Six translated Italian poems: The many voices of Italian literature

'Leased' by Fernanda Romagnoli, 'Travellers' by Luciano Erba,'The Glory' by Maria Luisa Spaziani, 'Chatting' by Pier Luigi Bacchini,'The Atlantic Day' by Patrizia Cavalli, 'They Speak' by Valerio Magrelli

Renaissance in Italy: Italian literature... in two parts.

Forms v. 4 of the author's "Renaissance in Italy."

A history of Italian literature /

"Bibliographical note": p. 419-424.

Italian literature in the nineteenth century.

The North American review, vol. L, n. 107, April, 1840,] pp. [301]-336.

Italy and Italian literature.

Mode of access: Internet.

Historical illustrations of the fourth canto of Childe Harold : containing dissertations on the ruins of Rome and an essay on Italian literature /

Historical illustrations of the fourth canto of Childe Harold.--Essay on the present literature of Italy.--Letters of Torquato Tasso, never before published, with translations.--Letters written by Cola di Rienzi, tribune of Rome, never before published, with translations.

Universal author repertoire of Italian essay literature,

Mode of access: Internet.

The literature of Italy : From the origin of the Italian language to the death of Boccaccio. A historical sketch /

Mode of access: Internet.

Biographical and bibliographical dictionary of the Italian humanists and of the world of classical scholarship in Italy, 1300-1800.

Vol. 6: Supplement. A-Z has half title: Dictionary of the Italian humanists.

Compendium of the literary history of Italy : until the formation of the modern Italian language /

"Compendium or abridgement of the early part of the great historical work by Tiraboshi on Italian literature" - Pref. p. vi.

Em busca de uma poesia universal: Murilo Mendes na Itália (1957-1975)

Este trabalho é o resultado da análise de cinco livros da fase italiana (1957-1975) do poeta Murilo Mendes (1901-1975), com a intenção principal de se extrair deles a presença e a influência da Literatura e da História da arte italianas na produção do poeta mineiro. Murilo Mendes, que na Itália se tornou professor universitário e praticou a crítica de arte com intensidade, chegou a escrever dois livros em italiano. As duas primeiras obras aqui analisadas, Retratos-relâmpago e Locchio del poeta, recolhem textos em prosa sobre artistas de contextos, épocas e países diferentes: da música à literatura às artes plásticas. Esses textos escritos entre prosa e poesia são o resultado de uma maior aproximação à reflexão crítico-teórica por parte de Murilo, que, ao analisar um artista, recorre aos mesmos recursos, motivos e técnicas que irá colocar em prática na própria obra poética. Nos últimos livros de poesia do poeta mineiro (Siciliana, Convergência e Ipotesi), encontram-se de fato alguns desses elementos, como, sobretudo, o lírico-autobiográfico e o crítico-social. Na Itália, a poesia de Murilo se universaliza ao superar, segundo o impulso do Essencialismo, as fronteiras de espaço e tempo. A rede de citações se multiplica, parecendo representar uma última e desesperada tentativa de salvar a Arte e sua Tradição da catástrofe geral da sociedade moderna

Nuove intersezioni: crimine e storia nella narrativa Italiana al cambio di millennio

My research investigates a recent tendency in Italian literature, characterized by elements of renewal within the novel-writing tradition and of discontinuity with postmodern culture. It proposes an interpretation of the genres of the historical novel and crime fiction in the last fifteen years, in order to underline the important role played by these types of narrative in revitalizing contemporary Italian literature. These modalities of writing are considered both individually and in their connections beyond a traditional notion of genre, emphasizing those characteristics which may be assumed as irreconcilable with a postmodern approach to fiction and those which, furthermore, seem to indicate attempts to take a new course. In particular, my study analyses the recent literary tendency to combine the elements of ‘crime’ and ‘history’ in order to represent political and social reality, and how the works examined relate to postmodern narrative. For this reason, I pay particular attention to the relationship between literature and the past and to the socio-political aspects connected with the praxis of narrating, offering an original interpretation of the way in which the authors studied engage with these characteristics.

Azione destabilizzante e impegno politico. Le figure femminili tra il giallo e il nero Italiani dal 1980 a oggi

My thesis analyses female figures in Italian crime fiction since 1980, from narratological, sociological and gender-studies perspectives. It considers the narrative structure of the giallo and the noir, taking into account the difficulties, particularly in Italy, of establishing what noir fiction is and if/how it is possible to frame it in a specific narrative scheme. This discourse connects to the extraordinary success of Italian giallo and noir fiction over the past fifteen-twenty years. In this scenario, I examine the place of female writers in relation to this phenomenon, especially since the 1980s: in terms of the level of visibility/acceptance of their work, in a narrative space traditionally considered as a male territory, and with regard to their writings, which introduce different narrative perspectives. Specifically, I consider selected texts by leading female Italian writers, in which female elements (writers/characters) become destabilizing factor both on the narrative level, by undermining the schemes of ‘formulaic’ fiction, and on the political one, through their implicit potential (as women) for disrupting the rigid models inherited from processes of social conditioning and from political structures. In terms of gender identities, such texts offer scope to question conventional social constructions of the subject: by empowering the female narrative voice and by embodying it in characters (investigators/killers) traditionally personified by male figures. These texts offer themselves as a critical space where, potentially, readers can rethink static gendered relationships and stereotypical symbolical categories.