italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies News from Annali d’italianistica (www.ibiblio.org/annali) January 24, 2007 1. You will find below the most recent list of books received. Interested scholars may contact the Editor at: [log in to unmask] 2. Scholars will be selected on the basis of their expertise and research interests. Scholars who have never reviewed for AdI, or are new in the profession, are encouraged to introduce themselves briefly when they request books to review. 3. Information on the journal’s editorial norms can be found on the journal’s website: www.ibiblio.org/annali 4. Colleagues who have accepted to review books should submit their reviews before the next deadline: June 30, 2007. 5. Colleagues who wish to review a book should contact the editor at: [log in to unmask] 6. In all your correspondence with the Editor, please provide your e-mail address, complete name, and complete address for regular correspondence. If you receive no answer within two weeks, please contact the Editor again. Books Received January 24, 2007 Barolini, Teodolinda. Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture. New York: Fordham UP, 2006. Pp. 448. Battifera degli Ammannati, Laura. Laura Battiferra and Her Literary Circle. An Anthology. Ed. and trans. Victoria Kirkham. Chicago: U of Chicapo P, 2006. Pp. 493. Bull, Anna Cento, and Adalgisa Giorgio, eds. Speaking Out and Silencing. Culture, Society and Politics in Italy in the 1970s. Italian Perspectives 12. London: Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing, 2006. Pp. 244. Castellani, Aldo. Nuovi canti carnascialeschi di Firenze. Le ‘canzone’ e mascherate di Alfonso de’ Pazzi. Firenze: Olschki Editore, 2006. Pp. 295. Chroniques italiennes. Opéra. Ed. Gilles De Van. Numéro spécial 77-78 (2006). Pp. 230. Cicali, Gianni. Attori e ruoli nell’opera buffa italiana del Settecento. Firenze: Le Lettere, 2005. Pp. 370. Cuadernos de filología italiana. Publicaciones universidad complutense de Madrid 12 (2005). Pp. 254. Cuilleanáin, Cormac Ó, Corinna Salvadori, and John Scattergood, eds. Italian Culture. Interactions, Transpositions, Translations. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006. Pp. 264. Farrell, Joseph, and Paolo Puppa, eds. A History of Italian Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006. Pp. 418. Finucci, Valeria, ed. Petrarca: canoni, esemplarità. Roma: Bulzoni, 2006. Pp. 361. Folengo, Teofilo. La palermitana. Ed. Patrizia Sonia De Corso. Firenze: Olschki Editore, 2006. Pp. 367. Fonte, Moderata (Modesta Pozzo). Floridoro. Ed. with an intro. by Valeria Finucci. Trans. Julia Kisacky. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006. Pp. 493. Francese, Joseph. Socially Symbolic Acts. The Historicizing Fictions of Umberto Eco, Vincenzo Consolo, and Antonio Tabucchi. Cranbury (NJ): Associated UP, 2006. Pp. 312. Giannone, Antonio Lucio, ed. Vincenzo Ampolo: tra politica e letteratura. Vol. 2. Il poeta e il letterato. Galatina: Ed. Panico, 2006. Pp. 175. Giordano da Pisa. Avventuale fiorentino 1304. Edizione critica a cura di Silvia Serventi. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2006. Pp. 652. Kay, Richard. Dante’s Enigmas: Medieval Scholasticism and Beyond. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Aldershot (Hants): Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2006. Pp. 265. Lanaro, Paola, ed. At the Centre of the Old World. Trade and Manufacturing in Venice and the Venetian Mainland, 1400-1800. Essays and Studies 9. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2006. Pp. 412. Mirabile, Andrea. Le strutture e la storia. La critica italiana dallo strutturalismo alla semiotica. Milano: LED, 2006. Pp. 224. Ott, Christine. Montale e la parola riflessa. Dal disincanto linguistico degli Ossi attraverso le incarnazioni poetiche della Bufera alla lirica decostruttiva dei Diari. Milano: FrancoAngeli, 2006. Pp. 311. Palazzeschi, Aldo. A Tournament of Misfits: Tall Tales and Short. Trans. Nicolas J. Perella. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2005. Pp.200. Riccobono, Rossella, and Erminia Passannanti, eds. Vested Voices: Literary Transvestism in Italian Literature. Leicester (UK): Troubador, 2006. Pp. 159. Riverso, Emanuele. Islâm. Morale e dottrina. Firenze: Atheneum, 2005. Pp. 241. Robinson, Peter, and Marcus Perryman, eds and trans. The Selected Poetry and Prose of Vittorio Sereni. A Bilingual Edition. Introd. Peter Robinson. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006. Pp. 441. Ruggiero, Guido. Machiavelli in Love: Sex, Self, and Society in the Italian Renaissance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2007. Pp. 285. Sarrocchi, Margherita. Scanderbeide. The Heroic Deeds of George Scanderbeg, King of Epirus. Ed. and trans. Rinaldina Russell. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006. Pp. 462. 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. Sherberg, Michael, ed. Approaches to Teaching Collodi’s Pinocchio and its Adaptations. New York: MLA, 2006. Pp. 179. Shifting Borders, Negotiating Places: Cultural Studies and the Mutation of Value(s). Boca Raton (FL): Bordighera, 2006. Pp. 233. Sini, Stefania. Figure vichiane. Retorica e topica della Scienza nuova. Milano: LED Edizioni, 2005. Pp. 378. Sinopoli, Franca, and Silvia Tatti, eds. I confine della scrittura. Il dispatrio nei testi letterari. Isernia: Cosmo Iannone Editore, 2005. Pp. 246. Stampino, Maria Galli. Staging the Pastoral. Tasso’s Aminta and the Emergence of Modern Western Theatre. Tempe (AZ): Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005. Pp. 310. Stellardi, Giuseppe. Gadda: miseria e grandezza della letteratura. Firenze: Franco Cesati, 2006.Pp. 184. Sterpos, Marco. Interpretazioni carducciane. Modena: Mucchi Editore, 2005. Pp. 379. Traduzioni letterarie e rinnovamento del gusto: dal Neoclassicismo al primo Romanticismo. 2 vols. Ed. Giuseppe Coluccia and Beatrice Stasi. Atti del convegno internazionale Lecce-Castro, 15-18 giugno 2005. Galatina (LE): Mario Congedo editore, 2006. Pp. 357. Troisio, Luciano. Oriental Parnassus. English trans. Luigi Bonaffini. Mineola (NY): Legas, 2006. Pp. 147. Vannini, Marco. Tesi per una riforma religiosa. Firenze: Le Lettere, 2006. Pp. 239. Veneziano, Antonio. Ninety Love Octaves. Ed., introd., and trans. Gaetano Cipolla. Mineola (NY): Legas, 2006. Pp. 123. Vitti, Antonio, ed. La scuola italiana di Middlebury (1996-2005). Passione, didattica, pratica. Pesaro: Metauro, 2005. Pp. 574. Vitti, Antonio, ed. Peppe De Santis secondo se stesso. Conferenze, conversazioni e sogni nel cassette di uno scomodo regista di campagna. Pesaro: Metauro, 2006. Pp. 559. 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. 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