From 2008 onwards, books received for review for Italian Studies will now be advertized online. Reviewers are being sought for the 2009 issues of the journal, either for individual books (reviews of c. 850 words) or a number of books on related subjects (review articles of c. 3000 words).
Interested parties should email the Reviews Editor, Guyda Armstrong (guyda.armstrong@manchester.ac.uk), with their book requests before 1 July 2008. If you have never reviewed for Italian Studies before, please provide a brief introduction with your book request. Please also provide your email address, academic affiliation, and the postal address where you wish the book(s) to be sent. The deadline for submission of reviews and review articles will be 1 April 2009, unless agreed otherwise.
The stylesheet for book reviews is available on this page.
Books Received:
John C. Barnes and Jennifer Petrie, eds, Dante and his Literary Precursors: Twelve Essays (Dublin: Four Courts Press , 2007). ISBN 978-1-85182-652-0
John C. Barnes and Jennifer Petrie, eds, Dante and the Human Body: Eight Essays (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008). ISBN 978-1-84682-090-8
Daniela Boccassini, Il volo della mente: Falconeria e Sofia nel mondo mediterraneo: Islam, Federico II, Dante (Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2003). ISBN 88-8063-380-5
Paolo Borsa, La nuova poesia di Guido Guinizelli (Fiesole: Cadmo, 2007). ISBN 978-88-7923-363-7
Antonella Braida and Luisa Calè, Dante on View: The Reception of Dante in the Visual and Performing Arts (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007). ISBN 978-0-7546-5896-2
Daniela Caselli, Beckett's Dantes: Intertextuality in the fiction and criticism (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005). ISBN 0-7190-7156-9
Echi danteschi/ Dantean Echoes (Torino: Trauben, 2003). ISBN 8888398422
Nick Havely, Dante (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007). ISBN 978-0-631-22853-0
Peter S. Hawkins, Dante: A Brief History (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006). ISBN 1-4051-3052-0
Elena Lombardi, The Syntax of Desire: Language and Love in Augustine, the Modistae, Dante (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007). ISBN 978-0-8020-9070-6
Eyolf Østrem and Nils Holger Petersen, Medieval Ritual and Early Modern Music: The Devotional practice of Lauda Singing in Late-Renaissance Italy (Turnhout: Brepols, 2008). ISBN 978-2-503-52066-7
Regina F. Psaki, Italian Literature II. Tristiano Riccardiano (Cambridge: Brewer, 2006). ISBN 1-84384-067-7
Guy P. Raffa, Danteworlds: A Reader's Guide to the Inferno (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007). ISBN-13: 978-0-226-70268-1. ISBN-10: 0-226-70268-5
Pamela Williams, Through Human Love to God: Essays on Dante and Petrarch (Leicester: Troubador, 2007). ISBN 978-1905886-401
Alessandro Arcangeli, Recreation in the Renaissance: Attitudes Towards Leisure and Pastimes in European Culture, c. 1425-1675 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). ISBN 0-333-9845306
Donald Beebe, ed., Selected Writings of Girolamo Savonarola: Religion and Politics, 1490-1498 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006). ISBN 0-300-10326-3
Maria Bendinelli Predelli, Firenze alla vigilia del Rinascimento: Antonio Pucci e i suoi contemporanei (Fiesole: Edizioni Cadmo, 2006). ISBN 88-7923-447-1.
Christopher F. Black, Church, Religion and Society in Early Modern Italy (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). ISBN 0-333-61844-0
Élise Boillet, L'Arétin et la Bible (Geneva : Droz, 2007). ISBN 978-2-600-01058-0
Stephen Bowd, ed., Vainglorious Death: A Funerary Fracas in Renaissance Brescia (Arizona: ACMRS, 2006). ISBN 0-86698-355-4
Abigail Brundin, Vittoria Colonna and the Spiritual Poetics of the Italian Reformation (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008). ISBN 978-0-7546-4049-3
Jill Burke and Michael Bury, eds, Art and Identity in Early Modern Rome (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008). ISBN 978-0-7546-5690-6
Chiara Cassiani, Metamorfosi e conoscenza: I dialoghi e le commedie di Giovan Battista Gelli (Rome: Bulzoni, 2006). ISBN 88-7870-167-X. ISBN 978-88-7870-167-0
David D'Andrea, Civic Christianity in Renaissance Italy: The Hospital of Treviso, 1400-1530 (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2007). ISBN-13: 978-1-58046-239-6. ISBN-10: 1-58046-239-1
Alain Godard and Marie-Françoise Piéjus, Espaces, Histoire et Imaginaire dans la Culture Italienne de la Renaissance (Paris: Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2006). ISBN 978-2-900478-27-1
Klaus W. Hempfer, Grenzen und Entgrenzungen des Renaissancedialogs (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006). ISBN 978-3-515-08991-3
Tamar Herzig, Savonarola's Women: Visions and Reform in Renaissance Italy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008). ISBN 13: 978-0-226-32915-4. ISBN 10: 0-226-32915-1
M. A. Katritzky, Women, Medicine and Theatre, 1500-1750: Literary Mountebanks and Performing Quacks (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007). ISBN 978-0-7546-5084-3
Ita MacCarthy, Women and the Making of Poetry in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (Leicester: Troubador, 2007). ISBN 978-1905886-616
Armando Maggi, In the Company of Demons: Unnatural Beings, Love, and Identity in the Italian Renaissance (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006). ISBN 0-226-50130-2
John M. Najemy, A History of Florence 1200-1575 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006). ISBN 1-4051-1954-3
Giancarla Periti, Emilia e Marche nel Rinascimento: L'identità visiva della 'periferia' (Genoa: Bolis Edizioni, 2005). ISBN 88-7827-139-X
Diana Robin, Publishing Women: Salons, the Presses, and the Counter-Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Italy (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007). ISBN-13: 978-0-226-72156-9. ISBN-10: 0-226-72156-6
Mary Rogers and Paola Tinagli, Women in Italy, 1350-1650: Ideals and Realities (Manchester: Manchester University Press), 2005. ISBN 0-7190-7209-3
Guido Ruggiero, Machiavelli in Love: Sex, Self and Society in the Italian Renaissance (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2007). ISBN 13: 978-0-8018-8516-7. ISBN 10: 0-8018-8516-7
Camilla Russell, Giulia Gonzaga and the Religious Controversies of Sixteenth-Century Italy (Turnhout: Brepols, 2006). ISBN 2-503-51807-9
Lisa Sampson, Pastoral Drama in Early Modern Italy: The Making of a New Genre (London: Legenda, 2006). ISBN 1-904713-06-8
Helena Sanson, Donne, precettistica e lingua nell'Italia del cinquecento: un contributo alla storia del pensiero linguistico (Florence: Accademia della Crusca, 2007). ISBN 88-89369-07-8
Ulrike Schneider, Der weibliche Petrarkismus im Cinquecento: Transformationen des lyrischen Diskurses bei Vittoria Colonna und Gaspara Stampa (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007). ISBN 978-3-515-09047-6
Dario Tessicini, I dintorni dell'infinito: Giordano Bruno e l'astronomia del cinquecento (Pisa and Rome: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2007). ISBN 978-88-6227-097-7
Alessandra Villa, Istruire e rappresentare Isabella d'Este: Il libro de natura de amore di Mario Equicola (Lucca: Maria Pacini Fazzi Editore, 2006). ISBN 978-88-7246-772-1
Elissa B. Weaver, Arcangela Tarabotti: A Literary Nun in Baroque Venice (Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2006). ISBN 88-8063-492-5
Mariona A. Wells, The Secret Wound: Love-Melancholy and Early Modern Romance (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007). ISBN 13: 978-0-8047-5046-2. ISBN 10: 0-8047-5046-7
Caroline Castiglione, Patrons and Adversaries: Nobles and Villagers in Italian Politics, 1640-1760 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). ISBN 978-0-1951-7387-1
Martha Feldman, Opera and Sovereignty: Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007). ISBN 13: 978-0-226-24112-8. ISBN 10: 0-226-24112-2
Paola Malpezzi Price and Christine Ristaino, Lucrezia Marinella and the 'Querelle des femmes' in Seventeenth-Century Italy (Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2008), ISBN 978-0-8386-4122-4
Enrico Nuzzo, Eroi ed età eroiche attorno a Vico (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2004). ISBN 88-84987-177-8
Tommaso Rossi, Opere filosofiche (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2006). ISBN 88-8498-257-X
Luca Badini Confalonieri, Les régions de l'aigle et autre études sur Manzoni (Bern: Peter Lang, 2005). ISBN 3-03910-454-3
Stefano Biancu, La poesia e le cose: Su Leopardi (Milan: Associazione Culturale Mimesis, , 2006). ISBN 88-8483-402-3
Guido Bonelli, La parola sbagliata: Saggio sulla falsità espressiva dei Promessi Sposi (Turin: Celid, 2007). ISBN 88-7661-746-9. ISBN 978-88-7661-746-1
Federica Brunori-Deigan, Alessandro Manzoni's The Count of Carmagnola and Adelchis (Baltimore and London: John Hopkins University Press, 2004). ISBN 0-8018-7881-0
Angelo Colombo, I lunghi affanni ed il perduto regno: Cultura letteraria, filologia e politica nella Milano della Restaurazione (Besançon: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2007). ISBN 978-2-84867-177-2
Laura Fournier-Finocchiaro, Giosué Carducci et la construction de la nation italienne (Caen : Presses universitaires de Caen, 2006). ISBN 2-84133-274-8
Gillian Ania, Paola Capriolo: Mitologia, Musica, Metamorfosi 1988-1998 (Florence: Franco Cesati Editore, 2006). ISBN 88-7667-227-3
Gillian Ania and John Butcher, Narrativa italiana degli anni Sessanta e Settanta (Naples: Libreria Dante e Descartes, 2007). ISBN 88-6157-009-7
Giorgio Baroni, Il futurismo sulla rampa di lancio 'Poesia' 1905-2005, ed. by Giorgio Baroni. Special issue of Rivista di letteratura italiana, XIV, 2 (2006) (Pisa and Rome: Istituti Editorali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2007). ISBN 88-8147-594-4
Patrick Barron, The Selected Poetry and Prose of Andrea Zanzotto: A Bilingual Edition (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007). ISBN 13:978-0-226-97884-0. ISBN 10: 0-226-97884-2
L. Béghin, Da Gobetti a Ginzburg: Diffusione e recessione della cultura russa nella torino del primo dopoguerra (Bruxelles: Istituto Storico Belgo di Roma, 2006). ISBN 90-74461-65-4
Charles Burdett, Journeys through Fascism: Italian Travel Writing between the Wars (New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2007). ISBN 978-1-57181-540-8
Daniela Caselli, Beckett's Dantes: Intertextuality in the Fiction and Criticism (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005). ISBN 0-7190-7156-9
Echi danteschi/ Dantean Echoes (Turin: Trauben, 2003). ISBN 8888398422 Giuseppe Farinelli, Perché tu mi dici poeta? Storia e poesia del movimento crepuscolare (Rome: Carocci, 2005). ISBN 88-430-3534-7
Elio Gioanola, Pirandello's Story: La vita o si vive o si scrive (Milan: Jaca Book, 2007). ISBN 978-88-16-40764-0
Robert S. C. Gordon, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). ISBN 978-0-521-60461-1
Mafia and Outlaw Stories from Italian Life and Literature, trans. by Robin Pickering-Iazzi (Toronto: UTP, 2007). ISBN 978-0-8020-9561-9
Curzio Malaparte, Woman Like Me (Leicester: Troubador, 2007). ISBN 1-905237-84-7
Angelo M. Mangini, Il varco: letteratura come anamorfosi. Teoria e prassi del fantastico nell'Italia del primo Novecento (Bologna: Bononia University Press, 2007). ISBN 978-88-7395-253-4
Paolo Mantegazza, The Physiology of Love and other writings, ed. by Nicoletta Pireddu, trans. by David Jacobson (Toronto: UTP, 2007). ISBN 978-0-8020-9289-2
Carlo Michelstaedter, Persuasion and Rhetoric (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004). ISBN 0-300-10434-0. ISBN 978-03-0010-434-9
Elio Pagliarini, La ragazza Carla: A Girl Named Carla (Leicester: Troubador, 2006). ISBN 1-905237-87-1
Erminia Passannanti, Poem of the Roses: Linguistic Expression in the Poetry of Franco Fortini (Leicester: Troubador, 2004). ISBN 1-904744-65-6
Federica G. Pedriali, Altre carceri d'invenzione: Studi gaddiani (Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2007). ISBN 978-88-8063-563-5
Franca Pellegrini, La tempesta originale: La vita di Alda Merini in poesia (Florence: Franco Cesati Editore, Firenze, 2006). ISBN 88-7667-215-X
André Peyronie, Le Nom de la Rose: Du livre qui tue au livre qui brûle: Aventure et signification (Rennes : Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2006). ISBN 2-7535-0251-X
Luigi Pirandello, Shoot! (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005). ISBN 0-226-66981-5. ISBN 0-226-66982-3
Roberto Salsamo, Trittico Futurista: Buzzi, Marinetti, Settimelli (Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2006). ISBN 978-88-7870-169-6. ISBN 88-7870-169-6
Sei poeti liguri (Turin: Trauben, 2004). ISBN 88883986694
Luca Somigli, Valerio Evangelisti (Fiesole: Cadmo, 2007). ISBN 978-88-7923-362-0
Vivienne Suvini-Hand, Sweet Thunder: Music and Libretti in 1960s Italy (London: Legenda, 2006). ISBN 1-904350-60-7
John Woodhouse, Il generale e il comandante: Ceccherini a D'Annunzio a Fiume (Bologna: Gedit, 2004). ISBN 88-88120-53-X
Nigel Armstrong and Federico M. Federici, eds, Translating Voices Translating Regions (Rome: Aracne, 2006). ISBN 88-548-0619-6
Monica Boria and Linda Risso, eds, Laboratorio di nuova ricerca: Investigating Gender, Translation and Culture in Italian Studies (Leicester: Troubador, 2007). ISBN 978-1905886-227
Anna Laura Lepschy, and Arturo Tosi, eds, Languages of Italy: Histories and Dictionaries (Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2007). ISBN 978-88-8063-564-2
Martin Maiden and Cecilia Robustelli, A Reference Grammar of Modern Italian (London: Hodder Arnold, 2007). ISBN 0-340-91339-8
Colin McIntosh and others, eds, Oxford Beginnners Italian Dictionary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). ISBN 0-19-929855-6. ISBN 978-0-19-929855-6
Odile Redon, Les Langues de l'Italie Médiévale (Turnhout : Brepols, 2002). ISBN 2-503-51100-7
Arturo Tosi, Un italiano per l'Europa: La traduzione come prova di vitalità (Rome: Carocci, 2007). ISBN 978-88-430-4389
Mario Biagioli, Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006). ISBN 0-226-04561-7
Andrew Hopkins and Maria Wyke, eds, Roman Bodies (London: British School at Rome, 2005). ISBN 0-904152-44-8
Grace Russo Bullaro, Man in Disorder: The Cinema of Lina Wertmüller in the 1970s (Leicester: Troubador, 2006). ISBN 978-1905886-395
Sergio Adamo, Culture planetarie? Prospettive e limiti della teoria e della critica culturale (Rome: Meltemi, 2007). ISBN 88-853-512-X
David Jenemann, Adorno in America (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007). ISBN 978-081664809-2
Andrea Mirabile, Le strutture e la storia: La critica italiana dallo strutturalismo alla semiotica (Milan: Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto, 2006). ISBN 88-7916-320-5
Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg, The Pinocchio Effect: On Making Italians, 1860-1920 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007). ISBN-13: 978-0-2267748-0. ISBN-10: 0-226-77448-1
Luca Badini Confalonieri, Il cammino di madonna Oretta: Studi di letteratura italiana dal Due al Novecento (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2004). ISBN 88-7694-747-7
Luca Badini Confalonieri, Perspectives Franco-Italiennes: Prospettive Italo Francesi: Séminaires du CEFI 2000-2002 (Rome: Aracne, 2005). ISBN 88-7999-895-1
Laura Benedetti, The Tigress in the Snow: Motherhood and Literature in Twentieth-century Italy (Toronto: UTP, 2007), ISBN 978-0-8020-9744-6
Francesca Billiani, and Gigliola Sulis, eds, The Italian Gothic and Fantastic: Encounters and Rewritings of Narrative Traditions (Cranbury: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007). ISBN 978-0-8386-4126-2
Piero Boitani, Winged Words: Flight in Poetry and History (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007). ISBN 978-0-226-06561-8.
Michael Caesar and Marina Spunta, eds: Orality and Literacy in Modern Italian Culture (London: Legenda, 2006). ISBN 1-904350-73-9
Peter Hainsworth and Martin McLaughlin, eds, Biographies and Autobiographies in Modern Italy (London: Legenda, 2007). ISBN 978-1-905981-07-6
Ann Hallamore Caesar and Michael Caesar, Modern Italian Literature (Cambridge: Polity, 2007). ISBN 978-0-7456-2800-4
Jill Kraye and Laura Lepschy, eds, Caro Vitto: Essays in Memory of Vittore Branca (London: Warburg Institute, 2007). ISBN 978-0-85481-142-7
Federica G Pedriali and Rossella Riccobono, eds, Vested Voices II: Creating with Transvestism: from Bertolucci to Boccaccio (Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2007). ISBN 978-88-8063-549-9
Michelangelo Picone and Luisa Rubini, Il cantare italiano fra folklore e letteratura (Florence: Olschki, 2007). ISBN 978-88-222-5696-6
Loredana Polezzi and Charlotte Ross, eds, In Corpore: Bodies in Post-Unification Italy (Cranbury: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007). ISBN 978-0-8386-4164-4.
Marina Roggero, Le carte piene di sogni: Testi e lettori in età moderna (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2006). ISBN 88-15-11022-4
Michele Abbate, L'Italia fascista fra Europa e Stati Uniti d'America (Civita Castellana: Centro Falisco di Studi Storici), 2002
Felia Allum, Camorristi, Politicians, and Businessmen: The Transformation of Organized Crime in Post-War Naples (Leeds: Northern Universities Press, 2006). ISBN 1-904350-05-4
Grant Amyot and Lucas Verzichelli, eds, Italian Politics: The End of the Berlusconi Era? (New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2006). ISBN 1-84545-266-6. ISBN 1086-4946
Tommaso Astarita, Between Salt Water and Holy Water: A History of Southern Italy (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2005). ISBN 978-0-393-32867-7
Rainer Baudendistel, Between Bombs and Good Intentions: The Red Cross and the Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936 (New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2006). ISBN 1-84545-035-3
Tom Behan, Defiance: The Story of One Man who Stood Up to the Sicilian Mafia (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008). ISBN 978-1-84511-514-2
Anna Cento Bull, Italian Neofascism: The Strategy of Tension and the Politics of Nonreconciliation (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007), ISBN 9-781845-453-350
Peter Denley, Commune and Studio in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena (Bologna: CLUEB, 2006). ISBN 88-491-2646-8
Peter Denley, Teachers and Schools in Siena, 1357-1500 (Siena: Betti editrice, 2007), ISBN 978-88-7576-097-7
Christopher Duggan, The Force of Destiny: A History of Italy since 1796 (London: Allen Lane, 2007). ISBN 978-0-713-99709-5
Robert S. DuPlessis, Market Makers and Market Takers: A History of Natural Fibers Textiles in the Central Apennine Region (the Marche and Umbria) (Bari: Mario Adda Editore, 2005). ISBN 88-8082-633-6
Fabrizio Elefante, La fiducia nella democrazia (Milan: IPOC, 2006). ISBN 88-95145-06-2
Silvia Evangelisti, Nuns: A History of Convent Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007). ISBN 978-0-19-280435-8
Michel Huysseune, Modernity and Secession: The Social Sciences and the Political Discourse of the Lega Nord in Italy (New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2006). ISBN 1-84545-061-2
Giuseppe Ieraci, Governments and Parties in Italy: Parliamentary Debates, Investiture Votes and Policy Positions (1994-2006) (Leicester: Troubadour, 2008), ISBN 978-1906221-720
Fiorella Kostoris Padoa Schioppas, ed., The Principle of Mutual Recognition in the European Integration Process (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). ISBN 1-4039-3489-4
John M. Najemy, A History of Florence 1200-1575 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006). ISBN 1-4051-1954-3
Enrico Nuzzo, Eroi ed età eroiche attorno a Vico (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2004). ISBN 88-84987-177-8
Ilaria Serra, The Value of Worthless Lives: Writing Italian American Immigrant Autobiographies (New York: Fordham University Press, 2007). ISBN 978-0-8232-2678-8
Ugo Skubikowski, Vite italiane: Dodici conversazioni con italiani (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005). ISBN 0-8020-4887-0
Robert A. Ventresca, From Fascism to Democracy: Culture and Politics in the Italian Election of 1948 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004). ISBN 0-8020-8768-X
Joseph Farrell and Paolo Puppa, eds: A History of Italian Theatre (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). ISBN 0-521-80265-2
Donatella Fischer, Il teatro di Eduardo De Filippo: La crisi della famiglia patriarcale (London: Legenda, 2007). ISBN 978-1-905981-34-2
Stefania Taviano, Staging Dario Fo and Franca Rame: Anglo-American Approaches to Political Theatre (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005). ISBN 0-7546-5401-X
