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 ...

The author explores – as it has never been pointed out by the critics – the common ground between Eugenio Montale’s novel-like poetry and the lyrical prose of Curzio Malaparte. Althought seemingly unrelated, this work ...

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 ...

This essay analyses Cristo al CEP of Cosimo Cinieri, a representation of the Passion of Christ along the streets of the popular neighborhood of San Paolo di Bari characterized by public housing (CEP), on Palm Sunday of 3 ...

This essay intends to search out the deep bond but not sufficiently depth by the literary criticism between Giacomo Leopardi and the Book of Job. Particularly, analysing the most important dialogue of the Operette morali, ...

The current paper describes the relationships that took place in Irpinia with Lombard painting during the second half of the sixteenth century through the descriptive, aesthetic, stylistic and iconographic attribution of ...

In Twelve Monkeys, a 1995 post-apocalyptic feature, Terry Gilliam credits as his main source of inspiration Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1961), an experimental short movie whose story is told through a series of still images, ...

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 ...

A professional driven by an ardent intellectual curiosity, with his gaze firmly fixed on the future, Paolo Grassi left his mark on the culture of the twentieth century thanks to his strong spirit of innovation, oriented ...