The Occasional Papers of the Society provide a forum for monographs and other miscellaneous publications in Italian Studies. Proposals should be sent to the Senior Editor of Italian Studies, Dr Robert Gordon, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, CB2 1TA, UK; email rscg1@cam.ac.uk.
7. PIERO BOITANI, Dante's Poetry of the Donati
August 2007. v + 55 pp. ISBN 978 0 9525901 7 0
£10.00/US$20.00 (SIS members: £8.00/US$16.00).
Members of the Florentine family of the Donati feature prominently in Dante's Divine Comedy. Their presence is explored by Piero Boitani, as a 'comedy' within the Comedy, in close readings of the three major episodes in which they appear, one for each of Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.
6. Theatre, Opera, and Performance in Italy from the Fifteenth Century to the Present: Essays in Honour of Richard Andrews. Ed. by Brian Richardson, Simon Gilson, and Catherine Keen
2004. x + 312 pp. ISBN 0 9525901 6 6.
£40/US$75 (SIS members: £27/US$50).
Brian Richardson, Richard Andrews; Richard Andrews: a select bibliography; Corinna Salvadori Lonergan, 'Tradito ma non troppo': on translating Poliziano's Fabula d'Orfeo (verses 141-308) into rhymed verse; Judith Bryce, 'Or altra via mi convien cercare': marriage, salvation, and sanctity in Antonia Tanini Pulci's Rappresentazione di Santa Guglielma; Ronnie Ferguson, Staging scripted comedy in Renaissance Venice (1500-1560): a survey of the evidence; Peter Brand, Ariosto and classical comedy; Brian Richardson, 'Recitato e cantato': the oral diffusion of lyric poetry in sixteenth-century Italy; Linda Carroll, 'I have a good set of tools': the shared interests of peasants and patricians in Beolco's Lettera giocosa; Lisa Sampson, 'Drammatica secreta': Barbara Torelli's Partenia (c. 1587) and women in late-sixteenth-century theatre; Janie Cole, 'Un poco più triviale': Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane (1568-1647) and court theatrical spectacles in Seicento Florence; Robert Henke, The burlesque testamento and the commedia dell'arte; Tim Carter, Che cosa è amor? Music and love in Mozart's Così fan tutte; Michael Caesar, Poetic improvisation and the challenge of transcription; Julian Rushton, Speech, song, and deceiving your neighbour: aspects of dramaturgy in Wagner and Verdi; Deirdre O'Grady, Duality, duplicity, and the demise of romantic ideals in Francesco Maria Piave's libretto I due Foscari; Ann Hallamore Caesar, Crossing the public/private divide: the salotto and the theatre in late-nineteenth-century Italy; Anna Laura Lepschy and Giulio Lepschy, Towards a study of Annie Vivanti's play L'invasore; Jennifer Lorch, Brock Pemberton's production of Six Characters in Search of an Author; Julie Dashwood, Rebels and rejects: characters in the Pirandello manner; Donatella Fischer, Farsa e polemica in storie di poveri attori: La Bohème dei comici di Raffaele Viviani; Joseph Farrell, Carmelo Bene: revolutionizing tradition; Index
5. With a Pen in her Hand: Women and Writing in Italy in the Nineteenth Century and Beyond. Ed. by Verina R. Jones and Anna Laura Lepschy
2000. x + 120 pp. ISBN 0 9525901 5 8.
£15.50/US$26 (SIS members: £10.50/US$17.50).
Giuliana Morandini, Risorgimento al femminile; Ricciarda Ricorda, In viaggio fra Occidente e Oriente: Cristina di Belgiojoso scrittrice e saggista; Angiola Ferraris, I giornali femminili della metà dell’Ottocento; Ann Hallamore Caesar, Proper Behaviour: Women, the Novel, and Conduct Books in Nineteenth-Century Italy; Francesca Sanvitale, Neera, scrittrice della nuova Italia; Emmanuelle Genevois, L’esperienza verista nell’opera della Marchesa Colombi; Adalgisa Giorgio, A Room of One’s Own: Gender and Genius in Annie Vivanti’s I divoratori; Lucienne Kroha and Alexandra Haedrich, Modernity and Gender-Role Conflict in Maria Messina; Emmanuela Tandello, Tradition and Innovation in the 1880s: Annie Vivanti and Contessa Lara; Sharon Wood, Cecilia Stazzone and Sicilian Theatre; Paolo Puppa, Giacinta Pezzana tra scena e pagina.
4. RICHARD ANDREWS, A Theatre of Community Memory: Tuscan Sharecropping and the Teatro Povero di Monticchiello
1998. xii + 128 pp. ISBN 0 9525901 4 X.
£17.50/US$30 (SIS members: £11.50/US$20).
In a small Tuscan village, for over thirty years, the people have been examining and expressing themselves through the medium of an annual drama production which attracts nation-wide attention, with a new text being written every year. Their ‘autodrammi’ have meditated regularly on the transfer of rural Tuscan society, in the 1960s, from a sharecropping community with medieval structures to the post-industrial world in which we all now live. In the process they have preserved memories of an important phase in Italian social history. This study, composed by Richard Andrews after a fifteen-year acquaintance with the theatre of Monticchiello, first of all traces the political and social process by which Tuscan sharecropping came to an end. It then examines in detail the way in which that story has been remembered, analysed and even mythologized in the artistic consciousness of a lively modern community. The book will be of equal interest to Italianists, to historians, and to students of theatre.
3. Sguardi sull’Italia: miscellanea dedicata a Francesco Villari. A cura di Gino Bedani, Zygmunt Barański, Anna Laura Lepschy, e Brian Richardson
1997. vi + 272 pp. ISBN 0 9525901 3 1.
£21.50/US$40 (SIS members: £14.50/US$27).
CONTENTS: Z. Baranski, ‘Orpheus id est pulchra vox’: philological notes on Dante, Orpheus, Horace, and other writers; L. Pertile, Il silenzio di Geri (Inferno, XXIX. 1–36); C. Keen, Signs of fiorentinità : the Baptistery and its meanings in Dante's Florence; B. Richardson, Fulvio Pellegrino Morato and Fortunio’s Regole grammaticali della volgar lingua; P. Armour, Michelangelo’s two sisters: contemplative life and active life in the final version of the monument to Julius II; L. Panizza, Women and books in Renaissance Italy; J. Everson, Every picture tells a story: illustrations for the Orlando Furioso after 1542; V. Cox, Women as readers and writers of chivalric poetry in early modern Italy; G. Aquilecchia, Astri, plebe e principi nella Cena di Bruno; G. Bedani, Pluralism, integralism, and the framing of the republican constitution in Italy: the role of the catholic Left; R. Andrews, Calvino’s (fictional) women; R. Gordon, Primo Levi: on friendship; C. O'Brien, Alda Merini: poetry and psychosis; R. Piazza, ‘The usual story’: the narrative imperfect in Celati as an indicator of information already familiar to the reader; A. Giorgio, Real mothers and symbolic mothers: the maternal and the mother–daughter relationship in Italian feminist theory and practice; A. L. Lepschy and G. Lepschy, From antipasto to zabaglione: Italianisms in the Concise Oxford Dictionary.
2. PETER DRONKE, Dante’s Second Love: the Originality and the Contexts of the Convivio
1997. vi + 76 pp. ISBN 0 9525901 2 3.
£12/US$21 (SIS members: £8/US$14).
Three essays on the nature of the bonds between Vita Nuova and Convivio; the nature and significance of the Donna Gentile, Dante’s ‘second love’; and the imaginative and intellectual coherence of the third and fourth treatises of the Convivio. An excursus comments on the Donna Gentile’s fate at the hands of scholars.
1. GÜNTER BERGHAUS, The Genesis of Futurism: Marinetti’s Early Career and Writings 1899–1909
1995. vi + 99 pp. ISBN 0 9525901 0 7.
£12/US$21 (SIS members: £8/US$14).
The first part studies the aesthetic and ideological currents with which Marinetti came into contact during his early, pre-Futurist, career. The second part focuses on Marinetti’s early publications, showing how he assimilated his sources and how he progressively assembled the basic ingredients of the Futurist manifesto.
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