Peter Godman presents the first intellectual history of Florentine humanism from the lifetime of Angelo Poliziano in the later fifteenth century to the death of Niccolo Machiavelli in 1527. Making ...use of unpublished and rare sources, Godman traces the development of philological and official humanism after the expulsion of the Medici in 1494 up to and beyond their restoration in 1512. He draws long overdue attention to the work of Marcello Virgilio Adriani--Poliziano's successor in his Chair at the Studio and Machiavelli's colleague at the Chancery of Florence. And he examines in depth the intellectual impact of Savonarola and the relationship between secular and religious and oral and print cultures. Godman shows a complex reaction of rivalry and antagonism in Machiavelli's approach to Marcello Virgilio, who was the leading Florentine humanist of the day. But he also demonstrates that Florentine humanists shared a common culture, marked by a preference for secular over religious themes and by constant anxiety about surviving and prospering in the city's dangerous political climate. The book concludes with an appendix, drawn from previously incaccessible archives, about the censorship of Machiavelli by the Inquisition and the Index. From Poliziano to Machiavelli adds new depth to the intellectual history of Forence during his most dynamic period in its history.
Originally published in 1998.
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Using a comparative analysis of women's activities as artists, musicians, composers, and actresses, Cox locates women's writing in its broader contexts and considers how gender reflects and reinvents ...conventional narratives of literary change.
When Muslim invaders conquered Sicily in the ninth century, they took control of a weakened Greek state in cultural decadence. When, two centuries later, the Normans seized control of the island, ...they found a Muslim state just entering its cultural prime. Rather than replace the practices and idioms of the vanquished people with their own, the Normans in Sicily adopted and adapted the Greco-Arabic culture that had developed on the island. Yet less than a hundred years later, the cultural and linguistic mix had been reduced, a Romance tradition had come to dominate, and Sicilian poets composed the first body of love lyrics in an Italianate vernacular. Karla Mallette has written the first literary history of the Kingdom of Sicily in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Where other scholars have separated out the island's literature along linguistic grounds, Mallette surveys the literary production in Arabic, Latin, Greek, and Romance dialects, in addition to the architectural remains, numismatic inscriptions, and diplomatic records, to argue for a multilingual, multicultural, and coherent literary tradition. Drawing on postcolonial theory to consider institutional and intellectual power, the exchange of knowledge across cultural boundaries, and the containment and celebration of the other that accompanies cultural transition, the book includes an extensive selection of poems and documents translated from the Arabic, Latin, Old French, and Italian.The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100-1250opens up new venues for understanding the complexity of a place and culture at the crossroads of East and West, Islam and Christianity, tradition and innovation.
The aim of the paper is to answer the question about the attitude of Edvige Toeplitz Mrozowska to the Soviet revolution with which she entered in a direct contact during her travel to Tajikistan in ...1929. In the period between 1930‒1933 she devoted two texts, important in her literary output, to the revolution and the reality of Soviet Central Asia. The first is an account of the expedition to the Pamir Mountains led by Mrozowska, and, apart from the geographical subject matter typical of such texts, it contains observations regarding socialist changes in the newly established Tajikistan, while the second one is not only a collection of sketches related to the analysis of revolutionary reality, but also a kind of project with historical and even historiosophical aspirations.
The article examines the possibility of a new, interdisciplinary, neo-poststructuralist, interpretation of Oriana Fallaci’s novel Letter to a Child Never Born, based on the postulates of ...poststructuralist text theory and psychoanalytic feminism, expanded by the results of research in stylistics and metrics. The presence of a specific, metaphorically presented, so-called placental rhetoric, a pronounced phonic and tactile rhetoric through which the author erases the boundaries of the physical and psychological, reality and fiction, text and context, will be described following a critical reading of theoretical literature and a linguistic analysis of selected fragments of the novel. This unusual pre-Oedipal rhetoric, immersed in biological tissues and body fluids, presents itself as a heterogeneus cosmic water space, a space within which the female body speaks. The intimate communication between the mother and her unborn child, that is, the author and her unborn text, conveyed through an unusual quantitative and qualitative distribution of punctuation and prosodic elements, phonetic and morphological variation, and subversive narrative bricolage techniques, presents itself as a symbol of rhetorical freedom, a space freed from patriarchal authority, a space of plural, inclusive, and fluid, female and feminine, textuality within which the physical becomes metaphysical, corporality becomes graphology, and writing becomes the carnal materialization of the human voice.
Over thirty years after the first narratives written in Italian by migrants, this book considers one of the distinctive characteristics of their writing, namely the massive presence of words and ...expressions in their mother tongue, which are thus kept alive in the new language and offered to Italian readers. The research is conducted on a specific corpus of 157 short stories and novels published in Italy between 1990 and 2020, written by 91 authors from 34 different countries. Over 500 words have been extracted and collected in a glossary: the abundance of graphic variants, the grammatical class adopted in Italian, the languages of origin (at least 30 ascertainable) and the most frequent semantic fields are detected. The diffusion of these migrant words is also considered as a sign of a possible lexical renewal due to the contact between Italian and migrant languages.
Il contributo propone una riflessione sull’inclusione delle scrittrici nei programmi universitari maturata a partire da una esperienza di insegnamento di letteratura italiana presso il corso di ...laurea in Scienze della formazione primaria di Sapienza Università di Roma e mediante la stesura dell’antologia Scrittrici italiane tra Otto e Novecento. Al centro della discussione ci sono considerazioni sulle criticità che si riscontrano nella didattica delle scrittrici e riflessioni sulle strategie utilizzabili per incoraggiare gli studenti universitari a ripensare il canone della letteratura italiana.
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