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The Portrait of Beatrice examines both Dante's and D. G. Rossetti's intellectual experiences in the light of a common concern about visuality. Both render, in different times and contexts, something that resists clear representation, be it the divine beauty of the angel-women or the depiction of the painter's own interiority in a secularized age. By analyzing Dante's Vita Nova alongside Rossetti's Hand and Soul and St. Agnes of Intercession, w...

L'Italia degli anni Sessanta non è solo il paese del miracolo economico, delle migrazioni interne e dei conflitti sociali: è anche un paese che scopre (o riscopre) il proprio volto perturbante e lunare, attraverso un vero e proprio boom dell'occulto che investe ogni settore dell'industria culturale. A partire dal 1959 - quando il Dracula della Hammer Film Productions intercetta i desideri e le ansie di un'Italia in rapida trasformazione, susci...

Fra il 24 dicembre 1764, quando appare a Londra la prima edizione de Il castello di Otranto di Horace Walpole, e il novembre 1831, quando l'editore Bentley manda in stampa l'ultima edizione del Frankenstein di Mary Shelley, si consuma la grande stagione del gotico "classico". Sono poco meno di settant'anni, ma tanto è bastato per cambiare, e per sempre, la letteratura d'immaginazione: il gotico è la fucina in cui vengono forgiati molti degli i...

How can one make poetry in a disenchanted age? For Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) this was the modern subject's most insolvable deadlock, after the Enlightenment's pitiless unveiling of truth.

This book is a ten-step journey around the thought and poetry of the most sensitive Italian visionary of modernity, Giacomo Leopardi, whose contribution to Western thought has been acclaimed by admirers from Schopenhauer to Nietzsche to Benjamin. A variety of readings, moving between different disciplines and approaches ¿ including film studies, psychoanalysis, and queer theory ¿ shed new light on Leopardi¿s fascinating and at the same time ep...

In 1816 a violent literary quarrel engulfed Bourbon Restoration Italy. On one side the Romantics wanted an opening up of Italian culture towards Europe, and on the other the Classicists favoured an inward-looking Italy. Giacomo Leopardi wrote a Discourse of an Italian on Romantic Poetry aiming to contribute to the debate from a new perspective.

In 1816 a violent literary quarrel engulfed Bourbon Restoration Italy. On one side the Romantics wanted an opening up of Italian culture towards Europe, and on the other the Classicists favoured an inward-looking Italy. Giacomo Leopardi wrote a Discourse of an Italian on Romantic Poetry aiming to contribute to the debate from a new perspective.