A Rhetoric of the Decameron

Marilyn Migiel

• Paperback | Engels | Toronto Italian Studies
• Both a passionate denunciation of masculinist readings of the Decameron and a meticulous critique of previous feminist analyses, Marilyn Migiel's A Rh... Lees meer

Kafka's Italian Progeny

Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski

• Hardcover | Engels | Toronto Italian Studies
• While many scholars of world literature view national literary traditions as resolved and stable, Kafka's Italian Progeny takes the fluid identity of ... Lees meer

Primo Levi and the Identity of a Survivor

Nancy Harrowitz

• Hardcover | Toronto Italian Studies
• In Primo Levi and the Identity of a Survivor, Nancy Harrowitz examines the complex role that Levi's cultural identity played in his choices of how to ... Lees meer

Schooling in Modernity

Paola Bonifazio

• Paperback | Engels | Toronto Italian Studies
• Between 1948 and the end of the 1950s, Italian and American government agencies and corporations commissioned hundreds of short films for domestic and... Lees meer

Righteous Anger in Contemporary Italian Literary and Cinematic Narratives

Stefania Lucamante

• Hardcover | Engels | Toronto Italian Studies
• Righteous Anger in Contemporary Italian Literary and Cinematic Narratives analyses the role of passion - particularly indignation - and how it shapes ... Lees meer

Punishment and Penance

Thomas B Deutscher

• Hardcover | Engels | Toronto Italian Studies
• Punishment and Penance provides the first comprehensive study of an Italian bishop's tribunal in criminal matters, such as violence, forbidden sexual ... Lees meer

Dante

• Paperback | Engels | Toronto Italian Studies
• Dante: Contemporary Perspectives gathers recent and newly commissioned articles on Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), whose epic the Divine Comedy , is one ... Lees meer

The Italian Antimafia, New Media, and the Culture of Legality

Robin Pickering-Iazzi

• Paperback | Engels | Toronto Italian Studies
• The past two decades have witnessed increasing opposition to mafia influence and activities in Italy. Community organizations such as Libera, founded ... Lees meer

Venice as the Polity of Mercy

Richard Mackenny

• Hardcover | Engels | Toronto Italian Studies
• This study re-examines Venice's political economy from the viewpoint of its ordinary people or popolani who, despite the commonly held view that they ... Lees meer

Dante and Augustine

Simone Marchesi

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• At several junctures in his career, Dante paused to consider what it meant to be a writer. The questions he posed were both simple and wide-ranging: H... Lees meer

The 'Commentaries' of Pope Pius II (1458-1464) and the Crisis of the Fifteenth-Century Papacy

Emily O'Brien

• Hardcover | Engels | Toronto Italian Studies
• Written in the mid-fifteenth century, Pope Pius II's Commentaries are the only known autobiography of a reigning pontiff and a fundamental text in the... Lees meer

Courting Celebrity

• Hardcover | Engels | Toronto Italian Studies
• In 1826 Angela Veronese, a gardener's daughter, wrote and published the first modern autobiography by an Italian woman. Veronese's account focuses on ... Lees meer

The Court and Its Critics

Paola Ugolini

• Hardcover | Engels | Toronto Italian Studies
• Anti-courtly discourse furnished a platform for discussing some of the most pressing questions of early modern Italian society. The court was the spac... Lees meer

Modern Italian Poets

Jacob Blakesley

• Hardcover | Engels | Toronto Italian Studies
• In 1948, the poet Eugenio Montale published his Quaderno di traduzioni and created an entirely new Italian literary genre, the "translation notebook."... Lees meer

A Sudden Frenzy

James K Coleman

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• In Renaissance Italy there existed a rich interplay between two cultural practices frequently regarded as entirely separate and mutually antagonistic:... Lees meer

Baroque Visual Rhetoric

Vernon Hyde Minor

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• Intricate, expressive, given to grandeur and even excess, Baroque art as a style is inseparable from the meanings it seeks to convey. Vernon Hyde Mino... Lees meer

Eugenio Montale, the Fascist Storm, and the Jewish Sunflower

David M Hertz

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• Eugenio Montale, the Fascist Storm, and the Jewish Sunflower uncovers one of the great hidden sagas of modern literature. During Italy's fascist perio... Lees meer

The Decameron Eighth Day in Perspective

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• Divided into ten days of ten novellas each, Boccaccio's Decameron is one of the literary gems of the fourteenth century. The Decameron Eighth Day in P... Lees meer

Marco Bellocchio

Clodagh Brook

• Paperback | Engels | Toronto Italian Studies
• Marco Bellocchio is one of Italy's most important and prolific directors, with a career spanning five decades. In this book, Clodagh J. Brook explores... Lees meer

Padua and the Tudors

Jonathan Woolfson

• Paperback | Engels | Toronto Italian Studies
• One of the most famous and prestigious of Renaissance schools, Italy's University of Padua attracted a notable body of students from England, includin... Lees meer

Textual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice

Courtney Quaintance

• Hardcover | Engels | Toronto Italian Studies
• Textual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice is a provocative analysis of the pornographic poetry written in patrician poet Dom... Lees meer

Reconsidering Boccaccio

• Hardcover | Engels | Toronto Italian Studies
• Reconsidering Boccaccio highlights the great Florentine writer Giovanni Boccaccio's remarkable achievements in the fourteenth century as a cultural me... Lees meer

A Multitude of Women

Stefania Lucamante

• Paperback | Engels | Toronto Italian Studies
• A Multitude of Women looks at the ways in which both Italian literary tradition and external influences have assisted Italian women writers in rethink... Lees meer

Kissing the Wild Woman

Christopher Nissen

• Paperback | Engels | Toronto Italian Studies
• Giulia Bigolina's (ca. 1516-ca. 1569) Urania (ca. 1552) is the oldest known prose romance to have been written by an Italian woman. In Kissing the Wil... Lees meer