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Italian American Poetics of Place
This volume examines the significance of place in contemporary Italian American literature from an ecocritical perspective. It fills a gap in the theoretical discourse on Italian American culture, whose concerns about environmental justice have been mostly overlooked. From mid-twentieth-century poets such as John Ciardi and Diane di Prima to late twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction writers such as Carole Maso and Salvatore Scibona, the study combines Italian American literary criticism with the spatial turn that, over the last decades, has asserted the interpretive significance of place and the environment in literary texts. Questioning the prejudice that sees Italian American cultur...
Women and Latin in the Early Modern Period
The first women Latinists lived in renaissance Italy. The new learning spread from there to the rest of Europe. The original purpose of teaching women Latin was diplomacy, but later women used the language in many ways.
Women's Writing in Italy, 1400–1650
Winner, 2009 Best Book Award, Society for the Study of Early Modern WomenWinner, 2008 PROSE Award for Best Book in Language, Literature, and Linguistics. Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers This is the first comprehensive study of the remarkably rich tradition of women’s writing that flourished in Italy between the fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Virginia Cox documents this tradition and both explains its character and scope and offers a new hypothesis on the reasons for its emergence and decline. Cox combines fresh scholarship with a revisionist argument that overturns existing historical paradigms for the chronology of early modern Italian women’s writing and questions the historiographical commonplace that the tradition was brought to an end by the Counter Reformation. Using a comparative analysis of women's activities as artists, musicians, composers, and actresses, Cox locates women's writing in its broader contexts and considers how gender reflects and reinvents conventional narratives of literary change.
Commerce, Peace, and the Arts in Renaissance Venice
With the Paduan playwright Angelo Beolco, aka Ruzante, as a focal point, this book sheds new light on his oeuvre and times - and on Venetian patrician interest in him - by embedding the Venetian aspects of his life within the monumental changes taking place in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Venice, politically, economically, socially, and artistically. In a study of patronage in the broadest sense of the term, Linda Carroll draws on vast quantities of new archival information; and by reading the previously unpublished primary sources against each other, she uncovers remarkable and heretofore unsuspected coincidences and connections. She documents the well-known links between the increasing...
Teaching Freedom
Starting in the early 1900s, male and female elementary schoolteachers in Italy gained increasing awareness of the role of social workers in the fight against illiteracy and in creating civic consciousness based on widespread, qualified education. In 1900, the Unione Magistrale (the Teachers Association) was founded; in 1919, the Sindacato Magistrale (the Italian Teachers Union, a member of the General Confederation of Labor) was created. Inevitably, some of these teachers, firmly convinced of their duty, opposed fascism which, from the moment it originated, aimed at creating obedient boys who were loyal to fascist doctrine and trained in warfare, and girls ready to become the mothers and wi...
Ambrogio Leone's De Nola, Venice 1514
This volume offers the first comprehensive study of the De Nola (Venice 1514), a hitherto underappreciated Latin text written by the Nolan humanist and physician Ambrogio Leone. Furnished with four pioneering engravings made with the help of the Venetian artist Girolamo Mocetto, the De Nola is an impressively rich and multifaceted text, which contains an antiquarian (and celebratory) study of the city of Nola in the Kingdom of Naples. By describing antiquities, inscriptions, and buildings, as well as social and religious phenomena, the De Nola offers a precious window into a southern Italian Renaissance city, and constitutes a refined example of sixteenth-century antiquarianism. The work is analysed in a multidisciplinary approach, encompassing art and architectural history, antiquarianism, literature, social history, and anthropology.
Isabella d'Este and Francesco Gonzaga
In the first book systematically to give evidence of conjugal co-rule at an Italian Renaissance court, and the first full length scholarly study of Isabella d'Este and Francesco Gonzaga, Sarah Cockram shows their relationship in an entirely new light. The book draws on (and presents) a large amount of unpublished archival material, including almost unprecedented surviving correspondence between and around these Renaissance princely rulers. Using these sources, Cockram shows Isabella and Francesco's strategic teamwork in action, illuminating tactics of collaboration and dissimulation. She also reveals behind-the-scenes diplomatic activity; court procedures; sexual politics and seduction; gift...
La linea sottile
Se le frontiere riflettono i rapporti di potere tra Stati, quale ruolo può avere un confine che separa dittatura e democrazia? E se la democrazia è quella di uno Stato neutrale come la Svizzera, chiamato a confrontarsi e rapportarsi per oltre vent’anni con il fascismo mussoliniano, quel confine rappresenta una netta linea di demarcazione o piuttosto il tratto distintivo di una regione dove le differenze politiche, sociali ed economiche sfumano dando vita a una realtà del tutto peculiare? Negli anni del fascismo l’apparente e invalicabile «linea sottile» che separa Italia e Svizzera sembra frantumarsi sotto i colpi di una dittatura che finisce per metterne in risalto connessioni e in...
Il razzismo in cattedra
La persecuzione fascista contro gli ebrei fu una pagina tragica della storia italiana, a lungo rimossa dalla memoria collettiva. Si diffuse l’idea che la legislazione antiebraica fascista non fosse troppo dura e che la responsabilità degli arresti e delle deportazioni fosse esclusivamente dei nazisti. Solo con gli anni sono emersi la radicalità dell’antisemitismo fascista e il decisivo ruolo di Mussolini. Il settore da cui nel 1938 si avviò la politica persecutoria fu quello dell’istruzione, ritenuta il cardine attraverso cui plasmare la mentalità degli italiani, e un ruolo di primo piano, per elaborare e propugnare il razzismo di Stato, sarebbe stato occupato dall’università. I...
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