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Cari colleghi,
For those interested in reviewing books for Forum Italicum, please see the list
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By sending to her, instead of replying to me, we will streamline the request list
and prevent duplicates. She will arrange for you to receive a copy of the book to be
reviewed.
Nota bene: the deadline for the Fall, 2008, issue is August 29, 2008; there is also
still room in the Spring, 2008, issue if you can submit a review by March 27th,
2008.
As always, Forum Italicum encourages reviews to be both descriptive and evaluative
and usually no more than 1000 words.
Thank you for your time and your collaboration with a most important aspect of our
scholarship.
cordialmente,
Greg
LIST OF BOOKS TO REVIEW FOR FORUM ITALICUM:
Antenucci, Giovanni. Vita di Giovanni Antenucci. Mineola, New York: Legas, 2007. Pp.
101.
Apolloni, Ignazio. Lettres d’amour à moi même. Trapani: Coppola Editore, 2007. Pp.
319.
Baroni, Giorgio, ed. Il futurismo sulla rampa di lancio. Poesia. 1905-2005. Pisa.
Roma: Rivista di letteratura italiana. XXIV, 2, 2006. Pp. 262.
Biancofiore, Angela, ed. Pier Paolo Pasolini: pour une antropologie poétique. Monts,
France: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2007. Pp. 165.
Boitani, Piero. Dante’s poetry of the Donati. The Barlow lectures on Dante delivered
at University College London, 17-18 March 2005. Leeds, UK: The society for Italian
studies, 2007. Pp. 55.
Bonaviri, Giuseppe. Saracen tales, translated by Barbara De Marco. New York:
Bordighera Press, 2006. Pp. 169.
Bruni, Leonardo. History of the florentine people.Volume 3, Books IX-XII. Memoires.
Edited and translated by James Hankins. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University
Press, 2007. Pp. 477.
Butcher, John. Poetry and Intertextualiry. Eugenio Montale’s later verse. Perugia:
Volumnia, 2007. Pp. 237.
Butcher, John e Ania, Gillian. Narrativa italiana degli anni Sessanta e Settanta.
Edizioni Libreria Dante e Descartes, 2007. Pp. 341.
Caburlotto, Filippo. D’Annunzio e lo specchio del romanzo:sdoppiamenti, rifrazioni,
giochi d’immagini. Venezia: Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina, 2007. Pp. 160.
Carnevali, Emanuel. Furnished Rooms. New York: Bordighera Press, 2006. Pp. 102.
Cavalieri, Grace. Water on the Sun. New York: Bordighera Press, 2006. Pp. 97.
Croce, Benedetto. Breviary of Aesthetics: Four lectures. Toronto, Canada: University
of Toronto Press, 2007. Pp. 113.
Corbisiero, Antonio. Le vie del sogno. S. Eustachio di Mercato S. Severino: Edizioni
Il Grappaolo, 2007. Pp. 93.
Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la Renaissance Italienne. Espaces,
histoire et imaginaire dans la cluture italienne de la Renaissance. Paris:
Université Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2006. Pp. 231.
Colombo, Angelo. I lunghi affanni ed il perduto regno. Cutlura letteraria, filologia
e politica nella Milano della Restaurazione. Besançon Cedex, France: Presses
universitaires de Franche- Comté, 2007. Pp. 290.
Dante. Paradiso-a verse translation by Robert and Jean Hollander. New York:
Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, 2007. Pp. 915.
Danford, Natalie. Inheritance. New York: St. Martin Press, 2007. Pp. 214.
Di Pasquale, Emanuel. Writing Anew. New and selected poems. New York: Bordighera
Press, 2007. Pp. 158.
Ferrara, Emily. The Alchemy of grief. New York: Bordighera Press, 2007. Pp.95.
Folengo, Teofilo. Baldo. Volume I, Books I-XII.- translated by Ann E. Mullaney.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 471.
Francese, Joseph. Socially symbolic Acts. The historicizing fictions of Umberto Eco,
Vicenzo Consolo, and Antonio Tabucchi. Madison, Teaneck, NJ. 2006. Pp. 312.
Gnisci, Armando. Decolonizzare l’Italia.Via della decolonizzaazzione europea n.5.
Roma:Bulzoni Editore, 2007. Pp. 131.
Gordon, Robert S. C. ed. The Cambridge companion to Primo Levi. Cambridge, UK :
Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 205.
Gooch, John. Mussolini and his generals. The armed forces and fascist foregin
policy, 1922-1940. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 651.
Guida, George. Low Italian poems. New York: Bordighera Press, 2006. Pp. 98.
Hipkins, Danielle E. Contemporary Italian Women writers and traces of the fantastic:
The creation of literary space. London, UK: Modern Humanities Research Association
and Maney Publishing, 2007. Pp. 229.
Jacoff, Rachel, ed. The Cambridge companion to Dante. Cambridge,UK : Cambridge
University Press, 2007. Pp. 317.
Kirkpatrick, Robin. Dante, The Divine Comedy. Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University
Press, 2004. Pp. 118.
Keith, Alison & Rupp, Stephen. Metamorhosis. The changing face of Ovid in the
medieval and early modern Europe. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance
studies, 2007. Pp. 350.
Knox, MacGregor. To the threshold of power, 1922/23. Origins and Dynamics of the
fascist and national socialist dictatorships. Volume I. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2007. Pp. 226.
Lanato, Paola, ed. At the Centre of the Old World. Trade and Manufacturing Mainland
and the Venetian Maniland. Toronto, Canada : Centre for Reformation and Renaissance
Studies, 2006. Pp. 412.
L’Arab, Ernesto & Pasanisi, Roberto. Con le armi della poesia, antologia della
poesia italiana contemporaneo. Napoli: Istituto Italiano di cultura di Napoli, 2007.
Pp. 205.
Loriggio, Francesco, ed.. The last effort of dreams. Essays on the poetry of Prier
Giorgio di Cicco. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier Univerrsity Press, 2007. Pp.
207.
Levarie Smarr, ed. Writers Reading Writers. Intertextual Studies In Medieval and
Early modern literature. In honor of Robert Hollander. Neewark: University of
Delaware Press,2007. Pp. 254.
Lingo, Estelle. François Duquesnoy and the Greek ideal. New Haven and London: Yale
University Press, 2007, Pp. 239.
Malpezzi Price, Paola and Christine Ristaino. Lucrezia Marinella and the “Querell
des Femmes” in Seventeeth-Century Italy. Cranbury, NJ: Associated UP, 2008. Pp.
204.
Malaparte, Curzio. Woman like me. Leicester, UK: Troubador Publishing Ltd, 2007. Pp
81.
Matraini, Chiara. Selected poetry and prose. A bilingual edition. Chicago: The
university of Chicago Press, 2007, Pp. 275.
Messina, Maria. Behind closed doors. Her father’s house and others stories of
Sicily. New York: The feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2007. Pp.
196.
Moroni, Mario. Icarus’ Land. Faloppio: LietoColle, 2006. Pp 77.
Morpurgo, Roberto. Pregiudizi della libertà. Libro di sarcasmi e di malinconiche
superstizioni. Novi Ligure. Edizioni Joker, 2006, Pp. 125.
Morpurgo, Roberto. L’azzurro del mare. Novi Ligure. Edizioni Joker, 2007, Pp. 87.
Motta, Antonio & Siani, Cosma. Joseph Tusiani tra le due sponde dell’oceano. San
Marco in Lamis: Istituto di istruzione secondaria superiore “P. Giannone”, 2007. Pp.
407.
Muir, Lynette R. Love and conflict in mevieval drama. The plays and their legacy.
Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 294.
Plaisance, Michel. Florence in the Time of the Medici. Public celebrations,
politics, and literature in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Toronto: Centre
for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2008. Pp. 220.
Pedriali, Federica & Riccobono, Rossella ed. Vested voices II. Creating with
Tranvestism: from Bertolucci to Boccaccio. Ravenna: Longo editore, 2007. Pp. 165.
Raffa, Guy P. Danteworlds. A reader’s guide to the Inferno. Chicago: The University
of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. 155.
Russo Bullaro, Grace. Man in disorder. The cinema of Lina Wertmüller in the 1970s.
Leicester, UK: Troubador Publishing Ltd, 2006. Pp. 134.
Santarelli, Giuseppe. Legends of the Sibilline Mountains. Cambridge: STAF edizione,
2006. Pp.144.
Serra, Fabrizio, ed. Studi Pasoliniani. Rivista internazionale. Padova: Università
di Padova, 2007. Pp. 198.
Somigli, Luca. Valerio Evangelisti. Fiesole, Italy: Edizione Cadmo, 2007. Pp. 187.
Stewart-Steinberg, Suzanne. The Pinocchio effect on making italians, 1860-1920.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. 431.
Tellini, Gino. The invention of modern Italian literature. Strategies of creative
imagination. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2007. Pp. 169.
Trevor, Dean. Crime and justice in late Medieval Italy. Cambridge,UK : Cambridge
University Press, 2007. Pp. 226.
Troisio, Luciano. Oriental Parnassus. Mineola, New York: Legas, 2006. Pp. 147.
Ventura, Luigi Donato. Peppino il lustrascarpe. Milano: FrancoAngeli, 2007. Pp. 100.
Vitto, Caro. Essays in memory of Vittore Branco. London: The Italist, 2007. Pp. 335.
Williams, Pamela. Through human love to God. Essays on Dante and Petrarch.
Leicester, UK: Troubador Publishing Ltd, 2007. Pp. 137.
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