The principal subject of my dissertation is the anthology called Germanica (edited by Leone Traverso), which was published in 1942 by Bompiani, an eminent Italian publishing house. It is an awesome volume which gathers the ...

This work aims to better define some issues related to sixteenth-century Italian Provençal studies and the role they played in the debate on the Italian language and in supporting the rebirth of interest towards troubadours ...

The main purpose of my thesis is to explore filmic adaptations and appropriations of Shakespeare’s plays in their interaction with contemporary cultural, social and political issues. The first chapter takes the hint from ...

The research conducted on the general effects of bilingualism on cognitive and metalinguistic development can be divided into two different phases demonstrating, respectively, its negative and positive effects. The “additive ...

Mystery novels and literary geography have not often intersected. Crime fiction, for instance, has frequently been examined in terms of temporality, rather than in terms of spatiality. Todorov, in this respect, argues that ...

L’attività di ricerca si è concentrata sul problema della guerra al brigantaggio condotta dallo stato italiano nel Mezzogiorno negli anni a ridosso dell’unità. In particolare, sulla fase della guerra in cui fu attuato il ...

The research aims to cover a gap in the studies in Italian Eighteenth Century, which is that relating to the fate and the uses of the dialogic literary form. If the dialogue genre has been specifically studied by the ...

My doctoral thesis intends to fill a void in Italian literary criticism: that of a monograph on Anna Banti (pseudonym of Lucia Lopresti). Her activity includes twenty-five works, scattered writings (narrative writings ...

The present thesis is about Alberti’s production of exile and, specifically, his collections of poems Pleamar, Retornos de lo vivo lejano, Ora maritima, Baladas y Canciones del Paraná. The four syllogs, published between ...

The present research focuses on the tradition of the Commedia ascribed to the "copyist of Parm", active in Florence from the middle of the third decade of the fourteenth century to the end of the fourth. After having ...