Černá tvářičko, budeš Římanka!? Fašistický kolonialismus mezi sexismem a rasismem

Author(s): Alice Flemrová / Language(s): Czech Issue: 57/2018

The article focuses on the topic of collective perception and the literary representation of the relationship between the white man and the native woman in fascist Italy. The sexist undertone of propaganda songs from the time of the Second Italian-Ethiopian War soon was in contradiction with the rising racist views in Italian society that led to the compulsory segregation of white and indigenous people in the colonies. The stereotypical image of an indigenous woman as a domestic animal or beast appears in both trashy and high literature. The masculine figure has an interesting development: a new fascist man, the conqueror is finally replaced by the passive inetto, a type that has been enforced in the Italian literature during modernism.

"Il libro degli animali" di Mario Rigoni Stern: un messaggio ecologıco rivolto ai ragazzi

Author(s): Chrisiano Bedin / Language(s): Italian Issue: 1/2022

Asiago-born writer Mario Rigoni Stern, whose centenary of birth was celebrated in 2021, always took a great interest in young people, as amply demonstrated by his numerous talks at schools, where he often addressed ecological problems afflicting the Earth. His Il libro degli animali (1992), a collection of children’s stories illustrated by Xavier de Maistre, characteristically engages with environmental themes by expressing respect for the animal world and admiration for its beauty. Similar to ecological literature for children, Rigoni Stern’s book aims to highlight environmental problems and suggest possible solutions to them. Given this, it is dedicated to inspiring young readers to adopt an alternative way of life, one based on respect for nature and responsible/sustainable practices. This effort is combined with promoting symbiosis with land, as communion with nature is the only viable solution to many of the contemporary ecological problems. Employing ecocritical theories, mostly those related to environmentalism, this paper explores the way in which Rigoni Stern presents his standpoint on and ideas of the natural world to the young reading public. His approach makes Il libro degli animali part of the most complex ecological discourse that he developed in his long literary career.

Per un Rodari “ecologico”

Author(s): Pino Boero / Language(s): Italian Issue: 1/2022

In his works, Gianni Rodari always had an attentive eye for the environment and the ways in which it was described. At the time when an invariably beautiful and positive vision of nature prevailed, he wrote stories that, while entertaining, made the reader think. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that Rodari largely anticipated the themes of environmental emergency. As he dedicated many of his poems, fables and articles to environmental issues, the methodological starting point for this study involves compiling a complete catalogue of Rodari’s works published in books and magazines. In the next step, their most recurring themes are identified (adults’ inattention to the needs of children, property speculation, the changing of the seasons, animals unable to find their way around in pollution-suffocated cities, etc.), and Rodari’s style is assessed as always aiming for lightness and smile, rather than for didacticism. The results show that Rodari skilfully used fantasy to bring out the importance of respect for the environment and the role that childhood could have in the development of positive attitudes to the environment. The conclusion reasserts the current relevance of Rodari’s works and their validity in education as viewed from an ecological perspective.

Questioni ecologiche nella produzione di Giana Anguissola e Gianni Rodari

Author(s): Mariarosa Rossitto / Language(s): Italian Issue: 1/2022

The aim of this paper is to examine ecological issues in Italian children’s literature by focusing on the works of two Italian writers who criticize, from different perspectives, the lack of ecological awareness in modern humans. The writers are Giana Anguissola (1906–1966), loved by the young female readership of the day for her vividly ironic style and rounded female characters, and Gianni Rodari (1920–1980), effectively combining realism and fantasy to encourage his readers’ critical thinking. Anguissola’s Le straordinarie vacanze di Violetta (1964) places the protagonists of her prior Milan-set Violetta la timida in the new setting of the Piacenza countryside, where charismatic Don Piero has revived ancient farming practices: the local farmers do not use chemical fertilizers, machines or herbicides, and they transport their produce to the town by carts. Rodari explicitly addresses ecological themes in some of his articles and in two stories: “Il pifferaio e le automobili” (Tante storie per giocare, 1971) and “Il mondo in scatola” (Novelle fatte macchina, 1973). In the former tale, the narrative unfolds in a city completely overrun by cars, and in the latter, a surreal plot revolves around the problem of waste.

Problem toponima Molise u hrvatskom jeziku

Author(s): Danijel Alerić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 5/1991

The author shows that the toponime Molise must be declined as a feminine plural - a noun.

La Bibbia ceca del 1506. Sonda nella cultura del libro in Boemia a cavallo tra XV e XVI secolo

Author(s): Tiziana D’Amico / Language(s): Italian Issue: 1/2022

In 1506, the printer Liechtenstein published the “Biblij Cžeská w Benátkach tisšten” (Bohemian Bible printed in Venice). The Venetian Bible (as it is commonly called) was written in Czech and was commissioned by three Prague residents. This article aims to show the Czech Bible of 1506 as an interesting “object” that somehow connects two very distant cultural realities of the early sixteenth century: Venice, the most important center of European printing, especially humanist printing, and Prague, the center of Utrakism. This study will focus on three aspects: the situation of Bohemian printing art in the early sixteenth century, which has received the most attention; the reasons why the Bible is a “printed artifact”; and finally, the choice of Venice as the place of publication. The paper concludes with a brief reflection on the legacy of the Venetian Bible – a hybrid of two book cultures.

Andrea Camilleri in Polonia: un contributo alla ricerca

Author(s): Adrianna Sowińska / Language(s): Italian Issue: 1/2022

Andrea Camilleri (1925–2019), one of the most prominent contemporary Italian writers, made a name for himself and won extraordinary popularity with readers as an author of crime fiction, including novels and short stories. Italian literary critics regard him as an undisputed master of Italian mystery writing. The paper seeks to synthetise the available data on the reception of Camilleri’s work in Poland by the end of 2021. The argument begins with an outline of Camilleri’s life and work, which is followed by a survey of the studies of his writings. These findings are complemented with statistics concerning his books on the Polish publishing market. Camilleri’s writing and publishing career represents an interesting research field that has been explored by Polish scholars for more than twenty years now. His fiction, which found its way into Poland with a considerable delay, has since garnered the appreciation of both readers and literary critics, as well as inviting interest from the media. Camilleri’s art as a novelist has also drawn the attention of Polish scholars, primarily literature researchers.

Bibliografia dell’italianistica polacca del 2021

Author(s): Daniel Słapek / Language(s): Italian Issue: 1/2022

La torta in cielo –Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: A comparison of two literary works for children by Roald Dahl and Gianni Rodari

Author(s): Rosangela Libertini,Zuzana Chanasová,Andrey Kraev,Viera Rassu Nagy / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

The article presents two works of children’s literature by Roald Dahl and Gianni Rodari, respectively, which are well known and yet rarely compared to one another except within a general analysis of their authors’ literary work. Here we will first compare the lives and works of the two authors so that we may elucidate the reasons for the choices they made in their literary creation. We will then underline the differences between the two texts─differences that are obvious to a first-time reader, yet poignant. Finally, through a close, detailed reading of the phrases, the unexpected commonality of the works will be deduced, both in their writing style and in their use of narrative devices to attract the attention of young readers, such as the use of colours. From the discovery of these common points, the recognition of the underlying idea that we find in both works arises. Both works are thus useful for the young audience without, however, being didactic.

«AMO LE CONTAMINAZIONI. SENZA MESCOLANZE NON ESISTEREBBE ALCUNA FORMA DI VITA» LAILA WADIA E LA LINGUA METICCIA

Author(s): Luisa Emanuele / Language(s): Italian Issue: 13/2022

In today's society, more global and complex, we inevitably observe a social context’s transition, but also a cultural imaginary’s modification, which appears through a new and extraordinary literature. Migratory flows, in fact, changed the Western society’s physiognomy, and foreign authors who chose the Italian language for their narratives, contributed to the traditional literary canon’s renewal, in a dynamic and transcultural perspective. This contribution aims to underline the new literary dimension of these authors, at a linguistic, stylistic and content level. Linguistic hybridity characterizes these authors: their texts testify, in fact, how the native language does not disappear in contact with the acquired language, but mixes with it, creating a new rhythm and unexpected stories. Laila Wadia, an Indian writer living in Trieste, created a hybrid English, in which English and Indian terms converge in perfect symbiosis, creating a new, living language that reflects her multiple and dynamic identity. It determines a language made of substrates and contaminations, in which the words take on a new timbre and an extraordinary tone. Every language is transitable, and, in the crossing, elements are internalized and filtered, determining the conquest of an original and permeable space, in which every element is never in its place, but perpetually combined, thanks to the meeting/confrontation with heterogeneous realities.

MASCHILITÀ FRAMMENTATE. IL CASO DI TI HO SPOSATO PER ALLEGRIA DI NATALIA GINZBURG

Author(s): Giacomo Di Muccio / Language(s): Italian Issue: 13/2022

This paper offers an analysis of masculinity in Natalia Ginzburg’s pièce, Ti ho sposato per allegria. A survey based on this same positioning has already been conducted by other scholars who have often studied writer's novels and non-fiction production. From our point of view, the Ginzburg theatre deserves greater attention as a privileged place in which a revolutionary vision of the relationships between women and men is expressed. The analysis conducted with the lens of gender studies applied to literature will be able to add one more piece to the extensive study that has already been carried out on Ginzburg's texts. We will begin by framing the play starting from the drafting of the list of characters’ peculiarities of those who are present and of those who are not; we will continue the study focusing on the speaking male characters - Pietro - and on those "spoken", that is, described and told in absentia by the people on stage. The final purpose of the contribution will be to give an account of the male characters of the text, often inadequate as they are removed from a stereotypical heroic, muscular and hegemonic dimension typical of the literary and non-literary tradition.

UN BREVE VIAGGIO ALLA SCOPERTA DEI FILM DANTESCHI: DAI PRIMORDI DELLA SETTIMA ARTE AD OGGI

Author(s): Luciana Guido Shrempf / Language(s): Italian Issue: 13/2022

The goal that we set with this study was to try to embark on a journey to find out how cinema and tv have narrated the “Supreme poet” Dante and his Divine Comedy through the analysis of movies made starting from the era of silent film to the present day. The corpus of our research consists of about seventy movie sheets made from 1911 to 2021. The results of our research would have brought out, mainly, about twenty movies which we believe can be a valid example of how the cinema and tv were influenced by Dante.

Maurizio Cucchi

Author(s): Tonko Maroević / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 07+08/2003

Maurizio Cucchi, rođen 1945. u Milanu, vrlo je značajan pjesnik svojega naraštaja, afirmiran u zrelijoj dobi po izlasku prve zbirke »Il disperso« (Nestali, raspršeni, 1976.). Nakon iznimno prihvaćenoga starta uslijedile su knjige »Le meraviglie dell’ acqua« (Čudesa vode, 1980), »Glenn« (1982.), da bi već 1985. bio predstavljen i prvim autoantologijskim izborom pod naslovom »Il figurante« (Statist). Učestalije objavljuje u devedesetima: »La luce del distacco« (Svjetlost odmaka, 1990.), »Poesia della fonte« (Pjesme izvora, 1993.), »Hotel Riviera« (1997.) i »L’ultimo viaggio di Glenn« (Posljednje Glennovo putovanje, 1999.), a dosadašnji saldo zaokružuje opsežan svezak pod naslovom »Poesie, 1965-2000«, tiskan u prestižnoj kolekciji džepnih izdanja »Oscar Mondadori«, što predstavlja, makar privremeno, uvrštavanje među suvremene naročito aktualne autore, takoreće moderne klasike.

Fragmenti naših razgovora: De Brito, Scobie, Cucchi

Author(s): Sibila Petlevski / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 07+08/2003

Dugo sam razmišljala kojim zajedničkim nazivnikom povezati tri vrlo raznorodna poetska pisma, tri autora razvedenih, bogatih opusa, čiji književni horizonti nadmašuju nacionalne sredine kojima ti pisci pripadaju, a da pritom njihov kulturološki »kozmopolitizam«, njihova čitateljska i obrazovna otvorenost ni na koji način ne dovodi u pitanje baštinski odnos prema jeziku.

I VINCITORI DEL PREMIO STREGA E LE TRADUZIONI ROMENE

Author(s): Afrodita Carmen Cionchin / Language(s): Italian Issue: 3/2022

This article is part of a studies series on the reception of Italian writers in Romania, through a quantitative analysis of translations. We retrace there he recent history of the Strega Prize, to follow the fortune that the winners have had in Romania from 2010 to today, with the dual objective of highlighting what has been done so far and indicating what still needs to be translated. Strega is the most prestigious literary prize in Italy and the victory opens up important prospects for recognition also at an international level.

L’impietrito e il velluto/Okamina i baršun

Author(s): Giuseppe Ungaretti / Language(s): Croatian,Italian Issue: 01+02/2004

Poetry written by Giuseppe Ungaretti: “L’impietrito e il velluto” (Okamina i baršun)

Lik natčovjeka u D’Annunzijevom romanu Djevice sa stijena

Author(s): Mirza Mejdanija / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 19/2021

Gabriele D’Annunzio strives to create an image of an extraordinary life, an original life, which recedes before the norms of ordinary existence. After realizing the weakness of the character of the esthete that he tried to realize in the novel The Child of Pleasure, he adopts certain aspects of Nietzsche’s thought, trivializing them and limiting them into his own system of concepts. His new literary character, a superman, aggressive, energetic, and vigorous, does not deny the previous image of the esthete, but sums it up in himself, assigning it a different role. The cult of beauty is essential in the process of raising the lineage in the form of a few chosen ones: in that way, aestheticism is not a contemptuous rejection of reality, but an instrument of the desire for its domination. The protagonist of The Maidens of the Rocks, Claudio Cantelmo, wants to transform the ideal wealth of the lineage into one son, who will be a superman, with whom the Latin line will reach the pinnacle of his sublimity, and at the same time, become the new king of Rome. As a result, he sets out in search of the ideal companion who possesses his identical ideal wealth of lineage, with whom he will create a successor to whom he will entrust the struggle for the restoration of the old Italian glory. The end of the novel does not lead to the realization of this plan, it is very possible that the author intended to write about it later in the next novel, since he planned to write a cycle of The Romances of the Lily that would contain two more novels. In any case, D’Annunzio seeks to glorify the joy of living, the desire for power, the spirit of struggle and self-affirmation through his own version of the myth of the superman, and rises to attack democracy and the equalizing principles advocated by the new united state and its parliamentarism, as well as business and speculative spirit. He wishes for the emergence of a new aristocracy that will rise above the multitude of ordinary people through the cult of the beautiful and through the practice of an active and heroic life.

UGO FOSCOLO IZMEĐU NEOKLASICIZMA I PREDROMANTIZMA

Author(s): Mirza Mejdanija / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 15/2022

By the end of the 18th century, Italy was under Napoleon’s dominance. It was the time when centuries-long European values were being changed due to the Industrial, but also French revolution. The outcome of these enormous changes was an emergence of two artistic movements – neoclassicism and preromanticism that co-existed in Italy at the time. The most renowned Italian author of the 19th century, Ugo Foscolo, is a representative of both of these movements in the Italian literature. Neoclassicism and preromanticism emerged in the attempt to find an alternative to the same issues and, therefore, they co-existed in the same period of time, the elements of which are often present in the same authors, or even in one work of art. Foscolo is the author of Grazie, a neoclassical masterpiece of Italian literature, but also of the most significant work of the Italian preromanticism, the novel titled The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis. Both of these works present an attempt to escape the disappointing circumstances of the period in question. What is relevant is not the different directions at which these attempts of escapism were pointed, but the very need to do so. Culturally, in both cases, the rejection of the reality is evident. Both tendencies may be observed as a quest for an alternative to the existing conditions that are depressing: for neoclassicism, the alternative is found in the ideal of beauty and harmony, distant from the historical horrors and defeats. For preromanticism, it is the depths of one’s own self, in the union with nature, pastorally viewed as the centre of life’s authenticity. The different directions of escapism are no longer of any importance, but the very need to escape, which is what these two movements have in common. What we are about to explore in the present paper are the characteristics of neoclassicism and preromanticism in Italian literature, primarily in the works of Ugo Foscolo, the most influential Italian author of that period.

La relegatio di Ovidio nella memoria letteraria contemporanea romena e italiana

Author(s): Corina-Gabriela Bădeliță / Language(s): Italian Issue: 2/2022

Ovid’s exile has always exerted a great fascination on generations of historians, literary critics, artists and writers from all over the world, perhaps because the reasons that led to the poet’s relegation to Pontus – suspended between carmen, error and aliquid vidi – are still shrouded in the most enthralling mystery. Furthermore, even the Tomitan elegies of the last Ovid arouse many debates around his exile experience, both internal and external. The historical memory, for lack of irrefutable sources, is unable either to solve the questions that hover around the subject, or to do justice to the Sulmonese, thus leaving room for many hypotheses and interpretations. Thus, the literary memory takes advantage of it, completing, integrating, enriching Ovid’s fortune with new points of view and angles of light and keeping it still alive. In this paper we will analyse four novels and two short stories by (mostly) Romanian and Italian writers: God was born in exile. Ovid’s Diary to Tomi di Vintilă Horia, Il diario di Ovidio by Marin Mincu, Sulle rive del Mar Nero by Luca Desiato, Ovid, the Augustan Scapegoat by Michael Solomon, “Sogno di Publio Ovidio Nasone, poet and courtier” by Antonio Tabucchi (1992) and “Pontus Axeinos” by Mircea Cărtărescu. We aim to grasp the novelty of each reinterpretation and understand whether, from the Ovidian image outlined in the six works, we can deduce the traces that the poet’s exile has imprinted in the collective memory of Romania and Italy.

Memoria e oblio: per una riscoperta del romanesco delle Poesie di Giggi Zanazzo (1860-1911)

Author(s): Martina Ludovisi / Language(s): Italian Issue: 2/2022

The report aims to offer a linguistic analysis on two interesting aspects of the Poesie romanesche by Giggi Zanazzo; in particular, the author bases her observations on a new edition, unlike what was done previously. First of all, the author shows how she created this new edition. Finally, she analyzes the evolution of two innovative phenomena in Romanesco, the dialect of Rome: the development of vibrating consonant’s degemination, after she has collected data and observations on this development in Zanazzo’s editions; at last she talks about a backdating of a very important trait, dovere da + INF.