ItalianistPub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/02614340.2020.1901458
Anne MacNeil
{"title":"‘A Voice Crying in the Wilderness’: Issues of Authorship, Performance, and Transcription in the Italian Frottola","authors":"Anne MacNeil","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2020.1901458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2020.1901458","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT For many years, scholars have represented the frottola repertory as light-hearted, frivolous, often bawdy songs – the purview of the uneducated – and many of them are exactly this. But within this repertory are also songs based on biblical passages and psalms that bring religious themes into a highly secularised context, offering lay interpretations of sacred scriptures. The most famous example of this is Josquin’s ‘In te domine speravi’, based on Psalm 30. The example of ‘Vox clamantis in deserto’, though, offers an intriguing instance of a song that shows evidence of both oral and written composition. This performative compositional history calls into question the song’s authorial attributions to Serafino Aquilano, Antonio Tebaldeo, and Bartolomeo Tromboncino, and highlights the complex, nuanced character of the genre as a whole.","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":"40 1","pages":"463 - 476"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02614340.2020.1901458","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48747496","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 : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/02614340.2020.1867453
Jessica Goethals, Eugenio Refini
{"title":"Genre-Bending in Early Modern Performative Culture","authors":"Jessica Goethals, Eugenio Refini","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2020.1867453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2020.1867453","url":null,"abstract":"When a play has a character called ‘Eteorogeneo’ (literally, heterogeneous) and a prologue delivered by one ‘Folletto’, the audience should almost certainly expect to encounter something unexpected. When the elf himself announces that the public is about to be offered a grotesque (‘grottesca’) – crazier and more bizarre than anything previously performed – it becomes abundantly clear that the play will not be a conventional one. Indeed, terms such as ‘grottesca’ (decorative painting or sculpture made of freely combined human, animal, and vegetal forms) and the lexicon of ‘bizzarria’ point towards an artistic product informed by artifice and – as per the elf’s own words – capriciousness:","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":"40 1","pages":"317 - 326"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02614340.2020.1867453","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46434081","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 : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/02614340.2020.1886756
Roseen Giles
{"title":"Giambattista Marino’s L’Adone: A Drama of Madrigals","authors":"Roseen Giles","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2020.1886756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2020.1886756","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Giambattista Marino’s L’Adone (1623) is the longest poem written in the Italian language. Exceeding even Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata (1581) in length, L’Adone lacks the most central characteristic of epic poetry: a coherent narrative. As the quintessential example of Italian seicentismo, L’Adone was censured by Marino’s severest critic, Tomaso Stigliani, for being a poem composed entirely of ‘a succession of madrigals’. The absence of a comprehensible story coupled with convoluted rhetoric makes L’Adone utterly impractical for musical setting. Why then was it a literary source for seventeenth-century opera? Similarly, why did madrigal composers seem to find it equally attractive? This article proposes that musical interpretations of Marino’s epic presented a challenge to the notion of dramatic verisimilitude; musical settings based on Marino’s epic demonstrate one of the principal musical debates of the century, namely the tension between the verisimilitude of opera and the artifice of the madrigal.","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":"40 1","pages":"419 - 440"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02614340.2020.1886756","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43997961","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 : 2020-07-22DOI: 10.1080/02614340.2020.1764726
Laura Di Bianco
{"title":"Ecocinema Ars et Praxis: Alice Rohrwacher’s Lazzaro Felice","authors":"Laura Di Bianco","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2020.1764726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2020.1764726","url":null,"abstract":"Ecocinema places the relationship between humans, nonhumans, and the environment at the centre of film narration. As an earth-centred approach rather than an anthropocentric one, ecocinema is ethic...","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":"40 1","pages":"151-164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02614340.2020.1764726","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59387637","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 : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/02614340.2020.1769306
Anna Paparcone
{"title":"Between Cities and Mountains: A Look at Contemporary Ecofeminist Cinema in Italy","authors":"Anna Paparcone","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2020.1769306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2020.1769306","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Starting with a brief overview of the ecofeminist movement and ecocinema, this article provides some theoretical coordinates to contextualise contemporary Italian ecofeminist cinema. Films such as Quatriglio’s Con il fiato sospeso (2013), Mangini and Barbanente’s In viaggio con Cecilia (2013), and Kauber’s In questo mondo (2018) exemplify some features of ecofeminist cinema. They intervene in local realities whose history and geopolitical specificity speaks to global collective efforts. Divorced from an anthropomorphic impetus, their common goal is both raising consciousness about social, political, and environmental issues and suggesting new forms of respect for all human and nonhuman beings. They display the feminist notion of ‘the relational approach’ and privilege Slow Cinema’s techniques. They attempt to blur boundaries between genders and genres, thus attuning viewers to the subtle ways in which binary oppositions –humans–nonhumans, men–women, nature–culture, North–South, wealth–poverty, happiness–unhappiness – continue to work at the core of patriarchy and capitalism.","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":"40 1","pages":"214 - 228"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02614340.2020.1769306","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44447438","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 : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/02614340.2020.1735086
Robert A. Rushing
{"title":"Toxicity: Making the Toxic Visible in Italian Cinema","authors":"Robert A. Rushing","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2020.1735086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2020.1735086","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay looks at two main questions. (1) Why is toxicity, despite its resistance to visualization in the documentary (according to Schoonover), so important in Italian film? As Roberto Esposito has argued, Italy has a long tradition of Italian thought characterized by a particular interest in the fragility and precarity of the human body and the body politic, part of biopolitical thinking; moreover, modern Italy has a tragic and all too well-established history of toxic dumping within the nation as well as beyond its borders, especially in Africa. (2) How have Italian fiction films rendered the toxic visible? I turn to a series of examples, in both art films and popular genres, to show how they manage to visualize both toxicity and its impacts through a series of highly charged fantasies: changes to body and mind that are simultaneously wrapped up in fantasies about gender, species, and power.","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":"40 1","pages":"244 - 255"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02614340.2020.1735086","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45816445","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 : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/02614340.2020.1766796
J. Mullins
{"title":"Queer Ecology: Shared Horizons after Disturbance","authors":"J. Mullins","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2020.1766796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2020.1766796","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While queer theory and the environmental humanities might seem unlikely bedfellows, this piece argues that both fields are defined by acts of denaturalisation and worldmaking which are not merely intellectual gestures, but lively political practices. It appropriates the genre of the manifesto – its capacity to generate rupture and imagine the world otherwise – and calls for the emergence of coalitions to complicate identitarian forms of belonging. Its call for imaginative geographies puts pressure on the notion of a national framework that so often conditions Italian studies scholarship. Lastly, it argues against concepts of purity and orthodoxy that often guide leftist politics, invoking a politics based on impurity to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century. These intertwined practices are explored through an example of one particular queer ecology: Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s 1995 “Untitled” (Vultures) installation of photographs, and its relation to Pier Paolo Pasolini’s poem ‘Lavoro tutto il giorno’.","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":"40 1","pages":"229 - 243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02614340.2020.1766796","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46998698","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 : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/02614340.2020.1775369
D. Callegari, Joseph Perna
{"title":"Unlabelling Authenticity: Food and Wine in Mario Soldati","authors":"D. Callegari, Joseph Perna","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2020.1775369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2020.1775369","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay begins with a survey of approaches to food in Italian media culture, and then explores how food studies and the environmental humanities can come together. We take two enogastronomic projects carried out by Mario Soldati, Nella valle del Po: alla ricerca dei cibi genuini (1957) and Vino al vino: alla ricerca dei vini genuini (1968–75), as a case study. These documentaries spanned the arc of Italy's postwar economic boom and the slow opening of Europe’s economic and political borders. Soldati’s search for authenticity in food and wine was a search for what would remain recognisably Italian even after Italy and its inhabitants changed shape yet again. His enogastronomic work maps the emergence of a new code of cultural values, and enables a new method for interpreting the terrain on which consumer practice, ecology, representation, and taste intersect.","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":"40 1","pages":"203 - 213"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02614340.2020.1775369","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43096922","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 : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/02614340.2020.1765591
Meryl Shriver-Rice, Hunter Vaughan
{"title":"Digital Heritage and the Anthropocene: Media Use in Site-Specific Archaeological Installations in Lazio, Italy","authors":"Meryl Shriver-Rice, Hunter Vaughan","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2020.1765591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2020.1765591","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":"40 1","pages":"165 - 179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02614340.2020.1765591","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49006059","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 : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/02614340.2020.1790148
Danielle E. Hipkins, Elena Past, M. Seger
{"title":"Editorial","authors":"Danielle E. Hipkins, Elena Past, M. Seger","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2020.1790148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2020.1790148","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":"40 1","pages":"143 - 147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02614340.2020.1790148","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46386691","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}