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“Due icone della Shoah”: Primo Levi, Anne Frank, and the “peccato della finzione”
Authors: Marcus Millicent 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
In Primo Levi e Anna Frank: tra testimonianza e letteratura, Maria Anna Mariani undertakes a doubly formidable challenge: to break new ground in the scholarship on these exhaustively studied “icone della Shoah;” and to do so by using a juxtapositional strategy without lapsing into a schematic and reductive drawing of comparisons between the two. Instead, Mariani's book is shaped by the deeper logic announced in its subtitle. What interests this author is the over-riding problem of the so-called “’peccato’ della finzione” – the perceived threat posed by any aesthetic tampering with the authenticity of Holocaust witness within the writings and the constructed public personae of Levi and Frank. In the case of Levi, who believed that he had usurped the testimony of the only true Holocaust witnesses – those who had experienced the fatal logic of the Final Solution – Mariani traces the literary strategies needed to “espiare il proprio debito di presenza”. In the case of Anne Frank, the “peccato” – the aesthetic manipulation of the Diary – is attributable to both the writer herself, and to the interventions of her father, Otto. In a striking final move, Mariani compiles examples of the imaginative appropriations of these “icone della Shoah” within the literary and pop-cultural spheres of their afterlives.
Death of a Stateswoman: Elizabeth Tudor and the Critique of Female Rule in La regina statista d'Inghilterra (1668)
Authors: Battista Fabio 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
This paper examines the fictional reception of Queen Elizabeth I in 17th-century drama by connecting it to coeval debates on the legitimacy of female political power. Specifically, it focuses on Niccolò Biancolelli's La regina statista d'Inghilterra (Bologna, 1668) and its re-writing of the supposed love affair between the Queen and the Earl of Essex as a way of showing the ultimate failure of the woman ruler. Biancolelli's operation is contextualized and contrasted with preceding works that exploit the same subject, including its source, the Spanish El Conde de Sex by Antonio Coello (1633-1638), and Italian commedia dell'arte scenarios based on this play. The originality of La regina statista, this paper argues, lies in the overlapping of love and politics in the triangle already introduced by Coello, which turns into a struggle between the Queen and her rival Florisbe for power over the Earl of Essex and England alike.
“Le catene dell'identità che ci portano alla rovina”. Gadda e Lakhous, stranieri e basta
Authors: Marchesini Manuela 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
Delle catene identitarie non si fa a meno, eppure liberarsene è necessario (Appiah 2018). Oggetto del saggio sono Scontro di civiltà (2006) di Lakhous e il Pasticciaccio di Gadda (1957), in cui Lakhous vede un modello. Ci si chiede: che luce retrospettiva getta il romanzo del nuovo italiano sul classico Pasticciaccio? La tesi avanzata è che l'avvertita semplicità del primo renda accessibili aspetti insoliti del notoriamente complesso Pasticciaccio. Ambedue esaminano il mito identitario, insufficiente sono come allora. Ma la mitografia espansa di Gadda e Lakhous non è nostalgica né reazionaria. Essa non restaura un ordine conservatore né dissolve nel frisson dell'irrazionale. Per Lakhous il punto sono identità e memoria etniche, nazionali e culturali; per Gadda è il loro enigma in accezione psicologica ed erotica, di genere queer. Ecco il loro carattere non-binario, antiromantico e antidealistico, cui Contini forse alludeva insinuando l'eventualità d'un “Gadda narratore” “persino più temerario del Gadda stilista”.
Questo il luogo assegnato. Poesie inedite di Luigi Fontanella
Authors: Aglieco Sebastiano 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
Testi inediti di poesia di Luigi Fontanella, facenti parte del volume Monte Stella di prossima pubblicazione presso Passigli, Firenze. Nell'Introduzione di Sebastano Aglieco vengono rintracciati i motivi dominanti della poesia di Fontanella: innanzi tutto il tempo, rivisitato fra passato e proiezione futura; il viaggiare – tematica costante della sua poiesi – gli affetti familiari, la memoria spesso coniugata con l'immaginazione e la visionarietà, la dimensione onirica e ipnagogica. Emblematico, in questo senso, il titolo della raccolta, ancora inedita, da cui queste poesie sono tratte: Monte Stella, ch’è il nome della montagna che si staglia poco lontano dalla sua abitazione a Salerno, dove l'autore ha vissuto dal 1949 al 1956; una montagna, reale e simbolica insieme, mai scalata (se non con gli occhi) sulla quale l'autore-ragazzino, affacciato al suo balcone, fantasticava a lungo.
La narrativa di Aldo Nove tra morbo della temporalità e desiderio bulimico
Authors: Picchione John 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
Le condizioni materiali e antropologiche generate dal capitalismo globalizzato comportano l'accelerazione del vissuto, la precarietà del lavoro, e la colonizzazione emozionale di desideri mercificati. La narrativa di Aldo Nove si inserisce in queste problematiche e ne denuncia la temporalità malata (atomizzazione del tempo, presentismo), lo sconvolgimento identitario, la reificazione dei rapporti umani, e l'atrofizzazione della vita tutta.
New Messaging and Intercultural Competence Training in Response to Falling Enrollments in World Languages
Authors: Aski Janice M. , Weintritt April D. 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
The trend in declining enrollments in world language courses demands investigation into likely causes and thoughtful solutions to resolve the crisis. We explore common negative attitudes form the general public toward world language study, and conclude that frustration stems from speaking proficiency as the perceived sole measure of success – a skill that takes time to achieve and may be lost without consistent practice. We propose new messaging that highlights the development of intercultural competency that evolves by interacting in full-immersion language courses and through explicit instruction in the attitudes and qualities of the interculturally competent global citizen. Suggestions for implementation at the course, program, university and community levels are provided.
Constructing a Community: The Italian Press in São Paulo from 1880 to 1920
Authors: Pecorelli Joseph Dominic 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
The present article focuses on the Italian-language press in São Paulo in the early twentieth century. I establish that the press served as a tool that unified Italian immigrants through the development of a collective identity that transcended regional differences: that of social class. In addition to functioning as a binding factor among the Italians residing in the rapidly evolving urban and ethnic landscape of São Paulo of the era, the newspapers incentivized Italians to invest in their communities through education, thereby enforcing a shared goal of collaboration and community empowerment. Ultimately, this literary genre played a role in the unification of São Paulo's Italian residents and, subsequently, in their upward social mobility.
Musica, amore e pallottole in Ammore e Malavita dei fratelli Manetti
Authors: Brizio-Skov Flavia 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
Dopo un excursus sulle nuove commedie sulla Mafia, il capitolo si concentra su Ammore e Malavita dei Manetti, considerandolo un prototipo del genere, in quanto i due registi – posti davanti alla scelta di un realismo spesso mistificato e mistificante, che in ultima analisi contribuisce a solidificare nel pubblico il mito della mafia come entità invincibile e affascinante – decidono di non sacrificare coloro che si ribellano al potere mafioso sull'altare dell'eroismo e della glorificazione, bensì di farli vincere. Lo spettatore è sempre consapevole che, al di là delle risate, le morti violente e i soprusi dello schermo hanno un referente nella realtà. Il pubblico può, attraverso l'ironia e il black humor, cominciare a ridere della Camorra, e vederla in storie che, seppur fittizie, contribuiscono a decostruire il mito dell'invincibilità di questa organizzazione nell'immaginario collettivo.
Italian Grammatical Gender: A Corpus Study from a Second Language Acquisition Perspective
Authors: Ayoun Dalila , Maranzana Stefano 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
The three objectives of this corpus study are first to describe how the gender of inanimate nouns is morphologically expressed in Italian, then determine the extent and reliability of contextual cues to Italian gender by analyzing 5,038 contextualized determiner phrases (DPs) drawn from 40 current newspaper and magazine articles and finally, consider learnability implications for Anglophone learners of Italian as a second language. A detailed descriptive account of gender morphology characterized by vocalic endings as portmanteau morphemes reveals several idiosyncrasies and complexities while the results of the written corpus showing that 33.4% of ambiguous feminine nouns and 31.0% of ambiguous masculine nouns are not gender-marked at all are argued to present significant difficulties for second language learners particularly for those who have a low tolerance for ambiguity.
L'italiano, lingua di cultura
Authors: Campa Riccardo 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
Il contributo delinea una riflessione sulla condizione delle lingue nel mondo contemporaneo, rifiutando la prospettiva di un uso strumentale del codice semiotico talvolta legato ad una visione elitaria, ma recuperando la sua capacità di proporre valori di senso al mondo globale attraverso presupposti della ricerca filosofica e scientifica. Dall'italiano allo spagnolo, dal latino all'inglese, le lingue sono vive grazie al contatto e alla creatività (inventiva), che trova le sue radici nelle diverse dimensioni dello scenario apprensivo e connotativo della condizione umana.
Frammenti, rovine, “immaginazione ermeneutica”: Mantegna e il Novecento
Authors: Mirabile Andrea 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
Molti autori del Novecento apprezzano Andrea Mantegna, il cui amore per l'antichità classica, rappresentata nella sua veste frammentaria e in rovina, trova echi e paralleli nella cultura del secolo scorso, affascinata dall'estetica del frammento. Dagli ultimi prodotti della Decadenza alle rivoluzioni formali delle Avanguardie artistiche e letterarie, dalle severe poetiche del Modernismo fino alle ibridazioni del Postmoderno, Mantegna seduce scrittori anche assai diversi fra loro, dentro e fuori i confini italiani: un poeta come Pound, americano ma per tutta la vita profondamente legato all'Italia, ne è un esempio paradigmatico. In particolare la città di Mantova, dove il pittore quattrocentesco trascorre la maggior parte della sua esistenza e in cui lascia alcune delle testimonianze maggiori della sua arte, ispira alcune delle pagine novecentesche più significative sul Mantegna. È il caso di Viaggio in Italia di Piovene, di cui si analizzano qui alcuni elementi, alla luce degli interessi figurativi dello scrittore veneto.
A Word Is Worth a Thousand Pictures: A Discourse on the Role of Poetry in Our Times
Authors: Ballerini Luigi 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
Poetry has always come in many forms and shapes and served different purposes. A radical and, quite possibly, irreversible shift occurred in the second half of the Nineteenth Century when the art of poetry began to de-pragmatize and to concern itself mainly with the creation of messages whose cognitive and emotional powers were rooted in the material ingredients and the orchestration of its linguistic medium. The message could only surface if the readers contributed to its manifestation. Examples focusing on both the dictatorial power of language and the role of the reader are drawn from Guido Cavalcanti, Dante Alighieri, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Emily Dickinson, Ezra Pound, Antonella Anedda, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Wallace Stevens, and Amelia Rosselli.
Queering the Italian Classroom: A Course on Gender and Society in Italy
Authors: Scapolo Andrea 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
In this article, the author discusses their experience designing and teaching a course on “Gender and Society in Italy” at Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw (GA) in the academic year 2018-2019. The goal of this contribution is to discuss the pedagogical value of adopting a gender and queer studies approach in guiding students’ exploration of Italian culture(s). In doing so, the author also argues for the importance of using Italian culture courses taught outside Italy as a laboratory for translating and merging research and pedagogical methodologies well established in the anglophone world into and with the Italian tradition. The idea is, on the one hand, to benefit students interested in learning about Italian history and society by adopting a framework of analysis already familiar to them, while, on the other hand, to develop teaching practices and comparatist analysis that can be adopted across different educational systems.
Per una “mitografia dell'uomo” nella letteratura: i Saggi di Guido Pugliese
Authors: Di Marzo Salvatore 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
Il testo si propone di riflettere sull'importante figura dell'italianista cosentino, naturalizzato in Canada, Guido Pugliese, attraverso la lettura dei saggi raccolti nel volume postumo Saggi di letteratura italiana. Da Dante a Manzoni (2017). In tali interventi, rivisti dall'autore e che ricoprono l'intero arco della sua carriera accademica, emerge con forza l'idea di una letteratura mai svincolata dall'esperienza umana legata a un tempo e in uno spazio ben precisi; in tal senso, nell'esegesi di Pugliese, il metodo crociano è profondamente e implicitamente intriso del concetto di geografia letteraria espresso da Carlo Dionisotti, per cui il documento letterario (la Commedia, il Decameron, I promessi sposi, I Malavoglia, etc.) è inteso come prodotto immanente rispetto all'entità storicamente circoscritta della vita umana.
Emanuela Piovano autora del cinema al femminile. Intervista con la regista
Authors: Laviosa Flavia 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
Emanuela Piovano, regista sperimentale, fondatrice della casa di produzione KitchenFilm e promotrice di piattaforme online di distribuzione di film internazionali, in questa intervista illustra la sua carriera a partire dagli anni Ottanta, durante i quali fonda l'associazione Camera Woman, fino ad oggi. Piovano racconta le sue esperienze di autora impegnata nella realizzazione di documentari e film al femminile e di imprenditrice aperta a nuove iniziative per produrre e divulgare un cinema di impegno sociale e civile.
A Tribute to Edoardo A. Lebano: Scholar, Mentor, Colleague, and Friend
Authors: Mastri Augusto 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
For several decades the figure of Edoardo A. Lebano held a prominent place in the field of Italian Studies in North America. A tireless worker promoting Italian language and culture, he was an inspiring teacher, a serious scholar, an organizer and administrator of uncommon talent and civility. A dedicated supporter of the AATI at all levels and admired Director of Middlebury College's Italian School, he left an indelible mark with his work, his humor, and his humanitas.
Film as Mythobiography: Federico Fellini, Ernst Bernhard and the Great Mother Complex in La dolce vita and 8
½
Authors: Ariano Raffaele 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
This article studies the representations of gender and gender relationships in La dolce vita and 8½ through the lens of the influence exerted on Fellini by the Jungian psychoanalyst Ernst Bernhard in the early 1960s. A brief summary of Bernhard's Mitobiografia, especially the short essay “Il complesso della grande madre,” and remarks on the biographical circumstances of Fellini's encounter with Bernhard will suggest that a comparison between Fellini and Bernhard could provide a fruitful complement to the existing scholarship on Fellini and Jung. A close back-to-back analysis of the aforementioned films – the first released immediately before and the second immediately after the start of Fellini's analysis with Bernhard – will then show the great importance not only of the implementation in 8½ of specific Jungian concepts, but of Fellini's more general attempt to translate Bernhard's conception of psychoanalysis as “mythobiography” into (meta)cinematic terms.
Amarcord/Am'l'arcord. Fascism, Memory, and the Visual in Federico Fellini and Renzo Renzi
Authors: Minghelli Giuliana 
Published: September 2024

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This essay reflects on questions of visibility and invisibility in the representation of Fascism through a study of the visual memory of Fascism in Amarcord and the photo-essay “Il Fascismo involontario,” which Renzo Renzi, Bolognese critic and longtime friend of Fellini, wrote in 1975 in direct response to the film. After retracing the roots of Amarcord to Fellini's collaboration with Renzi, the essay maps their contrasting stances toward memory: for Fellini, a delivery from the past; for Renzi, a practice of working-through. The essay explores the optics of Fascism in Amarcord through an analysis of the influence of photography and television on the filmic image and a reflection on the relation between visibility and invisibility in Fellini's cinematic spectacle. These visualities of Amarcord are then discussed in dialogue with the photographs accompanying Renzi's text, thus bringing to the fore the differing status of the trace in the two authors. While in Fellini's film the trace is an embodiment of cinematic pathos, in Renzi's critical reflection with photography, the trace becomes the site of what Roland Barthes defined as the “mad” encounter with the past, the site where Fascism is confronted as the “intractable,” a stubborn point of (in)visibility in Italy's past.
Fellini Today? Some Observations on Fellini's Films and Commercials:
From Postwar to Postmodern and A Companion to Federico Fellini
Authors: Rabissi Francesco 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
What does Federico Fellini's cinema tell us today, in the 100th anniversary year of its author's birth and 28 years after his death? What remains undiscovered in the critical response to the work of one of the most celebrated Italian filmmakers of the 20th century? What is the influence of that work on contemporary cinema and what methodological approaches are better suited to make meaning of its heterogeneity and not infrequent thorniness on important issues such as sexual and gender politics? These are some of the questions posed by two books published in 2020 (Frank Burke, Fellini's Films and Commercials: From Postwar to Postmodern and A Companion to Federico Fellini. Edited by Frank Burke, Marguerite Waller, and Marita Gubareva) whose goal is to revive a debate that, at least in the Anglo-Saxon world, has been quiet for too long. Taking the two books as a point of departure, this essay focuses on the current state of Fellini studies, addressing matters such as the Fellinian “subject,” individualism, authenticity, self-reflexivity, dream, the sociopolitical, and gender in an effort to understand the role played in film history by one of the most influential Italian filmmakers.
Metaphorical Language and Its Significance in Machiavelli's Il principe
Authors: Pugliese Olga Zorzi 
Published: September 2024

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An assessment of Machiavelli's declaration that he refrained from using stylistic ornamentation in his treatise on the prince, along with a brief review of theories of metaphor, serve as the basis for an analysis of both well-known and neglected metaphors found in the work. Some images (e.g. the ladder and Fortuna) are interpreted in a new light, and patterns of imagery emerge that reveal underlying meanings in Machiavelli's text.
Il parlato-digitato dell'italiano come heritage language nei gruppi Facebook: riflessioni e modellizzazioni da un corpus multilingue
Authors: Ferrini Caterina 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
Il saggio illustra i primi risultati derivanti da una ricerca in corso sul parlato-digitato (Compagnone 2014) delle comunità di emigrati italiani sui social network. Le tipologie di raccolta dati adottate sino ad ora dalla linguistica migrazionale hanno riguardato l'osservazione partecipata, la raccolta di interviste, la diffusone questionari e l'analisi dei testi. È la prima volta che nella linguistica migrazionale si adotta questa metodologia di raccolta che ci permette di osservare il comportamento linguistico online di determinate categoria di utenti. Nei gruppi analizzati interagiscono italiani emigrati di prima generazione, le generazioni 0, composte dai figli degli emigrati italiani nati nel Paese di emigrazione che non parlano italiano come prima lingua, i neoemigrati che si inseriscono nel tessuto del discorso. La tipologia inedita di raccolta dati apre alla possibilità di osservazione di una altrettanto inedita categoria linguistica: quella del parlato-trasmesso di utenti interessati in qualche modo dalla diaspora.
C'era una volta: Incorporating Storytelling into a First-Year University-Level Italian Curriculum
Authors: Rodgers Daryl M. , Russo Emiliana 
Published: September 2024

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This paper presents a small-scale descriptive study of how storytelling was integrated into a first-year college-level beginning Italian course. Premised upon a comprehension-based view of language acquisition and, thus, the need to provide learners with communicatively-embedded input, we describe our attempt to incorporate a modified version of Blaine Ray's TPRS into our curriculum. We provide a detailed description of the design and execution of the project in addition to the positive outcomes framed in terms of increased student engagement and responsiveness, along with greater teacher satisfaction.
Dust as Archi-writing in Lampedusa's Il Gattopardo
Authors: Privitello Lucio Angelo 
Published: September 2024

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Within Il Gattopardo, dust settles within and upon everything by scintillating and multifarious motes. These trans-immanent layers of “voluptuous immobility” extend from geography, historiography, and are even framed as a cosmology. The purpose of this brief study is to initiate a rereading of the novel by its most sustained thematic thread: dust. This polyhedral phantom structuring, both surface and substrate, would in turn allow experiencing how dust preserves, reveals, judges, erases, and disseminates key aspects of the novel.
Italian Enrollments: Trends and Concerns
Authors: Looney Dennis , Lusin Natalia , Granacki Alyssa 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
The most recent MLA language enrollment census and report (published in 2018) revealed that 106 programs that had offered courses taught in Italian language in 2013 did not report any enrollments for 2016. Although 50 programs were added in 2016, there was a net loss of 56 programs in Italian between 2013 and 2016 – “loss” here meaning that where there once were courses in Italian, they are no longer offered. But at the same time the data also show many programs, undergraduate and graduate, with increasing or stable enrollments. The article considers briefly what works to make some programs thrive at a time of serious challenges. The article concludes by recommending that Italian programs embrace diversity initiatives to create innovative curricula that will appeal to more students.
The Educational Aspect of Bandello's Beffa
Authors: Di Iorio Aniello 
Published: September 2024

Abstract
The focus of this paper entails the instructive quality that Bandello instills in some of the beffa's short stories. From the characters’ intellectuality to the writer's moralistic burden, Bandello employs the ruse beyond the traditional scope of entertaining the audience. While the erudite intellectuals’ reasoning interferes with the coherency of the joke within the story, this same character's intellectual ability also alienates humor from the conventional joke's settings, which ultimately outshines the laughter. This article will explore this typology of beffa and considers how Bandello's ruse becomes a didactic instrument that engages with the core of the stories while producing a moralistic representativeness around the ambiance of the respective characters of beffa.