Annali d'Italianistica

[27-10-1998]

Annali d'italianistica (AdI) is an international journal founded in 1983

and is published annually by the Italian Section of the Department of

Romance Languages and Literatures of the University of North Carolina at

Chapel Hill. AdI would like (1) to announce the topic for the year 2000

issue and (2) invite scholars to review books submitted to the journal.

(1)

AdI 2000: . . . Beginnings/Endings/Beginnings . . .

Books and the human beings who write them; the historical and literary periods in which both artifacts and their authors are situated; the books' internal structures and material configurations as well as their authors' lives: in brief, every human being's life and all human artifacts are, by their intrinsic nature, situated within a beginning and an ending. At the same time, the purpose of every individual, humankind as a whole, and the sum of all their activities and products, is to create ever new beginnings in order, as it were, to postpone indefinitely the ineluctability of one's and humankind's end. The conclusion of the second millennium and the beginning of the third millennium of the Christian era, in spite of or perhaps precisely because of such endings' and beginnings' artificiality, offer a most appropriate time - a unique and privileged kairos - to investigate the meaning and function of, as well as the many relationships between, beginnings and endings.

AdI 2000 - to be entitled . . . Beginnings/Endings/Beginnings . . . - intends to provide scholars of Italian culture and literature, as well as comparativists and theorists, with an open forum to investigate theoretical issues and specific literary and historical texts in order to shed light on the function of, meaning of, and interrelationship between the beginning and the ending of human artifacts, endeavors, and human lives themselves. Many are the specific issues AdI invites scholars to pursue: The author's challenge in finding a beginning for one's work, the re-creation of beginnings, through chapters, cantos, stanzas, etc. within the same work, and the challenge of finding a conclusion or even closure; the ending's looking back to the beginning, which anticipates the work's conclusion, and the intrinsic characteristics of the unfinished work, whose incomplete structure may contradict the author's initial aim toward closure or perfection; the work made known or published posthumously, a word that in antiquity referred to the child's birth after the father's demise; and the historical and literary period within which works come to life, are made public, become known, or fall into oblivion. Also, the authors' and their literary characters' lives, in their beginning, unfolding, and ending, may be appropriate objects of investigation for AdI 2000, just as such traditional topics as millennianism and apocalypse, chaos and ultimate conflagration.

On such topics as apocalypse, chaos, and the world's end, the critical literature is virtually limitless. On endings and beginnings in literature we have such classic studies as Frank Kermode's The Sense of an Ending (London: Oxford UP, 1966) or the recent investigation by Giulio Ferroni, Dopo la fine. Sulla condizione postuma della letteratura (Milano: Einaudi, 1996), both with an ample bibliography on the proposed topic. AdI invites scholars to submit essays (due spring 2000) on the proposed topic. Prospective authors should contact as soon as possible the journal's Editor by mail or e-mail: annali@sunsite.unc or <dino_cervigni@unc.edu>

(2) Scholars who wish to review one of the following books are invited to contact the journal's editor: annali@sunsite.unc or dino_cervigni@unc.edu Scholars wishing to review books not listed here are also invited to contact the editor. Reviews submitted by June 30 will appear in the same year's issue. Beginning in the spring of 1999, the Editors are considering publishing book reviews electronically as they are submitted and edited.

Books Received (--October 1998)

Allaire, Gloria. Andrea da Barbarino and the Language of Chivalry.

Gainesville: U of Florida P, 1997. Pp. 183.

Ariosto, Ludovico. Orlando furioso e Cinque canti. 2 vols. Ed. Remo

Cesarani and Sergio Zatti. Torino: UTET, 1997. Pp. 1864.

Baranski, Zygmunt G. and Patrick Boyde. The Fiore in Context: Dante,

France, Tuscany. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 1997. Pp. 409.

Bernardini, Paolo. Mongolfiere e canarini: Il carteggio

Parisetti-Buonafede (1782-1784) e la cultura settecentesca. Accademia

Ligure di Scienze e Lettere. Collana di studi e ricerche 13. Genova: n.p.,

1997. Pp. 137.

Biancofiore, Angela. Benvenuto Cellini artiste-crivain: l'homme l'oeuvre.

Paris: l'Harmattan, 1998. Pp. 343.

Biasin, Gian Paolo. Le periferie della letteratura. Da Verga a Tabucchi.

Ravenna: Longo, 1997. Pp. 151.

Brose, Margaret. Leopardi sublime. Trans. Elisabetta Bertoli. N.p.: Re

Enzo, 1998. Pp. 174.

Carpi, Daniela, Geoffrey H. Hartman, J. Hillis Miler, Patricia Waugh.

Cultura, scienza ipertesto. Il Portico Biblioteca di lettere e arti 107.

Ravenna: Longo, 1997. Pp. 77.

Concina, Ennio. A History of Venetian Architecture. Trans. Judith Landry.

Cambridge: UP, 1998. Pp. 356.

Corsi, Jone Gaillard. Il libretto d'autore 1860-1930. West Lafayette:

Bordighera, 1997. Pp. 192.

D'Andrea, Antonio. Filosofia e autobiografia: Un diario al passato.

Fiesole: Cadmo, 1998. Pp. 175.

Della Terza, Dante, ed. Dal Rinaldo al Gerusalemme: il testo, la favola.

Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi "Torquato Tasso quattro secoli

dopo", Sorrento 17-19 novembre 1994. Citt di Sorrento, 1997. Pp. 341.

Di Biasio, Rodolfo. Wayfarers Four. Trans. Justin Vitiello. West

Lafayette: Bordighera, 1998. Pp. 122.

Ellero, Maria Pia. Introduzione alla retorica. Milano: Sansoni, 1997. Pp.

452.

Fishman, Talya. Shaking the Pillars of Exile: Voice of a Fool, an Early

Modern Jewish Critique of Rabbinic Culture. Stanford: UP, 1997. Pp. 362.

Gardaph, Fred L. Moustache Pete is Dead! Evviva Baffo Pietro: The Fra Noi

Columns 1985-1988. West Lafayette: Bordighera, 1997. Pp. 96.

Giordano, Paolo A. and Anthony Julian Tamburri, ed. Beyond the Margin:

Readings in Italian Americana. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1998. Pp.

305.

Harney, Nicholas DeMaria. Eh, Paesan! Being Italian in Toronto.

Anthropological Horizons 12. Toronto: UP, 1998. Pp. 209.

Illiano, Antonio. Sulle sponde del Prepurgatorio: Poesia e arte narrativa

nel preludio all'ascesa (Purg. I-III 66). Fiesole: Cadmo, 1997. Pp. 125.

In amicizia. Essays in Honour of Giulio Lepschy. Ed. Zygmunt G. Baranski &

Lino Pertile. Special Supplement of The Italianist 17 (1997).

Whiteknights, Reading: The Italianist, 1997. Pp. 536.

Jones, Verina R. Le Dark Ladies manzoniane e altri saggi sui Promessi

sposi. Studi e saggi 19. Rome: Salerno, 1998. Pp. 167.

La Venise de Goldoni. Actes du Colloque organis par le Centre Aixois de

Recherche Italienne (Aix-en-Provence, 1-3 dcembre 1993). Aix-en-Provence:

U of Provence P, 1998. Pp. 306.

Lindenberger, Herbert. Opera in History: From Monteverdi to Cage.

Stanford: UP, 1998. Pp. 364.

Livorni, Ernesto. Nel libro che ti diedi. Introd. Giovanni Sinicropi.

Pasian di Prato: Campanotto, 1998. Pp. 86.

Lucamante, Stefania. Elsa Morante e l'eredit proustiana. Polmnia 2.

Fiesole: Cadmo, 1998. Pp. 199.

Luperini, Romano. Il professore come intelletuale: La riforma della scuola

e l'insegnamento della letteratura. Milano: E d C - Lupetti/Piero Manni,

1998. Pp. 127.

Machiavelli, Niccol. Discourses on Livy. Trans. Judith Conway Bondanella

and Peter Bondanella. Oxford: UP, 1997. Pp. 414.

Maggi, Armando. Uttering the Word: The Mystical Performances of Maria

Maddalena de' Pazzi, a Renaissance Visionary. Albany: State U of New York

P, 1998. Pp. 201.

Maraini, Dacia. The Silent Witness. Trans. Dick Kitto and Elspeth

Spottiswood. Afterword Anna Camaiti Hostert. New York: Feminist Press City

U of New York, 1998. Pp. 261.

Pertile, Lino. La puttana e il gigante: dal cantico dei cantici al

paradiso terrestre di Dante. Memoria del tempo 10. Ravenna: Longo, 1998.

Pp. 278.

Pickering-Iazzi, Robin. Politics of the Visible: Writing Women, Culture

and Fascism. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1997. Pp. 287.

Pierce, Glenn. Manzoni and the Aesthetics of the Lombard Seicento: Art

Assimilated into the Narrative of I promessi sposi. Lewisburg: Bucknell

UP, 1998. Pp. 253.

Pulci, Luigi. Morgante.: The Epic Adventure of Orlando and His Giant

Friend Morgante. Trans. Joseph Tusiani. Introd. and notes Edoardo Lbano.

Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1998. Pp. 975.

Quatriglio, Giuseppe. A Thousand Years in Sicily: From the Arabs to the

Bourbons. Trans. Justin Vitiello. Sicilian Studies. Brooklyn: Legas, 1997.

Pp. 240.

Quinones, Ricardo J. Dante Alighieri, Updated Edition. Twayne's World

Authors 563. New York: Twayne, 1998. Pp. 202.

Rustichelli, Luigi, ed. Seminario sulla drammaturgia: Ferrone, Meldolesi,

Marino, Martinelli, Molinari, Fo. West Lafayette: Bordighera, 1998. Pp.

87.

Rustichelli, Luigi, ed. Seminario sul racconto: Bagni, Capriolo, Celati,

Guglielmi, Petrucci, Santi, Starnone, Veronesi. West Lafayette, IN:

Bordighera, 1998. Pp. 99.

Ryan, Christopher. The Poetry of Michelangelo: An Introduction. Madison:

Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1998. Pp. 345.

Tamburri, Anthony Julian. A Semiotic of Ethnicity: In (Re)cognition of the

Italian/American Writer. SUNY Italian/American Studies. Albany: State U of

New York P, 1998. Pp. 176.

Terpening, Ronnie H. Lodovico Dolce: Renaissance Man of Letters. Toronto:

UP, 1997. Pp. 310.

Urgnani, Elena. Noventa: La scrittura e l'interpretazione. N.p.: Palumbo,

1998. Pp. 224.

Weiss, Beno and Louis C. Perez, tr. and ed. Beginnings and Discoveries:

Polydore Vergil's De inventoribus rerum: An Unabridged Translation and

Edition. Nieuwkoop: De Graaf, 1997. Pp. 602.

Zaczek, Barbara Maria. Censored Sentiments: Letters and Censorship in

Epistolary Novels and Conduct Materials. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1997.

Pp. 209.

Zatti, Sergio, ed. La rappresentazione dell'altro nei testi del

Rinascimento. Morgana 3. Lucca: Fazzi, 1998. Pp. 244.

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