Italian StudiesPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00751634.2022.2098451
F. Camilletti
{"title":"Fantascienza e ufologia nell’opera di Inisero Cremaschi, Gilda Musa e Giuseppe Pederiali, 1967–1978","authors":"F. Camilletti","doi":"10.1080/00751634.2022.2098451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2022.2098451","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Il saggio esamina una costellazione di opere a carattere fantascientifico pubblicate da Inisero Cremaschi, Gilda Musa e Giuseppe Pederiali tra il 1967 e il 1978 e caratterizzate da un uso molto libero della tematica ufologica. Da un lato, esso illustra la forte sinergia tra fantascienza italiana e ufologia negli anni che vanno tra l’‘occultura’ degli anni Sessanta e la ‘grande ondata’ di avvistamenti del 1978, presentando e discutendo una vasta serie di fonti finora scarsamente considerate dalla critica. Dall’altro, il saggio mostra come Cremaschi, Musa e Pederiali adoperino il tema-UFO per erodere i confini tra letteratura di finzione e divulgazione (pseudo-)scientifica.","PeriodicalId":44221,"journal":{"name":"Italian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45276647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Italian StudiesPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00751634.2022.2088668
Emanuela Patti
{"title":"Bruno Munari: The Lightness of Art","authors":"Emanuela Patti","doi":"10.1080/00751634.2022.2088668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2022.2088668","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44221,"journal":{"name":"Italian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46794673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Italian StudiesPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00751634.2022.2088669
A. Giorgio
{"title":"Le vite degli altri abitano la mia. La scrittura del sé nell’opera di Fabrizia Ramondino. Testimonianze di G. Cacciapuoti, A. Cirillo, G. Fofi, M. Liguori, T. Marrone, M. Martone, G. M. Scamardella, E. Tatafiore, P. Valerio","authors":"A. Giorgio","doi":"10.1080/00751634.2022.2088669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2022.2088669","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44221,"journal":{"name":"Italian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43137996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Italian StudiesPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00751634.2022.2100208
P. Pellecchia
{"title":"Under Pinocchio’s Skin: The Uncanny Woodenness of a Permanent Body","authors":"P. Pellecchia","doi":"10.1080/00751634.2022.2100208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2022.2100208","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Carlo Collodi’s Le Avventure di Pinocchio has undergone an extraordinary number of manipulations, showing the great malleability of a text whose protean capacity echoes that of its main character. I analyse Pinocchio from a psychoanalytical standpoint, considering the Unheimlich – uncanny – as a pivotal stylistic element of the story and exploring its function in Collodi’s critique of the Risorgimento’s prescriptive moral code. The uncanny pertains to a class of frightening experiences that lead back to what is known and has been removed by repression. In this light, Pinocchio emerges as a tale deprived of any morally successful teleology: instead of engendering a new bourgeois life, the transformation of the puppet into a ‘bambino perbene’ exposes the contradictory phenomenology of this metamorphosis, subtly announcing Pinocchio’s radical death. Pinocchio’s dead wooden body reveals the ineffectiveness of the moral-teleological project of the Risorgimento, which renounces its inability to restrain those unsettling forces that destabilise it from within.","PeriodicalId":44221,"journal":{"name":"Italian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48634218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Italian StudiesPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00751634.2022.2096316
J. Bryce, NicholasM. Brown
{"title":"Professor Peter M. Brown (1926 –2022)","authors":"J. Bryce, NicholasM. Brown","doi":"10.1080/00751634.2022.2096316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2022.2096316","url":null,"abstract":"Peter Melville Brown, who died in Aberdeen on 4 January 2022 at the age of 95, was a distinguished academic and scholar, known primarily for his work in what was the then relatively underexplored area of the cultural history of later Cinquecento Florence. Born on 7 July 1926 in Todmorden, a historic industrial town straddling the Yorkshire–Lancashire border, he was the son of an engineer employed at one of the local cotton mills. After completing his secondary education at the town’s grammar school, in 1944 Peter joined the Navy, which deployed the young sublieutenant to learn Japanese at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. After the war, he proceeded to Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating in 1952 with first class honours in Italian and French, and with the additional award of a Senior Demyship. This was followed by a two-year scholarship at the prestigious Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, an intellectual experience which was to prove seminal for his later career. His Oxford doctoral thesis, a study of the Florentine scholar Lionardo Salviati (1539–1589), was published by Oxford University Press in 1974. Peter’s first academic post was at the University of Aberdeen. Starting in 1955 as assistant lecturer in Italian, he went on to become Senior Lecturer and Head of Department. Colleagues in the later stages of his tenure there included Tom O’Neill, Brian Prescott, and Isa Minio-Paluello Cochrane. In 1972, he succeeded T. Gwynfor Griffith as professor of Italian at the University of Hull where his team, over time, comprised John Barnes, John Woodhouse, Peter Hainsworth, John Gatt Rutter, Frank Woodhouse, and Judith Bryce. In 1975 he returned to Scotland on his appointment as Stevenson Professor of Italian at the University of Glasgow where he headed a team comprising Eileen Anne Millar, Denis Mooney, and Richard Greenwood. He retired in 1987, and was honoured the following year by the publication of a Festschrift dedicated to him, entitled Renaissance and ITALIAN STUDIES 2022, VOL. 77, NO. 3, 364–366 https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2022.2096316","PeriodicalId":44221,"journal":{"name":"Italian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46913857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Italian StudiesPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00751634.2022.2088670
Stephen R. Buzdugan
{"title":"The Political Portrait: Leadership, Image and Power","authors":"Stephen R. Buzdugan","doi":"10.1080/00751634.2022.2088670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2022.2088670","url":null,"abstract":"As the political science scholar Roland Bleiker has recently put it, ‘we live in a visual age . . . [the] omnipresence of images is political and has changed fundamentally how we live and interact in today’s world’. The Political Portrait: Leadership, Image and Power arrives at a time when visual images dominate the political landscape, especially through social media. As Luciano Cheles and Pierre Sorlin put it in their thought-provoking opening chapter:","PeriodicalId":44221,"journal":{"name":"Italian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46883662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Italian StudiesPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00751634.2022.2069409
MariusWarholm Haugen
{"title":"The Lottery Fantasy and Social Mobility in Eighteenth-Century Venetian Literature: Carlo Goldoni, Pietro Chiari, and Giacomo Casanova","authors":"MariusWarholm Haugen","doi":"10.1080/00751634.2022.2069409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2022.2069409","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the lottery fantasy as a cultural figure and literary topic in the works of Carlo Goldoni, Pietro Chiari, and Giacomo Casanova. The lottery fantasy is to be understood as the dream of social ascension through sudden, life-changing wealth, which exercised a powerful allure on eighteenth-century Europe. The three authors addressed this figure in literary form, through the comedy, the novel, and the memoir, giving distinctly different representations and moral assessments of the lottery as a social and cultural practice. Despite their differences, all three works engage with the fundamental issue underlying the lottery fantasy: an increasing pressure towards social mobility in the nonmeritocratic society of the Old Regime. The article uses Roger Caillois’ categorisation of play as an analytical lens for examining how the three works link the aleatory game of the lottery to cultural practices aimed at meritocratic, social mobility.","PeriodicalId":44221,"journal":{"name":"Italian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46786280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Italian StudiesPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00751634.2022.2070348
Charles L. Leavitt
{"title":"Deicide and the Drama of the Holocaust: Gian Paolo Callegari’s Cristo ha ucciso (1948)","authors":"Charles L. Leavitt","doi":"10.1080/00751634.2022.2070348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2022.2070348","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Gian Paolo Callegari’s prize-winning 1948 play, Cristo ha ucciso, marks an overlooked milestone in Italy’s response to the Holocaust. Among the earliest Italian creative works to confront the genocide of the European Jews, Callegari’s play challenged the legacies of anti-Semitism in European culture. Yet it also concealed the troubling history of its author’s own Fascist anti-Semitism. Exploring this apparent paradox, the present essay situates both play and playwright in the post-war Italian context. I argue that Cristo ha ucciso makes possible a substantial reconsideration of the public reckoning that attended news of the liberation of the death camps. This is because, with its provocative claim that Christian forgiveness had to be abandoned as an impediment to justice, Callegari’s play offered a radical alternative to the Christian humanist framework predominant in Italian narratives of the Second World War.","PeriodicalId":44221,"journal":{"name":"Italian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46292425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Italian StudiesPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00751634.2022.2103778
Nicolò Maldina
{"title":"San Giacomo, la Speranza e i Salmi a Paradiso XXV","authors":"Nicolò Maldina","doi":"10.1080/00751634.2022.2103778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2022.2103778","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT L’articolo si propone di indagare l’allusione a Ps 114 (113A) che si registra a Paradiso xxv, 55–56 alla luce della tradizione medievale di questo Salmo e, in particolare, del possibile legame tra il suo celebre incipit (‘In exitu Isreael de Aegypto’) e la figura di san Giacomo Maggiore, ossia l’apostolo che in questo canto è chiamato a interrogare Dante personaggio sulla virtù della Speranza. Su queste basi, il contributo mira a valorizzare il ruolo di san Giacomo ai fini dell’autorappresentazione autoriale di Dante, con particolare riferimento alla sua complementarietà rispetto al più noto modello offerto, sempre nel venticinquesimo del Paradiso, da David.","PeriodicalId":44221,"journal":{"name":"Italian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43395578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Italian StudiesPub Date : 2022-06-28DOI: 10.1080/00751634.2022.2070827
Giovanni Genna
{"title":"‘Cupidone buggerone’, ovvero Gadda e la demistificazione dello stilnovismo","authors":"Giovanni Genna","doi":"10.1080/00751634.2022.2070827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2022.2070827","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Il pastiche gaddiano è un fenomeno particolarmente complesso, poiché stravolge tanto gli elementi linguistici quanto quelli iconografici della tradizione letteraria contaminandoli e, di fatto, riscrivendoli. Un esempio di questo fenomeno è certamente la riscrittura dei tòpoi della tradizione lirica amorosa che l’Ingegnere compie ribaltando i canoni dello stilnovismo – che già nei secoli precedenti erano mutati dando vita ai rifacimenti di maniera –, attraverso la deformazione dell’immagine di Amore e della domina angelicata. Partendo dalla lettura di alcuni passi tratti da articoli, racconti e romanzi, l’intento di questo saggio è sottolineare come, mediante la manipolazione dei tòpoi canonici dello stilnovismo, Gadda pervenga a delineare una propria dichiarazione di poetica in una commistione di toni tragici, umoristici e caricaturali.","PeriodicalId":44221,"journal":{"name":"Italian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47221477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}