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ISSN 1721-4777 · University of Bologna · 311 articles in the index
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«The Silent Speech of the Carved Stone»: the Portal of Moissac in «The Name of the Rose»
The article examines the role of the abbey portal in The Name of the Rose, modeled after that of Saint-Pierre in Moissac, as a privileged example of intersection between the medieval experience of art and literary theory. In the novel, Adso of Melk’s description takes the form of an ékphrasis that…
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Revisions or Acts of Censorship? Forms and Examples of Medici Patronal Interventions in Benedetto Varchi’s «Storia fiorentina»
This article examines the processes of revision and censorship imposed by Medici patronage on Benedetto Varchi’s unfinished Storia fiorentina (1503-1565). It is structured in three parts. The first outlines the different types of intervention carried out the text by Baccio Baldini and his…
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Forms of censorship in the tradition of «Motti e facezie del Piovano Arlotto»
In the context of a reflection on censorship, the Motti e facezie del Piovano Arlotto offers a particularly compelling case study. Throughout its history – both in manuscript and printed form – the text has been subject to various interventions that reflect attempts at ideological control. On a…
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Fuori dalla «clausura filologica»: Alfonso Traina e la traduzione come esegesi divulgata
This contribution examines A. Traina’s translations of Seneca’s tragedies (Medea and Phaedra in particular) from a perspective that differs from the usual contrastive analysis, which compares different translators of the same text. In fact, the aim of this study is to establish a comparison between…
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Cancellare i testi antichi o gli antichisti? ‘Cancel Culture’ e censura dei corpi
The essay reconstructs the debate on Cancel Culture and the decolonization of classical studies, analyzing its us origins and its distorted reception in Europe. In the American context, the focus is not on censoring ancient texts but on the bodies studying them and on the hierarchies regulating…
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Berger’s ghosts: Storytelling and death in John Berger’s «The red tenda of Bologna»
This article discusses John Berger’s experimental work entitled The red tenda of Bologna first published in 2007. Like several other Berger’s late works, it mixes fiction, criticism and documentary forms to address aspects of the lived reality of our historical time; in particular, it focuses…
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Cicero under censorship: again on the erotic epigram to Tiro (Plin. «Epist.» VII 4)
The article discusses an alleged homoerotic epigram by Cicero, dedicated to his freedman Tiro and mentioned in a letter by Pliny the Younger. Most critics have censured this writing, considering it a forgery made in the 1st century ad to discredit Cicero with scandalous rumours about his sexual…
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An Empty Window: Nature, Culture and Landscape in Grazia Deledda’s «Canne al vento»
This article examines the textual composition of several landscape descriptions in Canne al vento (1913), framing the analysis within a broader interpretive framework, concerning the structures and functions of description in narrative texts. By focusing on the recurring motif of the ‘ruined…
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The Voices of Silent Film: Forms of Ekphrasis and Iconotext in Melania Mazzucco’s «Silenzio»
In Silenzio. Le sette vite di Diana Karenne by Melania Mazzucco, it becomes clear from the outset that photography, silent film and narrative mechanisms related to the visual, play a structuring role in the novel. The present article examines the forms of hybrid textuality (such as the iconotext)…
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Killing the brother: tyrannicide and self-deposition in Vittorio Alfieri
Can a tyrant abandon absolutism, becoming magnanimous enough to restore freedom? This is the question Alfieri poses. Conversely, if a corrupt people – accustomed to living under a tyrant – were to suddenly become free, they would struggle to maintain it. This is Machiavelli’s hypothetical answer…
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Ugo Foscolo’s ‘reactive’ poetry in «Ajace»
The essay discusses Ugo Foscolo’s Ajace (1811) in relation to the author’s uncertain condition in the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy. It argues that the exceptional value of the work lies exactly in elaborating on the context of the French dominion and its censors, who allowed the representation of…
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Terzani in the Steppes: Library, Writings, and Translations
This article investigates the role played by Tiziano Terzani in the process of redefining the image of Mongolia and Central Asia. The first section is devoted to a study of the writer’s library. It examines Terzani’s sources on the civilisations of the steppes and his contribution to the…
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«Mater sancta mater immaculata». Michelangelo Anselmi's epigraphic 'design' in the Collegiate Church of Busseto
The article analyzes the pictorial cycle by Michelangelo Anselmi in the Chapel of the Santissima Concezione of the Collegiate Church of San Bartolomeo, focusing in particular on the epigraphic corpus, which today appears largely deteriorated. Through an examination of the relationship between texts…
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A Novel by an Epigone. «Coralbo re» and Carlo Boer
This article examines the compositional principles of a seventeenth-century novel, Coralbo re, whose authorship remains unknown, since the name appearing on the title page, Carlo Boer, is a pseudonym. The novel presents itself as a continuation of Coralbo, the final volume of the novelistic trilogy…
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Monti under the Eye of Ecclesiastical Censorship
Starting with an analysis of the unpublished documentation preserved in the archives of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, this essay reconstructs the history of the ecclesiastical censorship of Vincenzo Monti's work, with particular attention to the Prolusioni Dell’obbligo di onorare…
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Escape from Common Sense. The Role of Paradox in Luigi Malerba’s «Le pietre volanti»
This article examines the role of logical paradoxes in Luigi Malerba’s Le pietre volanti (1992), understanding the work not only as a literary attempt to analyse the postmodern world which was emerging at the time, but also situating it in the wake of the crisis of mathematics spurred by Gödel’s…
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Double blind. Detective stories in Roman declamation
This contribution examines the first two major declamations by Pseudo-Quintilian (Caecus in limine and Paries palmatus), both concerning the murder of a man for which his blind son and second wife accuse each other, highlighting the narrative elements of their respective themes and their…
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Character of Italians and Food and Wine: An Attempt at Approximation Though Literature
Moving from the recognition of Italian cuisine as a cultural heritage of humanity, the author traces the features of a modern literary production that narrates food as an expression of the character of Italians. This character is elusive and ambiguous, subjective and dependent on memory, but…
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The Birth of the Associazione degli italianisti. Chronicle of a Public Debate (1995-1996)
Between April 1995 and June 1996, Italian newspapers and cultural journals hosted a wide-ranging debate on the crisis of academic Italian studies, with contributions from Santagata, Quondam, Ferroni, Mengaldo, Petronio, Asor Rosa, Di Girolamo and Fedi, among others. From that debate the…
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Giovanni Pascoli, Manara Valgimigli and the «Red man»
The interpretation of an anecdote by Manara Valgimigli, a pupil and friend of Giovanni Pascoli, allows to date the beginning of the compositional history of the last section of Tolstoj (1911) back to 1901, with particular reference to the figure of Garibaldi as a synthesis of humanitarian socialism…