Colleagues may be interested to know that a special issue of Modern Language Notes in honour of the late Professor Eduardo Saccone (University College Cork, and formerly of the Johns Hopkins University) has recently been published and will be launched Friday, 24 October in the Staff Common Room at University College Cork, from 4.30 to 6.00 p.m. The presentation by Prof. Terence O’Reilly (UCC) and Dr Daragh O’Connell (UCC) will be made in the presence of members of the Saccone family and of the Italian Ambassador, S.E. Giovanni Adorni Braccesi Chiassi. All welcome.

 

The special issue “In Memoriam: Eduardo Saccone (1938–2008)”, MLN 129.3S (2014), edited by Silvia Ross and Mark Chu, includes essays by Eduardo’s former supervisees and colleagues.

Table of Contents

1. Silvia Ross and Mark Chu. In memoriam Eduardo Saccone (1938-2008)
2. Sante Matteo. Horizontal and Vertical Journeys in the Italian Imagination: Marco Polo and Garibaldi versus Dante and Victor Emanuel II
3. Giuseppe Falvo. The Art of Human Composition in Giovanni Pontano’s De principe liber
4. Daria Perocco. Caterina Cornaro: una corte, una regina e la creazione di un mito
5. Ita MacCarthy. Ariosto’s Grace: The View from Lodovico Dolce
6. Douglas Biow. Constructing a Maverick Physician in Print: Leonardo Fioravanti, the Medical Examination of Odors, and the Reconstructed Nose
7. Alfonso Procaccini. Galileo’s Open Vistas: “Chi mira più alto...”
8. Laura Benedetti. Arcangela Tarabotti e Lucrezia Marinella: appunti per un dialogo mancato
9. Mark Chu. Ideology and the fait-divers: beyond cronaca nera in Verga’s Vita dei campi
10. Matteo Palumbo. Svevo letto e interpretato da Eduardo Saccone
11. Laura Lepschy. Intervista a Elio Gioanola
12. Giuliana Minghelli. Svevo, Blogging and the Future of Literature
13. Silvia Ross. Palazzeschi’s vecchie inglesi and the Performance of Difference in Stampe dell’800
14. Bibliography of Eduardo Saccone’s works

 

If you are unable to attend the launch and wish to order the special issue, you can contact JHU Press directly (details below).

 

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You may also send your order and payment details to their secure fax line. The cost of a single issue for your own personal use is $12.00.  If the issue is being purchased by a library, the price is $53.00. Postage is $4.00 for delivery inside the United States and $5.00 for delivery outside the United States. Postage for any additional issues mailed to the same address would be $1.00 per issue.

 

 

 

 

 

Dr Silvia Ross

Department of Italian

School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

University College Cork

Cork, Ireland

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