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I grandi apparati e feste fatte in Melano (1559): war narrative to celebrate peace
No full textSe analiza un torneo de invención realizado en Milán en 1559. Se resumen su argumento y desarrollo, se estudia la conexión de la publicación de su relación con el tratado de paz de Cateau-Cambrésis, se revisa los elementos que lo unen y lo separan del género de los torneos de invención y se proponen algunas hipótesis sobre la realización de esta fiesta.Nel contributo si analizza la trama e lo svolgimento di un torneo de invención svoltosi a Milano nel 1559. Si studia il rapporto tra la sua pubblicazione ed il trattato di pace di Cateau-Cambrésis; si evidenziano gli elementi che lo uniscono e lo separano dal genere dei tornei di invenzioni; infine, si propongono alcune ipotesi riguardo la realizzazione di questo evento festivo.Se analiza un torneo de invención realizado en Milán en 1559. Se resumen su argumento y desarrollo, se estudia la conexión de la publicación de su relación con el tratado de paz de Cateau-Cambrésis, se revisa los elementos que lo unen y lo separan del género de los torneos de invención y se proponen algunas hipótesis sobre la realización de esta fiesta.An invention tournament held in Milan in 1559 is analyzed. Its plot and development are summarized, the connection between the publication of its relation and the peace treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis is studied, the elements that unite it and separate it from the genre of invention tournaments are reviewed, and some hypotheses about the realization of this festival are proposed
Naufrage
No full textRésumé : Considéré souvent comme un effet de l’hybris humaine, transgression d’une limite ou châtiment de Dieu, le naufrage est aussi un topos esthétique relevant du sublime. Il s’agira ici d’explorer un voyage en mer, celui de Paul et Virginie de Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, qui se termine par un sublime naufrage, issue tragique et épique propre aux entreprises océaniques. Moment grandiose et transfiguration angélique, qui dramatise les contrastes entre désirs transgressifs de la puberté et tabou mortifère de la virginité - comme dans Atala -, entre conditionnement social, vanité d’une richesse promise et pastorale de la terre nourricière finalement reniée, le dénouement du roman aura un succès qui transcendera l’écriture pour investir la gravure et la peinture, jusqu’aux représentationsdans les objets de la vie quotidienne.
Abstract: Often considered as an effect of human hybris, a transgression of a limit or a divine punishment, shipwreck is also an aesthetic topos of the sublime. This article will explore a sea voyage, the one of Paul and Virginie by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, which ends with a sublime shipwreck, a tragic and epic outcome specific to oceanic enterprises. A grandiose moment and an angelic transfiguration, which dramatizes the contrasts between transgressive desires of puberty and the deadly taboo of virginity - as in Atala -, between social conditioning, vanity of a promised wealth and pastoral of the mother earth finally denied, the ending of the novel will have a success that will transcend writing to invest engraving and painting, up to representations in everyday objects.
Mots clés : Paul et Virginie, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, naufrage, sublime, transfiguration, réception, peinture, Vernet.
Keywords : Paul et Virginie, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Shipwreck, Sublime, Transfiguration, Reception, Painting, Vernet
«How a Ship, having passed the Line, was driven by storms». The metaphorical journey of The Ancient Mariner
No full textRiassunto: L’articolo esamina l’utilizzo dell’espediente della navigazione da parte di Samuel Taylor Coleridge nel poema The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), ove il movimento difficoltoso della nave è metafora di alienazione e sofferenza cristiana. Nella ballata la questione del divino è costantemente reiterata e rappresenta il fulcro della teoria estetica dell’autore, nonché di tutta la sua poetica. Coleridge, nelle vesti di filosofo naturale, associa l’ira divina al sublime romantico ed esplora i temi del peccato e del pentimento attraverso un viaggio fisico, spirituale e introspettivo inteso a culminare nella salvezza. L’esplorazione del paesaggio diviene, così, una forma di escapismo e la nave al largo una complessa metafora religiosa, culturale, politica e sociale.
Abstract: The article examines Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s use of navigation in his Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), in which the motionless ship becomes a metaphor for alienation and Christian suffering. In the poem the question of the divine is constantly reiterated, thus becoming the centre of both the author’s aesthetic theory and poetics. As a natural philosopher, Coleridge associates divine wrath with the concept of the Sublime and explores the themes of sin and repentance through a physical, spiritual and introspective journey that ends in redemption. In the poem ‘landscape’ rhymes with ‘mindscape’ and the ship in the open sea becomes a complex religious, cultural, political and social metaphor.
Parole chiave: Coleridge, navigazione, Sublime romantico, paesaggio, redenzione, esplorazione
Key words: Coleridge, Navigation, Romantic Sublime, Landscape, Redemption, Exploratio
“Choked by a kind of brightness”: Travelling Transculturally into Leila Aboulela’s Narrative of Faith
No full textSudanese-British Leila Aboulela places religious faith and Islam right at the centre of her fiction, thus posing a double challenge of Otherness to a largely secularized and largely Islamophobic Western audience. In its effort at culturally translating religious and cultural foreignness without domesticating it, her narrative enacts a powerfully transcultural aesthetic experience. Something Old, Something New is the sample text chosen to substantiate discussion
La scrittrice sudanese-britannica Leila Aboulela pone la fede religiosa e l\u27Islam al centro della sua narrativa, lanciando così una doppia sfida a un pubblico occidentale in gran parte secolarizzato e spesso islamofobico. Nel tentativo di tradurre culturalmente l’alterità religiosa e culturale senza addomesticarla, la sua narrativa realizza un\u27esperienza estetica potentemente transculturale. Something Old, Something New è il testo scelto per sostenere a livello esemplare l\u27argomentazione
Corte, fiesta, música y danza en Adramón (ca. 1530)
No full textThis article studies the representation and assimilation of the playful facet of the courtly ethos in Adramón, a Spanish romance of chivalry preserved in a single manuscript in the National Library of France in Paris. The analysis highlights the importance of music and dance within the chivalric narrative according to the precepts that Baldassare Castiglione established in the Libro del cortegiano about courtly behavior, considering the presence of three specific dances in the work, their orientation, and function.El presente artículo estudia la representación y asimilación de la faceta lúdica del ethos cortesano en Adramón, libro de caballerías castellano conservado en un único testimonio manuscrito en la Biblioteca Nacional de Francia en París. El análisis destaca la importancia que en la obra caballeresca desempeñan la música y la danza a la luz de los preceptos de comportamiento cortesano que Baldassare Castiglione delineó en el Libro del cortegiano, valiéndose de la presencia de tres danzas específicas en la obra así como de su orientación, función y sentido.El presente artículo estudia la representación y asimilación de la faceta lúdica del ethos cortesano en Adramón, libro de caballerías castellano conservado en un único testimonio manuscrito en la Biblioteca Nacional de Francia en París. El análisis destaca la importancia que en la obra caballeresca desempeñan la música y la danza a la luz de los preceptos de comportamiento cortesano que Baldassare Castiglione delineó en el Libro del cortegiano, valiéndose de la presencia de tres danzas específicas en la obra así como de su orientación, función y sentido.L\u27articolo studia la rappresentazione e l\u27assimilazione della dimensione ludica dell\u27ethos cortigiano nell\u27Adramón, libro di cavalleria castigliano conservato in un unico testimone manoscritto presso la Biblioteca Nazionale di Francia a Parigi. L\u27analisi sottolinea l\u27importanza che la musica e la danza rivestono nell\u27opera cavalleresca, alla luce dei precetti di comportamento cortigiano delineati da Baldassare Castiglione nel Libro del cortegiano, avvalendosi della presenza di tre danze specifiche nell\u27opera, nonché del loro orientamento, funzione e significato
Dalla spettacolarità all\u27oblio: la celebrazione liturgica nel Florisando (1510) e nel Don Florisandro (1550)
No full textIn this research, framed within the development of a doctoral thesis on the representation of thought and religious politics in chivalric books published between the reigns of the Catholic Monarchs and Charles V, the liturgical celebrations that culminate in the performance of processions invoking the divinity, represented in "Florisando" (1510), are studied. Subsequently, a comparative analysis is conducted between the passages of the Castilian work and its Italian translation, "Don Florisandro" of 1550. The study demonstrates the author\u27s profound knowledge of liturgy and how these celebrations were common at the time of the work\u27s writing. Similarly, the comparison between the two works, Castilian and Italian, provides interesting data on Mambrino Roseo\u27s approach in his translations of the Amadisian cycle.En esta investigación, enmarcada en el desarrollo de una tesis doctoral sobre la representación del pensamiento y la política religiosa en los libros de caballerías publicados entre los reinados de los Reyes Católicos y Carlos V, se estudian las celebraciones litúrgicas que desembocan en la realización de procesiones con las que se invoca a la divinidad, representadas en el Florisando (1510). Posteriormente, se realiza un análisis comparativo entre los pasajes de la obra castellana y su traducción al italiano, el Don Florisandro de 1550. El estudio demuestra el profundo conocimiento que poseía el autor sobre liturgia y cómo estas celebraciones eran habituales en la época de escritura de la obra. Igualmente, la comparación entre las dos obras, castellana e italiana, aporta interesantes datos sobre el proceder de Mambrino Roseo en sus traducciones del ciclo amadisiano. En esta investigación, enmarcada en el desarrollo de una tesis doctoral sobre la representación del pensamiento y la política religiosa en los libros de caballerías publicados entre los reinados de los Reyes Católicos y Carlos V, se estudian las celebraciones litúrgicas que desembocan en la realización de procesiones con las que se invoca a la divinidad, representadas en el Florisando (1510). Posteriormente, se realiza un análisis comparativo entre los pasajes de la obra castellana y su traducción al italiano, el Don Florisandro de 1550. El estudio demuestra el profundo conocimiento que poseía el autor sobre liturgia y cómo estas celebraciones eran habituales en la época de escritura de la obra. Igualmente, la comparación entre las dos obras, castellana e italiana, aporta interesantes datos sobre el proceder de Mambrino Roseo en sus traducciones del ciclo amadisiano. In questo studio, inquadrato nel più ampio contesto di una tesi di dottorato sulla rappresentazione del pensiero religioso e della politica nei libros de caballerías pubblicati in un periodo che va dal regno dei Re Cattolici a quello di Carlo V, vengono studiate le celebrazioni liturgiche che portano allo svolgimento di processioni in cui viene invocata la divinità nel Florisando (1510). Successivamente si propone un\u27analisi comparativa tra i brani dell\u27opera castigliana e la sua traduzione in italiano, il Don Florisandro del 1550. Lo studio dimostra la profonda conoscenza che l\u27autore aveva riguardo alla liturgia e come queste celebrazioni fossero comuni all’epoca. Allo stesso modo, il confronto tra l’opera castigliana e quella italiana fornisce dati interessanti sul lavoro di Mambrino Roseo nella traduzione delle opere del ciclo amadisiano
“Da qualche parte tra la fede e il dubbio”: Otto poesie da Counterpoint (1990)
No full textSi presentano, nella traduzione italiana a cura di R.A. Henderson e Pietro Deandrea, otto poesie tratte dalla raccolta Counterpoint (1990) del poeta gallese R.S. Thomas.Eight poems from the collection Counterpoint (1990) by Welsh poet R.S. Thomas are presented here, in the Italian translation by R.A. Henderson and Pietro Deandrea
Exploring Transcultural Dimensions: Hindu Mythology and Identity Politics in Mithu Sanyal’s Identitti
No full textMithu Sanyal’s novel Identitti, published in Germany in 2021, intricately intertwines race, identity and mythology, delving into profound questions of authenticity and belonging. The protagonist’s mixed-race background and her journey of self-discovery, influenced by the Hindu Goddess Kali, underscore the novel’s engagement with religious figures in personal identity formation. This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the novel’s complex narrative to show how Identitti contributes to the broader discourse on literature’s role in navigating transcultural and transreligious processes, offering fresh insights into the challenges and opportunities posed by a multicultural and multi-faith world.Il romanzo Identitti di Mithu Sanyal, pubblicato in Germania nel 2021, intreccia razza, identità e mitologia affrontando questioni profonde di autenticità e appartenenza. L\u27ascendenza mista della protagonista e il suo viaggio di auto-scoperta influenzato dalla dea indù Kali, evidenziano l\u27impegno del romanzo nell’esplorare il ruolo delle figure religiose nella formazione dell’identità personale. Questo studio offre un\u27analisi della complessa narrazione del romanzo, dimostrando come Identitti contribuisca al discorso più ampio sul ruolo della letteratura nell\u27affrontare processi transculturali e transreligiosi, fornendo nuove prospettive sulle sfide e sulle opportunità di un mondo multiculturale e multireligioso
From ‘Covid-free’ to ‘Coronapocalypse’: Trendy Neologisms and Nonce Words of the Covid-19 Pandemic
No full textThis study explores a dataset of Covid-related terms drawn from the Coronavirus Corpus (2020) in order to examine the impact of the crisis on language development in terms of novel words employed in popularisation discourse, namely online newspapers and magazines. The primary goals of the study are (1) to establish the stability, recognition and reusability of Covid-19 novel words (i.e. whether they are proper neologisms or nonce words), and (2) to investigate their main functions and effects. Results from a discourse-based analysis show that, on the one hand, new compounds (e.g. Covid-free) and regularly derived words (e.g. post-Covid) are used to disseminate information about the Covid-19 crisis to laymen and non-specialists. On the other hand, novel blends and similar creative words (e.g. coronapocalypse from ‘coronavirus’ and ‘apocalypse’) often have the function of breaking the tensions created by a difficult, even catastrophic scenario, but may also be used in the context of hate speech, to criticise or attack others, such as people ignoring stay-at-home orders and public health measures
Face Masks and User-Generated Discourse in the Covid-19 Era
No full textEnsuing the World Health Organization’s (WHO) announcement on 11 March 2020 that Covid-19 had become a global pandemic, many governments worldwide introduced wearing masks as one of the primary measures to abide by in order to limit the spread of the virus. Since then, face masks have become one of the main symbols of the pandemic. Although their effectiveness in reducing the spread of Covid-19 infection has been backed by scientific evidence, wearing face masks has triggered a significant debate, mostly on social media (Baker, Concannon and So 2022; Al-Ramahi et al. 2021). User-generated discourse has expanded dramatically during the pandemic due to the enhanced online interaction possibilities. In particular, mask aversion is still perceived and represented online as an antisocial norm that has emerged during the current Covid-19 pandemic (Kim 2022).This study examines the reactions of Facebook and Twitter users to a recent new Coronavirus alert raised by New York City in response to rising cases, recommending, though not requiring, people to wear masks in public indoor settings. The comments posted were analysed using the basic methodology of Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis (CMDA), which allows the identification of patterns in interactive message content (Herring 2010), and interpreted through a Critical Discourse Analysis lens to investigate the reasons of Internet users for and against wearing masks as a mitigation measure against Covid-19 spread. A quantitative and qualitative research approach was employed to analyse conversational and behavioural data in the social media discourse framed by the two factions supporting or contrasting mask wearing (Lang, Erickson and Jing-Schmidt 2021; Franz et al. 2019; Martin and White 2005). In addition, this study attempted to assess the variance in response to the same content posted on different platforms.The results show that social media can be a valuable source of data mining that could help decision-makers better understand the public discourse around crucial public health issues like wearing masks to curb the Coronavirus pandemic and effectively address public perception by adopting more suitable policies