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Italia, Portogallo, Brasile: un incontro di storia, lingua e letteratura attraverso i secoli
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 190

Italia, Portogallo, Brasile: un incontro di storia, lingua e letteratura attraverso i secoli

I contributi riuniti nel volume, presentati per la prima volta in occasione del I Convegno dell'AISPEB (Associazione di Studi Portoghesi e Brasiliani), tenutosi nel 2012 presso le sedi dell'Università di Roma “La Sapienza” e dell'Università di Roma Tre, offrono un panorama di temi, linguistici e letterari, legati sia al contesto portoghese che a quello brasiliano. I saggi d’argomento letterario rinnovano il contributo italiano allo studio della letteratura luso-brasiliana, rimanendo nel solco di una tradizione nazionale ricca di spunti, che ha visto arrivare proprio dall’Italia alcuni contributi storici, filologici ed ermeneutici tuttora indispensabili per comprendere l’opera dei maggiori autori di lingua portoghese. I saggi di argomento linguistico sintetizzano invece alcuni dei risultati prodotti dalle cattedre di lingua, di recente istituzione in Italia, privilegiando in particolar modo tematiche legate al binomio lingua-traduzione.

Traces on The Sea: Portuguese Interaction With Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 197

Traces on The Sea: Portuguese Interaction With Asia

A closely-argued collection of articles by five respected Portuguese professors on various aspects of the long relationship between Portugal and its former colonies in Asia, TRACES ON THE SEA presents material on history, linguistics, architecture, and ethnomusicology focusing on Goa and elsewhere in Asia touched by Portuguese culture over the centuries. The book provides a background to the academic study of Goa and also as a site stimulating ideas for future research.

Poets, Patronage, and Print in Sixteenth-century Portugal
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 233

Poets, Patronage, and Print in Sixteenth-century Portugal

Portugal was not always the best place for poets in the sixteenth century. Against the backdrop of an expanding empire, the country's annexation by Spain in 1580, and ongoing religious controversy, poets struggled to articulate their worth to rulers and patrons. This did not prevent them, however, from persisting in their craft. Indeed, many of their works reflected precisely on the question of what poetry could do and what, ultimately, its value was. The answers that poets like Luís de Camões, Francisco de Sá de Miranda, António Ferreira, and Diogo Bernardes offered to these questions, and which are explored in this book, ranged from lofty ideals to the more practical concerns of making...

In the Footsteps of Dante
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

In the Footsteps of Dante

Dante, the pilgrim, is the image of an author who stubbornly looks ahead, seeking and building the "Great Beyond" (Manguel). Following in his footsteps is therefore not a return to the past, going à rebours, but a commitment to the future, to exploring the potential of humanity to "transhumanise". This dynamic of self-transcendence in Dante’s humanism (Ossola), which claims for European civilisation a vocation for universalism (Ferroni), is analysed in the volume at three crucial moments: Firstly, the establishment of an emancipatory relationship between author and reader (Ascoli), in which authorship is authority and not power; secondly, the conception of vision as a learning process and...

Black Africans in Renaissance Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 448

Black Africans in Renaissance Europe

This highly original book opens up the almost entirely neglected area of the black African presence in Western Europe during the Renaissance. Covering history, literature, art history and anthropology, it investigates a whole range of black African experience and representation across Renaissance Europe, from various types of slavery to black musicians and dancers, from real and symbolic Africans at court to the views of the Catholic Church, and from writers of African descent to Black African criminality. Their findings demonstrate the variety and complexity of black African life in fifteenth and sixteenth-century Europe, and how it was affected by firmly held preconceptions relating to the African continent and its inhabitants, reinforced by Renaissance ideas and conditions. Of enormous importance both for European and American history, this book mixes empirical material and theoretical approaches, and addresses such issues as stereotypes, changing black African identity, and cultural representation in art and literature.

Kafka’s Italian Progeny
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

Kafka’s Italian Progeny

This book explores Kafka's sometimes surprising connections with key Italian writers, from Italo Calvino to Elena Ferrante, who shaped Italy's modern literary landscape.

A Gil Vicente Bibliography (2005–2015)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 127

A Gil Vicente Bibliography (2005–2015)

This is a compilation of contributions to the study of the Portuguese playwright Gil Vicente (1465–1536) which appeared between 2005 and 2015. Entries are grouped under three main headings: Editions and Adaptations, Translations, and Critical Studies. The scholarly interest in the father of the Portuguese theater continues unabated, as it can be seen in the great numbers of scholarly works, both editorial and critical, which appeared in the decade under question. The modest aim of this work is to alert scholars as to which of Gil Vicente’s works have not received adequate critical attention. New names are constantly added to the list of established vicentistas and new ways of looking at the dramatist’s works are introduced.

Cultures of Diplomacy and Literary Writing in the Early Modern World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

Cultures of Diplomacy and Literary Writing in the Early Modern World

This interdisciplinary volume explores core emerging themes in the study of early modern literary-diplomatic relations, developing essential methods of analysis and theoretical approaches that will shape future research in the field. Contributions focus on three intimately related areas: the impact of diplomatic protocol on literary production; the role of texts in diplomatic practice, particularly those that operated as 'textual ambassadors'; and the impact of changes in the literary sphere on diplomatic culture. The literary sphere held such a central place because it gave diplomats the tools to negotiate the pervasive ambiguities of diplomacy; simultaneously literary depictions of diploma...

Mundos de língua portuguesa – olhares cruzados (II)
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 473

Mundos de língua portuguesa – olhares cruzados (II)

Mundos de língua portuguesa - olhares cruzados apresenta a síntese do debate científico que vários especialistas ligados à Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas compartilharam na cidade de Roma, em tempo de pandemia. Neste volume são reunidos estudos que problematizam questões de ordem sociológica, antropológica, ecocrítica ou interartística, transversais à comunidade de língua portuguesa. Encontram-se ainda contribuições que tratam de jornalismo, museus, turismo cultural, cinema, teatro, arquitetura e temas de cultura galega.

Le conte et la ville
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 204

Le conte et la ville

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