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Prof. Cervigni,  I'd be happy to review Marietti's book on Machivelli, whom I consider a great historian--in the Discorsi.  The best op-ed I ever wrote (I've written a guest Safire for the NYT and op-eds for the Berkshire Eagle and the new Bedford Standard Times) was based on Macchiavelli's early chapter on Sparta versus Athens; he disapproved democracy as a form of government becuase it didn't last: Lycurgus's laws for Sparta lasted 800 years, Solon's for Athens less than 200.  What replaced "democracy" (in quattrocento, republican Florence, too--and in current America?)? Family rule. Yours, Alan W. Powers



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News from Annali d’italianistica (www.ibiblio.org/annali)
February 10, 2006

Dear Colleagues:

Volume 23 of Annali d’ italianistica has been shipped. The Table of 
Contents of AdI 2006, Literature and Science, with the full text of all 
book reviews, is available on the journal’s website. This year’s volume 
includes about 150 pages of book reviews. (www.ibiblio.org/annali).

Also available on the website are the Tables of Contents of all volumes.
The full text of all book reviews appeared in AdI since 1998 is also 
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1.	You will find below the most recent list of books received. 
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4.	Colleagues who have accepted to review books should submit their 
reviews before the next deadline, June 30, 2006.
5.	The topic of AdI 2007 is, “Literature, Religion, and the Sacred.”
6.	For 2006 Norma Bouchard will guest-edit a volume titled: Negotiating 
Regional, National, and Global Identities.
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Books Received
February 10, 2006


Bellori, Giovan Pietro. The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors and 
Architects. A New Translation and Critical Edition. Trans. Alice 
Sedgwick Wohl, Hellmut Wohl. Introd. Tomaso Montanari. Cambridge: 
Cambridge UP, 2005. Pp. 504.

Bigolina, Giulia. The Novella of Giulia Camposanpiero and Thesibaldo 
Vitaliani. Ed. and trans. Christopher Nissen. Medieval and Renaissance 
Texts and Studies 262. Tempe (AZ): Arizona State University, 2004. Pp. 342.

Brocchi, Giambattista. Viaggio nel Lazio, la Tuscia e l’Agro Pontino. 
Ed. Cinzia Capitoni. Viterbo: Sette Città, 2004. Pp. 147.

Bruscagli, Riccardo. Il Quattrocento e il Cinquecento. Storia della 
letteratura 2. Ed. Andrea Battistini. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2005. Pp. 180.

Campanello, Margherita, ed. Cesare Pavese. Atti del Convegno 
internazionale di studi, Torino-Santo Stefano Belbo, 24-27 ottobre, 
2001. Firenze: Olschki, 2005. Pp. 226.

Carrera, Alessandro, and Alessandro Vettori, eds. Binding the Lands. 
Present Day Poets, Present Day Poetry. Proceedings of the Third Annual 
Symposium of IPSA (Italian Poetry Society of America). New York, 
November 11-13, 1999. New Jersey Institute of Italian and Italian 
American Heritage Studies. Fiesole: Edizioni Cadmo, 2004. Pp. 417.

Cuadernos de filología italiana. Numero extraordinario 2005. El 
“Canzoniere” de Petrarca en Europa: ediciones, comentarios, traducciones 
y proyección. Actas del seminario internacional complutense, 10-12 de 
noviembre de 2004. Madrid: Universidad Complutense, 2005. Pp. 288.

D’Elia, Una Roman. The Poetics of Titian’s Religious Paintings. 
Cambridge (UK): Cambridge UP, 2005. Pp. 157.

Del Serra, Maura. Le foglie della sibilla. Scritti su Margherita 
Guidacci. Roma: Edizioni Studium, 2005. Pp. 146.

Di Biase, Carmine G., ed. Travel and Translation in the Early Modern 
Period. Approaches to Translation Studies 26. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi 
B. V., 2006. Pp. 290.

Ferraris, Denis, and Marina Marietti, eds. Modèles médiévaux dans la 
littérature contemporaine. Spec. ed. of Arzanà: Cahiers de littérature 
médiévale italienne 10 (2004): 1-312. Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 
2004.

Giannone, Antonio Lucio. Le scritture del testo. Salentini e non. Lecce: 
Edizioni Milella, 2003. Pp. 182.

Giuliano, Glauco. Nitartha. Saggi per un pensiero eurastico. Trento: La 
Finestra, 2004. Pp. 284.

Gordon, Robert S. C. An Introduction to Twentieth-Century Italian 
Literature. A Difficult Modernity. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd., 
2005. Pp. 208.

Guasco, Annibal. Discourse to Lady Lavinia his Daughter. Ed., transl. 
and introd. Peggy Osborn. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003. Pp. 145.

Harness, Kelley. Echoes of Women’s Voices. Music, Art, and Female 
Patronage in Early Modern Florence. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006. Pp. 378.

La Luna, Michelangelo. Invito alla lettura di Girolamo De Rada. Kingston 
(RI): De Rada Italian Institute, 2004. Pp. 206.

Lazar, Lance Gabriel. Working in the Vineyard of the Lord. Jesuit 
Confraternities in Early Modern Italy. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2005. 
Pp. 377.

Luber, Katherine Crawford. Albrecht Dürer and the Venetian Renaissance. 
New York: Cambridge UP, 2005. Pp. 268.

MIFLC Review. Journal of the Mountain Interstate Foreign Language 
Conference 11 (Fall 2002-2003). Pp. 161.

Marano, Giampiero. La parola infetta. Varese: Nuova editrice Magenta, 
2003. Pp. 268.

Marietti, Marina. Machiavelli l’eccezione fiorentina. Fiesole: Cadmo, 
2005. Pp. 279.

Marti, Mario. Da Dante a Croce. Proposte, consensi, dissensi. Galatina: 
Mario Congedo Editore, 2005. Pp. 187.

Masiola Rosini, Rosanna. Trilogia: tematiche in traduzione. Vol. 1. La 
traduzione è servita, ovvero Food for Thought. Trieste: Edizioni 
università di Trieste, 2002. Pp. 590.

Mazzoni, Guido. Sulla poesia moderna. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2005. Pp. 256.

McLoughlin, Laura Incalcaterra. Spazio e spazialità poetica nella poesia 
italiana del Novecento. Leicester (UK): Troubadour Publishing Ltd., 
2005. Pp. 223.

Minor, Vernon Hyde. The Death of the Baroque and the Rhetoric of Good 
Taste. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005. Pp. 196.

Misurella, Fred. Lies to Live By. Stories. Boca Raton (FL): Bordighera, 
2005. Pp. 172.

Onofri, Arturo. Nuovo Rinascimento come arte dell’Io. Le trombe 
d’argento. Scritti esoterici. Ed. Marco Albertazzi. Trento: La Finestra, 
2000. Pp. 420.

Parati, Graziella. Migration Italy: The Art of Talking Back in a 
Destination Culture. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2005. Pp. 272.

Sanguineti White, Laura, Andrea Baldi, and Kristin Phillips, ed. Essays 
in Honor of Marga Cottino-Jones. Firenze: Cadmo, 2003. Pp. 226.

Serrao, Achille, and Luigi Bonaffini, eds. The Bread and the Rose. A 
Trilingual Anthology of Neapolitan Poetry from the 16th Century to the 
Present. Mineola (NY): Legas, 2005. Pp. 280.

Shey, H. James, ed. and trans. Petrarch’s Itinerarium. A Proposed Route 
for a Pilgrimage from Genoa to the Holy Land. Binghamton (NY): Global 
Academic Publishing, 2004. Pp. 446.

Skubikowski, Ugo. Vite italiane. Dodici conversazioni con italiani. 
Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2005. Pp. 167.

Stauder, Thomas. Wege zum sozialen Engagement in der romanischen Lyrik 
des 20. Jahrhunderts. Aragon, Éluard, Hernández, Celaya, Pavese, 
Scotellaro. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2004. Pp. 625.

Sterpos, Marco. Interpretazioni carducciane. Modena: Mucchi Editore, 
2005. Pp. 379.

Tronzo, William, ed. St. Peter’s in the Vatican. New York: Cambridge UP, 
2005. Pp. 320.

Zincone, Giovanna Minardi. Translatio imperii e Translatio studii. 
Sopravvivenza ed attualizzazione del tema nella letteratura italiana tra 
la fine del Settecento e la prima metà dell’Ottocento. L’Aquila: Leandro 
Japadre, editore, 2005. Pp. 246.

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Annali d’Italianistica 24 (2006)
Negotiating Regional, National, and Global Identities
Guest Editor
Norma Bouchard

In recent years, a number of critical theories ? from psychoanalysis and 
feminism to Marxism, structuralism, deconstruction, rhizomatics, gender 
and post-colonial studies, etc. ? have converged in questioning the 
traditional and orthodox view of identity as a fully centered and 
autonomous source of meaning and agency.  While many important 
differences exist in the theories mentioned above, such as the complex 
issue of human agency, they nevertheless point towards an understanding 
of identity as a relational process, whereby the subject is made within 
the world, not born already formed.  Yet, it is perhaps the relatively 
recent theory and practice of Cultural Studies that has placed the issue 
of identity at the core of its inquiry, conceptualizing it as a 
continuous set of ever-evolving subject-positions negotiated and 
produced within the wider contexts and sites of acculturation that are 
available to us at any given stage of our history.
The dramatic economic, social, and political transformations that have 
characterized the Italian peninsula from the second half of the 20th 
century onwards, make it a privileged site for a cultural inquiry 
focused on processes of identity-formation.  From the years of the 
postwar reconstruction to the contemporary period, Italy has evolved 
from a mostly rural to an industrial and a post-industrial society. With 
the economic boom of the 1950s and 1960s, phenomena of urbanization, 
rural exodus, and mass consumption have modified the collective models 
of integration upon which traditional Italian society rested.  Since 
1968 further transformations have occurred.  Not only have the protests 
of workers, students, youths, women, and gays additionally undermined 
older forms of integration, but Italy’s joining the ranks of 
post-industrial economies has led to a sharp increase in particularistic 
and secularized forms of identity-formations.  Recent political 
developments have continued this trend. In the last two decades the 
integrative authority of traditional parties has lost legitimacy and the 
practices of political corruption, patronage, and opportunism of 
“Tangentopoli” disclosed by the investigation of “Mani pulite” has led 
to the demise of the so-called First Republic in 1992 and the subsequent 
rise of regionalist groups, such as the Northern Leagues (i.e., Liga 
Veneta, Lega Lombarda, etc.).The electoral success of the latter, which 
have gone as far as calling for the creation of an independent state, or 
“Padania,” reveal the emergence of new political and sub-cultural 
identities, while clearly testifying to a further weakening of the 
already highly problematic concept of a unified national body wished for 
by Risorgimento and pursued by governments from the Liberal State to 
Fascism and beyond.  To the complexity of this panorama, one must also 
add Italy’s present movement towards European economic and institutional 
integration and the effects of globalization    Coupled with an 
unprecedented wave of immigrants from Eastern Europe, North Africa, 
Western India, South America and China, Italian society and culture may 
be reshaped by European integration and globalization in the direction 
of a paradoxical mix of identities ranging from sub- and supra-national 
to diasporic and hybrid forms.
In light of the important structural changes that are reconfiguring 
Italian society, volume 24 of Annali d’Italianistica 2006 intends to 
build upon the work of Cultural Studies to explore the dynamic 
negotiations and formalizations of local, national, and supranational 
identities in relation to the many locations and sites of cultural 
production: high and low print culture, media and visual culture, 
patterns of consumption of the everyday life, ritualized forms of 
behavior and lifestyles, sites of memory and forgetting, and so on. 
Theoretically grounded essays that explore the competing, conflicting 
claims of supranational communities and organization (i.e., the EU, the 
Global Marketplace, the Internet) in relation to territorial 
macro-regions (i.e., the Mediterranean geo-cultural context) and ethno- 
(i.e., hybrid and diasporic identities) or pseudo-ethno regional forms 
of sub-national belonging (i.e., the phenomenon of the Northern Leagues, 
the  pre-modern appeals to ethnic and territorial belonging) are 
welcome, as also are contributions that address the enabling 
possibilities of these integrative models in the political, ethical, and 
affective mobilization of individuals.
Essays, not to exceed 25 double-spaced pages and written in Italian or 
English, should conform to the style-sheet criteria set forth by Annali 
d’Italianistica for “Notes” and “Works Cited.”

Deadline for submission is January 30, 2006.
Publication expected by 2006.
All contributions will be refereed.

Prospective contributors should address all inquiries to:
Norma Bouchard
The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
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Bibliography:
A General Bibliography is too extensive to include here, but the 
following titles can provide a good starting point.

Cultural Studies:
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities. London: Verso and New Left 
Books, 1983.

Barker, Chris.  Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice. London: Sage, 2003.

Bhabha, Homi K., ed. Nation and Narration. London and New York: 
Routledge, 1990.

Bhabba, Homi K., The Location of Culture, London and New York: 
Routledge, 1994.

Edgar, Andrew, and Peter Sedgwick. Key Concepts in Cultural Theory. London
and New York, Routledge, 1999.

Featherstone, Mike, Scott Lash and Roland Robertson, eds. Global 
Modernities.
London: Sage, 1995.

Giddens, Anthony. Modernity and Self-Identity. Cambridge: Polity P, 1991.

Gray, Ann and Jim McGuigan eds. Studying Culture. London: Edward Arnold,
1992.

Grossberg, Lawrence, Cary Nelson, and Paula Treichler eds. Cultural 
Studies. New York and London: Routledge, 1992.

Hall, Stuart, and Paul Du Gay eds. Questions of Cultural Identity. 
London: Sage, 1996.

Hall, Stuart, ed. Representations. London: Sage, 1997.

Hall, Stuart, David Held, and Tony McGrew, eds. Modernity and Its 
Futures. Cambridge: Polity, 1992 (see especially the essay by Hall: “The 
Question of Cultural Identity”).

Lash, Scott and Jonathan Friedman, Modernity and Identity. London: 
Blackwell, 1992.

Mansfield, Nick. Subjectivity: Theories of the Self from Freud to 
Haraway. New York: NYU P, 2000.

Morley, David, and D.K. Chen, ed. Stuart Hall. London: Routledge, 1996.

Morley, David, and Kevin Robins eds. Spaces of Identity: Global Media, 
Electronic Landscapes, and Cultural Boundaries. London: Routledge, 1995.

O’Sullivan, Tim, John Hartley, Danny Saunders, et alt. Key Concepts in 
Communication and Cultural Studies . London: Routledge, 1994.

Preston, Per W. Political/Cultural Identity, London; Sage 1997.

Rutherford Jonathan, ed.: Identity, Community, Culture, Difference. 
London: Lawrence and Wishardt, 1990.

Storey, John. Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture. 
Theories and Methods. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1996.

Storey, John, ed. What is Cultural Studies? London: Routledge, 1997.

Italy:
Agnew, John A. Place and Politics in Modern Italy Chicago. U of Chicago 
P, 2002.

Allen, Beverly, and Mary Russo. Identity and Global Culture. 
Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1997.

Baranski, Zygmunt, and Rebecca West, The Cambridge Companion to Modern 
Italian Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001.

Bechelloni, Giovanni, ed. Il mutamento culturale in Italia. Napoli: 
Liguori, 1989.

Bedani, Gino and Bruce Haddock, ed. The Politics of Italian National 
Identity: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. Cardiff: U of Wales P, 2000.

Burns, Jennifer, and Loredana Polezzi eds. Migrazioni e identità nel 
Novecento, Cosmo Iannone, 2003

Cento Bull, Anna. Social Identities and Political Cultures in Italy. 
Berghahn Books, 2000.

Cerroni, Umberto.  L’identità civile degli Italiani.  Lecce: Piero 
Manni, 1996.

Clark, Martin. Modern Italy 1871-1995. London and New York: Longman, 1996.

Forgacs, David, and Robert Lumley eds. Italian Cultural Studies. Oxford: 
Oxford UP, 1996.

Galli della Loggia, Ernesto.  L’identità italiana. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1998.

Gasparini, Alberto.  Gli Italiani ci sono, a quando l’Italia? Milano: 
Franco Angeli, 2000.

Ginsborg, Paul.   Italy and Its Discontents. Family, Civil Society, 
State: 1980-2001. New YorK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2003.

Gold, Thomas. The Lega Nord and Contemporary Politics in Italy.  New 
York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2003.

Lawton, Ben, and Graziella Parati, eds. Italian Cultural Studies. Boca 
Raton (FL) Bordighera P, 2001.

Lepre, Aurelio. Italia addio? Unità e disunità dal 1860 a oggi. Milano: 
Mondadori, 1994.

Levy, Carl, ed. Italian Regionalism: History, Identity and Politics. 
Oxford: Berg, 1996.

Martinelli, Alberto, Antonio Chiesi and Sonia Stefanizzi. Recent Social 
Trends in Italy1960-1995. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's UP, 1999.

Patrick McCarthy, ed. Italy since 1945. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000.

Romano, Ruggiero. Finis Italiae. Vanni Schweiller, 1994.

Rusconi, Gian Enrico. Se cessiamo di essere una nazione. Bologna: Il 
Mulino, 1993.

Schmidtke, Oliver. Politics of Identity. Pro Universitate Verlag. 
Auflage,1996.

Schneider, Jane, ed. Southern Question: Orientalism in One Country. 
Oxford: Berg, 1998.

Tamburri, Julian Anthony, Myriam Swennen Ruthenberg, Graziella Parati, 
and Ben Lawton, eds. Italian Cultural Studies 2001. Boca Raton (FL): 
Bordighera P, 2004.

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