Giovanna Siedina

• PhD Harvard University
• Professor (Associate) at University of Florence

In the present article the author analyzes the many different meanings of the word ‘disegno’ in Giorgio Vasari’s Le vite de’ più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori (1568), in particular the instances found in the Introduction to the Three Arts of Sculpture, Painting and Architecture, and investigates the different ways in which they are t...

This collection of studies focuses on the translation of the language of art and cultural heritage in a wide variety of text types from the Renaissance to the present, following different theoretical and methodological approaches ranging from corpus linguistics to lexicography, terminology, and translation studies. This book is meant for a wide aud...

A little more than 700 years after the death of the great Italian poet, this book intends to contribute to the assessment of what place the literary, cultural and linguistic heritage of the great Italian poet has had in linguistic development, in the formation of national consciousness of the Slavic peoples, in their literatures and in the elaborat...

A little more than 700 years after the death of the great Italian poet, this book intends to contribute to the assessment of what place the literary, cultural and linguistic heritage of the great Italian poet has had in linguistic development, in the formation of national consciousness of the Slavic peoples, in their literatures and in the elaborat...

The essays gathered in this volume are devoted to different aspects of the reception of Humanism and the Renaissance in Slavic countries. They mark the beginning of a dialogue among scholars of different Slavic languages and literatures, in search of the ways in which the entire Slavic world – albeit to varying degrees – has participated from the v...

The essays gathered in this volume are devoted to different aspects of the reception of Humanism and the Renaissance in Slavic countries. They mark the beginning of a dialogue among scholars of different Slavic languages and literatures, in search of the ways in which the entire Slavic world – albeit to varying degrees – has participated from the v...

This monograph examines, for the first time, the reception of the poetic legacy of the Latin poet Horace (65 B.C.-8 B.C.) in the poetics courses written and taught at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy (17th -first half of the 18th century), in particular in the areas of poetic theory, metrics, lyric poetry. The analysis focuses on three main aspects: theoret...

The twenty-three essays of this volume represent the contributions of the Italian delegation to the 16th International Congress of Slavic Studies, which took place in Belgrade in August 2018. The essays, written in Italian, English, Russian and Serbian, are divided into three sections: linguistics, philology and Slavic literatures. Just as the rang...

This article analyses the treatment of lyric poetry in the Mohylanian poetics and takes into account the wider framework of the conception of poetry fostered at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. The author reconstructs the sources that Mohylanian authors used and then studies their selective use; she also investigates the numerous poetic quotations from Hor...

The author illustrates the different ways in which the Ukrainian national poet Taras Ševčenko was 'used' by participants in the protest movement known as Jevromajdan (Euromaidan) (November 2013-February 2014). In particular the author analyzes quotations and adaptations of Ševčenko's poetry, portrayals of the poet himself (paintings, photomontages,...

The present article illustrates the ways in which Latin literature is used to express the concept of virtue in Ukrainian Neo-Latin eulogistic poetry and prose devoted, respectively, to a representative of military-political power (hetman I. Mazepa) and of religious-ecclesiastical authority ( J. Krokovs’kyj). From the textual analysis, it emerges th...

In this paper the Author illustrates different specimens of Neo-Latin poetry produced in the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy’s poetics classes. Although their content and their artistic value vary greatly, depending on their authors (either students or teachers), the interest of these poems lies in their being practical embodiments of the conception of poetry...

A Neo-Latin Poem on Ivan Mazepa The author publishes for the first time, translates into Italian, and analyzes a Neo-Latin poem devoted to the Ukrainian hetman Ivan Mazepa, which celebrates the conquest of a few Turkish fortresses along the Dnipro (1695). A peculiar feature of this poem is that, on the one side, it is one of the few, or even the...

A Russian and Ukrainian Historical Novel: Pantelejmon Kuliš’s Čorna Rada Čorna rada by Pantelejmon Kuliš is widely recognized as the most important Ukrainian historical novel. It was written and published in 1857, in both Ukrainian and Russian. This analysis of the differences between the two versions – and especially of their diverging ideologic...

Ukrainian Studies in North America, 1991-2003: Between Tradition and Innovation The author provides an overview of the major changes that took place in American and Canadian Ukrainain Studies in the period from 1991 to 2003. She concentrates on the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (the two major...