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 ...

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.

Pirandello’s interest in animals is evident in the narrative, in the early poems and in the plays. There is no shortage of critical juxtapositions to the fable and to Aesop, and in the critical literature of Pirandello ...

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 ...