ABSTRACT The history of Italian musical migration to London is rich and complex. From the beginning of the eighteenth century Italian musicians played a major role in Georgian society. During the Victorian era, despite a relative lack of scholarly research, new generations of Italian musicians moved to London, acquiring a recognized social status. Nevertheless, musicians and divas involved in London

ABSTRACT The new Italian vocal style that arrived in Britain at the end of the seventeenth century with teachers such as Pietro Reggio and Pier Francesco Tosi – and which soon became regarded as the epitome of vocal expertise – was the sound of italianità as much as it was a pragmatic mode of vocal production. My intention in this article is to trace emerging patterns of Italian singing teachers who

ABSTRACT In the period spanning the years 1845–1901, Verdi came to be understood not only as the most influential representative of Italian opera worldwide, but also as the symbol of a musical tradition that was said to be in a constant state of decline. On the other hand, in Victorian London, Italy was still nostalgically portrayed as the country whose very language was music, where the gondolieri

ABSTRACT This article explores the little-known, yet significant figure of the composer and Professor of Singing, Alberto Antonio Visetti (1844–1928). While his biography is still obscure and contested, his commitment to develop Anglo-Italian cultural relations was certainly pioneering. One of Visetti’s most remarkable achievements was to create a cultural exchange between the Royal College of Music

ABSTRACT Italian opera was simultaneously popular and unfashionable in interwar Britain. It was popular with audiences from across the class spectrum. It was unfashionable with intellectuals who were anxious about its modularity, its collaborative model of production, and its interactions with popular culture and celebrity. This article considers the reception of Italian opera, its performers and audiences

ABSTRACT Between 1880 and 1940 paternalist, philanthropic initiatives promoted the arts as an instrument to improve the condition of working people, and offer leisure opportunities to the aspiring classes of East London away from the West End. The foundation of the People’s Palace in 1887 created opportunities for operatic performances which brought together philanthropist volunteers and local people

(2021). Fare gli italiani, a loro insaputa. Musica e politica dal Risorgimento al Sessantotto. Journal of Modern Italian Studies: Vol. 26, Italian Musical Migration to London, pp. 88-89.

(2021). Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel, from Arcadia to revolution: the Neapolitan monitor and other writings. Journal of Modern Italian Studies: Vol. 26, Italian Musical Migration to London, pp. 90-91.

(2021). Reframing migration. Lampedusa, border of spectacle, and aesthetics of subversion. Journal of Modern Italian Studies: Vol. 26, Italian Musical Migration to London, pp. 91-92.

(2021). Matera,1945–1960: the history of a ‘national disgrace’. Journal of Modern Italian Studies: Vol. 26, Italian Musical Migration to London, pp. 93-95.

(2021). Italy and the US. Cultural change through language and narrative. Journal of Modern Italian Studies: Vol. 26, Italian Musical Migration to London, pp. 95-97.

(2021). After identity: migration, critique, Italian American culture. Journal of Modern Italian Studies: Vol. 26, Italian Musical Migration to London, pp. 97-99.

(2021). Le tecnologie dell’informazione nella scrittura di Italo Calvino e Paolo Volponi. Tre storie di rimediazione. Journal of Modern Italian Studies: Vol. 26, Italian Musical Migration to London, pp. 100-101.

(2021). Delirious Naples: a cultural history of the city of the sun. Journal of Modern Italian Studies: Vol. 26, Italian Musical Migration to London, pp. 102-104.

ABSTRACT Florence as the capital for a new united Italy became a flourishing, and brief, centre for indian studies. This experience was always entangled with Angelo De Gubernatis’s biography and initiatives and when he left for Rome, the city lost its role. Having decided to leave his rich and prolific archive in Florence’s main public library meant, however, that Gubernatis returned to the city and

ABSTRACT The article analyses the visions of the East which appear in some ‘popular’ illustrated journals in Milan during the second half of the 19th century, published by Emilio Treves and Edoardo Sonzogno. The accounts by male and female intellectuals, historians, diplomats, explorers, geographers and scientists, allow us to reconstruct an important dimension in the circulation of knowledge to what

ABSTRACT Since the end of WWII, Atlanticism has always been one of the lodestars of Italy’s foreign policy. Although the country’s relations with the U.S. have never been disputed, its degree of autonomy from the Transatlantic partnership has changed over the years. This article delves into such changes starting from a counter-intuitive analytical framework based on the neo-realist theory of International

ABSTRACT The Tuscan poet, playwright and democratic activist Filippo Pananti (1766–1837) was captured by Algerian corsairs in the Mediterranean on his way back to Italy from England in 1813 and was briefly held captive before being released thanks to the intervention of a British diplomat. He published a highly coloured and melodramatic account of his sufferings, together with a description of the

ABSTRACT Between 1940 and 1945 Italy experienced all the trials of total war. Subsequently, Italian historiography has focused on reconstructing the causes of civilian losses during the conflict. Much less attention has been paid to official recognition of, and assistance to, the members of the civil population who survived the conflict. This article will show how the inadequate legislative preparations

(2020). Queer Ventennio. Italian fascism, homoerotic art the nonmodern in the modern. Journal of Modern Italian Studies: Vol. 25, No. 5, pp. 671-673.

ABSTRACT This article looks at boundaries as shared points of conflict and sociality in rural Sicily where the mafia and their opponents (‘antimafia’ cooperatives) have lately been at loggerheads. My focus is on neighbourly relations between owners of plots on both sides. This uncomfortable proximity of enemies allows us to see boundaries as more than markers of separation. For sure, Sicilian boundaries

(2020). Photography as power. Dominance and resistance through the Italian lens. Journal of Modern Italian Studies: Vol. 25, No. 5, pp. 673-675.

ABSTRACT The article analyses, through the use of primary sources, the relationship between emigration and madness during the Italian transatlantic migration at the beginning of the twentieth century. During that years, mental illness started to spread among returning emigrants, while the countries of destination showed their disfavour towards new emigration, especially the one coming from the South

ABSTRACT This article examines the progressive inclusion of the term ‘homophobia’ on the pages of two relevant Italian liberal newspapers (Corriere della Sera and la Repubblica) between 1979 and 2007. Combining frequency analysis and critical discourse analysis, we aim at reconstructing when and how the term ‘homophobia’ became a keyword in various public debates on the country’s sexual modernization

ABSTRACT In Italy, tomatoes exist at the intersection of national-cultural culinary pride, Mediterranean petro-politics, agro-environmental policy, and even gender politics. They occupy such an important place in the Italian imaginary, and in the world’s imaginary of Italy, that their cultural and culinary stature obscures the deplorable conditions of their production, and silences the voices of those

ABSTRACT This article focuses on the ethnographic case study of a festival revival observed in Celano, a hill town in Abruzzo (Italy). On 17 January, in accordance with the Catholic calendar, the community celebrates the feast of Saint Anthony the Abbot. In the folkloric iconography, the Saint is strongly connected with animals, specifically the pig, which is even represented with him in the sacred

ABSTRACT In the eighteenth century, public statuary shifted from the commemoration of princes to the celebration of ‘great men’: men, less so women, who had excelled in the arts and sciences, on the battlefield or in the political-administrative realm. Reflecting ancient and Renaissance virtue ethics, these public recognitions of virtuous behaviour (exempla virtutis) were intended to encourage emulation

ABSTRACT This article examines the formation of working class identities in Italy and Germany in the decades around 1900. The two ‘belated’ nation states varied considerably in their social, economic and political conditions. While Imperial Germany experienced rapid urbanization and large-scale industrialization, Italy, by contrast, saw the emergence of just a few highly industrialized regions by the

ABSTRACT A commentary on the contributions to this Special Issue.

ABSTRACT This special issue reconsiders the process of nation-building in nineteenth-century Italy and Germany before nationalism formed, for the majority of people, the dominant group identity. We will argue that non-national ‘identity containers’ and their interplay with emerging nationalism were essential for the creation of patriotic sensibilities among Italians and Germans, both before and after

ABSTRACT During the period Koselleck called the Sattelzeit (roughly 1750 to 1850) princely chambers of curiosities became public museums that the elites visited for educational purposes. The Louvre in Paris served as the principal model. Here, after 1800, a chronological (and canonical) collection came into being and that would be emulated by other European rulers. The plurality of territorial states

A first remark it seems necessary to make is the following: any integration process generally presupposes boundaries and limits. Further, the urge to integrate into something – in the cases here co...

ABSTRACT This article discusses the legal and political status of women and Jews during the phase of German and Italian nation-building, addressing both the lack of participation as well as the strategies of historical actors who hoped to be accepted as equal members of the national community. It focuses on a number of exemplary protagonists whose initiatives demonstrate the options Jewish women in

Within the larger debate over Italians’ attitudes toward the decision to join the Second World War on Germany’s side, and their subsequent attitude toward fighting alongside the Nazis, the question...

ABSTRACT This article challenges traditional narratives that have tended to highlight the role of opera as a tool of political nationalism in nineteenth-century Europe. Instead, I will show how opera (both the form and the repertoire) served as a means of creating cultural and intellectual connections between peoples, and how it participated in the emergence of a European public. Claims that particular

From the European migration crisis of 2015 onwards, the refugee and migration issue in Italy has become central to the production of a political imaginary centred on hostility. Through the lenses o...

ABSTRACT In this article the author analyses the Fascists’ ability, after the end of the war, to present a memory of the recent past which achieved its aims at least among a significant number of Italians. The success of the Fascist memoirist literature was helped by its tendency to replicate arguments made in post-war courts by people charged with collaborationism. Another important factor was the

ABSTRACT Acclaimed for its progressive approach, the Zanardelli code of 1889 eliminated the death penalty, legalized strikes, and referenced reformation over retribution with regard to criminals. Paradoxically, however, Zanardelli’s code also ‘liberalized’ the parameters of ‘honour killing’ or delitto d’onore which allowed greatly reduced penalties for those who killed (primarily) female family members

for a ‘strong undercurrent of regret, loss, and distance’ (pp. 150–151). In short, Smart offers us a superbly researched, historically astute, intellectually sophisticated and beautifully written volume that deftly lays bare the political relationship between opera and Italian society in the first half of the nineteenth century and which makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of both

the grain. Sicilianità is a weapon against oppression, marginalization, and a tool of empowerment and transformation, much as it happens with writers such as Gloria Anzaldua, Paula Gunn Allen or Ana Castillo. Finally, in Chapter 6, the transformative power of the ethnic experience emerges most clearly in Timpanelli’s stories. A famous cantastorie, Timpanelli weaves together tradition and modernity

ABSTRACT In Italian history, race has been traditionally examined in the context of colonialism, Fascism, and the Shoah. In contrast, the role played by ideas of race in the Risorgimento – when the idea of an Italian nation was formulated – has not been sufficiently investigated. This article argues that ideas of race played a pivotal role in the construction of Italian identity and that nationalism

ABSTRACT In late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Italy, after conceiving an illegitimate child, women sometimes committed infanticide to restore their honour. The Italian Penal Code even included an honour excuse to justify such crimes, which could lead to a mitigated sentence. Using cases of infanticide from the southern Italian region of Basilicata, this article explores use of the honour

than those from the South (which is a controversial measure of progress) and the fact that the children and grandchildren of migrants from the South are by now de facto northerners (p. 202); globalization; technological advance; the Internet; the role of the European Union; and improved infrastructure, especially high speed trains, that have made the Italian South a tourist destination for northerners

Miroslav Šediv y, a professor of history at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, produced a fine and original monograph, exploring European diplomatic history in the Italian peninsula during the years 1830–1848. Šediv y is the author of two previous diplomatic works: Metternich, the Great Powers and the Eastern Question (Pilsen, 2013) and Crisis Among the Great Powers: The Concert of Europe and

animal tissue. The same idea applies to digital filmmaking (as in the case of Diritti’s film), which relies ‘on the extraction and burning of fossil fuel’ (p.93). Cinema, as an art and industry – even ecologically sensitive cinema – is based on a premise of violence against the non-human world, and is therefore an expression of human arrogance. As troubling as that conclusion may be, Italian Ecocinema:

ABSTRACT In January 2018, the Italian parliament approved a new military operation in Niger and an extension to the existing deployment in Libya. Italian leaders explicitly cast this as a ‘pivot’ to Africa, a ‘relocation of troops’ from Afghanistan and Iraq to the Sahel and Northern Africa. What factors underlie this strategic shift? Despite the importance of this question, to date, little analysis

ABSTRACT In 2018 Italian general elections, the Lega has dramatically increased its consensus in the ‘red belt’, the central area of the country traditionally ruled by centre-left parties. Pundits have argued that this performance can be attributed to the new leadership of Matteo Salvini, who changed the ideological location of the Lega by transforming it in a national right-wing party. This article

ABSTRACT In 1851, William Gladstone turned the suffering of Neapolitan political prisoners into a cause célèbre. His Two Letters to the Earl of Aberdeen on the State Prosecutions of the Neapolitan Government galvanized European and American public opinion, and set in motion a process of diplomatic negotiation that culminated in the removal of sixty-six men from prison in January 1859. Subject to deportation

ABSTRACT The high influx of migrants and refugees into Italy since the 1990s has resulted, firstly, in a complicated and emergency-based reception system where facilities often lack sanitary and socio-economic services, and secondly, in a negative public attitude toward refugees. An innovative approach to address these challenges, while at the same time combatting poverty and mafia in a depopulated

ABSTRACT The principles that guided Fascist urban planning in Addis Abeba’s Merkato Ketema exemplify a broader set of conditions that governed everyday life in Ethiopia under the Italian regime. Moreover, the Merkato’s legacy of racial segregation demonstrates why these interwar architectural interventions remain relevant today. To analyse the market, this article combines two disciplinary approaches:

y gives too much credit to Metternich’s enlightenment in explaining his support for cooperation and moderation in Italy. Metternich was a conservative statesman who supported Austrian absolutism, noble power, and censorship whose anti-liberal and antinationalist policies were reactionary and aimed at preserving Habsburg power in Italy intact. The Chancellor and other conservative heads of state created

ABSTRACT From the early years of the Republic, the central role played by political parties in Italy’s post-World War II democracy was offset by a widespread sentiment of hostility towards professional politicians that had arisen in broad swaths of civil society due to fear of excessive power in the hands of political elites in State institutions. This sentiment, further nurtured in subsequent decades

A large part of the existing historical research on the seventies in Italy takes the category of crisis to define the country’s situation in that decade. During the seventies Italy experienced a multifaceted systemic crisis: institutional, economic, political, cultural, social, and religious. This interpretation is convincing, however, only if the term-concept ‘crisis’ is not solely adopted in its

ABSTRACT The rich italian historiography related to the most dramatic feature of the seventies – the black and red terrorisms – risks identifiying this decade only as ‘the night of the Republic’. In the same period, on the other hand, another Italy elevated and nourished its democratic conscience, active political participation and civic awereness and achieved significant individual as well collective

ABSTRACT The article reconstructs the debate on the sexual revolution. Since 1968, the modernization and liberalization of the sexual mores bring out all the contradictions resulting from this rapid change. In particularly three authors are placed at center stage: Renata Pisu and her attempt to educate people on sexual liberation; Augusto Del Noce and his denunciation the progressively pornograficizing

ABSTRACT The article aims to provide a political reading of the phenomenon of secularization, examining, in particular, the relationship between the Christian Democracy (D.C.), the Italian Catholic world, and the process of secularization. It is divided in four different levels of analysis. First of all, it investigates: (1) contemporary discussion, reconstructing the assessments and readings most

ABSTRACT Interpretations of the seventies often rest on the category of crisis. Moreover, the topic of the welfare state has rarely been systematically addressed in historical studies of this decade. This article has three objectives. First, it seeks to place the historical evolution of the Italian welfare state within this double context in order to understand how analysing Italy’s welfare system

ABSTRACT The article deals with the tight correlation between the decline of the ‘Republic of parties’ and the structural transformations of the global economy happening between the late sixties and the seventies in the spheres of monetary policy, international finance, and industrial organization. The crisis of the bond between politics and the mixed economy system planned in the 1930s is read as

(2019). A Translation of Luigi Paolucci’s On Birdsong. Phenomenology, Animal Psychology and Biology. Journal of Modern Italian Studies: Vol. 24, The 2019 European Elections in Comparative Perspective. A Bittersweet Victory for the Italian 'Sovranisti', pp. 757-769.

(2019). 1869: il Risorgimento alla deriva. Affari e politica nel caso Lobbia. Journal of Modern Italian Studies: Vol. 24, The 2019 European Elections in Comparative Perspective. A Bittersweet Victory for the Italian 'Sovranisti', pp. 759-760.