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Chandra Livia Candiani’s Buddhism: Crossing Cultural and Species Boundaries to Become a Co-dividual Italian Studies 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Niccolò Amelii
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 78, No. 2, 2023)
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100 Poems Italian Studies 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 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 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 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 ...
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Calvino and Japanese Gardens: A ‘Trajectivity’ between the Human and More-than-Human Italian Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Claudia Dellacasa
ABSTRACT Italo Calvino travelled to Japan in 1976 and, throughout his career, became increasingly acquainted with Japanese literature and Buddhist philosophy. This encounter is evidenced by the ‘Japanese shelves’ of his Roman library and by several authorial reflections, which this article scrutinises in order to highlight the material-ecocritical relevance of Calvino’s contact with Japanese nature
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Gio Ponti, la collaborazione con le ditte Singer e Altamira e l’immagine postbellica del design italiano negli Stati Uniti Italian Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Giuliana Altea
L’articolo esplora il contributo di Gio Ponti alla definizione postbellica dell’immagine italiana Oltreatlantico attraverso la ricostruzione della collaborazione dell’architetto con le ditte di arr...
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‘And Now the Great Day Had Come, the 14th of May, 1865!’: Anna Vivanti-Lindau e il seicentenario dantesco* Italian Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Frances Clemente
Nel 1865 la letterata tedesca Anna Vivanti-Lindau lascia la sua abitazione londinese per compiere un viaggio nel Mediterraneo assieme al marito Anselmo. Tappa fondamentale del tour è Firenze, dove ...
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In Memoriam: Professor Michael Caesar (1945–2022) Italian Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Charlotte Ross
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 78, No. 2, 2023)
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La sintassi marcata in Le menzogne della notte di Gesualdo Bufalino: eroi romantici, tono favoloso e colpi di scena del novellare Italian Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Silvia Bergamini
ABSTRACT L’articolo intende presentare uno studio dettagliato dell’ordine degli elementi della frase in Le menzogne della notte (1988) di Gesualdo Bufalino (1920–96). Il presente contributo disamina le modalità e le finalità che la sintassi marcata esplica all’interno del progetto romanzesco, che è caratterizzato da sperimentazione del complesso congegno narrativo e linguistico. Adottando un taglio
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When the Serenissima is No Longer Serene: Staging Chaos in La Veniexiana Italian Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Chiara Barni
ABSTRACT Modern scholars regard La Veniexiana as an apolitical, erotic play, relevant only because women are active leaders of the love game in a patriarchal reversal. Through a close reading of the comedy based on its socio-political context, this article challenges this view. I maintain that chaos is key. I argue that La Veniexiana does not portray a definitive inversion of gendered norms, but rather
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Queering Two Resistance Novels: Historical Trauma, Open Secrets, and Non-Genealogical Plot in Carlo Coccioli’s Il migliore e l’ultimo and Beppe Fenoglio’s Il libro di Johnny Italian Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Marco Codebò
ABSTRACT A queer reading of Coccioli’s Il migliore e l’ultimo and Fenoglio’s Il libro di Johnny complicates the narration of the Italian Resistance by following a zig-zag path. This path begins on 8 September 1943, a traumatic day in which the national fiction fell apart, leaving the two novels’ heroes stranded without an army, a country, or a king. The path continues through the Resistance in the
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‘Occhi Fissi’: Fixing the Gaze in Dante’s Commedia Italian Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Rebecca Bowen
ABSTRACT Moments of visual fixation appear throughout the Commedia. Reconstructing their connotations in relation to contemporary discourses on sight, this article argues that, as well as a literary trope, Dante’s depictions of fixing the gaze function as a metaliterary device, an invitation to the reader’s critical eye that, when interrupted, draws attention to the multiple cultures of gazing circulating
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Leopardi’s Disaster Italian Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Peter Nicholls
ABSTRACT This article explores an idea of ‘disaster’ (‘sciagura’) that figures prominently in Leopardi’s early Canzoni (1818–22). While English versions have generally rendered this word as ‘unhappiness’, ‘woes’, ‘ills’ etc., the emphasis on lyric melancholy misses Leopardi’s sense of a universal ‘calamity’ that is closely bound up with the acquisition of language and with humanity’s increasing separation
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Vite nuove. Biografia e autobiografia di Dante Italian Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Rebecca Bowen
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 78, No. 1, 2023)
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Dante’s Masterplot and the Alternative Narrative Models in the Commedia Italian Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Tristan Kay
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 78, No. 1, 2023)
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Esuli: scrittori e scrittrici dall’antichità a oggi Italian Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Gennaro Ambrosino
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 78, No. 1, 2023)
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L’antichità «crudele». Etruschi e Italici nella letteratura italiana del Novecento Italian Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Gaia Litrico
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 78, No. 1, 2023)
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‘Il sospetto di un altro mondo’: appunti per una storia originaria (1936–1945) Italian Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Riccardo Gasperina Geroni
ABSTRACT Che cosa accomuna le poetiche di autori diversi tra loro come Cesare Pavese, Elio Vittorini e Carlo Emilio Gadda? Il presente contributo intende indagare da una prospettiva inedita il problema dell’originario nella letteratura italiana contemporanea, a cavallo tra la fine degli anni Trenta e i primi anni Quaranta del secolo passato (1936–1945). Seguendo la lezione inaugurata da Edward Said
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The Decameron Ninth Day in Perspective Italian Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Charlotte Alton
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 78, No. 1, 2023)
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Boccaccio and the Consolation of Literature Italian Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Olivia Holmes
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 78, No. 1, 2023)
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Pia Pera’s Poetics of the Planetary Garden Italian Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Marina Spunta
ABSTRACT This article explores Pia Pera’s poetics of the garden. As the first in-depth study of Pera’s work on the subject, it aims to position her as an original voice within contemporary (garden) writing and to locate garden writing in relation to current ecological, ecocritical, and environmental debates. By drawing on philosophy, aesthetics, and critical plant studies, I demonstrate how Pera’s
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Almarina di Valeria Parrella fra forma letteraria e rapporti sociali Italian Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Stefania Lucamante
ABSTRACT Almarina di Parrella promuove una prospettiva diversa sulla dimensione spaziale di Napoli con una specifica attenzione all’isola di Nisida, costruendo in tal modo un legame fra lo spazio nissologico e le relazioni che potrebbero sorgere nella prigione minorile situata sull’isola tra due individui privi di legami di sangue ma decisi ad affidarsi a vicenda, legalmente e affettivamente, per la
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Fascist Modernism in Italy. Arts and Regimes Italian Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-24 Yasmin Riyahi
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 77, No. 4, 2022)
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The Young Dante: Archetypes of His Early Intellectual Biography Italian Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-24 Rebecca Reilly
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 77, No. 4, 2022)
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Dante’s Christian Ethics: Purgatory and Its Moral Contexts Italian Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-24 Catherine Keen
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 77, No. 4, 2022)
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Under Pinocchio’s Skin: The Uncanny Woodenness of a Permanent Body Italian Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Paolo Pellecchia
ABSTRACT Carlo Collodi’s Le Avventure di Pinocchio has undergone an extraordinary number of manipulations, showing the great malleability of a text whose protean capacity echoes that of its main character. I analyse Pinocchio from a psychoanalytical standpoint, considering the Unheimlich – uncanny – as a pivotal stylistic element of the story and exploring its function in Collodi’s critique of the
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Professor Peter M. Brown (1926 –2022) Italian Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Judith Bryce, Nicholas F. Brown
Published in Italian Studies (Vol. 77, No. 3, 2022)
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Rewriting the Transnational Dimension of Italian Migration to Wales in the Time of COVID-19 Italian Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Elena Anna Spagnuolo
ABSTRACT This article investigates how COVID-19 has rewritten the transnational connotations of recent Italian migration to Wales, reshaping issues of home, belonging, inclusion, and participation. On the one hand, examination of the relationship with the host country analyses whether and how the early phase of the pandemic impacted on Italians’ social integration and sense of embeddedness in Welsh
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Between Memory and Matter: Italy and the Transnational Dimensions of Public Art Italian Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Emma Bond
ABSTRACT This article identifies a set of precarious, temporary, and travelling forms of commemoration that have been expressed in recent public artworks connected to Italy, and proposes them as case studies that together can enhance our understanding of how transnational memory is formed and functions across borders. These complex processes of memory-making are illustrated through a comparative analysis