Search
Now showing items 1-2 of 2
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 ...