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Echoes of Opera in Modern Italian Poetry
Twentieth-century Italian poetry is haunted by countless ghosts and shadows from opera. Echoes of Opera in Modern Italian Poetry reveals their presence and sheds light on their role in shaping that great poetic tradition. This is the first work in English to analyze the influence of opera on modern Italian poetry, uncovering a fundamental but neglected relationship between the two art forms. A group of Italian poets, from Gabriele D’Annunzio to Giorgio Caproni, by way of Umberto Saba and Eugenio Montale, made opera a cornerstone of their artistic craft. More than an occasional stylistic influence, opera is rather analyzed as a fundamental facet of these poets’ intellectual quest to overcome the expressive limitations of lyrical poetry. This book reframes modern Italian poetry in a truly interdisciplinary perspective, broadening our understanding of its prominence within the humanities, in the twentieth century and beyond.
They did not stop at Eboli
The analysis of UNESCO’s audio-visual archives for their digitization has brought to light a forgotten album of 38 contact sheets and accompanying texts by Magnum photographer, David “Chim” Seymour – a reportage made in 1950 for UNESCO on the fi ght against illiteracy in Italy’s southern region of Calabria. A number of his photographs appeared in the March 1952 issue of UNESCO Courier in an article written by Carlo Levi, who had gained worldwide fame with his novel Christ Stopped at Eboli (1945). L’analyse des archives audio-visuelles de l’UNESCO en vue de leur numérisation a permis de découvrir un album oublié comprenant 38 planches-contact et des textes d’accompagnement du photographe de Magnum David « Chim » Seymour – un reportage réalisé en 1950 pour l’UNESCO sur la bataille contre l’analphabétisme en Calabre, une région du sud de l’Italie. Un certain nombre de ses photographies ont été publiées dans le numéro de mars 1952 du Courrier de l’UNESCO avec un article de Carlo Levi, dont le roman Le Christ s’est arrêté à Eboli (1945) lui avait valu une renommée internationale
100 Poems
Umberto Saba (1883–1957) is one of the great Italian poets of the twentieth century, as closely associated with his native city Trieste as Joyce is with Dublin. He received a sparse education but was writing distinctive poetry before he was twenty, ignoring the modernist groups which dominated the day. He came at personal themes in unexpected ways, using an unapologetically contemporary idiom. He acquired an antiquarian bookshop which prospered for a time, but his Jewish background placed him at risk with the rise of Fascism. When the Germans took northern Italy in 1943, he and his family went into hiding in Florence where they escaped detection until the Allied liberation. National fame came late in his life. 100 Poems is the most extensive selection of his work so far published in Great Britain. He emerges as one of the great European writers of his time. The book features writing from every period of his writing life. Patrick Worsnip's translations honour the poet's use of traditional Italian forms while using appropriately colloquial diction.
Pulcinella’s Brood
Pulcinella, a Neapolitan clown born of the commedia dell’arte tradition, went viral in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was an unlikely hero, grotesque in his mannerisms, with a bulging belly, occasional hunchback, and an insatiable desire for macaroni. Still, this bulbous misfit took his place next to kings, caliphs, and intellectual heavyweights. Pulcinella’s Brood traces the transnational arc of the Enlightenment-era Pulcinella, from his native Naples to Paris, from Rome to London. The book explores how Pulcinella was inserted into discourses about social order, aesthetics, and politics – how he became a revolutionary, a critic of the Catholic Church, and a cha...
Italian Cinema from the Silent Screen to the Digital Image
In this comprehensive guide, some of the world's leading scholars consider the issues, films, and filmmakers that have given Italian cinema its enduring appeal. Readers will explore the work of such directors as Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Roberto Rossellini as well as a host of subjects including the Italian silent screen, the political influence of Fascism on the movies, lesser known genres such as the giallo (horror film) and Spaghetti Western, and the role of women in the Italian film industry. Italian Cinema from the Silent Screen to the Digital Image explores recent developments in cinema studies such as digital performance, the role of media and the Internet, neuroscience in film criticism, and the increased role that immigrants are playing in the nation's cinema.
Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 “Brilliantly conceived and executed, Botticelli's Secret is a riveting search for buried treasure.” —Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve Some five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created works of unearthly beauty. A star of Florence’s art world, he was commissioned by a member of the city’s powerful Medici family to execute a near-impossible project: to illustrate all one hundred cantos of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, the ultimate visual homage to that “divine” poet. This sparked a gripping encounter between poet and artist, between the religious and the secular, between the earthly and the evanescen...
Turbolenti e indisciplinate
Utilizzando un’ampia varietà di fonti – diari clinici, lettere, relazioni, articoli a stampa, cartelle cliniche e biografiche – il libro indaga la condizione di bambini e bambine definiti instabili e difficili in rapporto alla scienza psichiatrica che si stava specializzando nell’ambito infantile. Ne emerge un quadro caratterizzato da vissuti difficili, accompagnato da povertà e contraddistinto da complesse dinamiche di inclusione-esclusione a cui contribuirono medici, famiglie, amministrazioni fasciste e forze dell’ordine. Tuttavia gli stessi bambini, pur in situazioni complesse, continuarono a esprimere, narrare e dare voce alle loro storie e alle loro emozioni per quanto fu loro possibile nel contesto politico fascista, che nel corso degli anni enfatizzò le misure di controllo, rigenerazione e «bonifica umana».
Guardare
«L'unica cosa che vorrei poter insegnare è un modo di guardare, cioè di essere in mezzo al mondo. In fondo la letteratura non può insegnare altro»: così nel 1960, in una lettera all'editore francese François Wahl, Italo Calvino esplicita il compito che come scrittore si è dato e al tempo stesso una delle caratteristiche più significative della propria opera. L'elemento visivo è infatti dominante fin dal Sentiero dei nidi di ragno, il libro che segna il suo esordio. Non a caso, una delle prime passioni dello scrittore ancora ragazzo era stato, assieme al disegno, il cinema, vera e propria palestra nella quale si formerà la sua sensibilità artistica. Per tutta la vita di Calvino, p...
Memoranda
Il balcone da cui Duccio Galimberti pronunciò il famoso discorso del 26 luglio 1943 a Cuneo; la pietra-poesia di Primo Levi ritrovata sul bordo del divano di Nuto Revelli; la scrivania di Piero Gobetti e le parole vergate a matita da Ada per la sua morte, tra le stanze della loro casa di via Fabro a Torino; i banchi del Liceo D'Azeglio e la «banda» Monti (da Pavese a Mila, da Ginzburg a Bobbio); i vagoni merci per gli ebrei destinati ad Auschwitz alla stazione di Borgo San Dalmazzo; la Resistenza in diretta nei quadri di Adriana Filippi a Boves... Esiste una pietas reciproca e tenace che lega gli umani ai loro manufatti. Architetture, oggetti, scritti spesso sopravvivono per secoli ai lor...
