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Sul fronte del ritorno. Trasmissione del trauma nella letteratura italiana contemporanea

Laboratoire Italien
The article offers an interpretation of part of the Italian literary production from the early decades of this century, starting from the subject’s relationship with family lineage and collective history.
Giancarlo Alfano
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De burlas y enfermedades barrocas: la sífilis en la obra poética de Anastasio Pantaleón de Ribera y Miguel Colodrero de Villalobos

Criticón, 2007
During the Golden Age, syphilis was one of the main diseases in the carnivalesque system, so that it became the prefered theme of several recreational reflections throughout the century.
Jesús Ponce Cárdenas
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‘Why Did You Go to Buda?’: The Humanist Sodality and Mantuan’s Rustic Idyll in Bohuslaus of Hassenstein’s Ecloga sive Idyllion Budae (1503)☆

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In the late fifteenth century, the Hungarian royal court at Buda was home to a cosmopolitan community of humanists. In early modern historiography, this cultural milieu has often been interpreted as one of the new, emergent ‘centres’ of the Renaissance in East Central Europe.
Eva Plesnik
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What Does Intarsia Say? Materiality and Spirituality in the Urbino Studiolo☆

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Upon entering the Urbino studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro, the visitor is struck by a material‐charged environment. Surprisingly, only a few scholars have addressed one prominent aspect of the decorative scheme, namely, the feature of intarsia as a medium. Even so, it remains on the sidelines of the discussion.
Matan Aviel
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Quattro voci contemporanee

Lea, 2013
This article aims at showing the vital role of poetry in Estonia today. Piera Mattei focuses in particular on the works of four contemporary poets and introduces their main features.
Piera Mattei
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‘There Has Been a Scandal’: Cultural Performers and the Strangers’ Churches of London

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite what one might assume to have been a rigid line between London's refugee community—with its strict brand of Protestantism—and the city's performance cultures—often the target of strict Protestants' ire—historical records reveal a number of overlaps between those domains.
Matteo Pangallo
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Atlantide e altri pays chimériques: mito platonico e poesia nelle Grazie di Foscolo e in alcuni autori europei coevi

Cahiers d’Études Italiennes, 2015
Focusing on the symbolic image of the isle of Atlantis as it is represented in the third hymn of Foscolo’s Le Grazie, this essay explores the transformations of Plato’s idealism and the classical myth in the work of Foscolo and other contemporary Italian
Chiara Lombardi
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‘reportless places’: Janet Malcolm and Collage

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Natalie Ferris
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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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Rhyming Jewish: Secular Jewish poetry in nineteenth-century Italy

Yod
Poetry has always played a fundamental role in Italian Jewish culture. From the Middle Ages on, there has been an uninterrupted production of poems. In spite of its relevance, variety, and long timespan, however, academic attention on Italian Jewish ...
Alessandro Grazi
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