The essay deals with Piero Chiara’s method of work, always relying upon the reality, from which the writer takes his characters’ names and the facts described in his short stories and novels. As a specimen of a similar ...

Giancarlo Mazzacurati defined One, No One and a Hundred Thousand, as Pirandello’s testamentary novel, a breathless and more or less conscious experiment of self-analysis as well as of self-therapy». The protagonist’s ...

This paper is an analysis of Anclado en Madrid (1991), written by the Argentinean playwright and actor Roberto Ibanez. It focuses on how elements from the “grotesco criollo” tradition from the beginning of the XX Century ...

This article re-visits Greek and Arab-Muslim theatres from the avant-garde perspective to illuminate the aesthetics of theatre to which scholars in the School of Orientalism and the School of Arab Intelligentsia should ...

The essay reconstructs a profile of Giovanni Mestica, professor, literary critic and man of institutions, referring above all to the commitment to promote the memory and knowledge of Giacomo Leopardi and his work.