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From Mater Dolorosa to Mater Degenerata: Sacrifice and Subversion in Deledda’s Cenere and Duse’s Film Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Michela Bertossa
In this article, I explore the presence of positivist and proto-Eugenic discourses in Grazia Deledda’s novel Cenere (1904) and the eponymous film adaptation by Febo Mari and Eleonora Duse, Cenere (...
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Infinite or Indefinite? Leopardi’s Infinite through the Lens of Fyodor Dostoevsky Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Luca Costa
Leopardi employs the traditional distinction between infinite and indefinite in his works, prompting a question rarely asked in Leopardi studies: what is the role of the true infinite in Leopardi’s...
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Un diavolo imitato: Edoardo Perino editore di Mario Rapisardi Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Federico Sessolo
L’articolo ricostruisce la collaborazione editoriale fra il poeta etneo Mario Rapisardi e l’editore romano Edoardo Perino, svoltasi fra il 1884 e il 1887. L’analisi si concentra in particolare sull...
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Jewish Women in the Early Italian Women’s Movement, 1861–1945. Biographies, Discourses, and Transnational Networks Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Mara Josi
Published in Italian Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Mussolini, Architect: Propaganda and Urban Landscape in Fascist Italy Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Victoria Witkowski
Published in Italian Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Italian Legacy in Philadelphia. History, Culture, People and Ideas Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Michele Magri
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 79, No. 2, 2024)
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Dante’s Multitudes: History, Philosophy, Method Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 George Rayson
Published in Italian Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Tax Return (1515) of Marin Sanudo: Fiscality, Family, and Language in Renaissance Venice Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Ronnie Ferguson
Marin Sanudo’s finances, family relationships, and choice of written vernacular are the three focal points of the present study. These hitherto only partially explored issues are addressed via a li...
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Pitying Antiochus: Italian Humanism and the Philology of Compassion Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Gur Zak
The study of emotions has been prominent within medieval and early modern studies. However, much remains to be explored, particularly regarding how literature might shed light on broader cultural o...
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From Body of Order to Body of Disorder: Beatrice’s Ecstatic Metamorphosis in Matilde Serao’s Cuore infermo (1881) Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Frances Clemente
Matilde Serao publicly supported a behavioural model for women rooted in soberness and restraint. However, some of her fictional heroines led her to places governed by a law of disorder at odds wit...
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Spectacular Women: Recovering the Feminine in Elena Ferrante’s I giorni dell’abbandono Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Esme Hodson
This article seeks to explore the models for female existence depicted in Elena Ferrante’s I giorni dell’abbandono (2002), specifically those which bypass conceptualisation according to patriarchal...
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In balìa di Dante e Pinocchio – Il viaggio di Pinocchio nell’aldilà dantesco Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Serena Vandi
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 79, No. 2, 2024)
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Portraying the Nomadic Spirit of a Transnational Coming of Age Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Olga Campofreda, Francesco Chianese
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 79, No. 1, 2024)
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Tra ecologia letteraria ed ecocritica. Narrare la crisi ambientale nella letteratura e nel cinema italiani Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Claudia Dellacasa
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 79, No. 1, 2024)
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Narrative Strategies for Participation in Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’ Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Mattia Bellini
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 79, No. 1, 2024)
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Corporeità e natura in Leopardi Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Olmo Andrea Calzolari
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 79, No. 1, 2024)
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‘Il disagio di stare al mondo’: Coming of Age, Masculinity, and Maradona in Paolo Sorrentino’s È stata la mano di Dio Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Stefano Rossoni
With È stata la mano di Dio (2021), Paolo Sorrentino returned to filming in Naples, his hometown, 20 years after his first movie. Going back home is a moment of rupture in his production. ‘È stata ...
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Rome, 16 October 1943. History, Memory, Literature Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Alberto Cavaglion
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 79, No. 1, 2024)
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Grown Up Boyz and Girlz. Italian Graphic Novelists’ Trans-European Paths and Gendered Representations Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Nicoletta Mandolini
Encouraged by a growing tendency towards international training and education as well as by the precarity that dominates artistic production in Italy, Italian comics artists are the protagonists of...
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Tra memoria e resistenza: Una lettura spaziale delle Case della Vetra di Giovanni Raboni Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Alessio Giovene
La poesia di Giovanni Raboni è sempre stata connessa alla città di Milano fin dalla sua prima raccolta, Le Case della Vetra (1966), dove la città appare come una metropoli industriale e il luogo de...
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The Poetic Logic of Panism: An Idealistic Reading of Gabriele D’Annunzio’s Alcyone Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Daniele Meregalli
In the 1970s, an influential Italian critic, Emilio Mariano, wrote that Gabriele D’Annunzio’s poetics ‘moves on a terrain of Neo-Idealism’. At that time, Mariano had already employed some excerpts ...
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Angelenos? What’s That? Young Italians in Los Angeles in the Fiction of John Fante, Andrea De Carlo, and Chiara Barzini Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Francesco Chianese
In the complex and varied history of Italian migration to the United States, the Californian experience has stood out for the original dynamics of its mobility, especially in relation to the transi...
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‘I’d Like to See an Italian Film or TV Series in Which a Girl Moves Abroad’: Italian Girlhood and Nomadic Experiences Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Maria Elena Alampi
This article explores the portrayal of contemporary Italian girlhood in the context of Italian media studies. It critically examines the emergence of a new media depiction of Italian high-school gi...
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The Cross of Mars: Crusade Imagery and Theology in the Prologue to the Encounter with Cacciaguida (Par. xiv–xv) Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Gianluca Caccialupi
Beginning with Innocent III’s pontificate, participation in the crusades became increasingly interpreted as imitatio Christi patientis. Innocent III’s crusade theology was revived by later pontiffs...
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Coming of Age among Multiple Languages: Exploring the ‘Polyglot’ as an Intersectional Subject in Claudia Durastanti’s La Straniera (2019) Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Olga Campofreda
Claudia Durastanti belongs to a new generation of Italian writers who embrace life on the move, writing outside of the borders of Italy and living between different languages and cultures. Durastan...
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Chandra Livia Candiani’s Buddhism: Crossing Cultural and Species Boundaries to Become a Co-dividual Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Claudia Dellacasa
In La bambina pugile ovvero La precisione dell’amore (2014), Fatti vivo (2017), and Vista dalla luna (2019), Chandra Livia Candiani (b. 1952) evokes several traumatic experiences endured in her you...
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Ruggiero, Melissa, and Effeminate Enchantment in the Garden of Alcina Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Gerry Milligan
In a celebrated episode of Ariosto’s Orlando furioso, Ruggiero luxuriates in the garden of the sorceress Alcina. A second sorceress, Melissa, travels to the garden and describes Ruggiero as effemin...
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Italian Industrial Literature and Film. Perspectives on the Representation of Postwar Labor Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Jacopo Francesco Mascoli
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 78, No. 4, 2023)
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The Ultimate Italian. Dante and a Nation’s Identity Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Enrica Leydi
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 78, No. 4, 2023)
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Italian Gothic. An Edinburgh Companion Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Gennaro Ambrosino
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 78, No. 4, 2023)
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Remembering the Queer Exiles of San Domino: In Italia sono tutti maschi (2008) and The Red Tree (2018) Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Orsolya Katalin Petocz
Homosexuality was both silenced and persecuted during Mussolini’s regime. The multifaceted silencing of homosexuality has contributed to the ongoing difficulty of gathering and preserving testimoni...
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Reflections on the ‘Trans’ in Jhumpa Lahiri’s In Other Words (In altre parole) Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Margaret-Anne Hutton
Jhumpa Lahiri’s translingual text In Other Words (In altre parole, 2015) functions in the article both as a test case to explore disciplinary boundaries and as a case study to examine the ‘trans’ p...
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Matera in posa: The Photographic Self-Portrait of a Southern-Italian City, 1900–1920 Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Mark A. Russell
Photography has played an important role in framing popular perceptions of Matera. Scholarship has focused on its representation following 1945. Yet the fact that a photographic portrait of Matera ...
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(Extra)ordinary Sensation and Visionary Perception in Dante’s Purgatorio XV and XVII Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Aistė Kiltinavičiūtė
In Purgatorio xv and xvii, Dante depicts the pilgrim’s inner visions produced without direct sensory input, which, paradoxically, lead to some of the most extravagantly multisensory descriptions in...
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Vicissitudes of a Dantean Collection: The 1527 ‘Giuntina delle rime’ Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Maria Clotilde Camboni
The essay shows how the most comprehensive sixteenth-century printed collection of pre-Petrarchan lyric poetry, printed by the Giunti press in Florence in 1527 and known as the ‘Giuntina delle rime...
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Vite e carriere di pittori con sordità prelinguale attivi in Italia nel periodo 1590–1720 Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Angelo Lo Conte
This essay investigates the careers of prelingually deaf painters active in Italy in the period 1590–1720. By looking at early modern biographical accounts, archival documents, works of art, and Re...
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Negotiating Foreign Influence in Fascist Italy: Nicola Festa on Greek Learning in Renaissance Humanism Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Han Lamers
This article explores how the classical scholar Nicola Festa (1866–1940) outlined a fascisticized account of Renaissance humanism in a series of lectures later published as his Umanesimo (1935). It...
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Le prose poetiche di Roberto Rossi Precerutti: strutture e reversibilità dello sguardo nei Fatti di Caravaggio (2016) Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Davide Belgradi
L’articolo analizza le prose poetiche della raccolta Fatti di Caravaggio di Roberto Rossi Precerutti, inserendole da subito all’interno del contesto novecentesco e in continuità con le riflessioni ...
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Figlie dell’alchimia. Donne e cultura scientifica nell’Italia della prima età moderna Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Francesco Lucioli
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 78, No. 3, 2023)
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Folklore, razza, fascismo Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Beatrice Falcucci
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 78, No. 3, 2023)
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Una macchina mitologica del ’68. Nanni Balestrini e il rituale della Grande Rivolta Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Simone Giorgio
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 78, No. 3, 2023)
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Sexscapes of Pleasure: Women, Sexuality and the Whore Stigma in Italy Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Noreen Kane
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 78, No. 3, 2023)
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A Martyr for the Resistance and the New Republic: The Uses of Giacomo Matteotti’s Memory, 1943 to 1947 Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Amy King
When Italy surrendered to the Allies in 1943, Giacomo Matteotti’s memory burst back into public space after almost twenty years of clandestine commemoration. This article focuses on the uses of Mat...
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Glossing Boethius Through Dante: Auctoritas and Philosophical Poetry in BML MS Plut. 78.20 and the Dante Commentary Tradition Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Paola Nasti
The article examines the function and the significance of a quotation of Purgatorio xix, 7–73 on the margins of a copy of Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy which belonged to Bartolomeo Nerucci, a...
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La Clitennestra di Dacia Maraini nel contesto teatrale e femminista: luci e ombre, sogni e deliri intorno alla ricezione del mito Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Daniela Palmeri
Il saggio propone un’indagine intertestuale del dramma I sogni di Clitennestra (1978) di Dacia Maraini, riscrittura originale che mostra il rovesciamento del mito a partire dalla figura di Clitenne...
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In Memoriam: John Woodhouse (1937–2023) Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Peter Hainsworth, Martin McLaughlin, David Robey
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 78, No. 3, 2023)
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Introduction Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Pierpaolo Antonello, Mara Josi, Nicole Maniero
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 78, No. 2, 2023)
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Profezia Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Giorgia Ghersi
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 78, No. 2, 2023)
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Uno scrittore su più tavoli: il concetto di tragico nei capitoli XX e XXI dei Promessi sposi Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Luca Di Nardo
Il presente articolo, alla luce della riflessione moderna sul tragico che Peter Szondi ricostruì e sistematizzò nel Saggio sul tragico, dimostra come sia possibile rintracciare, all’interno di due ...
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Italo Calvino’s Spatial Imagination: Between Intellectual Abstraction and Embodied Experience Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Marzia Beltrami
ABSTRACT This article reassesses the view of Calvino as an eminently cerebral author by recognising the experiential and embodied dimension of his work and dismantling the false dichotomy between abstraction and bodily experience. I describe Calvino’s imagination as spatial (a) because it is grounded in an embodied experience of space, and (b) because he tends to manipulate the material of imagination
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Dante and Petrarch in the Garden of Language Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Frey Kalus
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 78, No. 2, 2023)
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Le città invisibili as Cybertext and Cyberspace: Italo Calvino, Ted Nelson, and Arata Isozaki Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Eleonora Lima
ABSTRACT This article considers the place of Le città invisibili within the debate on cybernetics, both as a product of its time as well as a harbinger of the future advent of network culture. It proposes to interpret the two most emblematic images of the book – the enchanted palace of the Kublai Khan, and the everchanging ‘invisible cities’ visited by Marco Polo – as Calvino’s personal contribution
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Man as Memory and Metaphor of Matter: Italo Calvino’s ‘Priscilla’ and the Narration of (Bio)science Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Elio Attilio Baldi
ABSTRACT This article investigates the relation between science and narration through the lens of gender and anthropocentrism. By analysing Calvino’s long, ‘biocomic’ triptych ‘Priscilla’ (published in T con zero in 1967) alongside (popular) scientific tales on (a)sexual reproduction, patterns in fictional and scientific storytelling are individuated. The three parts of Calvino’s story, starting from
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Perdere le radici. Appunti sulla modernità di Italo Calvino Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Davide Savio
ABSTRACT L’articolo intende sviluppare alcune considerazioni sul rapporto tra il mito identitario delle radici e l’opera di Italo Calvino, nel contesto della modernità letteraria e in particolare del ventesimo secolo. L’analisi si concentrerà su testi come ‘La speculazione edilizia’, ‘La strada di San Giovanni’, ‘Dall’opaco’ e ‘Il museo dei formaggi’. Cercherò di mettere in luce la postura di Calvino
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The Author in Criticism: Italo Calvino’s Authorial Image in Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Claudia Dellacasa
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 78, No. 2, 2023)
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Il romanzo neomodernista italiano. Dalla fine del neorealismo alla seconda metà degli anni Settanta Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Niccolò Amelii
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 78, No. 2, 2023)
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100 Poems Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Olmo Andrea Calzolari
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 78, No. 2, 2023)
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Calvino’s Animals: Anthropocene Stories Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Deborah Amberson
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 78, No. 2, 2023)
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Autobiography as Self-Ethnography in Italo Calvino’s ‘La poubelle agréée’ Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Michele Maiolani
ABSTRACT The relevance of Calvino’s anthropological readings, often overlooked by scholars, is particularly evident in his autobiographical project Passaggi obbligati. The structure of the book, consisting of a selection of crucial turning points in the author’s life, is modelled on the theories presented by Arnold Van Gennep in Les Rites de passage. Considering ‘La poubelle agréée’ as a case study
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We Will Set You Free: Representations of the ‘Antislavery Argument’ in British and Italian Missionary Films (1925–1939) Italian Studies (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-16 Leonora Masini
By comparing two missionary films, the British Livingstone (1925) and the Italian Abuna Messias (1939), this study identifies a striking similarity and some differences between the British and the ...