News from Annali d’italianistica (www.ibiblio.org/annali)

May 2017

Here is the most recent list of books received.

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Books Received

May 2017

Al-Musawi, Muhsin J. The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters. Arabic Knowledge Construction. Notre Dame (IN): University of Notre Dame Press, 2015. Pp. 449.

Allen, Michael J. B. Icastes: Marsilio Ficino’s Interpretation of Plato’s Sophist. Five Studies and a Critical Edition with Translation. Tempe (AZ): ACMRS, 2016. Reprint of the 1989 edition. Pp. 317.

Annovi, Gian Maria. Pier Paolo Pasolini: Performing Authorship. New York (NY): Columbia University Press, 2017. Pp. 272.

Antonelli, Quinto. Intimate History of the Great War: Letters, Diaries, and Memoirs from Soldiers on the Front. Saggistica (Book 24). New York (NY): Bordighera Press, 2016. Pp. 262.

Ardizzone, Maria Luisa. Reading as the Angels Read. Speculation and Politics in Dante’s Banquet. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. Pp. 453.

Bassetti, Piero. Let’s Wake Up, Italics! Studies in Italian Americana volume 12. New York (NY): John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 2017. Pp. 138.

Benso, Silvia. Viva Voce: Conversations with Italian Philosophers. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2017. Pp. 318.

Benzoni, Ferruccio. The Poetry of Ferruccio Benzoni. Trans. Taylor Corse and Enrico Minardi. Palermo: Epos International, 2015. Pp. 130.

Bonfili, Sara, e Giampaolo Vincenzi. Giorgio Manganelli e il viaggio. Roma: Artemide Editoriale, 2017. Pp. 128.

Borra, Antonello, ed. and trans. Guittone d’Arezzo: Selected Poems and Prose (Lorenzo da Ponte Italian Library). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. Pp. 220.

Brera, Matteo. Novecento all’Indice: Gabriele d’Annunzio, i libri proibiti e i rapporti Stato-Chiesa all’ombra del Concordato. Temi e Testi, 153. Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2016. Pp. 366.

Calabretta-Sajder, Ryan. Divergenze in Celluloide: Colore, migrazione e identita nei film gay di Ferzan Ozpetek. Milano: Mimesis Edizioni, 2016. Pp. 246.

Carravetta, Peter. After Identity: Migration, Critique, Italian American Culture. Saggistica 21. Milano: Bordighera Press, 2017. Pp. 278.

Cavallaro, Daniela. Educational Theatre for Women in Post-World War II Italy: A Stage of Their Own. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. 265.

Cerrone, Olivia Kate. The Hunger Saint. New York (NY): Bordighera Press, 2017. Pp. 262.

Chiesa, Laura. Space as Storyteller: Spatial Jumps in Architecture, Critical Theory, and Literature. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2016. Pp. 264.

Ciabattoni, Francesco. La citazione è sintomo d’amore: cantautori italiani e memoria letteraria. Roma: Carocci, 2016. Pp. 164.

Comparini, Alberto. La poetica dei dialoghi con Leucò di Cesare Pavese. Milano: Mimesis Edizioni, 2017. Pp. 224.

Daly, Selena. Italian Futurism and the First World War. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. Pp. 265.

Di Martino, Loredana, and Pasquale Verdicchio, eds. Encounters with the Real in Contemporary Italian Literature and Cinema. Newcastle upon Tyne (UK): Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. Pp. 395.

Di Paolo, Maria Grazia. Studies in Modern Italian Fiction. Preface Joseph Tusiani. Mineola (NY): Legas, 2016. Pp. 140.

Epstein, Mark, Fulvio Orsitto, and Andrea Righi, eds. TOTalitarian ARTs : The Visual Arts, Fascism(s) and Mass Society. Cambridge, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. Pp. 470.

Gallo, Cinzia. Spigolature letterarie tra Ottocento e Novecento. Prefazione di Niccolò Mineo. Padova: Il Poligrafo, 2017. Pp. 161. E-BOOK.

Gazzola, Giuseppe. Montale, the Modernist. Biblioteca dell'«Archivum Romanicum» - Serie I: Storia, Letteratura, Paleografia, vol. 464. Firenze (Italy): Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki, 2016. Pp. 234.

Graney, Christopher M. Setting Aside All Authority. Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the Science against Copernicus in the Age of Galileo. Notre Dame (IN): University of Notre Dame Press, 2015. Pp. 270.

Guida, George. The Sleeping Gulf. New York: Bordighera Press, 2015. Pp. 89.

L’immaginario devoto tra mafie e antimafia. 1. Riti, culti e santi. A cura di Tommaso Caliò e Lucia Ceci. Roma: Viella, 2017. Pp. 376. E-BOOK.

Leone, Marco. Sul Barocco in Italia. Dieci capitoli di storia letteraria. Bari: Progedit, 2016. Pp. 149.

La “mirabile” natura. Magia e scienza in Giovan Battista della Porta (1615-2015). Atti del convegno internazionale. Napoli, Vico Equense, 13-17 ottobre, 2015. Ed. Marco Santoro. Pisa: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2016. Pp. 369.

Lokaj, Rodney. Two Renaissance Friends: Baldassarre Castiglione, Domizio Falcone, and their Neo-Latin Poetry. MRTS 466. Tempe (AZ): ACMRS, 2016. Pp. 372.

Manca, Joseph. Subject Matter in Italian Renaissance Art: A Study of Early Sources. MRTS 460. Tempe (AZ): ACMRS, 2016. Pp. 235.

Mirabile, Andrea. Piaceri invisibili: retorica della cecità in D’Annunzio, Pasolini, Calvino. Lingue e Letterature Carocci 226. Roma: Carocci editore, 2017. Pp. 155.

Orioles, Filippo. Il riscatto d’Adamo nella morte di Gesù Cristo. Edizione critica di Salvatore Bancheri con la collaborazione di Johnny L. Bertolio. Mineola (NY): Legas, 2015. Pp. 171.

Paulicelli, Eugenia. Italian Style. Fashion & Film from Early Cinema to the Digital Age. Topics and Issues in National Cinema 5. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Pp. 272.

Periola, Mario. Estetica italiana contemporanea. Tascabili Bompiani 565. Milano: Giunti Editore, 2017. Pp. 272. E-BOOK.

Pezzotti, Barbara. Investigating Italy’s Past through Historical Crime Fiction, Films, and TV Series: Murder in the Age of Chaos. Italian and Italian American Studies. London and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016. Pp. 270.

Polizzi, Frank. A New Life for Bianca. Afterword Anthony Di Renzo. New York: Bordighera, 2015.

Questioni filologiche: la critica testuale attraverso i secoli. Atti della Conferenza Internazionale della Graduate Students’ Association of Italian Studies (GSAIS), University of Toronto Department of Italian Studies, 2-4 maggio 2013. Ed. Pamela Arancibia, Johnny L. Bertolio, Joanne Granata, Erika Papagni, and Matteo Ugolini. Firenze: Franco Cesati Editore, 2016. Pp. 275.

Raimondi, Andrea. The Many Voices of Contemporary Piedmontese Writers. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. Pp. 212.

Ricci, Roberta and Simona Wright, eds. NEMLA Italian Studies. Special Issue: The Renaissance Dialogue. xxxviii, 2016.

Rimanelli, Giose. Il mestiere del furbo: panorama della narrativa italiana contemporanea (1930-1959). Milano: Bordighera Press, 2016. Pp. 229.

Rizzarelli, Giovanna, and Cristina Savattieri. C’è un lettore in questo testo? Rappresentazioni della lettura nella letteratura italiana. Bologna: La Società editrice il Mulino, 2017. Pp. 274.

Silone, Ignazio. Il seme sotto la neve. Edizione critica Alessandro La Monica. Firenze: Le Monnier Università, 2015. Pp. 758.

Scotton, Paolo e Enrico Zucchi, a cura di. Tracing the Path of Tolerance. History and Critique from the Early Modern Period to the Present Day. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. Pp. 186. E-book.

Spina, Angelo. Il cucchiaio trafugato. Crossings 21. Milano: Bordighera Press, 2017. Pp. 171.

Studi d’italianistica nell’Africa australe / Italian Studies in Southern Africa 29.1 (2016). Pp. 104.

Turco, Lewis. The Hero Enkidu. An Epic. New York: Bordighera, 2015. Pp. 100.

Verdicchio, Pasquale. Bound by Distance: Rethinking Nationalism Through the Italian Diaspora. Saggistica (Book 20). New York (NY): Bordighera Press, 2016. Pp. 262.

Dino S. Cervigni, Emeritus, UNC-CH (https://cervignidino.wordpress.com)

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