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{"title":"The unpopular realism of Vincenzo Padula. Il Bruzio and Mariuzza Sbrìffiti","authors":"M. Pugliese","doi":"10.1080/1354571X.2023.2171637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571X.2023.2171637","url":null,"abstract":"theater of narration to a national audience and increasing the widespread dissemination of the format. Exhaustively researched over more than a decade, the book’s densely packed narrative displays some of the difficulties of transitioning a dissertation for a wider audience. The discourse had a 90s feel to it, and noticeably absent was how theater of narration fits within postdramatic and polyvocal trends that have earmarked EU theater over the past ten years. For a student seminar or theaterbased audience, selected graphs or tables would have helped differentiate eras and movements. Exploring the various dramaturgical structures would be helpful to playwrights and theater practitioners, particularly considering that the author is herself a playwright. The reader is largely left to do the unpacking while wading through the major points in the book. Although the book is undoubtedly a landmark academic study with a number of photos from important productions, accessibility factors make for a daunting read considering the unfamiliarity of most names and titles in the book, and the genre itself which Guzzetta is introducing to a new audience outside of Italy. While several erstwhile festivals are mentioned, a blind spot would be the internationally esteemed and widely reported annual festival Quartieri dell’Arte based in Viterbo and artistic directed by Gian Maria Cervo. Cervo utilizes sitespecific outlier venues like abandoned civic buildings, medieval, and historic sites for narrator-based and media experiments. This autumnal festival or the Tramedautore mentioned earlier would seem to provide a throughline to the continuing viability of the genre. It is noteworthy that festivals are the most reliable venues and funding sources for emerging Italian theater artists to disseminate their work outside of their region. Guzzetta’s opus is a major contribution to Italian theater studies particularly for English speakers and American academics whose references to Italian theater may be limited to Dario Fo’s political satires or nostalgia for Pirandello as the estimable paragon of Italian playwrights. The book’s main value is to provide a powerful, cogent, and profoundly researched historical reference and foundation that establishes not only the genre of teatro di narrazione but also encourages further inquiry and development of narrative works by theater artists and scholars.","PeriodicalId":16364,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Italian Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"384 - 387"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49153653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The theater of narration: from the peripheries of history to the main stages of Italy","authors":"Paul Castagno","doi":"10.1080/1354571X.2023.2171634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571X.2023.2171634","url":null,"abstract":"undercut by ideas of the visual truth associated then and now with photographic imagery, however artificial or contrived. The title of the book rightly underlines the role of imagination in activating meaning in photographs, while emphasizing the practical, commercial and ideological nature of such images. The book has an extensive and highly useful bibliography, containing many lesser-known texts, from across the eclectic range of disciplines where interest in photography has been sustained.","PeriodicalId":16364,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Italian Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"382 - 384"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45476301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Leonardo Sciascia. The man and the writer","authors":"Fabio Moliterni","doi":"10.1080/1354571X.2023.2171638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571X.2023.2171638","url":null,"abstract":"and museums of peasant culture. Rural farmhouses shifted “from sites of backbreaking labor to exclusive places of leisure and relaxation” (197) and “intentional monuments to endangered memory” (196). Chapter 6 examines “the intellectual and legislative debates on landscape at the national, regional and local levels” (240). It describes the normative construction of beautiful landscapes in Chianti and the Orcia Valley, which became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2004. Yet at the same time the Valley’s beauty and heritage were threatened by sordid scandals surrounding housing developments, demonstrating the oppositional forces affecting the uses and meanings of the land. Gaggio concludes that, “the Tuscan rural landscape has told many contradictory stories in the past century” (281). He lays out those stories in a compelling narrative that demonstrates how landscape is shaped by humans’ complex interactions with the places they inhabit. The book will interest social science students and scholars of Tuscany and Italy, and those concerned with human-land interactions, the culture of agriculture, and the grassroots enactment of politics. The book leaves us with interesting questions such as, “What makes a landscape beautiful and thus worth protecting?” (238). What makes a landscape “legible”? How do landscapes represent tradition and modernity? How does landscape dovetail with efforts for sustainability? Gaggio adduces abundant empirical data from a wide array of sources to address these and other questions and shows the power of landscape as a conceptual and material focus.","PeriodicalId":16364,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Italian Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"395 - 397"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46027447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Long 1970s and 1980s of television and movies in Italy: new forms of de-legitimization","authors":"Paolo Mattera","doi":"10.1080/1354571X.2022.2155765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571X.2022.2155765","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The collapse of the political system took place in a context of hostility towards the parties and consensus on judicial investigations. What were the long-term roots of this phenomenon? The answer to this question is difficult and requires new research on the evolution of the society, the economy, the structure of the political system and – this is a crucial point – about mentality and imaginary. A fundamental contribution in this direction can be given by the study of audiovisuals, cinema and television. In fact, they can be analysed as ‘agents of history’, interacting with existing patterns of behaviour and values, and as sources, documenting the deepest currents in society. How to explain the contradiction between the consensus that the major parties achieved for years and the sudden collapse of the whole system? Did movies and television programs contribute to spreading hostility towards mass parties and delegitimizing the political system? The purpose of the article is to offer a hypothesis of interpretation of these issues, using the most representative movies and television programs from the end of the 1970s to the beginning of the 1990s.","PeriodicalId":16364,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Italian Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"220 - 237"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42272219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Milan riots of 1853: history and remembrance","authors":"M. Soresina","doi":"10.1080/1354571X.2022.2057015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571X.2022.2057015","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article recounts the revolt that took place in Milan on 6 February 1853 and investigates its presence in the official memory of the city. The main figures in the rebellion were from Milan’s working class: while the movement was fomented by Mazzini, it was carried out independently by badly organized groups of workers; unlike the ‘Cinque Giornate’ of 1848, the upper classes were not involved. Barricades were erected and Austrian soldiers were killed, but order was promptly restored by the Austrians. The occupying forces arrested hundreds of people, executed sixteen working-class men and ordered the seizure of the goods of exiles who had left Lombardy after 1848. The article looks at how the events of 1853 were treated by historiography and local commemoration from unification to the present day. It discusses the meaning of the inclusion of that failed, impracticable uprising – a divisive one, involving as it did only figures from the lower classes – in the official justification of the city’s heroism, sanctioned in 1948 when Milan was awarded the gold medal for military valour.","PeriodicalId":16364,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Italian Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"53 - 69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42227708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The 2022 general Italian elections. The long-awaited victory of the right","authors":"G. Pasquino, M. Valbruzzi","doi":"10.1080/1354571X.2022.2150805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571X.2022.2150805","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The 2022 Italian parliamentary elections had an announced winner: the centre-right coalition led by Giorgia Meloni’s party (Fratelli d’Italia [F.d.I.]). Despite the low level of competitiveness, caused mainly by divisions in the centre-left camp, and the high predictability of the election outcome, the elections have had profound consequences for the Italian party system and also for decision-making within the European Union. In addition to providing a detailed analysis of the electoral results of the 2022 elections, the article will focus on the process that led, in a short period of time, to the formation of the new government led, for the first time in Italy”s history, by a woman and, above all, composed predominantly of far-right parties with a populist or sovereigntist attitude. Finally, in the concluding section the article will reflect on the ‘historical’ significance of these elections for the Italian political system, highlighting possible elements of tension for the democratic regime and for the relationship with other E.U. member-states.","PeriodicalId":16364,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Italian Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"1 - 21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44849193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Towards an inadequately rational bicameralism. The Italian Senate ‘reform’ (1948–1963)","authors":"Salvatore Mura","doi":"10.1080/1354571X.2022.2148398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571X.2022.2148398","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT After the adoption of the Italian Constitution, why did the parties choose to reduce instead of emphasizing the differences between the two Chambers that formed the Parliament? This article highlights the importance of the debate held in Italy between 1948 and 1963 on the functions, composition and methods to elect the Senate. The result, the Constitutional Law 3, 1963, eliminated almost all the differences between the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. This cannot, therefore, be considered a ‘small reform’, as it was defined, but one that profoundly conditioned the Italy’s subsequent political history and the evolution of Italian bicameralism.","PeriodicalId":16364,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Italian Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"323 - 342"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42815124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘A League of Minds’? Uses and abuses of the League of Nations’ internationalism by Fascist Italy","authors":"Giulia Simone","doi":"10.1080/1354571X.2022.2148399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571X.2022.2148399","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article aims to shed light on the rationale behind Fascist Italy’s participation in the League of Nations’ (L.o.N.) cultural organizations, as well as on the strategies and diplomatic tools it adopted with a view to setting the intellectual cooperation agenda in the 1920s and 1930s. Although inspired by a strong nationalist ideology, the Fascist regime, at least initially, successfully adapted its cultural diplomacy strategies to the multilateral context of the L.o.N., embracing the language and tools of internationalism. In the long run, however, this delicate balance between nationalist and internationalist attitudes proved untenable: Mussolini’ project aiming to convey a positive and tolerant image of Fascism to the outside world was firstly tainted by the measures taken in 1931 to regiment Italian intellectuals, and then finally collapsed with the aggression to Ethiopia. However, this article shows that the involvement in the L.o.N.’s cultural organizations, while providing Fascism with international channels for circulating its propaganda, also determined instances of real cooperation: the most emblematic case is represented by the development of cinematography, which can be considered Italy’s long-term contribution to the enhancement of intellectual cooperation within the L.o.N. in the interwar period.","PeriodicalId":16364,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Italian Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"259 - 277"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49432745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Displacing displacement: narratives for a haunting history","authors":"Elena Miltiadis","doi":"10.1080/1354571X.2022.2143635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571X.2022.2143635","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this article, building on recent theories of displacement, I propose a definition of post-displacement as a ‘displacement of displacement’, or the displacement of already displaced histories. The analysis focuses on the ethnographic case of Latina, an Italian city built in 1932 by the Fascist regime. Given its controversial past that cannot be celebrated, Latina is presented here as a displaced city, whose history cannot serve as a locus for place-making, meaning-making, and future-making. I analyse how the selective re-elaboration of the city’s history by Latina’s inhabitants and local public officials displaces an already displaced history. Through a momentary silencing of Fascism and renewed connections to national history, these narratives allow for the past to be spoken about and remembered, while also fostering a sense of the self in place. Nonetheless, Fascism cannot be completely erased and remains a haunting absent presence. This article thus offers a reflection on (post-)displacement and on the presence and absence of Fascism in contemporary Italy.","PeriodicalId":16364,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Italian Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"451 - 465"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41737234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The fascist breadbasket: food, empire, and modernity in Italian East Africa, 1935–1941","authors":"Simone Cinotto","doi":"10.1080/1354571X.2022.2145760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571X.2022.2145760","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Food was critical to the fascist project of occupation of Ethiopia and construction of the Italian Empire in East Africa between 1935 and 1941. The plan, deployed as part of the last and most modern war of aggression in the European Scramble for Africa, included the transfer to Ethiopia of plant and animal breeding biotechnologies and the transplantation of Italian farmers to develop a massive;demographic colonization’; first in experimental model settlements, and then replacing Ethiopian biodiversity with Italian agriculture, husbandry, and civilization. The project of extraction of food resources from Ethiopia prioritized mobility – the construction of the road infrastructure necessary to transport colonial crops to the seaports on the Red Sea and from there to Italy and global markets. As the mass demographic colonization project faltered, though, the Empire absorbed food rather than produce it, and the unexpected most important function of Mussolini’s highways was to deliver high volumes of food imported from Italy to settlers. While the consumption of imported processed food represented an exciting experience of modernity and social mobility for Ethiopia’s Italians, Ethiopian armed and spontaneous resistance insisted on the disruption of the invaders’ colonial food system as the pathway to regain control of their land, agriculture, and food sovereignty.","PeriodicalId":16364,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Italian Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"296 - 322"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46084042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}