong binaries, the opposition of German and Italian music, which is sometimes identified with teleological history, here the tendency to manipulate the musical past for some more present purpose, for example, forcing Rossini into a nationalist narrative. Noting its dangers, this study expands the context in terms of time, by considering Rossini's entire career subject to historical categories, not only the Restoration but also the Risorgimento, the French Second Empire, and especially the often-overlooked Bologna period, and Rossini's relationship to politics. It also enlarges the sources consulted to include some of his minor works, for example his Messa di Gloria (1820), Cantata in onore del Sommo Pontefice Pio Nono (1847), and Hymn à Napoleon III (1867). Finally, the study also examines how Rossini developed his own historical consciousness amid his alienation from both the 19th-century and Italian opera in particular.","PeriodicalId":12355,"journal":{"name":"Forum Italicum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45763144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"When life imitates art","authors":"A. Castelli","doi":"10.1177/00145858221136213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00145858221136213","url":null,"abstract":"When Oscar Wilde defiantly observed that life is imitation of art, literary criticism had found another role to the complicated relationship between literature and reality. The issue is most central in Cesare Pavese and Sylvia Plath, for their lives seemed to re-enact what their fictional characters in, respectively, Among Women Only and The Bell Jar, had attempted. The conscious manipulation of novelistic material into physical and mental events appears to prove correct Wilde's statement about the power of imitation. However, apart from the work of scholars who wrote on Pavese and Plath as an isolated case, the theory of life as imitation of art was never used to define the authors’ intention. Therefore, further theorization is necessary.","PeriodicalId":12355,"journal":{"name":"Forum Italicum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47408148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Dove terra ha cielo”. Il teatro di Enrico Pea e la favola del Cristo incantatore","authors":"F. Golia","doi":"10.1177/00145858221135653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00145858221135653","url":null,"abstract":"Questo articolo intende esplorare la dimensione del sacro nell’ambito della produzione teatrale di Enrico Pea, colmando, in tal modo, una lacuna negli studi dedicati all'autore toscano. Tale tema sarà affrontato attraverso il prisma della rappresentazione di Gesù Cristo, conferendo un rilievo particolare alla dimensione dello scandalo, al fine di far emergere la presenza di una duplice dialettica: tra conoscenza e immaginazione, tra dogma della fede e libertà della favola. This article aims to explore the dimension of the sacred within the theatrical production of Enrico Pea, fulfilling, as a result, a lacuna in the studies dedicated to the Tuscan author. This theme will be approached through the prism of the representation of Jesus Christ, with special emphasis on the dimension of scandal, in order to bring out the presence of a dual dialectic: between knowledge and imagination, between the dogma of faith and the freedom of fable.","PeriodicalId":12355,"journal":{"name":"Forum Italicum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45956646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book review: Enrica Maria Ferrara (ed.), Posthumanism in Italian Literature and Film: Boundaries and Identity","authors":"S. Zawacki","doi":"10.1177/00145858221110514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00145858221110514","url":null,"abstract":"logie coessenziali (alienazione e classismo), sfruttamento reificante e disumanizzazione dell’uomo e, infine, l’omologazione di tutti i popoli, neutralizzati nella loro identità e inclusi nel nuovo ordine mentale del relativismo consumista e del liberismo cosmopolita politicamente corretto ed eticamente corrotto” (Fusaro, 2017: 17). Il concetto dell’essere umano che Catalfamo elabora ne La rivolta dei demoni ballerini, particolarmente per quanto riguarda l’impatto del capitalismo, della globalizzazione, e della società digitalizzata sull’essere umano concorda con l’analisi filosofica che Fusaro presenta nel sopra citato libro. Catalfamo, come Fusaro, vede nell’arrivo del globalismo e della rivoluzione informatica l’inevitabile omologazione di tutti gli essere umani. “In particolare sulle giovani generazioni [si riverberano] gli effetti distruttivi di questo sistema rinnovato, che riesce a sbriciolare addirittura la personalità individuale, cancellando il concetto stesso di ‘individuo’” (Wafaa A. Raoud El Beih, Prefazione, p. 20). La rivolta dei demoni ballerini è un’opera che contrappone il mondo antico al moderno, il mito alla realtà, il comunismo al fascismo, la giustizia alla corruzione, gli oppressi agli oppressori, ma la rivolta fondamentale, quella che dà il titolo al libro, è la rivolta dei contadini contro il feudalismo. In ogni caso, la lotta del poeta non è solo politica, essa continua, come asserisce Wafaa A. Raouf El Beih nella prefazione, citando Irena Prosenc Šegula, docente universitaria che si è occupata anche lei delle poesie di Catalfamo: la lotta continua “contro la contraffazione dei sentimenti a cui ha dato vita l’avvento della società capitalistica matura e consumistica, nella quale s’impone anche il ‘fast food’ sentimentale” (Prefazione, p. 14). Terminata la lettura, il lettore si rende conto che l’obiettivo del poeta non è solo politico, ma che si protrae alla ricerca di valori umani più autentici, di relazioni più ruspanti, più dignitose, relazioni ormai perdute, ma forse ancora presenti nella semplicità dei rapporti tra contadini. La rivolta dei demoni ballerini, nella sua semplicità di stile e di contenuto, attinge ad argomenti di profondo valore filosofico e umano.","PeriodicalId":12355,"journal":{"name":"Forum Italicum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47005931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book review: Daniela D’Eugenio, Alberto Gelmi e Dario Marcucci (a cura di), Italia, Italie. Studi in onore di Hermann W. Haller","authors":"Iuri Moscardi","doi":"10.1177/00145858221111808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00145858221111808","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12355,"journal":{"name":"Forum Italicum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90727293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}