Sperimentazioni retoriche dei Comici dell’Arte all’inizio del Seicento

Tesauro’s Il Cannocchiale aristotelico in the Twenty-First Century

The article examines the recent publication of the first critical edition of Emanuele Tesauro’s Cannocchiale aristotelico (1670), edited by Maicol Cutrì for Fondazione Pietro Bembo / Ugo Guanda Editore. This major editorial achievement restores full visibility to a key work of seventeenth-century rhetorical theory and...

L’anglofilia di Johnny

This article examines the cultural genealogy of Johnny’s choice for resistance in the first version of Beppe Fenoglio’s Primavera di bellezza. While recent Fenoglio scholarship has expanded toward peripheral areas of the author’s corpus—such as translations, letters, and preparatory materials—the first redaction of Pri...

Discard and Misunderstanding A Reading of Don Giovanni in Sicilia

Discard and Misunderstanding

This article examines the intertextual framework that structures the opening chapters of Vitaliano Brancati’s Don Giovanni in Sicilia, focusing in particular on the parodic rewriting of the Don Juan myth, the libertine tradition and decadent aesthetics. Starting from the paratextual function of the title, understood as...

I dictamina di Pietro da Prezza tra retorica e letteratura

This paper focuses on the figure of Pietro da Prezza, a rhetorician and dictator active in the second half of the thirteenth century within the chanceries of the last representatives of the Hohenstaufen, in particular Conradin. Traditionally regarded as an expression of “practical” knowledge, chancery texts have long s...

Dèi e prodigi nelle traduzioni cinquecentesche del primo libro dell’“Iliade”

This essay offers a comparative analysis of the five partial Italian translations of the Iliad printed in the sixteenth century (Gussano, La Badessa, Groto, Nevizzano, Leo da Piperno), focusing on three passages of Book I concerning the representation of the divine: Achilles’ recognition of Athena (l. 199), the epithet...