This article deals with Fanny Hensel’s journey to Italy. The written sources (the diaries, the letters Fanny wrote to her family in the course of this year) are confronted with the musical sources (a selection of compositions ...

Lettres familières écrites d’Italie, published posthumously in 1799, analyse every aspect of the Italian peninsula visited by Charles de Brosses in 1739-40. Art and culture, salons and religion, gambling and antiquities ...

Laura Alcoba, a French-Argentine writer, revised the Spanish translation (2014) of her work Le bleu des abeilles (2013) for the edition of the Trilogía de la casa de los conejos (2021), which brought together La casa de ...

This article aims to study how linguistic variation in Italo Calvino’s Il barone rampante is treated in the two French translations (Bertrand, 1960; Rueff, 2018) of the novel. Relying on contrastive linguistics and traductology, ...

The term “baroque” had a negative connotation for a long time from the 19th century onwards, leading to baroque music being forgotten and the corresponding terminology being abandoned. This particularly affected the lexicon ...

The contemporary Italian detective novel is characterised by the presence of numerous technical-scienti- fic knowledge, typical of the literary genre. The terminology that accompanies them pushes the narrator to construct ...

The prosody of interrogative utterances displays high degrees of intra- and interlinguistic variability. Yet there are less investigated interrogative types, verbless questions that work as generic requests and new topic ...

According to most grammars and dictionaries of present-day Spanish, the operators aún and todavía are considered synonymous elements of expression of continuity or persistence of a previous element, known – totally or ...

While linguistic variety, both internal and external, might enhance the language system, this is not the case for French in the Moroccan context. Internal variation does not provide any advantage to the Fren- ch language, ...