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Foul Biting, or Diego Valadés and the Medium of Print
Published in 1579 in Perugia, Diego Valadés's Rhetorica christiana is best known today as the first illustrated publication to show evangelisation efforts in the Americas to audiences across the Atlantic. Yet too often the Rhetorica's status in the history of art is that of exotica, a book seen as rare and valuable due to its American subject matter ...
Stephanie Porras
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‘I was Born in One City, but Raised in Another’: Aretino's Perugian Apprenticeship
Abstract According to his apocrypha, Aretino was forced to flee his hometown of Arezzo after penning some anti‐papal verses. Similarly, it is claimed that he fled Perugia ten years later after painting a lute into the hands of a depiction of the Maddalena, which stood in one of the town's piazze.
William T. Rossiter
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Female Representation and Violence in the Ceremonial Entries of the Italian Wars
Abstract This essay considers the gendered implications of female representation in the ceremonial entries of the Italian Wars (1494–1559) in light of the events' hyper‐masculine martial context. It takes a holistic approach, uncommon in entry scholarship, by considering the thematic intersections between entry decorations, participation, performance ...
Elizabeth Reid
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‘By consultation of elevated minds’: the role of paratexts in Giovanni Battista Calderari's comedies
Abstract Genette's Seuils considers the dramatic paratext as the odd one out, and, indeed, the early‐modern theatrical paratext has remained understudied. This article discusses the paratexts of the comedies of Giovanni Battista Calderari, a sixteenth‐century author quite neglected by scholars, whose works were published in Vicenza and Venice.
Lies Verbaere
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“Voci dal viottolo d’ortiche. Vieni, sulle mani, fino a noi”: Czernowitz tra realtà e scrittura [PDF]
“A land where people and books used to live”: this is Paul Celan’s description of Czernowitz. A plural space par excellence, which bears witness to diversity in its many names, Czernowitz is an accretion of stories in itself.
De Villa, Massimiliano
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La didattica delle lingue nel nuovo millennio, 185-198 [PDF]
Cultural notions are part and parcel of the process of Italian teaching and learning in Malta, a country with several historical, geographical and social contacts with the Belpaese.
Caruana, Sandro, Micallef, Marco
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“La potenza delle tenebre” nella fiction televisiva italiana degli anni Sessanta del XX sec. [PDF]
L’articolo “La potenza delle tenebre” nella fiction televisiva italiana degli anni Sessanta del XX sec. è dedicato alla ricezione del dramma di Tolstoj La potenza delle tenebre in Italia negli anni Sessanta del XX sec., ed in particolare, alla riduzione ...
CAVAZZA, ANTONELLA
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Una scrittura in maschera [PDF]
Nella prima parte del suo saggio l'autore riflette sugli impieghi del dialetto nel teatro italiano contemporaneo, mettendone in luce gli aspetti non naturalistici, ma espressivi, e constatando l'abbondanza degli esperimenti linguistici del teatro ...
Calligaro, Giulia
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Retrodatazioni di nipponismi in italiano [PDF]
La prima impressione di sporadicità e di recenziorità del contatto interlinguistico italo-giapponese corrisponde solo in parte alla realtà. Con l’eccezione del lessico delle arti marziali, infatti, e di alcune voci specifiche della gastronomia giapponese,
Mancini, Marco
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Studi di catalanistica in Italia (2005-2014 circa) [PDF]
: This article provides an overview of Catalan studies carried out in Italy, based on the recent contribution offered in the RISCAT, journal of the Catalan Studies Italian ...
Compagna, Anna Maria, Puigdevall, Núria
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