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Editing and translating he young Mario Praz: A journey through his unpublished juvenilia
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Italian, 2020)This doctoral thesis aims to present the first ever edition and translation of three unpublished juvenile texts written by Mario Praz, who is considered the godfather of Comparative and Cultural Studies. The first text I ... -
'Figlio d'esseri umani': Animals in Italo Calvino's War Novels and Novellas (1947-1957)
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Italian, 2020)On November 17, 1946, the former Partisan and budding Italian writer, essayist, and intellectual, Italo Calvino, wrote an article for L'Unità against the atomic bomb testing done in the Bikini Atoll of the Marshall Islands. ... -
The literary patronage of Lodovico II Gonzaga, Marchese of Mantua 1444-1478
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Italian Department, 2010)The scope of my research was to bring to life the figure of Lodovico Gonzaga as an erudite humanist statesman. Although he is often framed in such terms, conventional definitions such as "pupil of Vittorino da Feltre" ... -
Umberto Eco and Rabelaisian grotesque : Bakhtinian echoes and sociopolitical criticism in the fictional works of Umberto Eco
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Italian Department, 2013)Despite the fact that Eco is a world-renowned public intellectual with an evident desire to contribute to the changes of contemporary Italian society, scholarly literature has given little attention to the sociopolitical ... -
"Cher maître et ami" : edizione critica delle lettere di Eugenio Montale a Valery Larbaud e altri documenti Montaliani (1925-1939)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Italian Department, 2005)This dissertation is centred on the critical study of the correspondence of Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) with the French writer Valery Larbaud (1881-1957). The epistolary documents - several of which hitherto unpublished - ...