{"title":"Subaltern Studies and Ecocriticism in La famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia by Dino Buzzati and Lorenzo Mattotti","authors":"R. Coglitore","doi":"10.33137/q.i..v43i3.41351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/q.i..v43i3.41351","url":null,"abstract":"Lorenzo Mattotti’s 2019 adaptation of Dino Buzzati’s La famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia (1945) deserves special attention for three important reasons. First, Mattotti gives this long-undervalued work the preeminence it deserves as an iconotext that can be read by children and adults alike. Second, the movie introduces narrative elements from other works by Buzzati, ranging from Il deserto dei Tartari (1940) to I Miracoli di Val Morel (1971). Third, Mattotti’s film enhances two themes that were already present in Buzzati’s work: the contrast between human and animal perspectives, and the comparison between the city and the mountains. The filmic transposition develops these two themes: the first is transformed into a conflict between social groups, personifying issues that are highly debated today (the subaltern state, migration, postcolonialism); the second can be interpreted as an ecocritical rereading of Buzzati’s text. The struggle against social discrimination and the protection of the natural environment make Mattotti’s movie highly relevant because it addresses urgent contemporary issues.","PeriodicalId":39609,"journal":{"name":"QUADERNI D ITALIANISTICA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47405297","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":"Megan A. Carney. Island of Hope: Migration and Solidarity in the Mediterranean","authors":"J. Marta","doi":"10.33137/q.i..v43i3.41357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/q.i..v43i3.41357","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39609,"journal":{"name":"QUADERNI D ITALIANISTICA","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41376227","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":"Camilla Erculiani. Letters on Natural Philosophy: The Scientific Correspondence of a Sixteenth-Century Pharmacist, with Related Texts. Edited by Eleonora Carinci. Translated by Hannah Marcus. Foreword by Paula Findlen","authors":"Patrizia Bettella","doi":"10.33137/q.i..v43i3.41360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/q.i..v43i3.41360","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39609,"journal":{"name":"QUADERNI D ITALIANISTICA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42727096","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 Living Landscape of Il grande ritratto","authors":"Marco Malvestio","doi":"10.33137/q.i..v43i3.41353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/q.i..v43i3.41353","url":null,"abstract":"This essay discusses Dino Buzzati’s Il grande ritratto (Larger than Life) in the theoretical coordinates provided by ecocritical reflections on science fiction. Examining the science fictional dimension of Il grande ritratto is useful both to underline the close ties the author had with the genre from a historical perspective, and to highlight the possibilities presented by science fiction in terms of the representation of technological innovations and the environment. By analyzing the nature-technology hybrid in Il grande ritratto, the essay highlights how Buzzati’s notion of the agency of matter betrays an ecophobic attitude (which is to say, a fear of the agency of nature) that is intertwined with a similar fear of female agency, due to the identification of the landscape with a female artificial intelligence.","PeriodicalId":39609,"journal":{"name":"QUADERNI D ITALIANISTICA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46905633","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":"Bindo Da Travale. Chronicle (1315–1416). Edited and translated by Alison Williams Lewin","authors":"B. Maxson","doi":"10.33137/q.i..v43i3.41359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/q.i..v43i3.41359","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39609,"journal":{"name":"QUADERNI D ITALIANISTICA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41433576","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":"Esplorando il Pianeta Buzzati. Dino Buzzati a 50 anni dalla morte","authors":"E. Morra, Marco Malvestio","doi":"10.33137/q.i..v43i3.41348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/q.i..v43i3.41348","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39609,"journal":{"name":"QUADERNI D ITALIANISTICA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48295024","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":"Piera Carroli, ed. Mezcla. World Noir in Italy. Marilù Oliva. The Female Poetic in Millennium Crime Fiction","authors":"Meghri Doumanian","doi":"10.33137/q.i..v43i3.41358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/q.i..v43i3.41358","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39609,"journal":{"name":"QUADERNI D ITALIANISTICA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41724074","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":"Marina Vargau. Romarcord. Flânerie, spectacle et mémoire dans la Roma de Federico Fellini","authors":"M. Bertozzi","doi":"10.33137/q.i..v43i3.41366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/q.i..v43i3.41366","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39609,"journal":{"name":"QUADERNI D ITALIANISTICA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43180254","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":"Shemek, Deanna. In Continuous Expectation: Isabella d’Este’s Reign of Letters","authors":"Dijana O. Apostolski","doi":"10.33137/q.i..v43i2.41172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/q.i..v43i2.41172","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39609,"journal":{"name":"QUADERNI D ITALIANISTICA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47759021","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}