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 ...

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 and ...

This essay analyzes the role and the function of theatre and show in the different Alberto Arbasino’s works and poetic. It points out the paradigm from melodrama to cabaret, to musical, to magazine. Inside the courses and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The present study focuses on the role of daimons in the trilogy His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, by showing some possible links to the traditional representations of the “double” in literature. Within Pullman’s cosmogony ...

This paper introduces and analyzes characteristics, aspects and contents of the biographical story that Jean-Noël Schifano has written about Renato Caccioppoli (Naples, 1904-1959), a recognized academic and mathematical ...

Il saggio ricostruisce, su basi il più possibile documentarie, una probabile rete di protezione creatasi nel 1607 intorno a Caravaggio a Napoli e a Carlo Gesualdo sotto la regia occulta del cardinale Federico Borromeo (nei ...