'Before the World Collapsed Because of the War': The City of Fiume in the Poetry of Gianni Angelo Grohovaz

Article | Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler

The article examines how the "native city" is constructed and remembered in the works of the Italian refugee and later emigrant, Gianni Angelo Grohovaz. Born in Fiume (Italy) in 1926, Grohovaz was forced to abandon his city when it was ceded, as spoils of war, to Yugoslavia. After eventually...

'Espirituación': Juan de Ávila's Doctrine of Union with the Holy Spirit

Article | Contributor(s): Rady Roldan-Figueroa

Saint Juan de Ávila a joué un rôle majeur dans la réforme catholique espagnole. Son programme de réforme s'est concentré principalement sur la formation morale du clergé catholique. Toutefois, Ávila a aussi envisagé une réforme dépassant les limites de l'institution ecclésiastique, inspirée par...

'Gates Pure and Shining and Serene': Mutual Gazing as an Amatory Motif in Western Literature and Art

Article | Contributor(s): Robert Baldwin

'Heav'n Hath Timely Tri'd [Her] Youth": Self-Knowledge Through Language in Milton's Comus

Article | Contributor(s): Carol Scheidenhelm

'Historia Vom Rasenden Roland' - The First German Ariosto Translation

2023-06-20 19:32:44 | Article | Contributor(s): Gerhard Dunnhaupt

'I am not made of stone': Theatrical Revision of Gesture in Shakespeare's Plays

Article | Contributor(s): Steven Urkowitz

'Nature as Symbolic Behavior': Cresol’ s Autumn Vacations and Early Baroque Acting Technique

Article | Contributor(s): Alfred S. Golding

'Né mendicanti, né poveri': la libertà nelle utopie italiane del Rinascimento

Article | Contributor(s): Cristina Perissinotto

Questo saggio analizza il problema della libertà in utopia con l’aiuto di un apparato filosofico di tradizione principalmente italiana e anglosassone, ove il discorso sulla libertà è sempre stato centrale. Alla luce dell’utopia eponima, quella di Thomas More, si...

'Now Shall I See the Fall of Babylon': The Spanish Tragedy as a Reformation Play of Daniel

Article | Contributor(s): Frank R. Ardolino

'Pastas & Pizzas': influssi dell'italiano sulla terminologia alimentare nordamericana

Article | Contributor(s): Carla Marcato

'Polyphonic' Parthenope: Boccaccio's Letter XIII and his 'Plebeian' Naples, According to Domenico Rea

Article | Contributor(s): Roberta Morosini

'Sleep' - 'Dream' — 'Vision': Some Signifiers and designata in Latin and the Romance Languages

Article | Contributor(s): Carla Marcato

'Stone Walls' and ‘I’ron Bars': Richard Lovelace and the Conventions of Seventeenth-Century Prison Literature

Article | Contributor(s): Raymond A. Anselment

In transcending stone walls and iron bars, Lovelace's well-known song "To Althea, From Prison" celebrates a freedom distinctly at odds with prevailing, often religiously inspired transformations of seventeenth-century carceral realities. Lovelace's celebration of "Minds innocent and quiet"...

'Tales Worked in Blood and Bone': Words and Images as Scalpel and Suture in Graphic Narratives

2022-06-13 19:51:45 | Article | Contributor(s): Jon Saklofske | https://doi.org/10.25547/DGJE-0J90

Digital humanities

'Teach Me This Pedlar's French': The Allure of Cant in The Roaring Girl and Dekker's Rogue Pamphlets

Article | Contributor(s): Miles Taylor

Dans The Roaring Girl de Dekker et Middleton, ainsi que dans les pamphlets délinquants de Dekker, des citoyens respectables de Londres, fascinés par l’argot des bas-fonds de la société jacobéenne, offrent de payer Moll Cutpurse et des libraires, afin de se familiariser avec ce langage marginal....

'The Country is Large, and Beautiful and Happy.' Lelio Pecci’s Travel Journal of his 1549 Mission to Flanders

Article | Contributor(s): Elena Brizio

Lelio Pecci’s travel journal for his mission to Emperor Charles V in Flanders offers modern readers a layman’s description of a large section of Europe (from northern Italy to France, Flanders, Germany, and Austria), as well as a priviledged view into the mind of a learned man from a...

‘As strayght as ony pole’: Publius Cornelius, Edmund de la Pole, and Contemporary Court Satire in Henry Medwall’s Fulgens and Lucres

2022-06-13 18:42:47 | Article | Contributor(s): Ray Siemens | https://doi.org/10.25547/1AVG-5056

Literary Studies

‘Biotechnologizing’ or ‘democratizing’? Unraveling the diversity of resistance to GMOs in Guatemala

2025-03-19 22:13:07 | Essay | Contributor(s): Carrie Seay Fleming | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.528

Until 2019, Guatemala upheld a de-facto moratorium on GMOs. The ban has been attributed to broad-based social resistance and the unlikely alliances galvanized by the issue. Recent legislation, however, has been met with little resistance. In this paper, I show how the tensions between anti-GM...

‘Cui multum datum est...’ La confraternita dei Bianchi di Fosdinovo (Toscana, Italia) tra XV e XVII secolo

Article | Contributor(s): Massimo Dadà

This article is a brief history and overview of the Confraternity of the Most Holy Annunciation (Compagnia della Santissima Annunziata) in Fosdinovo, a small town in the Lunigiana region in north-western Tuscany. From the fourteenth to the eighteenth century the town’s history was closely...

‘Dialoghi mancati': Uses of Silence, Reticence and Ellipsis in the Fiction of Antonio Tabucchi

Article | Contributor(s): Marina Spunta