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Savonarola and Savonarolism is divided into twelve brief and succinct chapters organized around the chronology of significant social and political events in the history of Florence and Western Europe: The book contains a glossary of useful terms, a list of illustrations, and, at the end, a discursive bibliography for each chapter. These features are without doubt necessary tools for the non-specialist reader. It is clear that Savonarola understood the importance of printing as a means of propagating his ideas. It is also a compelling account of the literary tradition concerning Savonarola the man and his teachings.
Each chapter reveals the constant interaction between his supporters and opponents throughout the sixteenth century and how this interplay reached its full expression in the form of literature, which was composed either in defense of or in opposition to the friar.
The history surveyed in Savonarola and Savonarolism informs us of the metamorphosis of Savonarolism in the course of a century: The value of these texts is, therefore, immense when compared to commentaries from later decades and centuries, for which the loss of focus affected by the passing of time renders them less connected with the reality of the poet.
On the other hand, access to these medieval glosses is often encumbered and obfuscated by the long and at times inconsistent manuscript tradition that has handled them for the past seven centuries. The first part contextualizes the edition within the manuscript tradition, including a history of the commentary. The second part addresses questions of ecdotica and of the interpretation of the text, generating authority for establishing this edition as a text in itself.
The third part of the introduction examines the phenomenology of the copying tradition of the earliest commentaries. It begins with this prologue or accessus generale and then it is divided into cantos. Hairston and Walter Stephens, eds. The Body in Early Modern Italy. The Johns Hopkins UP, What did the human body mean in early modern Italy? The fifteen essays in this collection, the result of an interdisciplinary conference held by the Johns Hopkins University in , admirably address and weigh in on this question.
The essays are usefully divided into four thematic sections. The first of these discusses bodies in the Petrarchan tradition. Margaret Brose skillfully examines the representations of the body and their multiple, emblematic fetishizations in the Canzoniere. Luca Marcozzi carefully traces a useful history of the corpus carcer metaphor and demonstrates how its use in Petrarch reveals the debt of his poetry to Christian Platonism. Perhaps the most salient essay in this initial section is that of Ronald L. The second section focuses on philosophical and scientific considerations of the body.
This practice inspected the internal organs after death for corporeal signs of saintliness. Beyond demonstrating the importance of these thinkers in the composition of the Malleus maleficarum, Stephens illustrates how Renaissance discourses of demonic corporeality and witchcraft were philosophical, empirical and protoscientific. Though the essay is somewhat less cohesive than the other pieces in this section, it succeeds in its reconstruction of a broad cultural context of phallic iconology in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. She shows how the image of the saint being transfixed with arrows came to function as a symbol for overcoming diseases such as the plague and syphilis through the transference of classical figurations of the god Apollo onto the Christian saint.
At the same time, Talvacchia demonstrates how the figure of Apollo, once transferred onto St. Sebastian, made the task of depicting of the saint an agonistic test of painterly virtuosity. The editors of this collection are to be commended for their careful selection of contributors and for the polyphony that results from these pieces despite their diversity.
The extensive notes, bibliography and index make this volume a useful tool for humanities scholarship, especially for students of gesture and corporality studies, cultural history, art history, Italian literature and gender studies. The collection is an essential text to own for all students of the Italian Renaissance. The breadth of material along with the innovative approaches employed are sure to spark countless ideas for further research as the role of the body continues to be reinserted into the critical consciousness of scholars.
A Critical Guide to the Complete Works. By highlighting the mixing of classical and biblical citations in five public speeches from to the year preceding his death in , and letters concerning these speeches and his time in princely courts, she presents him as Renaissance courtier-humanist avant la lettre.
Ann Matter examines the controversial history of transmission of the under-studied Psalmi penitentiales, an Augustinian dialogue that mirrors the Secretum through simultaneous concern for love and penitence. Stefano Cracolici reveals how the relentless revision of the Invective ad medicum dehistoricized the specific occasion of its composition to become a functional and rational literary genre, rather than a formal example of classical invective.
Lynn Lara Westwater reconstructs the more contemporary, but no less public, self-fashioned image of the poet in the Lettere disperse — letters excluded from the Familiares and Seniles, which maintain their historicity, offering a different side of the Petrarch who endlessly revised and reordered letters destined for posterity. Nevertheless, this volume is a critical tour de force previously unseen in Petrarch studies, whose essays and extensive bibliography are indispensable to Medieval and Renaissance scholars in all fields.
By the same token, the research presented on Italian and Spanish primary texts is nicely balanced. The collection is rich as well in its engagement with a variety of generic forms: Performativity was paramount, at the same time, as a means to showcase ideas and ideals of manhood. Malleable and slippery as a concept in practice and in theory, masculinity was created and negotiated on and off the written page, never losing its indisputable bond to social structures that bestowed or withheld power from its male subjects.
This is what the majority of the essays in the volume lead us to understand. This idea resonated with theatrical practice wherein female performers were preferred to males in drag, a custom enforced by legislative measures. Moving outside the domain of the superbly popular conduct manual, we come to the equally influential genres of epic and chivalric romance.
The Poetics of Masculinity invites our own creative integration of this fascinating tool of gendered analysis toward an ever more nuanced understanding of the early modern world. Luigi Pulci e la Chimera. Ad ogni modo, il libro dello studioso della Fordham University di pregi ne ha anche altri, oltre quello della chiarezza. La focalizzazione di Luigi Pulci e la Chimera si gioca su due aspetti, corrispondenti a due sezioni del volume: Incrociando notizie biografiche e letterarie, lo studioso ci consegna una ricostruzione degli accadimenti molto ridimensionata, rispetto alla vulgata di un dissidio insanabile con il signore di Firenze coniugato al funesto contrasto con il filosofo e il prete di corte e concorda dunque con Decaria per quanto riguarda la portata dello scontro di Pulci con gli ultimi due.
Essays in Honour of Paul F. Konrad Eisenbichler and Nicholas Terpstra.
Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies Publications, Una docenza fertile, caratterizzata da un singolare approccio dialettico ed interdisciplinare del metodo inquisitivo, in cui storia, sociologia, cultura, antropologia, religione, filosofia convergono e si compongono ordinatamente in un singolare specillum investigativo. Dopo la suggestiva rievocazione autobiografica di Nicholas Terpstra Roads to the Renaissance: Two Jesuit Humanists at Naples Michele a Firenze, venne inaugurata nel The Politics of Comforting the Condemned , analizza il fenomeno della diffusione delle conforterie bolognesi.
Mantenuta la divisione simmetrica dei tre saggi, la sezione mira ad analizzare la natura dei meccanismi di controllo attuati attraverso 1 la testimonianza dei tribunali vescovili o fori ecclesiastici E. Enlightened Statesman or Miracle Worker? Paul Grendler at the University of Toronto, il suo centro gravitazionale. Grendler e i suoi anni canadesi. The essay by W. Rossiter especially considers the translating and interpretative strategies adopted by Chaucer trying to adapt some of the Latin and Vulgar writings by Petrarch into his own language.
Consequently, it appears that the revered Italian poet is mostly responsible for pointing out the two terms of paraphrase and metaphrase as the two most important theoretical terms of the question. Seemingly as a matter of priority, the author excludes any possibility of an encounter between the two poets The meticulous examination of the linguistic and formal alterations undergone by Petrarchan sonnet in the Chaucerian translation permits Rossiter to promulgate a tripartite conclusion regarding the overwhelming poetic role of Chaucer in England.
First, his primacy in spreading the knowledge and love for Petrarch throughout the country, as well as the foundation of the English sonnet; secondarily, his implicit exertion of the connection between Petrarch and Boccaccio based upon their common stilnovistic inheritance; finally, the extent of themes to which a Petrarchan sonnet can ascribe. For this reason, the plurality of interpretations to which it eventually invites the reader, the author eschews the medieval danger of closing up the hermeneutic richness of the text on a univocal moral conclusion The undoubtedly successful result of exhaustive and thorough research about one of the most relevant early modern authors, the text is in fact also a deep and important reconsideration about some of the literary strategies which modernity has inherited from the past.
La donna nel Rinascimento meridionale. Atti del convegno internazionale Roma novembre Fabrizio Serra Editore, Trentuno relatori, italiani e stranieri, servendosi della varia tipologia di fonti archivistiche e degli studi che recentemente hanno arricchito la bibliografia, con determinazione e acribia, hanno delineato la condizione sociale della donna nel Rinascimento meridionale.
Dante e lo stesso Petrarca le associavano uno dei sette peccati capitali, la lussuria. Ecco il silenzio della donna nelle pagine oscene del Novellino di Tommaso Guardati, detto Masuccio Salernitano. Il breve trattato del cardinale Pompeo Colonna, Apologia mulierum, testimonia la presenza a Napoli di donne che promuovevano concrete iniziative assistenziali e ponevano il monastero al centro di incontri e salotti letterari. Il Canzoniere di Petrarca tra codicologia ed ecdotica. Previous editions — from the Aldine edition to the Canzoniere of Gianfranco Contini, first published in and often accorded the status of a critical edition, to the facsimile edition of the manuscript Vaticano Latino published under the direction of Gino Belloni, Furio Brugnolo, H.
Wayne Storey and Stefano Zamponi — are all rejected as inadequate by Savoca. Like every editor, however, Savoca makes decisions that are not defensible on the basis of the manuscript, and in any case, as Savoca points out, Vat. In the 18 th and 19th centuries scholars did not even recognize Vat. Savoca is the first editor to return to the Vat. Commas function both rhythmically and semantically, and sometimes signify a brief pause to negotiate tension between rhythm and significance; they isolate or coordinate elements within and between clauses.
Savoca argues that the subtlety with which the poet used the pause guarantees the musicality of the Canzoniere and the accretion of meaning. This is the principal innovation of the edition. In compensation, the musicality of each work is enhanced, as is the fluidity of the entire Canzoniere as the reader passes from one composition to the next.
The first line is punctuated with a colon, which charges the remainder of the sonnet, an accumulation of hyperbole praising the singularity of the beloved, to serve as a proof for the sweeping initial pronouncement. The thirteenth line again ends with a colon, and the sonnet concludes with a first person description of the poet as a man bewitched by the qualities of this woman: Unlike Contini, but in keeping with Vat.
According to Savoca, the comma in line three invites the reader to reflect on the happy contrast between the blond youth and the white head of maturity, and to mediate and harmonize the sound and sense. Removing the comma in line ten means losing a stylistic trait absolutely specific to Petrarch, that is, the use of the comma before the conjunction e, et. La breccia di Porta Pia. This was an event in which De Amicis himself had participated as a young army officer and military journalist.
These accounts are truly passionate, but still embellished, in order to imprint Rome in the hearts of the Italian people, as future capital of the still incomplete kingdom of Italy. His memories, however, are more pamphlets than detailed reports. Real events and fictional invention are commixed, and his stories become tools to build memories, rather than to preserve them. His stories are presented in a delectable way to involve people in the national effort to unify Italy.
De Amicis distinguishes people in three groups However, general enthusiasm among population for the new fate of Rome is the goal to reach, rather than the genuine representation of an already given fact: Ci fu entusiasmo davvero?
Thus, as ideological as he would appear, he wants to sell enthusiasm, because it is more moving than rigorous thinking. On the one hand, De Amicis reassures his reader that the unification process is not determined to suppress the Catholic Church. De Amicis reassures the woman: More than on papal Rome, the new Italian capital will have to be modeled on the classical one.
Rather than Catholic churches and altars built by popes to redefine the symbolic value of public spaces, the open-air monuments of Ancient Rome should inspire politicians and common people to shape the new secular Italian capital city. However, the Italian national army, as opposed to the papal one, is presented as the embodiment of a national unity that, while preserving the variety of idioms and characters, is able to move with one heart and mind: Similarly, there is no reference to Roman Jews still obliged to live in the Ghetto, although most of them interpreted the breach of Porta Pia as a messianic event.
U of Nebraska P, This is how Mantegazza imagined life to be in the year The Isle of Experiments comprises other little states, such as Poligama where men have many wives , Polyandra where women have many husbands , Cenobia where men live in ascetism , Monachia where nuns are devoted to the cult of Sappho and, finally, Peruvia where life is modeled on the ancient socialist regime of the Incan Empire.
A Dream is a book that bespeaks more of its own era than of the future it purports to unveil. Utopia, and Antonio Ghislanzoni Abrakadabra. A Dream constitutes an important addition to the relatively small number of nineteenth-century Italian novels available in English and is an invaluable text to add to any class, whether within a comparative context or not, teaching nineteenth-century Italian literature. La parola scritta e pronunciata. Nuovi saggi sulla narrativa di Vincenzo Consolo. San Cesario di Lecce: I vari contributi, disposti cronologicamente a seconda del testo di cui si occupano, sono chiusi da un saggio dello stesso Consolo che, per la sua pregnanza di significati ed allusioni ne arricchisce il volume.
Ethics and Commitment in Contemporary Italian Culture. Nella seconda sezione, gli interventi si concentrano sul rapporto tra alcuni modelli teorici o aspetti concettuali e il pensiero postmoderno. Alessia Ronchetti, invece, analizza il postmodernismo alla luce della scuola italiana della differenza sessuale, basando le proprie riflessioni sui lavori di Luisa Muraro e Adriana Cavarero. Il volume, attraverso i suoi quattordici interventi, affronta in maniera molto seria una questione fondamentale di tutta la letteratura e del postmoderno in particolare: Domande di comprensione e suggerimenti per la discussione in classe seguono ogni sezione di testo.
Gli studenti possono anche consultare due appendici, che offrono una selezione di saggi, racconti e testimonianze, a illustrazione delle problematiche precedentemente toccate. Anche in questi capitoli, Bartalesi-Graf integra la propria sintesi storico-sociale con testimonianze documentarie, tra le quali interviste da lei condotte in Basilicata nel A Levi e alla sua opera sono dedicati i tre capitoli centrali.
Laddove opportuno, le schede contengono indicazioni per considerazioni inter-testuali rispetto al Cristo oppure ad altri quadri. Il capitolo si chiude con due sezioni dedicate ad argomenti di ricerca e discussione, e con una breve ma completa bibliografia e lista di siti internet dove trovare riproduzioni dei dipinti di Levi.
Il capitolo si sofferma soprattutto sul confronto tra il testo e il film, approfondendone poi alcune tematiche comuni. I testi nelle appendici, inoltre, permettono di ascoltare, oltre a quella di Levi, altre voci dal sud. Italian Travel Writing Between the Wars. Remapping Cultural History 7.
While connected by these concerns, each chapter in Journeys through Fascism is nonetheless fairly autonomous, not simply with regard to the geographical region under consideration, but also in terms of the kind of writer examined and, to some extent, the critical approach adopted. Wisely, Burdett restricts the scope of his study in a number of ways: Geographical displacement is often accompanied by a sense of temporal displacement.
Moreover, as Burdett suggests, Journeys through Fascism may well provide stimulus for future research in a number of disciplines: This important work certainly points toward other complimentary areas of research, including the broader phenomenon of domestic and foreign tourism among the general public already examined by Richard Bosworth.
Italian Comics of the s and s. UP of Mississippi, The number of rigorous, book-length studies devoted to the critical evaluation of comics can scarcely fill one shelf in an average-sized bookcase. Although the study of comics is beginning to gain the status that the study of cinema attained on university campuses in the s, the volume of scholarship is playing catch- up. Italian Comics of the s and s represents the still rare effort that focuses on a relatively narrow part of national, aesthetic, and cultural comics history, and for that reason alone is a welcome addition to the field.
In his first section, Castaldi discusses the post-war Italian comics that tended to feature adventure stories, or riffs on American genres such as the western, that were produced primarily with a younger audience in mind. As Castaldi notes, the artistic quality of these comics varied widely. The magazine also routinely carried American strips, such as Peanuts, along with the left-leaning strips Pogo and Doonesbury. He points to the introduction of the independently published Cannibale in the spring of as the beginning of new adult comics.
Additionally, the comic addressed contemporary issues often as they were happening that few publications and certainly no other comics were featuring, including drug addiction and homosexuality. The most popular of all adult comics, Il male, began in February The comic which carried Cannibale as a supplement until it stopped publishing was overwhelmingly satirical in tone, adhering to no strict political line other than to attack any dominant value or convention of the era.
Il male reached the peak of its popularity during the Moro kidnapping. Cannibale, which ceased publishing after nine issues, resurfaced in late as the less political Frigidaire. It found an audience in a generation tired of the political slant of the previous decade by embracing characteristics of the Italian high-post-modernist phase in the s.
This dilemma makes the third section, in which Castaldi provides thorough evaluations of key artists and writers, all the more essential. I found myself on Amazon, searching in vain for the work of Pazienza, Tamburini, the Valvoline Group, and others mentioned by Castaldi, and had no luck with the exception of the occasional used copy, usually in Italian. Hopefully, Drawn and Dangerous will inspire a new and heightened interest in these artists, leading to greater awareness and availability of their works in the U. Viaggio nella narrativa sperimentale italiana del XX secolo.
Ma Scrivere contro si segnala soprattutto per la coerenza del metodo. Decisamente un ottimo lavoro questo di Paolo Cherchi e Cosetta Seno Reed che proprio nel carattere divulgativo del progetto ha il suo maggior pregio. Anzi proprio la grande fortuna della gastronomia, secondo quanto ricostruiscono Paolo Cherchi e Cosetta Seno Reed, sembra ricucire quella cesura originaria di due formati, di due culture, di due Italie divise.
I vocaboli sono divisi per campi semantici di appartenenza abbigliamento, alcolici, architettura, ecc. Sono fornite anche informazioni sulla specie grammaticale e notizie sulla storia dei termini e sulle eventuali mediazioni o interferenze con altre lingue.
Quali previsioni si possono fare? Quali saranno i prossimi italianismi che entreranno ad ogni diritto nel vocabolario inglese per rimanervi? Se lo chiedono i due autori del volume e non hanno dubbi: Due to these circumstances, the notion of italicity must be expanded beyond the borders of the Italian peninsula to include a transnational network of people who are connected with or interested in Italian culture. Italian Bookshelf According to the author, the catalyst of this movement was the increased possibility of communicating and traveling at a low cost. The benefit of this new and more inclusive definition of citizenship is that it will allow Italy to claim a more significant role in the international arena and to incorporate into Italian culture the richness of a transnational network of experiences.
Notwithstanding the interesting premises offered by Bassetti, however, a question remains unanswered: Does this category include everyone who has ever been interested in Italian culture? Or does membership demand some type of accompanying action? It should be noted, however, that despite numerous examples throughout the text, a solid definition of the new Italic is absent.
Interestingly enough, an Italic shares a passion for Italian culture, as does the readership of the magazine in which these articles first appeared. Despite the necessity of acknowledging the growing importance of Italophiles outside the borders and the increasing interest in Italy culture outside the peninsula, the theorization of this network lacks a real rigor, and thus the category becomes much too broad: If an Italic is simply someone with a strong interest in Italian culture, can we include people who strive to migrate to Italy?
If so, how should those Italics be included? Their inclusion within or exclusion from the paradigm expands the basis for debate, and would have enriched this work significantly. Italic Lessons, when read together with Italici, represents a stimulating introduction to the study of the concept of citizenship in Italy. With the approach of the year-anniversary of Italian Unification, the number of publications regarding this topic has vastly increased.
To orient oneself in relation to this vast literary corpus, the two texts constitute a conversational introduction that covers a vast range of contemporary issues in a captivating style. The publishing house itself was founded in as a non-profit publisher of the semi-annual magazine Voices in Italian Americana, dedicated to Italian American Literature and cultures, as well as the periodical Italiana, devoted to Italian language writing in the United States. The Crossings series was established in to promote works just like this volume by Leonilde Frieri Ruberto.
Italian Bookshelf Leonilde Frieri was born in in the small town of Cairano in the Avellino province of Campania. Having completed the fourth grade, she eventually followed her husband to America with her four children in These memoirs were recorded at the prompting of one of her daughters following the Irpinia earthquake that destroyed more than half of her village. Ruberto, is the principal translator of this memoir, although several family members contributed along the way as well.
Also, Ilaria Serra, an assistant professor at Florida Atlantic University, wrote the introduction to this work. The preface, composed by Ruberto, explains that Frieri wrote eighty pages over two weeks in while her husband was visiting Cairano and she stayed with her daughters on Long Island. Written in cursive and in a mix of standard Italian, the Cairanese dialect, and a smattering of English, Ruberto translated these pages between and The introduction by Ilaria Serra provides information on several aspects that are particular to this type of work.
First of all she provides some background on the rarity of immigrant biographies, particularly those written by women. Furthermore, she highlights that 14 of the 19 different dates used to situate the events historically are related directly to family events while only 5 are world historical events such as wars. The text, indeed, does flow like a river. In the 46 pages of prose, there are only 44 sentences and most of those hold no grammatical correctness.
In the Italian, which occupies the second half of the book, the reader notices that there are major stylistic and grammatical inconsistencies. For example, there is no standard capitalization of words, many spelling errors since most words are spelled phonetically, no accents, a lack of agreement and a distinct lack of appropriate punctuation. In the English translation, Laura Ruberto was faithful to the original composition only altering spelling and grammatical correctness to allow the sentences to make sense to the reader. Another particularly interesting element is the emotional detachment that permeates much of the text.
The author seems to have very little emotional investment in so many of the events in her life. The majority of this memoir is focused on the daily activities and goings-on of a small rural Italian village. The only elements about which the reader will note any particular emotional reaction pertain to the family, to which Frieri is fiercely dedicated. Of her life in America, she explains that she did everything a good wife should: It seems that that sadness also defined America for the author since America never held any of the beauty or happiness or familial tradition that Italy held for her.
It is written as if a grandchild suddenly turned to her and asked if she too played this game as a child and the response was recorded on paper. Part of the brilliance of this work is the lack of planning, a lack of attention to what to include and what to omit, and a lack of attention to chronological accuracy. This is an authentic account of life after Italy. Laura Ruberto has produced an incredibly faithful translation of the original text, while Ilaria Serra has created an introduction that provides the necessary background information for a reader to appreciate the nuance not only in the story but in the relationship of this memoir to this particularly genre of literature.
Performing the Life of Black Migrants to Italy. In the preface to his work, Furno provides a broad discussion on how categories of identity, race, migration, and especially intra-ethnic relations shape the work of the Albe performers. Furno also devotes a few paragraphs to making a case for the importance of the work of the Albe. In other words, the stage-work of the company offers migrants the possibility for cultural agency and self-affirmation, empowering them to voice their presence and rights in the destination culture.
Furno argues that whereas up to the Renaissance, Catholicism was generally accepting of black Africans as human beings capable of participating in the grace of God through the evangelical project, during the late Renaissance race became part of a utilitarian policy that legitimated world colonization while justifying racial subjugation. For Furno, this missed opportunity is reflected in the generalized perception towards blackness of contemporary Italian media. By featuring the black actor Awa Niang in the role of Arlecchino, I ventidue infortuni short-circuits racial boundaries and questions easy constructions of blackness versus whiteness but also of dominating and dominated, central and peripheral, mainstream and marginal.
The multiple concerns of this play indicate how in Ruh the connections between Africa and Romagna were still at an embryonic stage. The remainder of the chapter discusses the work of the first Senegalese actors who collaborated with the Albe. The reader learns that they were street vendors who eventually left the company to go back to more profitable work.
According to Furno, this episode was a watershed in the public perception of migration inasmuch as Italian culture was forced to acknowledge the reality of migrants and embark on a political debate about racism in Italy and the inhuman living conditions of many immigrants.
Despite the significance of nationally televised broadcasts such as Nonsolonero, Un mondo a colori, Shukran, and the two columns from La Repubblica, Metropolis and Gli altri noi, mainstream media continue to present migration as a temporary state of emergency rather than a reality that demands a reassessment of the Italian juridical system.
Furno also dwells at length on the erosion of a social welfare system that widens the gap between the wealthy and the poor. The multiple sites of the performances and the dispersed models of social engagement and solidarity that the play creates in the mind of the spectators are interpreted by Furno as the only strategies to resist a power that, in an era of globalization, has become dislocated and de-territorialized. Dalle avventure ai miracoli. Massimo Bontempelli fra narrativa e metanarrativa. Fifty years after his death, Massimo Bontempelli remains a somewhat under- recognized figure in the landscape of Italian modernism.
While there are several studies that offer a panoramic view of his life and literary production, much still remains to be done when it comes to the investigation of individual works. As she rightly argues, the prose works of this period are characterized by the proliferation of self-referential and meta-narrative devices — something that has been noted in passing by several critics but never seriously analyzed in detail. The book is divided into six chapters, preceded by a short theoretical introduction on the notion of meta-narrative. In the remaining five chapters, one or more meta-narrative devices or strategies are discussed in relation to a specific work.
Indeed, Giordano is at her best when, as here, she engages in the close reading of individual texts. Less convincing, on the contrary, is her use of theoretical material. The subject of chapter four is the novella La scacchiera davanti allo specchio Writing, like the ludic activity of children, involves the construction of a fictional world that interprets and re-invents reality in a creative and playful way. By identifying in Eva ultima some typical anti-realist motifs of this second kind of magic realism — the carnival spirit, the enchanted journey, primitivism etc. Dalle avventure ai miracoli is not without problems.
In places, it reads a bit too much like the doctoral thesis from which it seems to be derived, especially in its over-reliance on secondary sources, profusely quoted at the expense of a more personal elaboration of the material. Finally, the book would have benefited from a more careful editing, as there are numerous grammatical and lexical infelicities as well formal inconsistencies that suggest a somewhat rushed production it is not clear, for instance, why bibliographical references are sometimes given in an endnote and sometimes included parenthetically directly in the text.
On the positive side, this book makes a useful contribution to our understanding of Bontempelli and, more in general, of that middle-brow experimentalism on the border between the transgressive spirit of the avant- garde and the orthodoxy of the realist mainstream that characterizes the s. In other words, far from being an eccentric writer of sophisticated fables, Bontempelli in fact emerges here as a forerunner of much of post-modern fiction, of which he anticipated a number of central themes and concerns.
Image, Eye and Art in Calvino. A questo scopo Martin McLaughlin privilegia Gli amori difficili, raccolta finora fin troppo poco studiata. Margarethe Hagen porta alla ribalta che le Cosmicomiche contengono due racconti che costituiscono una riscrittura del mito di Orfeo da prospettive diametralmente opposte. Si riposizionano in modo irrevocabile la figura del narratore, quella del lettore, ma anche il testo stesso. La parte successiva, dal titolo Arte,contiene tre capitoli relativi alla pittura. The Everyboy is a figure that we both love and hate, it's emblematic though, yes, immature.
Here, because there is a war going on, our wee one has to get his hands pre "You're only a child interested in spiders' nests, what can you do with a pistol? Here, because there is a war going on, our wee one has to get his hands pretty dirty which is vastly different than a trip down the lazy river Also, this may be the best novel EVER written by a 23 23!! Se poi penso che Calvino che ha scritto questo romanzo a 23 anni! Detto questo, ammetto che ho trovato difficile e frustrante! E continuano a camminare, l'omone e il bambino, nella notte, in mezzo alle lucciole, tenendosi per mano.
Nel comprensibile tentativo di filtrare la propria personale esperienza di guerra partigiana, Calvino sceglie un protagonista del tutto diverso, bambino e sottoproletario. Le speranze della Resistenza non sono affidate al piccolo protagonista ma a due funzionari venuti per incontrare il capo Dritto.
Loro rappresentano la coscienza partigiana di Calvino. Non so nulla della Resistenza. Be', qualcosina la so: Non possiamo pretendere che Pin ci conduca nei luoghi dell'azione militare, delle notizie storiche, delle battaglie ideologiche: Per sua fortuna non mancano adulti portati a soffrire della stessa malinconia, ma queste persone sono davvero rare: Something irreparable has happened to Pin now — as irreparable as when he [ redacted due to spoilers ].
Never again will he be able to return to the detachment, never will he be able to go into action with them now. It is sad to be like him, a child in a world of grown-ups, always treated as an amusement or a nuisance; and never to be able to use those exciting and mysterious things, weapons and women, never to be able to take part in their games. But one day Pin will be grown-up too, and be able Something irreparable has happened to Pin now — as irreparable as when he [ redacted due to spoilers ].
But one day Pin will be grown-up too, and be able to behave really badly to everyone, revenge himself on those who have behaved badly to him; how Pin would like to be grown-up now, or rather not grown-up, but as he is yet admired and feared, a child and yet a leader of grown-ups on some marvellous enterprise. Not in a lack of quality — even here Calvino is one hell of a writer — but in that the novel lacks the experimentation, or the singularity of purpose as displayed in his later works. Up until that point his short stories had all featured himself as the protagonist, and he originally started the novel in the same way.
The inclusion of Pin, and the prominence of his aloof independence, his eagerness to find a friend, or just to fit in, the alienation his youth brings, and the guarded innocence with which he approaches his interactions with the world bring a distinctly poignant perspective to the novel. This was my first novel, almost my first piece of writing. As long as your first book remains unwritten, you possess that freedom which you can use only once in a lifetime. Your first book already defines you, while you are really far from being defined.
And this definition is something you may then carry with you for the rest of your life, trying to confirm it or extend or correct or deny it; but you can never eliminate it. I really hate rating books sometimes Mi sono letteralmente sottolineata tutto il paragrafo sull'evoluzione che lo scrivere porta nella tua memoria: L'esperienza primo nutrimento anche dell'opera letteraria, ricchezza vera dello scrittore, ecco che appena ha dato vita, forma a un'opera letteraria insecchisce, si distrugge Calvino, attraverso gli occhi di un bambino, racconta i partigiani e la resistenza.
Nonostante la scarsa opinione che lo stesso Calvino ha di questo suo romanzo, secondo me vale la pensa leggerlo per capire il clima politico e culturale dei primi anni del dopo guerra. Mar 28, AC rated it it was ok Shelves: Maybe it sounds better in Italian. But as is, meh. L'autore decise di pubblicare il proprio romanzo dopo aver curato per Einaudi "Una questione privata" di Fenoglio. Innanzitutto Calvino si rese conto che l'Italia aveva bisogno di narrazioni del dolore per ricollegare frammenti di storie tra gli italiani.
La narrazione serviva a questo: Kim, un giovane partigiano, riflette sulla Storia. Jan 20, Mattia Ravasi rated it really liked it. Featured in my Top 5 Italo Calvino Books: Although not quite as elegant as Calvino's later efforts, The Path remains a heartbreaking work about one of Italy's most painful historical moments, and a novel where misery although abundant never manages to dispel hope. For the last year or so I have been dipping now and again into the big collection of Calvino's letters that was published in English a couple years back. Today I read something that shocked me at first, but then made total sense when I thought about it - in a letter March 20, to Franco Lucentini Calvino writes: I continue to maintain that I have never loved any writer as much as Hemingway, even though his character can be vulgarized.
This seems astonishing on the surface of it. It is hard For the last year or so I have been dipping now and again into the big collection of Calvino's letters that was published in English a couple years back. It is hard to think of two writers as dissimilar in style as the fanciful impossiblist Calvino and the macho realist Hemingway.
But I suppose one can never escape one's roots and the influence of Hemingway clearly shows in Calvino's first novel, written in his early twenties. Set in Italy during the Second World War, the plot follows a young boy typical mischievous, impudent little bastard who ends up with a band of Partisans fighting against the fascists. The book is both a war novel and a coming-of age novel.
There is innocence and humour and also great senselessness and brutality. It is raw and yet, somehow, wonderfully naive. It has been years since I read this, but I still can feel the raw emotion of the book. It is very Hemingwayesque to be sure, but there are glimmers of Calvino's positive nature shining through as well. L'autore ha il dono del racconto onirico e anche questo suo primo romanzo, molto diverso da quelli che ne seguiranno, ha la forza e la bellezza come di un sogno. Una lettura bella e intensa. Ed- ucation, Cultural Expansion, and the American Century. Internationalism, National Identities, and Study Abroad: France and the United States, A Guide to Psuedo-Events in America.
Harper and Row Publishers. Intro to Crossing the Atlantic: Travel and Travel Writing in Modern Times. Adam, Thomas and Nils H. Agnes Mongan Oral Interview. Schlesinger Library, Cam- bridge, MA. The Damned and the Beautiful: Weekly entries mention Berlitz classes at 9 a. Education, Cultural Expansion, and the American Cen- tury. Referred to in text as: France and the Unit- ed States, He is interested in the historical development of formalized study abroad programs in American higher education during the interwar period.
Before coming to Harvard he worked at the University of Texas at Austin, Study Abroad Office, in student advising and coordination of faculty-led study abroad programs. Prima di arrivare ad Harvard, ha lavorato presso la University of Texas a Austin nello Study Abroad Office, come student advisor e coordinatore dei faculty-led program. Unlike the few early Italian settlers who had arrived mainly from the northern regions of the peninsula, most of their fellow countrymen who landed en masse in the Unit- ed States in the last quarter of the 19th century came from the South.
Their olive complexion, dark hair, sloping foreheads, and stocky builds contrasted with the somatic features of both their northerners forerun- ners and the bulk of the U. These dif- ferences in physical traits seemed to corroborate the Florence in Italy and Abroad from Vespucci to Contemporary Innovators 2.
Luconi Columbus and Vespucci as Italian pseudo-scientific conclusion of eugenics, according Navigators: The latter influences allegedly enhanced emotional behavior, laziness, disregard for personal hygiene as well as proclivity to violence and crime Deschamps, Furthermore, southern Italians were generally illiterate and unskilled labor- ers who were charged with jeopardizing the achieve- ments of the U. They were also accused of corrupting American politics and the democratic values of their host society on the grounds that, un- aware of the importance of elections since few had been enfranchised in the native country because of suffrage restriction, they were willing to barter their votes for money or favors that could help them make both ends meet Martellone, Since the majority of Italian immigrants to the United States in the late 19th century landed from the Meridione, the supposed features of southern Italians ended up being ascribed to all newcomers from Italy, regardless of their specific regional origins.
In addi- tion, the significant increase in the number of arrivals, which surpassed 4. Luconi Columbus and Vespucci as Italian Catholic faith. Consequently, in a prevailing Protes- Navigators: The combination of all these stereotypes and fears made Italian immigrants undesirable in the eyes of the U. Few thought that the newcomers could be eventually assimilated and turned into good Americans.
The debate about immigration legislation between the late 19th and the early 20h century drew upon the thesis that the Italians, along with other national groups from southern and eastern Europe, were unfit for America and resulted in the and Quota Acts that severely restricted the entry of people from these are- as, putting an end to the mass influx from Italy of the previous decades Nelli, , To Italian-American leaders, these arguments were specious and groundless.
America was discov- ered by an Italian navigator, Christopher Columbus, and named after another Italian explorer, Amerigo Vespucci. In their opinion, their own ancestors landed in America much earlier than the settlers of James- town or the Pilgrim Fathers and, therefore, Italian im- migrants were fully entitled to become part of U. Luconi Columbus and Vespucci as Italian society. Alfredo Bosi echoed this argument in one Navigators: Although this book was published in New York City, it was written in Italian.
In this respect, his vol- ume aimed at encouraging immigrants to identify with their illustrious ancestors and not to disavow their ethnic roots. The task was not very difficult. Residents of Long Branch, New Jersey, from Italian background had named their mutual-aid society in honor of Vespucci as early as Yet the purpose of singing the praises of Colum- bus and Vespucci as the pioneers of the European col- onization of the Americas was not only to make the immigrants proud of their national heritage.
It also in- tended to exploit the reputation of both sailors to claim the legitimacy of the Italian presence in the United States. In other words, since Italians had been first to land in the New World, their progeny could not been regarded as undesirable in the United States as there would have been no United States without Colum- bus and Vespucci. In a letter to the newspaper, he sarcastical- ly remarked that the only treasons Italians had com- mitted against America had been discovering the con- tinent in and naming it after one of them.
Specifically, in the effort to defuse ethnic prejudice, Italian-American leaders and organizations mobilized with two differ- ent, albeit related, aims. On the other, they argued that it had been him — not, for instance, Leif Erickson — who had discovered Ameri- ca Deschamps, In the late s, U. Since then, defend- ing the Italianness of Columbus and claiming that he was the first European to set foot on the New World had become a relevant expedient to rehabilitate the public image of Italian immigrants.
In other words, the acknowledgement that Columbus was the Italian Pilgrim Father would result in the accommodation of Italian immigrants within the U. Vespucci played a similar — though lesser — role in the campaign for the legitimization of the Italian presence in the United States. House of Representatives, , Luconi Columbus and Vespucci as Italian years later, in a similar context, they argued that bar- Navigators: In the same year, while Congress was debating the repeal of the national-origins quota system of the s in the allot- ment of immigration visas, which had until then heav- ily penalized Italian nationals, Michael A.
Musmanno — an Italian-American judge who was an outspoken advocate of such a legislative reform — made a point of stressing that, although Vespucci had explored ex- clusively the Atlantic coasts of central and southern America, he had also been connected to a U. Furthermore, in the late s a Congressman of Italian descent, Alfred E. Santangelo, repeatedly in- troduced a bill in the fruitless effort to have a holiday designated after Vespucci Santangelo, , , Luconi Columbus and Vespucci as Italian point.
For instance, while the Order Sons of Italy in Navigators: Likewise, between and , Carlo Bar- sotti — the publisher of Il Progresso Italo-Americano, the most authoritative Italian-language daily in the United States — promoted the erection of five monu- ments to Italian personalities in New York City. The beneficiaries of these construction projects were Giuseppe Garibaldi in , Columbus in , Giuseppe Verdi in , Giovanni da Verrazzano in , and Dante Aligh- ieri in Bradley, ; Bogart, , , With a sixth statue dedicated to Giuseppe Mazz- ini by another Italian-American committee in , the number of Italy-related ethnic memorials was the largest one among all national minorities in New York City Frasca, , 9.
Remarkably, however, no mon- ument was built for Verrazzano. The statue was intended to emphasize that an Italian had pre-empted the Englishmen one more time. This approach domi- nated the literature about this national minority until the ethnic revival in scholarship and the adoption of the more sophisticated tools of social history confined filopietism to the dustbin of Italian-American studies by the late s. In any case, in the eyes of Italian Americans who pursued incorporation within U. An Oral History of Anarchism in America.
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Amsterdam, VU University Press, Five Centuries of Italian American Experience. Columbus Day et les Italiens de New York. Paris, Presses Universitaires Paris-Sorbonne. The Story of the Italians in America. Garden City, NY, Doubleday. From Immigrants to Ethnics: Buffalo Bill in Bologna: The Americanization of the World, The Biography of Congressman Alfred E. Four Centuries of Italian-American History.
New York, Vigo Press. Native Americans and Political Participation. Hearings before Subcommittee No. Senate, 89th Congress, 1st Session , Immigration: He is specialized in Italian immigration in the United States. He is the author of several articles and contributions to books, as well as the author and co-author of ten volumes on general racial matters and on Italian immigration in the United States. E in Italia cosa sta accadendo? Le notizie arrivano attraverso i social network e il passaggio dal giorna- Florence in Italy and Abroad from Vespucci to Contemporary Innovators 2.
Pir a Dalle Gazzette al Gior nalismo lismo analogico a quello digitale apre un grande di- on line: Uno dei punti focali di questi nuovi modelli di in- formazione nasce proprio dalla relazione - interazione che ognuno di noi ha nel momento in cui legge una notizia e ne fa oggetto di discussione e di condivisione con il proprio network, con il quale entriamo in con- tatto con una frequenza sempre maggiore.
Come cambia il giornalismo Il modo di fare giornalismo ha subito molte muta- zioni nel corso del tempo. Questi due livelli non on line: Il Caso Italiano mento storico che ha fatto da spartiacque tra il prima e il dopo, il sexigate Clinton - Lewinski. La vecchia regola applicata dal Washington Post ai tempi del Watergate che costrinse i reporter Bob Woodward e Carl Ernstein a trovare la conferma di almeno due fonti non contaminate prima della pubbli- cazione di ogni notizia, viene regolarmente disattesa. Pratellesi, , p 39 Da questo momento in avanti le indiscrezioni, i ru- mors, sono spesso la fonte delle notizie.
Si scrive tutto e il contrario di tutto. Pir a dalla visione di Lippman sulla funzione della notizia: Dalle Gazzette al Gior nalismo on line: Pir a toriali sia culturali Borja e Castells, ; Norris Il Caso Italiano profondamente frammentate dalla duplice logica di inclusione ed esclusione in azione nelle reti globali che strutturano la produzione, il consumo, la comunicazione e il potere. Pir a Dalle Gazzette al Gior nalismo ricevono attraverso i media.
E questo ci riporta al punto di parten- za di questa riflessione. Pir a Dalle Gazzette al Gior nalismo Elias Il Caso Italiano colloca come mediatore tra noi e i fatti, gli eventi che vengono riferiti. Pir a Dalle Gazzette al Gior nalismo il nostro modo di accedere alle informazioni. Pir a Dalle Gazzette al Gior nalismo E seppure la televisione ancora sembra tenere rispet- on line: Non solo, lo studio fotografa nel contempo come si sta evolvendo il consumo delle news online.
Pir a Dalle Gazzette al Gior nalismo E le percentuali salgono se osserviamo i com- on line: La parola stampa- ta ha consentito il confronto democratico come i manoscritti faticosamente copiati su pergamena non avrebbero mai potuto fare. Pir a Dalle Gazzette al Gior nalismo su quello che avrebbe fatto internet.
I suoi creatori on line: Il Caso Italiano importante di un sistema globale per condividere le foto dei nostri animali domestici. Ma i filtri personalizzati troncano le sinapsi del cervello. Senza saperlo, forse ci stiamo facendo una lobotomia globale. Come afferma lo stesso Castells: Nelle reti di comunicazione, questo si traduce in potere di agenda setting, di direzione e di decisione editoriale nelle organizzazioni che posseggono e gestiscono reti di comunicazione multimediali.
I programmati sono i soggetti subordinati dei detentori del po- tere nelle reti di comunicazione. Costruiscono i loro progetti mettendo in comune le loro esperienze. Com- battono i poteri costituiti e ne identificano le reti. Pir a Dalle Gazzette al Gior nalismo zare quali contenuti, gestiti da chi, per capire come essi on line: Il Caso Italiano cultura. Il giornalismo italiano sembra in effetti in bilico tra vecchio e nuovo, ma soprattutto afflitto da vecchi difetti che faticano a scomparire.
In un quadro edito- riale molto particolare, che si connota per non avere editori puri che controllano i principali media del pa- ese, il nostro giornalismo sembra ammalato di sensa- zionalismo e di uso eccessivo del if true. Il problema delle fonti sta assumendo una dimen- sione a nostro parere critica. Il Caso Italiano di risonanza, un nodo tra i nodi della rete. Pir a Dalle Gazzette al Gior nalismo condivisione.
Massimo Bontempelli fra narrativa e metanarrativa. Non certo sua sorella detta la Nera di Caruggio Lungo, prostituta che si vende ai tedeschi e alla Brigata Nera. His voyage set in motion a process of huge, his- torical change, both in the world from which he came and in the world that he found. Italian Comics of the s and s. Pin is an orphaned child though far from innocent.
Tutto questo nasce dal basso e riguarda on line: Da questo racconto, lo stesso della Social Media. Una strada potrebbe essere quella che tracciata da Andy Carvin manager del canale pubblico NPR, con- siderato il miglior account Twitter del mondo, che con il suo giornalismo partecipativo ha raccontato le storie dei protagonisti della primavera araba e che ancora oggi grazie alla sua rete di follower racconta gli eventi della guerra civile siriana.
Queste le regole professionali e di vita di Carvin. Pir a Dalle Gazzette al Gior nalismo notizie e anche di commenti che dalla rete arrivano alle on line: Osservare e innestarsi nei meccanismi di comunica- zione orizzontale, sfruttare la forza virale dei social me- dia per espandere la conoscenza dei fatti e delle notizie Florence in Italy and Abroad from Vespucci to Contemporary Innovators 2. Pir a Dalle Gazzette al Gior nalismo da essi derivanti.
Il Caso Italiano coloro i quali sono ancora esclusi. La solitudine del cittadino globale. Liquid Fear Polity Press. Paura Liquida, Laterza, Bari, Le nuove relazioni virtuali,. The Rise of the Network Society. Economy, Society and Culture, vol. Oxford University Press trad. Come Internet cambia la comunicazione, FrancoAngeli, Milano. Il contributo di Walter Lippmann. Editrice la Scuola, Milano. New York University, New York trad. Confronting the Challenges of Participation Culture: Media education for the 21st Century,. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, trad.
Culture partecipative e competenze digitali. Media education per il XXI secolo. Guerini e Associati, Milano, Gli strumenti del comunicare. La Net comunicazione politica. Teorie e tecniche del giornalismo multimediale. I percorsi della notizia, in Faustini G. Pew Research Center for People and Press. Editorialist and journalist, he is also member of the National Board of the Associazione Italiana della Comunicazione Pubblica.
An intense research activity performed on the relationship between children and young generations, and new technologies. He performs every year at the Monitoring of Italian Institutional and political sites. He has been spokesman at international conferences in India, Denmark, France, and Belgium.
He has a whole range of publications. Svolge ogni anno il Monitoraggio dei siti istituzionali e politici italiani. Ha varie pubblicazioni al suo attivo. Lagi Max Ascoli — ern America, because of his opposition to the Fascist a Moder n Vespucci in search for Liberty regime, and how the American social and political world influenced his political thought.
He studied Jurisprudence and Philosophy, while having a strong and profound interest in the History of Religions and particularly in the History of Chris- tianity. Through his family and personal relations he always had lasting connections with Florence which was the cradle of one of the most important Jewish communities in Italy. Lagi Max Ascoli — most interesting works, which permits us to better ex- a Moder n Vespucci in search for Liberty plain his theory of democracy on the eve of Fascism. The title of the essay was Il Gigante Cieco, through which Ascoli also wanted to express his intellectu- al, spiritual and political closeness to Carlo and Nello Rosselli.
Like Carlo Rosselli, Ascoli thought that the successful rise of Fascism was essentially due to the inability of the past Italian liberal and conservative ruling class to give a prompt response to the numer- ous social problems and political instability character- izing the first post-war period in Italy. Fascism, so Ascoli wrote, had simply took advantage from that situation, eliminating any form of free thinking which, according to Ascoli, represented the essence and val- ue of democracy.
Lagi Max Ascoli — theory of democracy had a strong and visible ethical a Moder n Vespucci in search for Liberty connotation which Ascoli continued to profess in his American exile. Yet, Ascoli kept teaching Philosophy of Law and writing against the re- gime. In Fall , Ascoli was accepted by the Graduate Fac- ulty of Social and Political Science of the New School of Social Research, a prestigious University Institute, whose faculty was almost entirely made up of the best European and chiefly German Jewish intellectuals fled from the European totalitarianism and the Nazi per- secutions.
Yet, in times of strong instability the State interven- tion in economy was considered necessary and useful. Lagi Max Ascoli — It was however Max Ascoli who distilled the ulti- a Moder n Vespucci in search for Liberty mate sense of that debate, emphasising how the right to work had to be on the agenda of every modern democratic nation not only because the state prosper- ity depends upon the employment rate of its citizens, but also because citizens are generally more inclined to attend to their civil and political responsibilities in condition of employment and economic stability. Lagi Max Ascoli — seemed to be perished under Nazism and Fascism.
His core assumption was that freedom was the primary goal of human existence and that a true democracy had to be based upon freedom from fear and freedom from want. Lagi Max Ascoli — ing his President from until The organi- a Moder n Vespucci in search for Liberty zation, founded in Northampton New England in , wanted to gather those Italian-Americans and Italians living in America, in order to create an asso- ciation promoting the principles of the Italian Risorg- imento along with those of the American democratic constitutionalism.
He used his personal rela- tions and his academic prestige to develop a public rhetoric according to which Italy was already ready for democracy, and moreover the full restoration of Italian democracy needed the U. Lagi Max Ascoli — es long memorandum Ascoli published in , For a Moder n Vespucci in search for Liberty an American Policy towards Italy, where he suggested the policy to be adopted by the American government towards his country, while defining the American in- tervention in Italy as the first, necessary condition to make democracy and freedom triumph.
Ascoli was not a man of words and empty prom- ises, since he was a man of facts. These two fields were agriculture and handcraft. Lagi Max Ascoli — and more wealth. A corollary to such proposal consist- a Moder n Vespucci in search for Liberty ed in making the American-Italian trade-commercial relations really free and open, so that Italian products and goods could have access to the American market and consumption.
With words which seem to recall and advance the Marshall philosophy, Ascoli wrote: Between the activities led by Ascoli and his collaborators were absolutely frenetic. The HDI representatives visited Italy in the years following the end of the war to promote and foster the American way of business amongst the major Ital- ian handcrafting sectors. What is most interesting to me is not so much describing the single and specific activities carried out through the HIH and the HDI, but rather highlight- ing the high and undeniable symbolic value of such initiatives.
Lagi Max Ascoli — and ideal Vespucci, tried in the 40s not only to con- a Moder n Vespucci in search for Liberty cretely help his motherland, but also to connect two worlds he felt he belonged to. Endnotes With this, I am also referring to the research work led by Professor Lea Campos Boralevi 1 State University of Florence on the political, figurative and theoretical dimension of travelling. See Campos Boralevi, L. Max Ascoli tra socialismo e liberalismo, Edizioni Polistampa, Firenze pp. By this term, we mean a juridical School of thought according to which natural laws and rights are mere philosophical construc- tions which simply are not real because laws and rights are created and enforced by a concrete source, the State, having the monopoly of political authority.
Both brothers were killed while in their French exile by two assassins hired by Mussolini. Firenze University Press, Firenze. Storia del pensiero politico europeo. Politics and Diplomacy of Stabilization. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Max Ascoli tra socialismo e liberalismo.
American Foundations and Refugee Scholars between the two Wars and after. She teaches topics related to Political Science and History. Insegna materie legate alle Scienze Politiche e alla Storia. Ha pubblicato due studi monografici sulle teorie politiche di Hans Kelsen e Georg Jellinek e dei saggi sul pensiero politico europeo per riviste nazionali e internazionali. Da allora, i canoni scientifici carte orientate col nord in alto e costruite in scala e su rilevamenti di coordinate geografiche e proiezioni divennero obbligatori.
In palazzo Medici, dopo la morte di Lorenzo, furono rinvenuti: Borgioli Le Scoperte Geografiche e i Nuovi ve, come gli atlanti di isole e i mappamondi. To- ponomastica e contenuti riportano al quarto e ultimo viaggio colombiano ; abbracciano tutto il mon- do conosciuto, con il Mondo Nuovo disegnato come una grande isola, e a sud una grande terra antartica Conti, s.
Secondo la teoria degli antipodi, infatti, doveva esserci una massa continentale a bilanciare le Florence in Italy and Abroad from Vespucci to Contemporary Innovators 3. I planisferi Rosselli-Martello per un decennio rap- presentarono le migliori immagini del pianeta, sulle quali sarebbero state innestate le terre nuovamente ri- trovate dal genovese, da Vespucci ed altri navigatori al servizio di Spagna e Portogallo. Il ruolo tecnico-cartografico di Amerigo Vespucci Amerigo Vespucci dimostra — con le quattro let- tere scritte fra e a Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco Florence in Italy and Abroad from Vespucci to Contemporary Innovators 3.
In vari passi Vespucci si mostra orgoglioso di sa- perli utilizzare correttamente: Nella prima e seconda lettera, Amerigo testimo- nia i calcoli di longitudine effettuati con metodo inno- Florence in Italy and Abroad from Vespucci to Contemporary Innovators 3. La prima lettera documenta che e dei Cartografi Fiorentini Amerigo era in grado di interpretare la cartografia disponibile, di saperla correggere e costruire ex novo. Scrive infatti di essere in procinto di spedire al suo an- tico padrone, tramite il concittadino Francesco Lotti, dua figure della discrezione [descrizione] del mondo fatte e or- dinate di mia propria mano e savere: Con la sua carta nautica generale del Mu- seo Navale di Madrid , Juan de la Cosa fa il punto delle conoscenze acquisite anche dalla spedizione ef- fettuata a nord da Giovanni Caboto a Terranova per gli inglesi , e a sud, da Alonso de Ojeda-Ve- spucci Le altre carte di poco successive si basano sulle navigazioni colombiane e vespucciane, pur rifletten- do anche le esperienze dei navigatori portoghesi Cor- Florence in Italy and Abroad from Vespucci to Contemporary Innovators 3.
Particolarmente interessanti sono i riflessi delle opere di Vespucci nella cartografia nuova. Il viaggio del trova infatti riscontro in svariate carte ma- noscritte derivate dalle figure ufficiali di Portogallo e Spagna, nonostante il segreto in cui erano mantenute. Essa riflette infatti le conoscen- ze scaturite dai viaggi di Amerigo con la separazione Florence in Italy and Abroad from Vespucci to Contemporary Innovators 3.
Il tipo cartografico noto come carta marina por- tugallensium, di matrice portoghese; costruito subito Florence in Italy and Abroad from Vespucci to Contemporary Innovators 3. Piuttosto simili sono i due planisferi, sempre del , del genovese Vesconte Maggiolo Biblioteca Fe- dericiana di Fano e di anonimo che denomina Mundus Novus la terra scoperta da Vespucci Biblioteca Olive- riana di Pesaro. Borgioli Le Scoperte Geografiche e i Nuovi proiezioni. Dopo la morte di Amerigo, Giovanni fu nominato piloto real. Fin da allora, fu il solo autorizzato a fare copie del pre- zioso documento.
Alle origini della cartografia toscana. These more geogra- phy-oriented works focus on landscape and its history, with a practical perspective towards policies of awareness on preserving and sustainable development of cultural and environmental heritage. She teaches Geog- raphy in state high schools and Italian for foreigners. She holds a terminal degree in Theory and Practice of Literary Translation. She attended various post-graduate train- ing courses and she also translates. Concerning research, she is interested in Travel Geography, especially on women travellers in modern and contemporary era.
She has several essays printed and to be released. Insegna Geografia nella scuola secondaria di secondo grado e italiano a stranieri. Ha una laurea specialistica in Teoria e pratica della traduzione letteraria. The objective of this 4-week program, of which three are held in Florence to de- velop Tuscan-themed events to be presented over a week in NYC, will be explored by the panel for the issues and challenges that arise in terms of authentic- ity vs.
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A Culinar y Pertinence to Exploration Theme Caravan of Tuscan Cuisine TuttoToscana is a viable interpretation of exploration through gastronomy, as the program and event cycle in- volve travel both literally and figuratively. In the literal sense, a specific food concept and a group of individuals composed of faculty and students begin a preparation phase in Florence and travel to New York City in order to present the concept at concrete, real-life events. Figuratively speaking, the idea of gastronomy has long supported the presence of food from the earliest of explorations.
When considering the travel and ex- ploration of food from a global perspective, we can cite the ancients, the arrival of the tomato and potato from the New World, the proliferation of spices from the Orient, etc. Food has always ranked as an important element to document and export throughout history.
Food from every nation travels through worldwide distribution, food bloggers are electronically enticing global au- diences with recipes, top chefs are opening outposts in all corners of the earth. A Culinar y an eye-opening experience, the discovery of diversity, Caravan of Tuscan Cuisine the realization of what is different with respect to the shores of departure. It is in the eye of these diversities and differenc- es that TuttoToscana turns to the idea of integration when examining the results of this complex project.
As stated and reiterated in the program Course Read- er, a few major challenges due to the idea of difference arise immediately from the commencement of each TuttoToscana edition: How do we adequately prepare the student team members, from international back- grounds, to represent a Tuscan food concept in a brief, intense, and highly concentrated time frame? Differences Created by Geography and Culinary Evolution: How can we properly present a specific, and oftentimes highly rarified Tuscan food concept prepared in Italy to audiences in a country where Italian cuisine has gone through a substantial evolution since the first major Italian immigration in the late s?
Integration occurs in three principal modes: Faculty and students work closely together through academics in order to acquire an unfiltered, unbiased, and authentic sense of the lo- cal territory represented by the chosen gastronomic topic. This is achieved through the thorough testing of the recipes and wines to feature at the NYC events; a dedicated contextualization, study, and analysis of the local territory represented by the yearly theme; frontal encounters with key professional figures who represent the products featured at the events. Real-life events as final evaluation for the program add professional enhance- Florence in Italy and Abroad from Vespucci to Contemporary Innovators 3.
A Culinar y ment in a career-developing experience. Communicative and Interpersonal Integration: The overall team is subdivided into specific work and production groups — management, beverage service, food production, media coverage and relations. Equal emphasis is placed on singular group project works and collective team communication for efficient infor- mation management and team harmony.
The result not only ensures successful event results but the op- portunity for students to be exposed to all roles during production and operations. Equipped with the aforementioned strengths due to the emphasis on integration, the TuttoToscana team was prepared to take on the elements involved in a transcon- tinental effort to present Tuscan cuisine in New York City.
The elements are described in the following section. A Culinar y Caravan of Tuscan Cuisine The elements of the culinary caravan used to describe the TuttoToscana journey are the following: The name Chi- anti derives from the wine denominations that can be legally produced in this area and has given birth to important Tuscan recipes that enhance the territorial wines and local ingredients. Preparation was handled in Italy while the project output was destined for the United States.
Ties between the two countries have always been very involved, especially considering historical and war-re- lated alliances, Italian immigration to the US, current US students seeking Italy as a study abroad destina- tion. The year is especially poignant for US-Italy relations thanks to the th anniversary of the death Florence in Italy and Abroad from Vespucci to Contemporary Innovators 3. A Culinar y of Amerigo Vespucci, the Florentine Renaissance ex- Caravan of Tuscan Cuisine plorer and subject of the Medici family who inspired mapmakers to give his first name to the continents of the New World.
Program ac- ademics were held in Florence for 3 weeks and contin- ued in a practicum format at real-life events for a week in NYC. These two cities are a constant stimulus for program participants. The first event was an academic special event that required for the students to act as the protagonists in the role of lecturers and Florence in Italy and Abroad from Vespucci to Contemporary Innovators 3.
The second event took place in a commercially oriented location, De Gustibus cooking school, where the featured team members were the faculty chefs and 2 student assistants. And finally, the third event location, the James Beard Foundation, provided an institutional approach to special events. Students and faculty worked side by side at a luncheon and dinner event within the walls of Mr. A Culinar y and table-seated formats, both were intended to fea- Caravan of Tuscan Cuisine ture the capstone interpretation of the concept while the dinner menu was slightly more articulated given its evening timeframe.
Each producer featured a different spirit and representation of Tuscany. Santa Cristina, a property of the Marchesi Antinori group, is a historic company who is dedicating immense efforts to contemporary communication methods for client en- gagement as well as label design. Mazzei, perhaps the most emblematic of the producers for its ties to Chianti territory, carries forth its commendable answers to the perennial challenge between tradition and innovation.
Cappanelle is a younger company who has demon- strated an extraordinary ability in interpreting through excellent quality the historic standard of Chianti wines. Salcheto, straddling between Chianti and Montepul- ciano, is creating new precedents in sustainable and environmentally conscious winemaking.