Mario B. Mignone ([log in to unmask]) and Charles Franco ([log in to unmask]) have kindly supplied me with a treasure of recent publications of interest for Italian Studies, among them a copy of _Forum Italicum_, vol. 32, No. 1 (Spring 1998), the contents of which I am pleased to announce to the list. For previous issues of Forum Italicum please see the website of the Center for Italian Studies at Stony Brook, where you can find, among other good things, the tables of contents and selected online post-prints from the issues Fall '95, Spring '96, Fall '96 and Fall '97: http://www.sunysb.edu/cis/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Forum Italicum Michael Ricciardelli, Founder and Senior Editor; Mario B. Mignone, Editor; Center for Italian Studies, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3358 USA, e-mail [log in to unmask] Volume 32, No. 1, Spring 1998 ISSN 0014-5858 Contents: Articles -------- Amilcare A. Iannucci (Univ. of Toronto) >From Dante's _Inferno_ to _Dante's Peak_: The Influence of Dante on Film...........................................5-35 Patrizia Palumbo (Univ. of Iowa) The Body of Christ and Religious Power in Angelo of Foligno's _Libro_.........................................36-50 Elissa Tognozzi (Univ. of California, Los Angeles) La Natura come corrispondente esterno ad una condizione psicologica-sentimentale nel _Canzoniere_ (con particolare enfasi su _Zephiro torna_)....................51-62 Simona Wright (The College of New Jersey) La guerra al femminile, tra esperienza e comunicazione letteraria: _L'Agnese va a morire_, _Lessico famigliare_, _Prima e dopo_............................................63-85 Anna Maria Torriglia (Univ. of Illinois) "Time Is No Longer The Same": Ambivalence and Denial or The Uneasy Relationship with the past in Pietro Germi's _Gioventu\ Perduta_ and Roberto Rossellini's _Germania Anno Zero_................................................86-107 Pierpaolo Antonello (Stanford Univ.) Paesaggi della mente. Su Italo Calvino...................108-131 Notes and Interviews -------------------- Robert Bufalini (College of the Holy Cross) Alberto Fortis and the Edges of Europe: Preromantic Fashion and Vergilian Tradition in the Service of Enlightened Reform.......................................132-140 Paola Caru\ (Universitet i Bergen) New portrayals of "old" characters: Anna Banti's Beatrice and Laura.......................................141-151 Luciano Parisi (Oxford Brookes University) Contributi laici a una storia letteraria del sentimento religioso in Italia...........................152-171 Gloria Lauri-Lucente (Univ. of Michigan) Giovanni Cecchetti and the Voices of Poetry..............172-176 Michael P. McDonald Il mestiere del critico: una intervista a Mario Luzi.............................................177-195 Poetry ------ Sandra Rainero Farfariello e gli altri: inediti di Eduardo Migliaccio...............................................196-201 La Lingua 'Taliana - _Macchietta_.....................202-204 La Carta Cittadina....................................205-207 'O Campanile..........................................208-209 Translations ------------ The Truth about Beatrice by Anna Banti Translated by Paola Caru\.................................210-214 Laura's Pleasures by Anna Banti Translated by Paola Caru\.................................215-218 The Fire on Kepler Street by Carlo Emilio Gadda Translated by Arnold Hartley..............................219-231 A Selection or POEMS BY Ferruccio Brugnaro Translated by Kevin Bongiorni and Reinhold Grimm..........232-242 Prose ----- Paola Sica Evelina...................................................243-253 Review Article -------------- Luca Somigli (Univ. of Toronto) Reading Eco in North America..............................254-262 [about _Reading Eco_, a collection of essays edited by Rocco Capozzi, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana U.P., 1997, 476 pp.] Reviews ------- Martin L. McLaughlin. _Literary Imitation in the Italian Renaissance: The Theory and Practice of Literary Imitation in Italy from Dante to Bembo._ Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. Pp. 314. Sherry Roush (Yale Univ.)..............................263-265 Laura Benedetti. _La sconfitta di Diana. Un percorso per la "Gerusalemme liberata."_ Ravenna: Longo Editore, 1996. Pp. 148. Maria Pastore Passaro (Central Connecticut State Univ.)...........................................265-267 Gustavo Costa. _Vico e l'Europa. Contro la "boria delle nazioni."_ Milano: Guerini e Associati, 1996. Pp. 183 Massimo Lollini (Univ. of Oregon)......................267-270 M. M. Sevilla, M. A. Pastor, J. Villalobos, eds. _Cuadernos sobre Vico._ nos. 7 and 8 (1997) Sevilla: Centro de Investigaciones sobre Vico. Pp. 494. Gabriel Pihas (Yale Univ.).............................270-272 Umberto Eco. _Kant e l'ornitorinco._ Milano: Bompiani, 1997. Pp. 454. Rocco Capozzi (Univ. of Toronto).......................272-275 Novella Bellucci. _Giacomo Leopardi e i contemporanei. Testimonianze dall'Italia e dall'Europa in vita e in morte del poeta._ Firenze: Ponte alle Grazie, 1996. Pp. 541. Paolo Possiedi (Montclair State Univ.).................275-279 Giacomo Leopardi. _Canti._ Selected and introduced by Franco Fortini and translated by Paul Lawton. Dublin: UCD Foundation for Italian Studies, 1996. Pp. 176.- Giacomo Leopardi. _Selected Poems._ Trans- lated by Eamon Grennan. Princeton: Princeton Uni- versity Press, 1997. Pp. XXIV + 89. Paolo Possiedi (Montclair State Univ.).................279-282 Luigi Ballerini, ed. _La linea longobarda._ Saratoga: ANMA Libri, 1996. Pp. 144. Alessandro Carrera (New York Univ.)....................282-284 Alberto Papuzzi, ed. _Autobiografia, Norberto Bobbio._ Bari: Laterza, 1997. Pp. 274. Anna Maria Torriglia (Univ. of California at Padua)....285-287 John Gatt-Rutter. _Oriana Fallaci: The Rhetoric of Freedom._ Oxfor, Washington D.C.: Berg, 1996. Pp. 212 Grace Russo Bullardo (City Univ. of New York, Lehman College)........................................287-289 Peter Carravetta. _Il fantasma di Hermes. Saggio su metodo retorica interpretare._ Lecce: Milella, 1996. Pp. 418. Massimo Lollini (Univ. of Oregon)......................289-291 V. A. Goddard. _Gender, Family and Work in Naples._ Oxford and Washington D.C.: Berg, 1996. Pp. 264. Grace Russo Bullaro (CUNY-Lehman College)..............291-293 Stefania Buccini. _The Americas in Italian Literature and Culture._ University Park: Penn State Press, 1997. Pp. 226. Margherita Marchione (Fairleigh Dickinson Univ.)......293-296 Walter Euchner, Francesca Rigotti, Pierangelo Schiera. _Il potere delle immagini. La metafora politica in prospettiva storica._ Bologna: Il Mulino; Berlin: Duncker & Humboldt, 1995. Pp. 413 Franco Ratto (Univ. di Roma, La Sapienza).............296-298 Margherita Marchione. _Yours is a Precious Witness: Memoirs of Jews and Catholics in Wartime Italy._ Mahwah: Paulist Press, 1997. Pp. 259. Fabian Alfie (Univ. of Arizona).......................298-300 Alberto Granese, Sebastiano Martelli, and Enrico Spinelli, eds. _I Gaurico e il rinascimento meri- dionale._ Salerno: Centro studi sull'umanesimo meridionale, 1992. Pp. viii + 581. William J. Kennedy (Cornell Univ.)....................300-301 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Otfried Lieberknecht, Schoeneberger Str. 11, D-12163 Berlin phone & fax: ++49 30 8516675, E-mail: [log in to unmask] Homepage for Dante Studies: http://members.aol.com/lieberk/welcome.html Listowner of Italian-Studies: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/italian-studies/ Listowner of Medieval-Religion: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%