ItalianistPub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02614340.2022.2101219
Guylian Nemegeer
{"title":"Umanesimo, Rinascimento e rinascita nazionale in Gabriele d’Annunzio*","authors":"Guylian Nemegeer","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2022.2101219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2022.2101219","url":null,"abstract":"SOMMARIO Il saggio analizza il ruolo della cultura umanistico-rinascimentale nella riflessione sulla rinascita nazionale sviluppata da Gabriele d’Annunzio. Dopo un’iniziale esplorazione dei dibattiti sulla decadenza e sulla rinascita nazionale da una parte, e sulla condanna del Rinascimento nella cultura europea e nell’Italia post-unitaria dall’altra, il saggio si sofferma sulla posizione di d'Annunzio all’interno di tali dibattiti, e mostra che l’opera dannunziana dà espressione a un progetto di rinascita nel quale la riscoperta della cultura umanistico-rinascimentale ha una funzione centrale. Tale riscoperta permette all’autore di rivendicare la superiorità della nazione italiana nel contesto europeo e si contrappone alle coeve letture del Rinascimento, che era soggetto a stigmatizzazione sia nel dibattito italiano sulla nazione che in quello europeo sulla modernità.","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":"42 1","pages":"24 - 42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44481452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ItalianistPub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02614340.2022.2145771
Fulvio Lorefice
{"title":"La ricezione di Mussolini il rivoluzionario di Renzo De Felice nel dibattito storiografico degli anni Sessanta","authors":"Fulvio Lorefice","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2022.2145771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2022.2145771","url":null,"abstract":"SOMMARIO L’articolo si focalizza sullo studio Mussolini il rivoluzionario di Renzo De Felice, che sin dalla pubblicazione nel 1965 rappresenta uno spartiacque negli studi storiografici sul fascismo e le sue origini, per rispondere alla seguente domanda di ricerca: come, in che misura e con quale logica la pubblicazione di Mussolini il rivoluzionario suscitò l’attenzione dell’intellettualità dell’epoca? Sono quindi state passate in rassegna le recensioni del volume ed esaminati criticamente i profili della ricostruzione e dell’interpretazione defeliciana maggiormente dibattuti. Vengono quindi discussi quattro ‘nodi’ storiografici: il profilo intellettuale e politico del dittatore; le ragioni della svolta interventista; i caratteri politici dei Fasci di Combattimento; l’operato del Partito socialista rispetto alla guerra mondiale. La ricostruzione defeliciana del quadro politico-ideale nel quale si realizzò il passaggio di Mussolini dal socialismo al fascismo e il tentativo di comprenderne termini e modalità, contribuirono a porre su basi nuove il percorso di studi in materia.","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":"42 1","pages":"63 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46664092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ItalianistPub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02614340.2022.2062937
Alberto Iozzia
{"title":"The Horrid Beginning: Boccaccio’s Decameron as Secular Archetype of Post-Apocalyptic Fiction","authors":"Alberto Iozzia","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2022.2062937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2022.2062937","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Dennis Perry defines the apocalypse as the breaking up of the predictable universe: the world as we know it starts collapsing, and so does the scale of values everyone relies on. Apocalypse is therefore a massive change of customs, of parameters, of language. These are the very same changes Boccaccio depicted in his collection of novellas: those of a world that was dealing with a plague pandemic during a crucial moment of transition. By using textual evidence, with a particular focus on The Walking Dead – both Robert Kirkman’s comic book (2003–present) and Frank Darabont’s TV series (2010–present) – I show that defining the Decameron as the secular archetype of post-apocalyptic fiction is not a stretch, and that the theme of social reconstruction is of primary importance in Boccaccio’s book, as much as it is crucial in modern apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic literature and cinema.","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":"42 1","pages":"104 - 118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45852454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ItalianistPub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02614340.2022.2125707
G. Sulis, Vera Gheno
{"title":"The Debate on Language and Gender in Italy, from the Visibility of Women to Inclusive Language (1980s–2020s)","authors":"G. Sulis, Vera Gheno","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2022.2125707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2022.2125707","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This conversation focuses on issues of language and gender and on the debates they have generated in Italy over the past forty years: from linguistic sexism to the role and visibility of women, and then to the representation of non-binary identities. After introducing the differences in expressing gender in Italian and in other European languages, it discusses the proposals made regarding these matters since the 1980s, the reactions to them, and their long-term legacy, mainly in relation to the use of female agentives. The interactions between experts and ‘näive linguists’ are presented as a case study of the popularisation of the debate, and the key role of the digital sphere is also highlighted. Finally, recent suggestions to move beyond the overextended masculine to address mixed-gender groups and non-binary people are analysed (from the asterisk to the schwa), in parallel with similar attempts made in other languages.","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":"42 1","pages":"153 - 183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41411129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ItalianistPub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02614340.2022.2105012
Daniela Cavallaro
{"title":"Sins of the Parents: Alba de Céspedes’ and Agostino degli Espinosa’s Gli affetti di famiglia","authors":"Daniela Cavallaro","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2022.2105012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2022.2105012","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Drawing on archival material found at the Fondazione Mondadori in Milan, the Archivio Centrale dello Stato in Rome, and the Museo Biblioteca dell’Attore in Genoa, this article recovers and discusses the 1952 play Gli affetti di famiglia, written by Alba de Céspedes and Agostino degli Espinosa. The article focuses on the contribution of degli Espinosa; the several drafts of the play; its themes, characters, and theatrical influences, from Greek tragedy to Filumena Marturano; its references to ancient myths and Christian texts; its reception; and, finally, its position within de Céspedes’ dramatic production.","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":"42 1","pages":"43 - 62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46904440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ItalianistPub Date : 2021-11-30DOI: 10.1080/02614340.2021.1987759
S. Mason, J. Hajek
{"title":"Italian Language Education in Australia: Public Perceptions through the Eyes of the Press","authors":"S. Mason, J. Hajek","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2021.1987759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2021.1987759","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47442786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ItalianistPub Date : 2021-11-19DOI: 10.1080/02614340.2021.1983981
Serena Laiena
{"title":"Meretrices ergo Dive: Academic Encomia and the Metamorphosis of Early Modern Actresses","authors":"Serena Laiena","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2021.1983981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2021.1983981","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the reception of professional actresses in Counter-Reformation Italy and explores the causes and phases of their transformation from meretrices to dive. The first part analyses a range of primary sources that report the arguments advanced by their detractors, in particular members of the clergy, for the social exclusion of actresses. It then considers their training as a reason for their inclusion within academies and for their recasting as dive. The second part of the article looks at a selection of published and unpublished encomia composed by different academicians for the actress and singer Virginia Ramponi (1583–c. 1631), and aims to reassess the relationship between actresses and academies in early modern Italy. SOMMARIO L’articolo esamina la ricezione delle attrici dell’arte nel periodo della Controriforma e considera cause e fasi della loro trasformazione da meretrices a dive. Lo studio prende in esame, in primo luogo, un corpus di fonti primarie che documentano le argomentazioni di detrattori, molti dei quali ecclesiastici, volte a denigrare il ruolo delle attrici nella società. Considera, quindi, la formazione delle attrici quale fattore determinante della loro inclusione accademica e della loro trasformazione in dive. Mediante lo studio di una selezione di encomi editi e inediti composti da alcuni accademici per l’attrice e cantante Virginia Ramponi (1583– c. 1631), l’articolo intende infine proporre una rivalutazione dei rapporti tra attrici e accademie nell’Italia del Cinque e Seicento.","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46866670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ItalianistPub Date : 2021-09-10DOI: 10.1080/02614340.2021.1948743
Joseph Francese
{"title":"Vincenzo Padula’s Il Bruzio: The Temperament, Needs, Vices, and Virtues of Calabria’s Social Classes in the 1860s","authors":"Joseph Francese","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2021.1948743","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2021.1948743","url":null,"abstract":"The studies of Vincenzo Padula (25 March 1819–8 January 1893) of Calabria’s peasantry (their language, customs, mores, and living conditions) predate Giuseppe Pitrè’s by a decade and were considered a model for literary verismo by Benedetto Croce. I introduce an anglophone audience to this secondary but important author through a discussion of Il Bruzio, a semi-weekly periodical he wrote almost single-handedly and published in Cosenza (1864–1865). In Il Bruzio Padula demonstrates a singular ability to provide a panoramic view of society, adopting the perspective of the working classes, and to probe deeply into the wounds – economic and social, large and small – that afflicted his region. His goal in criticising the religious, political, and administrative policies of the government of the New Italy was to spark reforms aimed at creating a broad consensus among all social and economic classes that would serve as a bulwark against Bourbon revanchism. SOMMARIO Gli studi di Vincenzo Padula (1819–1893) sui contadini calabresi (il loro linguaggio, le tradizioni, la moralità e il vissuto quotidiano) anticipano di un decennio quelli di Pitrè e furono considerati da Croce modelli per il verismo letterario. In questo scritto presento Padula, scrittore minore ma importante, ad un pubblico anglofono, attraverso una discussione de Il Bruzio, un bisettimanale scritto quasi da solo da Padula e pubblicato a Cosenza (1864–1865). Nel Bruzio Padula rivela una rarissima capacità di fornire una veduta panoramica della società cosentina dell’epoca secondo la prospettiva delle classi meno abbienti, al fine di svelarne le secolari piaghe: economiche e sociali, piccole e grandi. L’intellettuale sperava, attraverso la critica della politica interna del governo della Nuova Italia, di dare impeto a riforme atte a creare un consenso popolare il più ampio possibile, e in questo modo ovviare al ritorno dei Borboni al trono del Regno di Napoli.","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45740972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ItalianistPub Date : 2021-09-10DOI: 10.1080/02614340.2021.1964175
Michael Biasin
{"title":"Dante nell’enciclica In Praeclara Summorum di papa Benedetto XV","authors":"Michael Biasin","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2021.1964175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2021.1964175","url":null,"abstract":"The essay considers the encyclical In Praeclara Summorum dedicated by Pope Benedict XV to the memory of Dante Alighieri. In this encyclical, published on 30 April 1921, on the occasion of the six-hundredth anniversary of the death of the poet, the pontiff promoted Dante as a moral, social, and political guide for societies torn apart by the madness of the First World War. My aim is to try to understand the deep socio-political reasons that pushed Pope Benedict XV to transform the Florentine poet into the mystagogue and political theorist of the contemporary world with the power to regenerate spiritually in particular the youth of post-war Europe. PAROLE CHIAVE Commedia; Dante; Benedetto XV; Prima guerra mondiale; ricezione dantesca; In Praeclara Summorum","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46552900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ItalianistPub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/02614340.2021.2015992
Andrea Romanzi
{"title":"L’Urlo di Fernanda Pivano: The History of the Publication of Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ in Italy","authors":"Andrea Romanzi","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2021.2015992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2021.2015992","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article investigates the controversial history of Fernanda Pivano’s Italian translation of ‘Howl’, Allen Ginsberg’s manifesto of the Beat Generation. It examines the translation in the context of the existing publishing correspondence surrounding the poem in order to reveal the complex power negotiations that involved Pivano, Ginsberg, and Mondadori, particularly regarding problems of censorship. Drawing on previously unexplored archive materials, this essay highlights how the close collaboration between author and translator influenced the mechanisms that led to the publication of the poem in Italy, and how Pivano’s hermeneutic work contributed to an unpublished collaborative commentary on Ginsberg’s poem, which has proved useful to translators working in other languages.","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":"342 1","pages":"424 - 445"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41281296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}