Il contributo esplora le riflessioni di Ricciotto Canudo sul cinema, concepito come “settima arte” e sintesi delle arti tradizionali. Attraverso i suoi numerosi scritti teorici risalenti ai primi anni „20 Canudo tratta ...

In Giorgio Strehler’s brechtian itinerary, Saint Joan of the Slaughterhouses is one of the most controversial production and even less known. Brecht wrote the play in 1929 to expose the evil and contradictory gears of ...

The essay describes the main stages of the conception and organization of classical representations in the Greek theater in Syracuse, starting from 1914. Mario Tommaso Gargallo’s and Ettore Romagnoli’s work is set in the ...

The influence of Machiavelli on Early Modern British drama is quite obvious. The character named after him haunts the stage in different forms. Despite the official ban enacted by ecclesiastical and secular authorities ...

Book review for On Ibsen and Strindberg: The Reversed Telescope by Franco Perrelli. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019 (ISBN 978-1-5275-1853-7)

The rising of the Welfare Society, and the consequent emerging publishing industry during the second part of the 20th Century, have pushed the prose literature to quickly adapt to this new Era. During the process, the ...

Maria Attanasio (born in 1943) is an author of novels, stories, poetic collections, essays and a photographic book illustrated by the shots of Giuseppe Leone, a refined iconotesto whose subtitle reveals a clear Sciascian ...

This is Tobia Iodice’s latest work and it is about the relationship between Gabriele d’Annunzio and the Neapolitan culture of the end of XIX century. This period (1891-1893) was very important for D’Annunzio both for his ...

Through the analysis of Giuseppe Ungaretti’s letters – both published and unpublished – Silvia Zoppi Garampi has shown the importance of studying correspondences, often crucial in revealing various dynamics behind prose ...

In this work, Guarino reports the adventure of a personal night, looking around for a Presence, a light who eventually will come to save him and bring him away from the darkness. The author try to escape from this sense ...