Sep 2026· Incontri: Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani· 0 citations
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The introduction reconstructs the historical and theoretical framework within which the special issue Rhetorical Culture and Literary Practices in Italy (Thirteenth–Seventeenth Centuries) is situated, following the international conference of the same name, held at the Italian Cultural Institute in Amsterdam on 8–9 November 2024. At the centre of the inquiry lies the relationship between rhetoric and literature, examined through the variety of forms it assumes over time and across different contexts of written production. The historically shifting status of rhetoric, the continual redefinition of its domains, and its interaction with genres, practices, and institutions provide the background against which the contributions gathered in the volume are read. From the medieval ars dictaminis to vernacular epistolary writing, from sixteenth-century reflection on language and eloquence to theatricality and Baroque theories of metaphor, the issue focuses on selected moments in which rhetorical knowledge participates in the formation, interpretation, and transformation of literary forms.
This article examines the scripts employed by the Poor Clares of the Corpus Domini monastery in Bologna during the sixteenth century, focusing on a corpus of chronicle manuscripts and obituary registers preserved in the Archiepiscopal Archive. While scholarship on female monastic writing has largely concentrated on f...
This study examines the reflection of the Spanish Civil War (1936 – 1939) in the journalism of the Slovak intellectual, poet, and politician Ladislav Novomeský. The conflict is interpreted as a major turning point in European history that transcended a domestic struggle and became a symbol of the ideological clash betw...
The study of fragmentary texts, particularly those from antiquity, opens a fascinating window into the past, allowing us rich insights into the cultural, literary, and historical landscapes in which they were created. The togata”a lesser-known form of mid-Republican Roman drama”survives only in scattered remnants, yet...
Romanian cultural figures from the 19th century campaigned in unison for the unity of the language as a sine qua non condition for achieving the ideal of national unity. In their conception, the history of the nation is equivalent to the history of the language, the linguistic instrument being assigned an eminently pol...
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This article examines the translation, adaptation and staging of the Greek tragic chorus across Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian theatrical traditions. Treating the chorus as an intersection of poetic text, ritual performance and collective voice, the study analyses a spectrum of choral transfer strategies, ranging fro...
