Solenoide: Una proposta di lettura in chiave dantesca

Author(s): Monica Fekete / Language(s): Italian Issue: 4/2021

The presence of Dante in literature and in other cultural fields still holds a privileged position nowadays, when rereadings and reuses acquire surprising, innovative and stimulating forms. Within this context, we propose a Dantean reading of Mircea Cãrtãrescu’s super-novel, Solenoid, which is a representative and appropriate example to showcase a dense inter-textual dialogue between the two authors irrespective of the 700 years separating them.

«Косящий бег» (Петрарка — Мандельштам — Петрарка)

Author(s): Nikita G. Okhotin / Language(s): Russian Issue: 8/2021

Пятьдесят первый сонет на смерть мадонны Лауры (CCCXIX в общей нумерации «Il Canzoniere»), переводить который О. Э. Мандельштам взялся в январе 1934 года, открывается следующим катреном: I dì miei più leggier che nes(s)un cervo; Fuggir come ombra, et non vider più bene; Ch’un batter d’occhio, et poche hore serene, Ch’amare et dolci ne la mente servo. (Petrarca 1999: 1214).

Henry Bitterfeld, Thomas Aquinas and Identifying Sources in Late Medieval Texts. A Case Study of De formatione et reformatione Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum

Author(s): Anna ZAJCHOWSKA-BOŁTROMIUK / Language(s): English Issue: 58/2020

The article deals with the ways in which St Thomas Aquinas’s texts were used by Henry Bitterfeld in his late-14th-century treatise De formatione et reformatione Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum. Not only is Aquinas the most often quoted authority in Bitterfeld’s writing but also his texts are the building materials for Bitterfeld. This special place of St Thomas in the treatise by the Silesian Dominican resulted from a practical realisation of the assumptions of the Dominican Observant Reform for the needs of which the analysed treatise was written, calling for the return of the Dominicans to faithful observance of the Order’s regulations. Those ordered the friars to study and propagate St Thomas’s teachings.

W sporze o Długosza argument nowy: przejątki z Petrarki w Rocznikach Jana Długosza

Author(s): Zdzisław Koczarski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 58/2020

This article shows how Polish chronicler Jan Długosz used the works of Petrarch. The examination is based on computer-assisted comparative analysis as well as on philological methods. The article describes the manuscripts containing Petrarch’s works which Długosz had at his disposal, and tries to respond a question when the chronicler (in what periods of his life) got with them in touch. It also analyses Długosz’ methods of drawing textual excerpts he inserted into his chronicle. Besides, the arguments supporting hypothesis about the existence of chronicler’s special catalogue, in which he might have collected the extracts from various sources, are considered. Finally, his method of the use of sources is characterised in more detail.

O polskim wydaniu Liberum Arbitrium Francesca Negriego i „zagranicznej” pochwale polskich pisarzy reformacyjnych

Author(s): Wojciech Kordyzon / Language(s): Polish Issue: 59/2021

The article deals with the problem of attribution of the 1559 edition of Liberum Arbitrium by Francesco Negri da Bassano with the ‘Pesclavii’ address, containing references to some Polish Reformation writers (Andrzej Trzecieski, Mikołaj Rej), that are missing from the same year edition pressed by Jean Crespin in Geneva. The printing was attributed to the Daniel of Łęczyca publishing house, recognizing the falsification of the publishing address as an element of Reformation publishing propaganda.

Perdersi ne "La foresta-radice-labirinto". Calvino e la pedagogia del paesaggio per bambini

Author(s): Anna Małgorzata Brysiak / Language(s): Italian Issue: 1/2022

The paper examines La Foresta-Radice-Labirinto (1981), a fairy tale which is one of Italo Calvino’s latest and lesser known works. In what can be regarded as his testament, Calvino looks back on and revives the ecological commitment of his literary production and his attention to the complex relationship between nature and culture, which has been a prominent leitmotif of his writings (from The Baron in the Trees to The Cloud of Smog, and from the adventures of Marcovaldo to the Invisible Cities). The paper offers a detailed symbological and eco-critical analysis of the text, in order to examine an ‘ecology of mind’ as developed by Calvino, invariably sensitive to hybridisation and to the ongoing and often difficult relation between historical and environmental mutations. In doing so, the paper lists and explores the construction of images-icons and figures-types that make up what Calvino calls ‘a pedagogy of imagination’. The paper focuses on Calvino’s dedication to education through fairy tales as a primary form of experience, capable of conveying universal messages to a young readership, and on his longing for an authentic exposure to the environment, where getting lost means finding oneself and where chaos leads to a new order, founded on an ethical search for a more harmonious union of city, human beings and nature.

Glorija i Gloriana

Author(s): Lada Čale Feldman / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 03+04/2004

Naslov, ime izlaganja što slijedi, unaprijed je odredilo njegov tijek i zapreminu, ne obrnuto. U ovoj naslovnoj prilici, naime, zbio se, u više smislova, »obrnut slučaj naslov na koji se iznenada naleti, katkad dobrano prije teme«, tako da funkcionira poput »uvodnih riječi... to jest poticaj: jednom kad je naslov tu, jedino što valja proizvesti je tekst koji ga opravdava... ili ne opravdava« (Genette, 1997, 67, istakla L. C. F.). Utoliko više što se dvije riječi, a možda ujedno i dva ženska imena koja ga nastanjuju, očituju toliko homofonijski bliskim susjedima, da se, eto, kako i priliči imenima, posve arbitrarno - onkraj ili ispred eventualne srodnosti sadržaja što ga svojom pozicijskom obvezom najavljuju, fiksiraju, obećavaju ili prekrivaju - nude na uzajamno dozivanje, s jednim slogom jeke u produžetku drugog prizvanog člana.

Tragoedia adriaca

Author(s): Nedjeljko Fabrio / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 03+04/2004

Samo je po sebi razumljivo da su dalmatinski i istarski Hrvati izravno, a to znači istodobno s izlaskom iz tiska i bez prevoditeljskoga posredništva, čitali talijanske pisce; samo je po sebi razumljivo i to da su zato prvi upozoravali na eventualnu nazočnost hrvatskoga segmenta u njima suvremenim djelima talijanske književnosti. Posebice na pojave negativnoga odslika toga segmenta.

Între regie și narațiune: Portretizarea personajului dramatic în arta didascalică la Luigi Pirandello

Author(s): Diana Nechit / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2015

This paper emphasizes the role that the literary didascalias had on the creation of the dramatic modern character concept at the beginning of modern theatre. Luigi Pirandello initiates the transgration from enuntiative list of characters from the beginning of the play to the internal didascalias of the dramatic text that have not only an cathalitic function of the theatrical performance, but also a literary value of psychological and portrayal analysis of the character. Adopting a literary language inside didascalias, Luigi Pirandello’s theatre overcomes the performance constrains and offers independent textual pattern for his plays.

Memorie Collettive Fluide: i Fiumi Po e Tevere fra Fascismo e Rappresentazione Letteraria

Author(s): Martin Wilhelm Mario Franken / Language(s): Italian Issue: 2/2022

The notion of collective memory (Halbwachs, 1992/1925) is of central importance in the modern social sciences, although it remains highly controversial in its conceptualization: Hirst (2008) encapsulates the two ends of a spectrum in which collective memory is seen as a social representation contained “in the world” or as shared individual memories. The current work aims at exploring how these two positions are not mutually exclusive, but rather coexist and are useful in distinguishing between different types of collective memory. Two rivers of the Italian peninsula, the Po and the Tiber, will exemplify how the same segment of the world can be the object of a collective memory understood both as a social representation that transcends individual minds, and as a direct result of shared individual memories. More specifically, we will first investigate the transcendent symbolic meanings that both rivers have acquired from the fascist ideological apparatus; secondly, through the analysis of two contemporary works of travel literature [Il Po si racconta (Rea, 1996) and Storie lunghe un fiume (Romani & Vinti, 2006)], we will explore how multiple shared individual memories are able to shape collective memories by themselves. To conclude, we aim at clarifying that defining a collective memory as completely independent or completely dependent on multiple individual memories is a matter of understanding the essence of a specific collective memory, rather than a realistic race for the conquest of a pure conceptualization.

Le maschere della Commedia dell’arte raffigurate nelle tele di Arcimboldo e di Tiepolo

Author(s): Ramona Maliţa / Language(s): Italian Issue: 60/2022

This interdisciplinary study (literature – painting) focuses on Italian carnival masks. As objectives, we propose a) to illustrate the aesthetic connection between the characters of the Commedia dell’arte and the allegorical portraits made by Arcimboldo and the painters of the Tiepolo artistic dynasty, and b) to highlight the dramatic character of the figures depicted in Mannerist paintings. We have identified some features of the carnivalesque character behind the mask, such as social and professional type, satirized human defects, and moral and physical qualities. Our critical working hypothesis is that, while one may encounter symbolic characters in literature, such as Orpheus, Narcissus, Prometheus, in the case of painting there are artists who place themselves differently concerning their art: homo contemplativus (the artist contemplating nature); homo faber (the artist whose art has a clear purpose); homo contentus (the artist admiring his own work). We have applied this interpretative framework, belonging to Rosario Assunto, to the carnivalesque characters of the Commedia dell’arte and to the allegorical characters created by Arcimboldo and Tiepolo.

ROSA DEL CONTE’S “ART OF TRANSLATION” BETWEEN CRITICISM AND PRACTICE

Author(s): Jessica Andreoli / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

In the synthetic essay “Le brutte infedeli ovvero Quasimodo interprete di Arghezi”,Rosa Del Conte – eminent philologist, critic and translator – openly criticised the volume of selected poems by Tudor Arghezi translated by Quasimodo (1966). In the apparently passive position of the reader, Rosa Del Conte turns the reading experience into an analysis endeavour. She takes apart the Arghezian translations and constructs a critical essay where, in the background, we can notice certain specific aspects of her manner of translation and of the deontology needed by the translator. As part of a rhetorical exercise, Rosa Del Conte explains her own perspective. The antiphrastic reasoning implicit in the use of the syntagm “belle infedeli” intentionally emphasises the negative connotation of her critique. This ironic phrase, an explicit case of antiphrasis, could then be read not only as a value judgment on the Arghezian translations made by Quasimodo, but especially as a synthetic expression of her perspective on the poetic translation. The present study, dedicated to the analysis of the world of ideas and concepts behind the expression “le brutte infedeli”, aims to reconstruct Rosa Del Conte’s translation process, as well as her idea of “fedeltà alla poesia”.

Il film e la lettura ad alta voce nella didattica della letteratura italiana: il romanzo italiano del primo Novecento

Author(s): Iuliana David / Language(s): Italian Issue: 2/2022

Аўтарскія стратэгіі ў беларускай і італьянскай жаночай паэзіі міжваеннага перыяду (Наталля Арсеннева, Яўгенія Пфляўмбаўм, Антонія Поццы)

Author(s): Aksana Danilchyk / Language(s): Belarusian Issue: 16/2022

The article deals with the problem of the author’s strategies on the example of Belarusian and Italian women's poetry of the interwar period, in particular, Belarusian poetesses Natallia Arsiennieva, Jaughenia Pflaumbaum and Italian poetess Antonia Pozzi. There are several common themes in their works11: beauty /magnificence, creativity/ of the poetry, nature and its close connection with the emotional state of the lyrical character, as well as distancing from social motives. The article examines how the authorial strategies of poetesses changed during this period.

Più forte dell’orrore. Come la memoria del bello vinse il Lager e il Gulag

Author(s): Giuseppe Ghini / Language(s): Italian Issue: 44/2023

The contribution outlines a particular dimension of the internment experience, that “remnant of spiritual freedom, of the free attitude of the ego towards the world – as Viktor Frankl explains – even in that state, only apparently of absolute compulsion”. Furthermore, it aimsto present two cases in which this “remnant of humanity” is embodied in a literary memory which thus becomes a memory of authentic life, capable of brightening and shattering the nonsense of the forced labour camp. This is the experience that Primo Levi recounts in Chapter XI of Se questo è un uomo, in which the memory and the existential re-actualization of Dante’s Ulysses overcome the professed desperation of Levi’s title. This is the same experience as Georgij Aleksandrovič Lesskis did in 1939, when, in the horror of the Soviet correctional labour camp, was rescued, according to his own testimony, by the “fair, bright and warm world of Tolstoy’s War and Peace”.

Orio Vergani: non solo reporter

Author(s): Luca Clerici / Language(s): Italian Issue: 1/2023

In July 2022, Vergani’s nephews donated a collection of important papers by Orio Vergani and his sons Guido and Leonardo to APICE (Archivi della Parola, dell’Immagine e della Comunicazione Editoriale), a vital institution belonging to The University of Milan. This donation represents an excellent opportunity to study Vergani’s interest in different fields: reportage, photojournalism, literature besides art and literary criticism, painting, cinema, the radio, advertising, wine and gastronomy. Everyone can find a compelling and complete portrait of Vergani studying his unpublished writings.

Lampedusa jako „Brama do Europy” – kształtowanie wizerunku wyspy we włoskim reportażu przez pryzmat zjawiska imigracji afrykańskiej

Author(s): Sylwia Szarejko / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2023

This article is an attempt to familiarize the readers with Italian reportages that deal with the subject of African migrations to the Apennine Peninsula. In recent years, this phenomenon has been described and analyzed by many writers and journalists; however, this article places special emphasis on the representation of the island of Lampedusa, which belongs to the archipelago of the Italian Pelagie Islands and has in the last 30 years become not only the proverbial “Gateway to Europe”, but also a place that testifies to the issue of illegal migrations. When analyzing the reportages about Lampedusa, the most interesting aspect (from the Polish perspective, at least) seems to be the Italian angle on the “problem of the island.”

Definire la retorica: il „Dell’arte oratoria” di Sperone Speroni

Author(s): Teodoro Katinis / Language(s): Italian Issue: 1/2023

This contribution focuses on Sperone Speroni’s text Dell’arte oratoria (On the Oratory Art), one of his short treatises dedicated to rhetoric. The main aim is to define the different aspects of the text’s style and content that make it a relevant source for exploring Speroni’s rhetorical thought. Combining classical sources with his original perspective, Speroni attempts to support rhetorical art by using rhetorical means. This text was not meant to be read by the public and it reveals an erratic argumentation looking for efficacious definitions of oratory to defend it from its detractors.

THE TWINS IN THE FAIRY TALE SUN, MOON AND TALIA BY GIAMBATTISTA BASILE

Author(s): Carmen Ioana Popa / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 19/2019

Through this study we want to present the opposite elements from the fairy tale Sun, moon and Talia by Giambattista Basile. This fairy tale with a strong dark character is another form of the well-known fairy tale Sleeping beauty. We will focus on the birth of the two stars after a rape. The pair of twins are in the womb of Tellus Mater, they are the total being who has the ability to wake their mother from the creative sleep. The palace in which they live, is trapped between heaven and earth, and the forest which is a symbol of unconscious, is the one that interpose between them and the others. We will make some associations with mythology and alchemy. In mythology, the Sun mostly belongs to the male element, and the Moon to the female element. In contrast, to the semitic people, the Moon is masculine. In alchemy, the two stars form the hierogamy, a sacred wedding from which results to filius hermaphrodites, Hermes psychopomp.

THE AESTHETICS OF THE MEDIEVISTIC NOVELIST: UMBERTO ECO

Author(s): Luiza Marinescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 23/2020

The evolution of the concept of the work of art from the opening to the production of signs is the fruit of the experience of the semiotician Umberto Eco, of the attempts of his critical analysis as a writer, of the achievements in the field of Novel. Umberto Eco's novels are an illustration of the semiotic theory, which happened to be contemporary with postmodernism, and do not represent its theorizing, but a key to achieving a maximum and varied audience, at a time when the Novel and the Author were predicted to die, in an age when the mechanism of the reception of mass culture, fiction and popular culture were not used for the survival of literature. The selection of Umberto Eco’s and his contemporary opinions aims to change the optics of the improvement of the work of art. Another psychology of reading is imposed by this new game, which has become the craft of creating a novelistic masterpiece.