Annali d'italianistica (AdI) is an international journal founded in 1983
and is published annually by the Italian Section of the Department of
Romance Languages and Literatures of the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. AdI would like (1) to announce the topic for the year 2000
issue and (2) invite scholars to review books submitted to the journal.

(1)

AdI 2000: . . . Beginnings/Endings/Beginnings . . .

Books and the human beings who write them; the historical and literary
periods in which both artifacts and their authors are situated; the books'
internal structures and material configurations as well as their authors'
lives: in brief, every human being's life and all human artifacts are, by
their intrinsic nature, situated within a beginning and an ending. At the
same time, the purpose of every individual, humankind as a whole, and the
sum of all their activities and products, is to create ever new beginnings
in order, as it were, to postpone indefinitely the ineluctability of one's
and humankind's end. The conclusion of the second millennium and the
beginning of the third millennium of the Christian era, in spite of or
perhaps precisely because of such endings' and beginnings' artificiality,
offer a most appropriate time - a unique and privileged kairos - to
investigate the meaning and function of, as well as the many relationships
between, beginnings and endings.

AdI 2000 - to be entitled . . . Beginnings/Endings/Beginnings . . . -
intends to provide scholars of Italian culture and literature, as well as
comparativists and theorists, with an open forum to investigate
theoretical issues and specific literary and historical texts in order to
shed light on the function of, meaning of, and interrelationship between
the beginning and the ending of human artifacts, endeavors, and human
lives themselves. 

Many are the specific issues AdI invites scholars to pursue: The author's
challenge in finding a beginning for one's work, the re-creation of
beginnings, through chapters, cantos, stanzas, etc. within the same work,
and the challenge of finding a conclusion or even closure; the ending's
looking back to the beginning, which anticipates the work's conclusion,
and the intrinsic characteristics of the unfinished work, whose incomplete
structure may contradict the author's initial aim toward closure or
perfection; the work made known or published posthumously, a word that in
antiquity referred to the child's birth after the father's demise; and the
historical and literary period within which works come to life, are made
public, become known, or fall into oblivion. Also, the authors' and their
literary characters' lives, in their beginning, unfolding, and ending, may
be appropriate objects of investigation for AdI 2000, just as such
traditional topics as millennianism and apocalypse, chaos and ultimate
conflagration.

On such topics as apocalypse, chaos, and the world's end, the critical
literature is virtually limitless. On endings and beginnings in literature
we have such classic studies as Frank Kermode's The Sense of an Ending
(London: Oxford UP, 1966) or the recent investigation by Giulio Ferroni,
Dopo la fine. Sulla condizione postuma della letteratura (Milano: Einaudi,
1996), both with an ample bibliography on the proposed topic.
AdI invites scholars to submit essays (due spring 2000) on the proposed
topic. Prospective authors should contact as soon as possible the
journal's Editor by mail or e-mail: [log in to unmask] or
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(2)

Scholars who wish to review one of the following books are invited to
contact the journal's editor: [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]
Scholars wishing to review books not listed here are also invited to
contact the editor.

Reviews submitted by June 30 will appear in the same year's issue.

Beginning in the spring of 1999, the Editors are considering publishing
book reviews electronically as they are submitted and edited.


Books Received (--October 1998)

Allaire, Gloria. Andrea da Barbarino and the Language of Chivalry.
Gainesville: U of Florida P, 1997. Pp. 183.

Ariosto, Ludovico. Orlando furioso e Cinque canti. 2 vols. Ed. Remo
Cesarani and Sergio Zatti. Torino: UTET, 1997. Pp. 1864.

Baranski, Zygmunt G. and Patrick Boyde. The Fiore in Context: Dante,
France, Tuscany. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 1997. Pp. 409.

Bernardini, Paolo. Mongolfiere e canarini: Il carteggio
Parisetti-Buonafede (1782-1784) e la cultura settecentesca. Accademia
Ligure di Scienze e Lettere. Collana di studi e ricerche 13. Genova: n.p.,
1997. Pp. 137.

Biancofiore, Angela. Benvenuto Cellini artiste-crivain: l'homme  l'oeuvre.
Paris: l'Harmattan, 1998. Pp. 343.

Biasin, Gian Paolo. Le periferie della letteratura. Da Verga a Tabucchi.
Ravenna: Longo, 1997. Pp. 151.

Brose, Margaret. Leopardi sublime. Trans. Elisabetta Bertoli. N.p.: Re
Enzo, 1998. Pp. 174.

Carpi, Daniela, Geoffrey H. Hartman, J. Hillis Miler, Patricia Waugh.
Cultura, scienza ipertesto. Il Portico Biblioteca di lettere e arti 107.
Ravenna: Longo, 1997. Pp. 77.

Concina, Ennio. A History of Venetian Architecture. Trans. Judith Landry.
Cambridge: UP, 1998. Pp. 356.

Corsi, Jone Gaillard. Il libretto d'autore 1860-1930. West Lafayette:
Bordighera, 1997. Pp. 192.

D'Andrea, Antonio. Filosofia e autobiografia: Un diario al passato.
Fiesole: Cadmo, 1998. Pp. 175.

Della Terza, Dante, ed. Dal Rinaldo al Gerusalemme: il testo, la favola.
Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi "Torquato Tasso quattro secoli
dopo", Sorrento 17-19 novembre 1994. Citt di Sorrento, 1997. Pp. 341.

Di Biasio, Rodolfo. Wayfarers Four. Trans. Justin Vitiello. West
Lafayette: Bordighera, 1998. Pp. 122.

Ellero, Maria Pia. Introduzione alla retorica. Milano: Sansoni, 1997. Pp.
452.

Fishman, Talya. Shaking the Pillars of Exile: Voice of a Fool, an Early
Modern Jewish Critique of Rabbinic Culture. Stanford: UP, 1997. Pp. 362.

Gardaph, Fred L. Moustache Pete is Dead! Evviva Baffo Pietro: The Fra Noi
Columns 1985-1988. West Lafayette: Bordighera, 1997. Pp. 96.

Giordano, Paolo A. and Anthony Julian Tamburri, ed. Beyond the Margin:
Readings in Italian Americana. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1998. Pp.
305.

Harney, Nicholas DeMaria. Eh, Paesan! Being Italian in Toronto.
Anthropological Horizons 12. Toronto: UP, 1998. Pp. 209.

Illiano, Antonio. Sulle sponde del Prepurgatorio: Poesia e arte narrativa
nel preludio all'ascesa (Purg. I-III 66). Fiesole: Cadmo, 1997. Pp. 125.

In amicizia. Essays in Honour of Giulio Lepschy. Ed. Zygmunt G. Baranski &
Lino Pertile. Special Supplement of The Italianist 17 (1997).
Whiteknights, Reading: The Italianist, 1997. Pp. 536.

Jones, Verina R. Le Dark Ladies manzoniane e altri saggi sui Promessi
sposi. Studi e saggi 19. Rome: Salerno, 1998. Pp. 167.

La Venise de Goldoni. Actes du Colloque organis par le Centre Aixois de
Recherche Italienne (Aix-en-Provence, 1-3 dcembre 1993). Aix-en-Provence:
U of Provence P, 1998. Pp. 306.

Lindenberger, Herbert. Opera in History: From Monteverdi to Cage.
Stanford: UP, 1998. Pp. 364.

Livorni, Ernesto. Nel libro che ti diedi. Introd. Giovanni Sinicropi.
Pasian di Prato: Campanotto, 1998. Pp. 86.

Lucamante, Stefania. Elsa Morante e l'eredit proustiana. Polmnia 2.
Fiesole: Cadmo, 1998. Pp. 199.

Luperini, Romano. Il professore come intelletuale: La riforma della scuola
e l'insegnamento della letteratura. Milano: E d C - Lupetti/Piero Manni,
1998. Pp. 127.

Machiavelli, Niccol. Discourses on Livy. Trans. Judith Conway Bondanella
and Peter Bondanella. Oxford: UP, 1997. Pp. 414.

Maggi, Armando. Uttering the Word: The Mystical Performances of Maria
Maddalena de' Pazzi, a Renaissance Visionary. Albany: State U of New York
P, 1998. Pp. 201.

Maraini, Dacia. The Silent Witness. Trans. Dick Kitto and Elspeth
Spottiswood. Afterword Anna Camaiti Hostert. New York: Feminist Press City
U of New York, 1998. Pp. 261.

Pertile, Lino. La puttana e il gigante: dal cantico dei cantici al
paradiso terrestre di Dante. Memoria del tempo 10. Ravenna: Longo, 1998.
Pp. 278.

Pickering-Iazzi, Robin. Politics of the Visible: Writing Women, Culture
and Fascism. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1997. Pp. 287.

Pierce, Glenn. Manzoni and the Aesthetics of the Lombard Seicento: Art
Assimilated into the Narrative of I promessi sposi. Lewisburg: Bucknell
UP, 1998. Pp. 253.

Pulci, Luigi. Morgante.: The Epic Adventure of Orlando and His Giant
Friend Morgante. Trans. Joseph Tusiani. Introd. and notes Edoardo Lbano.
Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1998. Pp. 975.

Quatriglio, Giuseppe. A Thousand Years in Sicily: From the Arabs to the
Bourbons. Trans. Justin Vitiello. Sicilian Studies. Brooklyn: Legas, 1997.
Pp. 240.

Quinones, Ricardo J. Dante Alighieri, Updated Edition. Twayne's World
Authors 563. New York: Twayne, 1998. Pp. 202.

Rustichelli, Luigi, ed. Seminario sulla drammaturgia: Ferrone, Meldolesi,
Marino, Martinelli, Molinari, Fo. West Lafayette: Bordighera, 1998. Pp.
87.

Rustichelli, Luigi, ed. Seminario sul racconto: Bagni, Capriolo, Celati,
Guglielmi, Petrucci, Santi, Starnone, Veronesi. West Lafayette, IN:
Bordighera, 1998. Pp. 99.

Ryan, Christopher. The Poetry of Michelangelo: An Introduction. Madison:
Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1998. Pp. 345.

Tamburri, Anthony Julian. A Semiotic of Ethnicity: In (Re)cognition of the
Italian/American Writer. SUNY Italian/American Studies. Albany: State U of
New York P, 1998. Pp. 176.

Terpening, Ronnie H. Lodovico Dolce: Renaissance Man of Letters. Toronto:
UP, 1997. Pp. 310.

Urgnani, Elena. Noventa: La scrittura e l'interpretazione. N.p.: Palumbo,
1998. Pp. 224.

Weiss, Beno and Louis C. Perez, tr. and ed. Beginnings and Discoveries:
Polydore Vergil's De inventoribus rerum: An Unabridged Translation and
Edition. Nieuwkoop: De Graaf, 1997. Pp. 602.

Zaczek, Barbara Maria. Censored Sentiments: Letters and Censorship in
Epistolary Novels and Conduct Materials. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1997.
Pp. 209.

Zatti, Sergio, ed. La rappresentazione dell'altro nei testi del
Rinascimento. Morgana 3. Lucca: Fazzi, 1998. Pp. 244.

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