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Historicized fiction or fictionalized history?: Lia Levi's Cecilia va alla guerra and the legacy of the First World War in contemporary Italian children's literature
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017-04)
Historical fiction has always been a popular genre in international children's literature, and recent decades have seen a notable increase in the number of novels for children set during the First World War. Providing ...
Italian Transcultural Atmospheres. A Comparison of the Italian Forum in Sydney and Piazza Vittorio in Rome
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)
This article is part of a larger study of Italian commercial and urban spaces developed around the world over the past fifteen years. It focuses in particular on the Italian Forum, a residential and commercial development ...
The languages of transnationalism: translation, training, and transfer
(Irish American Cultural Institute, 2016-02-01)
In the flows and connections that are central to transnational studies, language is a conduit
that facilitates transfers; it allows for the movement of ideas and people across national and
linguistic boundaries. In the ...
A voyage into Catholicism: Irish travel to Italy in the nineteenth century
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-05-19)
The analysis of travel writing and Italy has often focused on the beauty, the history and the heritage of the country; this essay argues that religion was a key element in depictions of the country and that this was ...
Petrarch goes west: translation and the literary canon
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-09-08)
This article addresses the translation of Petrarch's work on the Western fringes of Europe demonstrating how the appropriation and transformation of the European literary canon served domestic ends in Ireland in the ...
Blanchot and ambiguity
(Purdue University Press, 2010-09)
In his article "Blanchot and Ambiguity" Paolo Bartoloni investigates the enigmatic and ambiguous turn of the famous Blanchotian statement "existence without Being." The intention of the article is to locate Blanchot's ...
Dante Alighieri from absence to stony presence: building memories in nineteenth-century Florence
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-10-12)
The Dante narrative is one of the key narratives of nineteenth-century Italy in the self-fashioning of Italian patriotism. This article looks at the momentum behind the project to commemorate Dante in Florence in the early ...
Translating the Vatican: Paul Cullen, power and language in nineteenth-century Ireland
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-09-29)
This paper examines how one of the most influential figures in nineteenth-century Ireland, Cardinal Paul Cullen, used language and translation to further his career and his vision for the Catholic Church in this period. ...
That dangerous serpent: Garibaldi and Ireland 1860 - 1870
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2010-09-28)
This article analyses the reaction to Garibaldi in Ireland during the Risorgimento, a reaction which, in its negativity, generally contrasted with the Italian's heroic depiction elsewhere. Attitudes towards Garibaldi ...