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    L’ORLANDO FURIOSO DALLA FANTASIA ALLA STORIA: L’opera aperta di Ariosto

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    Ariosto's Orlando Furioso was published in its final form on October 1st, 1532. Its author lived until July 6th, 1533. What happened in those nine months between the publication of the poem and the death of the author? Did Ariosto continue writing or not? Did he ask for corrections and suggestions to his friends and fellow literates? To what extent can we accept the philological rule of the last will of the author

    Introduction

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    Introduction to Ludovico Ariosto in English cultur

    La lezione di Foscolo e l'icona di Jacopo: tracce di ricerca

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    A model for patriotic inspiration, the protagonist of Ugo Foscolo’s first novel, Jacopo Ortis, has slowly yet progressively been made into a national icon. This essay aims to reconstruct and interpret Jacopo’s iconography throughout a va- riety of media, including painting, sculpture and cinema, in the light of two main trends in cultural and literary studies: the visual turn, on the one hand, and the history of emotions, on the other

    Un monumento per Johnny

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    Fenoglio, Partigiano Johnny, monument

    Giraldi e Pigna sui romanzi: una polemica in contesto

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    The essay reconstructs the polemic between Giraldi and Pigna as a generational and ideological gap: Giraldi and Pigna are seen in their dialogue with their literary interlocutors (Castelvetro, Speroni, Bocchi), against the background of the historical transition from humanistic culture, founded on the primacy of history and trust in nature, to a new philosophical culture, characterized by a disposition towards allegory and a process of professionalization of intellectual works

    Storia della letteratura italiana e storia d'Italia

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    The essay reconstructs the longue durée of De Sanctis’s legacy in the Italian pedagogical tradition, showing the extent to which his Storia della letteratura italiana has permeated the relationship between literature and national identity in Italy, even when it was simply reasserted, or betrayed. Things have changed since the 1990s, especially with the advent of media power in politics, but Italians continue to be educated within the mythology of a literature that constructs the nation, which stems from De Sanctis’s lesson: is there any way to make a step forward without renouncing the privileged position of literature in the formation of Italian public discourse
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