History

Christie McDonald and Leslie Morris TROUVAILLE A Conversation About the Proofs of Maurice Blanchot's L'Entretien infini at Houghton Library Abstract: In acquiring the proofs of Maurice Blanchot's Entretien infini, Leslie Morris explored the curious ways...

Eduardo Ledesma TERRORISM REVISITED Modernisme, Art, and Anarchy in the City of Bombs Abstract: Explosively charged and violently disparate terms such as Modernisme (Modernism), Anarchy and Culture–or cultural resistance–find a common space in the City of...

Bruno Pischedda CONFESSIONI DI UN BRADIPO Come e perché è nato Scrittori polemisti Riassunto: Nel periodo che va dal 1970 ai primi anni ’80, nessuno in Italia si sarebbe immaginato una ripresa massiccia dell’impegno tra gli intellettuali letterati. Invece...

by Amedeo Quondam Donzelli, 347 pp., € 28.00 CECELIA OLIVERIO “Would you care to bestow the grace of your dancing upon the gathered company?” asks the perfect courtier to his advisee. “Why, most absolutely not, my dear friend,” a slightly less than...

by Franco Mormando University of Chicago Press, 456 pp., € 35.00 JULIANNE VANWAGENEN In a Gian Lorenzo Bernini stream-of-consciousness word-association game one might come up with Rome, marble fountain, St. Peter’s, baroque, post-Reformation Catholicism...

by Raymond Jonas Harvard University Press, 413 pp., $29.95 JOHN WELSH - Empire defeated Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army marched a remarkable 135 miles from Chancellorsville, Virginia to the battle of Gettysburg. Napoleon’s Russian Campaign, an arduous...

a cura di Sergio Luzzatto e Gabriele Pedullà (vol. II a cura di Erminia Irace) Einaudi, 946 pp., ill., 85.00 € MARCO ARESU - Tra geografia e storia “Prometto di non scrivere nessuna storia letteraria, nessun capitolo di storia letteraria, prima di avere...

by Mark Peterson Harvard University Press, 338 pp., $28.95 PETER LIEBERMAN Very often it takes the work of an outsider, with a fresh pair of eyes, to make an original contribution to any academic field—especially a field such as Italian Studies, whose...

by Douglas Biow Stanford University Press, 246 pp., $19.95 DAN TURELLO The ideals of grace and ease were ones that came to find great success and cultural currency during the Renaissance, in great measure thanks to the writing of Baldassarre Castiglione’s...

by Svetlana Boym Basic Books, 404 pp., $22.00 CHRISTOPHER BROWN - Riddles for Longing “Somewhere on the frontier, the ghost of Dostoevsky meets the ghost of Mickey Mouse. Like the characters from The Possessed, they exchange wry smiles.” Thus concludes...