Pietro Giannone, imprisoned in the fortress of Miolans, between April 1736 and September of the following year, wrote the Vita, which remained forgotten until 1890. The autobiographical pages, ...

A tutta prima tra loro lontani e quasi incomparabili, Lev Tolstoj e Simone de Beauvoir mostrano nelle loro pagine autobiografiche di filtrare, giudicare e ricostruire il propriopassato con parametri e congegni ermeneutici ...

Around 1930 we find autobiographic writings produced by actors who lived the season of the theatre of variety. Memories which are precious documents to rebuild an important kind of show in an empirical vision, from the ...

The long career of Ruggero Ruggeri started in the late Naturalism and finished at the beginning of the 1950s without knowing crisis or setbacks. During this period the old Italian theatre was replaced by a new role acquired ...

The essay constitutes a first approach to a research project. It focuses on a problem related to an analysis of Andrea Perrucci’s treatise Dell’arte rappresentativa premeditata, ed all’improvviso (1699). In this book ...

This essay critically examines the autobiography of Eduardo Scarpetta, problematizing the idea of the author’s memoir as an authentic confession. Analysing several declarations written by Scarpetta, the study shows how ...