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{"title":"Folklore, razza, fascismo <b>Folklore, razza, fascismo</b> , a cura di Fabiana Dimpflmeier, Firenze, Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2023, 339 pp., €25.00, ISSN 0409-6231","authors":"Beatrice Falcucci","doi":"10.1080/00751634.2023.2269763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2023.2269763","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44221,"journal":{"name":"Italian Studies","volume":"24 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135870285","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}

{"title":"Sexscapes of Pleasure: Women, Sexuality and the Whore Stigma in Italy <b>Sexscapes of Pleasure: Women, Sexuality and the Whore Stigma in Italy</b> , by Elena Zambelli, New York, Berghahn Books, 2023, 188 pp., £99.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-80073-685-6","authors":"Noreen Kane","doi":"10.1080/00751634.2023.2269766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2023.2269766","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44221,"journal":{"name":"Italian Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135870498","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}

{"title":"Una macchina mitologica del ’68. Nanni Balestrini e il rituale della Grande Rivolta <b>Una macchina mitologica del ’68. Nanni Balestrini e il rituale della Grande Rivolta</b> , by Beniamino Della Gala, Ravenna, Giorgio Pozzi Editore, 2021, 333 pp., €25,00 (paperback), ISBN 978-88-31358-04-0","authors":"Simone Giorgio","doi":"10.1080/00751634.2023.2269764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2023.2269764","url":null,"abstract":"\"Una macchina mitologica del ’68. Nanni Balestrini e il rituale della Grande Rivolta.\" Italian Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2","PeriodicalId":44221,"journal":{"name":"Italian Studies","volume":"25 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135863939","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}

{"title":"Figlie dell’alchimia. Donne e cultura scientifica nell’Italia della prima età moderna <b>Figlie dell’alchimia. Donne e cultura scientifica nell’Italia della prima età moderna</b> , by Meredith K. Ray, translated by Rolf Bagemihl and Stefano U. Baldassarri, Rome, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2022, xxiv + 320 pp., €24 (paperback), ISBN 9788893596947","authors":"Francesco Lucioli","doi":"10.1080/00751634.2023.2269767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2023.2269767","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44221,"journal":{"name":"Italian Studies","volume":"198 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135871440","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}

{"title":"‘Una verità totale’: The Textual and Visual Encounter With the Other in Franco Fortini’s <i>Asia Maggiore. Viaggio nella Cina</i>","authors":"Alessandra Perongini","doi":"10.1080/00751634.2023.2261305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2023.2261305","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe article explores the photo-textual form of Franco Fortini’s Asia Maggiore. Viaggio nella Cina, the travel account published in 1956 following the writer’s trip to socialist China in 1955. I will discuss the interaction between the photographs taken by the author during the journey and the text. The issue of the literary genre will also be examined, investigating the nature of the travel journal as a combination of both a descriptive account and an autobiographical diary. I will then discuss how this photo-textual blend functions both theoretically – by analysing the nature of the photographic medium in relation with the text – and practically – by providing examples of the ekphrastic interaction of the two media in Fortini’s icastic depiction of colours and crowds. The allegorical value of the account of socialist China is then brought into question, with particular focus on the use of comparison as an argumentative strategy.KEYWORDS: Franco FortiniPhoto-texttravel literatureallegoryWalter Benjamin AcknowledgmentsThe research for this article took place during a period of study at the University of Cambridge and included a visit to the Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca Franco Fortini at the University of Siena in April 2022. Many thanks to Dr. Erica Bellia for the precious advice given to me while working on this essay.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Franco Fortini, Asia Maggiore. Viaggio nella Cina (Turin: Einaudi, 1956).2 The process of normalisation of the relationships between Italy and China began shortly after 1949 and culminated in 1970 with the official Italian recognition of the People’s Republic (Carla Meneguzzi Rostagni, ‘Diplomazia a più voci. La questione cinese nella politica estera italiana (1949–1971)’, in La Cina di Mao, l’Italia e l’Europa negli anni della Guerra fredda, ed. by Carla Meneguzzi Rostagni and Guido Samarani Bologna: Il Mulino, 2014, pp. 17–54 (p. 18). For a broader picture of the diplomatic relationships between European countries and the People’s Republic of China during the Cold War years, see Modern Asian Studies 51/1 (2017), special issue ‘Circumventing the Cold War: The parallel diplomacy of economic and cultural exchanges between Western Europe and Socialist China in the 1950s and 1960s’ &lt;http://www.jstor.org/stable/44158308&gt; [accessed 6 June 2023].3 Besides Fortini’s book, other important outcomes of the diplomatic journey were Cassola’s report Viaggio in Cina (1956) and the special issue of Il ponte, the journal founded by Calamandrei in 1945, entitled ‘La Cina d’oggi’ (1956).4 A description of the journey can be found in Michelangelo Cocurullo, La cortina di bambù. La Cina nei reportages italiani della seconda metà del Novecento (Sestri Levante: Gammarò, 2007), p. 16. Cocurullo highlights the highly formalised and controlled nature of such visits: ‘Un dato preliminare comunque da sottolineare è che, come tutti i viaggi organizzati d","PeriodicalId":44221,"journal":{"name":"Italian Studies","volume":"322 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135405502","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}

{"title":"Matera <i>in posa</i> : The Photographic Self-Portrait of a Southern-Italian City, 1900–1920","authors":"Mark A. Russell","doi":"10.1080/00751634.2023.2261310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2023.2261310","url":null,"abstract":"Photography has played an important role in framing popular perceptions of Matera. Scholarship has focused on its representation following 1945. Yet the fact that a photographic portrait of Matera existed before this time is often overlooked. Photographs of the city pre-dating 1920 were mostly published as postcards by local entrepreneurs. This article analyzes a selection of these in the context of evolving representations of Matera and Basilicata in the early twentieth century. Providing insight into the aesthetic and socio-cultural construction of this important aspect of the city’s early photographic portrait, it emphasises that postcards issued by local enterprises offered a perspective on Matera and Basilicata from the publisher’s point of view. They complemented a less prejudiced and sometimes positive portrayal of the region – emerging in a variety of texts, photographs, and public events – that modified narratives often narrowly focused on describing it as impoverished, backward, and isolated.","PeriodicalId":44221,"journal":{"name":"Italian Studies","volume":"317 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135412630","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}

{"title":"Vicissitudes of a Dantean Collection: The 1527 ‘Giuntina delle rime’","authors":"Maria Clotilde Camboni","doi":"10.1080/00751634.2023.2260677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2023.2260677","url":null,"abstract":"The essay shows how the most comprehensive sixteenth-century printed collection of pre-Petrarchan lyric poetry, printed by the Giunti press in Florence in 1527 and known as the ‘Giuntina delle rime’, was conceived as a Dantean collection. The article argues that the ‘Giuntina’ can be understood in relation to a Florentine context that reacted in opposition to Bembo’s codification, in his seminal dialogue Prose nelle quali si ragiona della volgar lingua (1525), of Petrarch and Boccaccio as supreme models for poetry and prose, and his devaluing Dante. This reaction led to the promotion of Dante’s lyric poetry through a collection printed by the leading Florentine publishing house. The essay presents new evidence to show that the original programme of revaluing Dante that lies behind the collection and its scope seem to have undergone a transformation, which obscured the force of that re-evaluation in the final print of the 1527 anthology.","PeriodicalId":44221,"journal":{"name":"Italian Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135884231","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}

{"title":"Vite e carriere di pittori con sordità prelinguale attivi in Italia nel periodo 1590–1720","authors":"Angelo Lo Conte","doi":"10.1080/00751634.2023.2258685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2023.2258685","url":null,"abstract":"This essay investigates the careers of prelingually deaf painters active in Italy in the period 1590–1720. By looking at early modern biographical accounts, archival documents, works of art, and Renaissance poetry, this contribution challenges the stereotype that presents people with deafness as outcasts and emphasises that the consideration of intersectional factors was essential to how early modern people responded to impairment. The present study retraces the evolution of the historical debate on the educability of deaf people and analyses interconnections between deafness and art practice. Through the careers of five artists, Ercole Sarti from Ferrara, Giuseppe Badaracco from Genoa, Filippo Ceppaluni from Naples, Aurelio Martelli from Siena, and Giovanni Lo Coco from Acireale, their artworks, and documents pertaining to their lives, the study explores how each of them asserted their own profession, identity, and social position via art practice.","PeriodicalId":44221,"journal":{"name":"Italian Studies","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135884229","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}

{"title":"Le prose poetiche di Roberto Rossi Precerutti: strutture e reversibilità dello sguardo nei <i>Fatti di Caravaggio</i> (2016)","authors":"Davide Belgradi","doi":"10.1080/00751634.2023.2245220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2023.2245220","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTL’articolo analizza le prose poetiche della raccolta Fatti di Caravaggio di Roberto Rossi Precerutti, inserendole da subito all’interno del contesto novecentesco e in continuità con le riflessioni sulla poesia in prosa come genere. Le prose della raccolta sono analizzate su più livelli: metrico, sintattico, linguistico e contenutistico. Ciò che i testi evidenziano, inoltre, è un complesso – ma non inedito, per l’autore – legame tra la prosa poetica e le opere pittoriche, in questo caso caravaggesche. Tale connessione fa emergere non soltanto un io lirico instabile e non univoco, che tende a istituire tre diversi modelli di soggettività, ma anche una riflessione che il poeta fa a partire dalla questione della reversibilità dello sguardo. Infatti, il rapporto tra i testi e l’opera di Caravaggio non rientra all’interno delle tecniche dell’èkphrasis: si tratta di opere che fanno emergere la presenza di uno sguardo senza osservatore; uno sguardo che fa del lettore uno spettatore, e dello scrittore un osservatore che è – allo stesso tempo – osservato.KEYWORDS: Rossi Preceruttiprose poeticheCaravaggiosguardoreversibilità Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 L’esordio è con Entrebescar (Forlì: Forum Quinta Generazione, 1982). Per la generazione di poeti esordienti negli anni Ottanta, si fa riferimento alla recente proposta d’indagine curata da Sabrina Stroppa, la cui antologia ospita, nel secondo volume, anche il primo contributo scientifico dedicato a Rossi Precerutti. Si veda Davide Belgradi, ‘“Struttura di separazione” Roberto Rossi Precerutti da Entrebescar a Falso paesaggio (1982–1984)’, in La poesia italiana degli anni Ottanta: esordi e conferme, a cura di Sabrina Stroppa, 4 vol. (Lecce: Pensa MultiMedia, 2017), II, pp. 57–84.2 La raccolta di Rossi Precerutti che abbia ricevuto maggior riconoscimento è Rovine del cielo, insignita nel 2005 del Premio Mondello e nel 2009 del Premio ‘Val di Comino’. L’autore è anche finalista del Premio Viareggio per ben quattro edizioni differenti (2015, Rimarrà El Greco; 2016, Fatti di Caravaggio; 2019, Un impavido sonno; 2020, Verità irraggiungibile di Caravaggio). Un impavido sonno è anche insignito, nel 2021, del Premio ‘Il Meleto di Guido Gozzano’. Il suo periodo di più intensa collaborazione con Crocetti è quello che va tra il 1990 e il 2015, durante il quale — tra recensioni, interventi critici e traduzioni — Rossi Precerutti pubblica 61 contributi in rivista.3 Guardando soltanto alle pubblicazioni, senza tener conto delle vicendevoli prefazioni e postfazioni: Giorgio Luzzi, Coblas (Torino: L’Arzanà, 1980); Giorgio Luzzi, Luce e altri tatti (Torino: L’Arzanà, 1981); Giorgio Luzzi, Piccola serie inglese (Torino: L’Arzanà, 1983); Giorgio Luzzi, Le mura di Glorenza (Torino: L’Arzanà, 1984); Giorgio Luzzi, Geldwesen (Torino: L’Arzanà, 1987); Giorgio Luzzi, Epilogo occitano (Torino: L’Arzanà, 1990); Camillo Pennati, Un gioioso disporsi (Torino: L’Arzanà,","PeriodicalId":44221,"journal":{"name":"Italian Studies","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135094082","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}

{"title":"A Martyr for the Resistance and the New Republic: The Uses of Giacomo Matteotti’s Memory, 1943 to 1947","authors":"Amy King","doi":"10.1080/00751634.2023.2245614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2023.2245614","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44221,"journal":{"name":"Italian Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47090000","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}