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

May 2019

Future volumes of Annali d'italianistica:

AdI, vol. 37 (2019)--Urban Space and the Body - with guest editors  Silvia Ross (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, [log in to unmask]) and Giulio Giovannoni (UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE, [log in to unmask]) - is underway and will be published in the fall of 2019. 

AdI, vol. 38 (2020) - Nation(s) and Translation - with guest editors
Norma Bouchard (San Diego State University, [log in to unmask]) and Valerio Ferme (Northern Arizona University, [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: Unholy and Holy Violence, Silence, Names, and Words. Interested scholars may contact Dino S. Cervigni ([log in to unmask]) and/or Christopher Kleinhenz ([log in to unmask]). Early submissions are welcome.


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Books Received
May 2019

Allegretti P., Gragnolati M., and Rossi L. C., eds. Vita nova. Fiore. Epistola XIII. Lopereseguite. Le Opere di Dante. 1. Tavarnuzze: SISMEL, 2019. Pp. 422.


Amato, Joseph A. Diagnostics: Poetics of Time. New York, NY: Bordighera Press, 2017. Pp. 126. 

Andreani, Marco, and Nicoletta Pazzaglia, eds. Photography as Power: Dominance and Resistance through the Italian Lens. Intro. David Forgacs. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019. Pp. 292.

Audegean, Philippe, and Luigi Delia, eds. Le Moment Beccaria, naissance du droit pénal moderne (1764-1810). Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment. Liverpool (and Oxford): Liverpool University Press (on behalf of Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford), 2018. Pp. 263.

Barone, Dennis. Second Thoughts. New York, NY: Bordighera Press, 2017. Pp. 67.

Bertellini, Giorgio. The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, Luminos, 2019. Pp. xv + 309. E-book

Borio, Maria. Poetiche e individui: La poesia italiana dal 1970 al 2000. Venezia: Marsilio Editori, 2018. Pp. 334. 

Bragato, Stefano. Futurismo in nota: studio sui taccuini di Marinetti. Firenze: Cesati, 2018. Pp. 305. 

Cangiano, Mimmo. La nascita del modernismo italiano: Filosofie della crisi, storia e letteratura, 1903-1922. Macerata: Quodlibet Studio, 2018. Pp. 640.

Cangiano, Mimmo. The Wreckage of Philosophy: Carlo Michelstaedter and the Limits of Bourgeois Thought. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. Pp. 186.

Carlucci, Alessandro. The Impact of the English Language in Italy. Linguistic Outcomes and Political Implications. Studies in Sociolinguistics 16. Munich: Lincom, 2018. Pp. 136. 

Cavallo, Jo Ann, ed. Teaching the Italian Renaissance Romance Epic. Options for Teaching series. New York: Modern Language Association, 2018. Pp. 392.

Comparini, Alberto. Geocritica e poesia dell'esistenza. Milano: Mimesis, 2018. Pp. 356.

Eisenbichler, Konrad. Forgotten Italians: Julian-Dalmatian Writers and Artists in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. Pp. 308.

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. 

Ferrara, Enrica Maria, and Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin, eds. Staged Narratives: Narrative Stages: Essays on Italian Prose and Narrative Theatre. Firenze: Franco Cesati Editore, 2017. Pp. 276.

Frisardi, Andrew, ed. and trans. Dante Convivio: A Dual-Language Critical Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. 663.


Houghton, L. B. T., and Marco Sgarbi, eds. Virgil and Renaissance Culture. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2018. Pp. 227. 

[On Dante organized by Spanish Grupo Tenzone.] Io son venuto al punto della rota. Ed. Ana Zembrino. La Biblioteca de Tenzone. Madrid: CEMA, 2017. Pp. 220.


The Italianist. Ed. Daniela La Penna and Lisa Sampson. Vol. 37, no. 3, October 2017. Depts. of Italian Studies, Universities of Cambridge, Leeds, and Reading. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. Pp. 463.


Luzi, Mario. Sotto specie umana. Under Human Species. Trans. Luigi Bonaffini. Italian Poetry in Translation, Vol. XVII. Series Ed. Gaetano Cipolla. Mineola, NY: Legas, 2018. Pp. 217.

Mackenny, Richard. Venice as the Polity of Mercy: Guilds, Confraternities, and the Social Order c.1250-c.1650. Toronto: University of Tornonto Press, 2019. Pp. 471. 

Mirabile, Andrea. Ezra Pound e l'arte italiana: fra le Avanguardie e D'Annunzio. Biblioteca dell'"Archivum Romanicum". Serie I: Storia, Letteratura, Paleografia, vol. 488. Firenze: Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki, 2018. Pp. 135.

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. 

Pratesi, Mario. All'ombra dei cipressi. Ed. Anne Urbancic. Studi no. 30. Firenze: Società Editrice Fiorentina, 2018. Pp. 94.

Ramsey-Portolano, Catherine. Performing Bodies: Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema (1860-1920). Madison and Lanham: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2018. Pp. 137.

Rosselli, Amelia. Diario Ottuso / Obtuse Diary. Trans. Deborah Woodard, Roberta Antognini, and Dario De Pasquale. Seattle: Entre Rios Books, 2018. Pp. 88.

Ruberto, Laura E., and Joseph Sciorra, eds. New Italian Migrations to the United States. Vol. 2. Art and Culture Since 1945. Urbana: U of Illinois Press, 2017. Pp. 218.


Scalabrino, Marco. La puisia di Marco Scalabrino/The Poetry of Marco Scalabrino: A Trilingual Anthology. Preface Corrado Di Pietro. Trans. Gaetano Cipolla, et al. Mineola, NY: Legas, 2018. Pp. 74.

Scuderi, Antonio, ed. Remembering the Consummate Playwright/Performer: Essays on Dario Fo. Leicester, UK: Troubador Publishing Ltd., 2019. Pp. 128.

Sighele, Scipio. The Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society. Ed., Intro., and Notes Nicoletta Pireddu. Trans. Nicoletta Pireddu and Andrew Robins. Forward Tom Huhn. The Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library. Ed. Luigi Ballerini and Massimo Ciavolella. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. Pp. 425.

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.

Dino S. Cervigni, Emeritus, UNC-CH
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