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News from Annali d'italianistica (www.ibiblio.org/annali)
February 2020
1. AUTHORS & PUBLISHERS:
- Please send books to be reviewed and printed in USA to the following address:
Annali d'italianistica
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Elon University
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- Please send books to be reviewed and printed in Europe to the following address:
Annali d'italianistica
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Dept of Languages, Literature and Communication - Italian
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As of the 2009 issue, Annali lists in the annual printed volume all the reviews, including titles of books and names of reviewers, and paginates all the reviews with consecutive page numbers. The reviews, however, appear only online, where the entire section of reviews (Bookshelf) is available as of 1998. Information on the journal's editorial norms can be found on the journal's website: www.ibiblio.org/annali
4. Forthcoming and Future volumes of Annali d'italianistica
AdI, vol. 38 (2020). Nation(s) and Translation - with guest editors Norma Bouchard (San Diego State University, [log in to unmask]) and Valerio Ferme (University of Colorado, [log in to unmask]) - is scheduled for 2020. Please visit the journal's website for further information or contact guest editors.
AdI, vol. 39 (2021). Dante 2021. The guest editors solicit essays on the main topic-Unholy and Holy Violence, Silence, Names, and Words-but it also welcomes original and well-crafted essays on Dante studies in general. Early submissions are welcome. Interested scholars may contact:
Dino S. Cervigni ([log in to unmask]);
Christopher Kleinhenz ([log in to unmask]);
Giuseppe Ledda ([log in to unmask]);
Heather Webb ([log in to unmask])
BOOK REVIEWS PUBLICATION DEADLINE
Colleagues who have accepted to review books should submit their reviews as soon as possible and before the next deadline (May 31, 2020) for their review to appear in the 2020 issue.
Books Received
February 2020
Aboaf, Federico. L'italiano di Machiavelli e Guicciardini in alcune traduzioni in latino, francese e tedesco del XVI secolo. Appunti per una storia del lessico politico. Firenze: Franco Cesati, 2020. Pp. 242.
Alù, Giorgia. Journeys Exposed: Women's Writing, Photography, and Mobility. New York: Routledge, 2019. Pp. 219.
Barisonzi, Michela. Adultery and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel: The Case of Gabriele D'Annunzio. Leicester: Troubador Publishing, 2019. Pp. 189.
Battisti, Danielle. Whom We Shall Welcome: Italian Americans and Immigration Reform, 1945-1965. New York: Fordham University Press, 2019. Pp. 352.
Biggs, Frederick M. Chaucer's Decameron and the Origin of the Canterbury Tales. Cambridge: Brewer, 2017. Pp. 275.
Boccaccio and His World: Proceedings of the Third Triennial Meeting of the American Boccaccio Association. Duke University, September-October 2016. Ed. Valerio Cappozzo, Martin Eisner, Timothy Kircher. http://www.heliotropia.org/ Heliotropia. A Forum for Boccaccio Research and Interpretation 15 (2018). Pp. 313. (Only E-book available to reviewers.)
Boscolo, Claudia. L'Entrée d'Espagne: Context and Authorship at the Origins of the Italian Chivalric Epic. Oxford: Medium Aevum Monographs, 2017. Pp. 290.
Cannamela, Danila. The Quiet Avant-Garde: Crepuscular Poetry and the Twilight of Modern Humanism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. Pp. 344.
Carroll, Linda L. Thomas Jefferson's Italian and Italian-Related Books in the History of Universal Personal Rights. An Overview. New York: Bordighera Press, 2019. Pp. 94.
Champagne, John. Queer Ventennio: Italian Fascism, Homoerotic Art, and the Nonmodern in the Modern. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2019.
Controculture italiane. A cura di Silvia Contarini, Claudio Milanesi. Firenze: Franco Cesati, 2019. Pp. 204.
Cottini, Luca. The Art of Objects: The Birth of Italian Industrial Culture, 1878-1928. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. Pp. 289.
Crescimbeni, Giovan Mario. La bellezza della volgar poesia. Con le postille dell'autore e di Anton Maria Salvini. Eedizione a cura di Enrico Zucchi. Bologna: I Libri di Emil, 2019. Pp. 526. (Only E-book available to reviewers.)
Dal particolare all'universale. I libri di poesia di Giorgio Bassani. A cura di Valerio Cappozzo. Ravenna: Giorgio Pozzi Editore, 2020. Pp. 488.
Deledda, Grazia. Ivy. Trans. Mary Ann Frese Witt and Martha Witt. New York: Italica Press, 2019. Pp. 181.
Di Stefano, Barbara. Sciascia maestro di scuola. Lo scrittore insegnante, i registri di classe e l'impegno pedagogico. Roma: Carocci, 2020. Pp. 172.
Eisner, Martin, and David Lummus. A Boccaccian Renaissance: Essays on the Early Modern Impact of Giovanni Boccaccio and His Works. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2019. Pp. 340.
Ferrari, Ivano. Slaughterhouse (Macello). Trans. Matteo Gilebbi. New York: Legas, 2019. Pp. 125.
Filotico, Anna Pia, Manuele Gragnolati, Philippe Guérin, eds. "Aimer ou ne pas aimer." Boccace. Elegia di madonna Fiammetta et Corbaccio. Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2018. Pp. 256.
Frisardi, Andrew, ed. and trans. Dante Convivio: A Dual-Language Critical Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. 663.
Galanti, Giuseppe Maria. Osservazioni intorno a' romanzi. Ed. critica a cura di Domenica Falardo. Napoli: Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, 2019. Pp. 254.
Guardiani, Francesco. Napoli città mondo nell'opera narrativa di Francesco Mastriani. Firenze: Franco Cesati, 2019. Pp. 384.
Herzig, Tamar. A Convert's Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Pp. 388.
Ilari, Virgilio. Clausewitz in Italia. E altri scritti di storia militare. Collana Fvcina di Marte. Ariccia (RM): Aracne, 2019. Pp. 292. (Only E-book available to reviewers.)
Il "lavoro della letteratura." Forme, temi, metafore di un conflitto occultato e di un'emancipazione a venire. "L'Ospite ingrato." Rivista online del Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca Franco Fortini. Novembre 2018. Pp. 288. (Only E-book available to reviewers.)
Kleinhenz, Christopher, and Kristina Olson, eds. Approaches to Teaching Dante's Divine Comedy. 2nd ed. New York: MLA, 2020. Pp. 300. (E-book or print book available to reviewers.)
Luigi Capuana: Experimental Fiction and Cultural Mediation in Post-Risorgimento Italy. Ed. Annamaria Pagliaro and Brian Zuccala. Firenze: Firenze University Press, 2019. Pp. 313. (Only E-book available to reviewers.)
Luzi, Mario. Sotto specie umana. Under Human Species. Trans. Luigi Bonaffini. Italian Poetry in Translation. Vol. 17. Series Ed. Gaetano Cipolla. Mineola, NY: Legas, 2018. Pp. 217.
Machiavelli, Niccolò. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli. Third ed. Ed. and trans. Wayne A. Rebhorn. New York: Norton, 2019. Pp. 352.
Masoni, Bradford A. Pirandello Proto-Modernist: A New Reading of L'esclusa. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2019. Pp. 158.
Meli, Giovanni. Social Critic. Ed. and trans. Gaetano Cipolla. New York: Legas, 2020. Pp. 163.
Modesto, Filippa. Il concetto di amicizia in Dante. La trasformazione di un concetto classico. Traduzione di Chiara Buonomo, Aracne 2019. Pp. 304. (Only E-book available to reviewers.)
Moore, Jill. Inquisition and its Organisation in Italy, 1250-1350. Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages. York: York Medieval Press, 2019. Pp. 314.
Passaro, Maria C. Pastore. A Selection of Italian Medieval Literary Texts. Dual Language Edition. Ed. Donald Beebe. Forward Giuseppe F. Mazzotta. Mineola, NY: Legas, 2019. Pp. 381.
Pederzoli, Elisa. L'arte di farsi conoscere. Formiggini e la diffusione del libro e della cultura italiana nel mondo. Roma: Associazione Italiana Biblioteche, 2019. Pp. 486.
Pratesi, Mario. All'ombra dei cipressi. Ed. Anne Urbancic. Studi 30. Firenze: Società Editrice Fiorentina, 2018. Pp. 94.
Renga, Dana. Watching Sympathetic Perpetrators on Italian Television: Gomorrah and Beyond. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Pp. 334. (Only E-book available to reviewers.)
Rosselli, Amelia. Diario Ottuso / Obtuse Diary. Trans. Deborah Woodard, Roberta Antognini, and Dario De Pasquale. Seattle: Entre Ríos Books, 2018. Pp. 88.
Sartini Blum, Cinzia and Deborah L. Contrada, ed. and trans. New Italian Voices: Transcultural Writing in Contemporary Italy. New York: Italica Press, 2020. Pp. 251.
Scalabrino, Marco. La puisia di Marco Scalabrino/The Poetry of Marco Scalabrino: A Trilingual Anthology. Pref. Corrado Di Pietro. Trans. Gaetano Cipolla, et al. Mineola, NY: Legas, 2018. Pp. 74.
Strocchia, Sharon T. Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2019. Pp. 330.
Tradurre e ritradurre i classici. Testo a fronte. A cura di Stefania Ricciardi. Milano: Marcos y Marcos, 2019, Pp. 263.
Vettori, Alessandro. Dante's Prayerful Pilgrimage: Typologies of Prayer in the Comedy. Leiden: Brill, 2019. Pp. 263. (Only E-book available to reviewers.)
Worley, Sharon. The Legacy of Empire: Napoleon I and III and the Anglo-Italian Circle during the Risorgimento. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. Pp. 211.
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