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I am an FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University's Department of Literary Studies. I wrote a PhD dissertation on the symbolisation of the Renaissance in Gabriele d'Annunzio's cultural nationalism. My research focuses on the discourses and ideologies that shaped French and Italian literature and culture from the late nineteenth century onwards.
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https://www.unistrapg.it/it/literary-museums-and-writers-houses-in-flanders
https://www.unistrapg.it/it/the-vittoriale-degli-italiani-gardone-riviera-italy
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/E5T2KXSEJEHFZYA869MY/full?target=10.1080/08831157.2024.2433275#abstract
This article introduces the concept of Latinity as a central term in shaping debates about modernity, progress and cultural identities in Southern Europe and Latin America since the mid-nineteenth century. During this time, Latin countries st...
This article focuses on the discourse on pacifism and Latinity in the Italian periodical Cronache della civiltà elleno-latina (1902–1907), founded by Angelo De Gubernatis. Under the leadership of Crispi in the 1880s and 1890s, Italy embraced expansionism, colonialism, and pro-German attitudes, which strained its relations with France. In stark cont...
This paper examines the periodical Il Rinascimento, published in 17 issues between 15 November 1905 and 20 July 1906, within its publishing and historical context. Il Rinascimento served as the periodical of the short-lived publishing house, Libreria Editrice Lombarda, owned by Tom Antongini and Arnaldo De Mohr, which is a crucial element in unders...
In 2010, the American graphic designer Seymour Chwast (New York, °1931) published Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Graphic Adaptation, which condenses Dante’s masterpiece into 127 pages. Previous scholarship has mainly focused on how Chwast adapts the Comedy and the specific passages he chooses to include. Chwast has been viewed as just one of many interpr...
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EHHQFVV5HRDWFJ6ZBY9E/full?target=10.1080/00111619.2023.2244871
Right-wing populism has been on the rise in Europe for the past two decades. The success of populist strategies has generated a broader discursive shift in news coverage about immigration as simplifying and polarising strategies have been incorporate...
This dissertation participates in the on-going reconsideration of the Italian author and political activist Gabriele d'Annunzio (1863-1938) following a period of hostile critical dismissal grounded in political and moral prejudices. This critical tradition fails to acknowledge the relevance of the author’s reflection on Italian and European moderni...
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Il saggio analizza il ruolo della cultura umanistico-rinascimentale nella riflessione sulla rinascita nazionale sviluppata da Gabriele d’Annunzio. Dopo un’iniziale esplorazione dei dibattiti sulla decadenza e sulla rinascita nazionale da una parte, e sulla condanna del Rinascimento nella cultura europea e nell’Italia post-unitaria dall’alt...
This paper considers the dialectics between national decadence and regeneration in d’Annunzio’s Il piacere. It argues that the novel’s fin-de-siècle reception was conditioned by the author’s prior classification as an immoral, anti-national writer in the wake of the poetry collection Intermezzo di rime. This classification determined a reading of d...
This article analyzes two comic incidents portrayed in Gadda’s That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana and its adaptation The Facts of Murder by Pietro Germi. We argue that the inclusion of what we term ‘stereotypical gags’ in the detective novel functions as a modernist device that brings about a distancing of the audience and acts to distort the boun...
This article confronts the theoretical tenets of reader-oriented short story collection theory and its implications for a literary analysis of Benni’s Il bar sotto il mare (1987) with the results of an empirical study of 12 readers. Through free recall tasks and open questions, we collected their recall of stories, specific passages, recurring topi...
This article argues that Gabriele d’Annunzio’s Notturno conveys a conscious political and cultural message which is consequent of his long-lasting political commitment to the nation. This political value of the book has been mainly overlooked. Therefore, the first part of the article shows the locations of the political and war-related content, and...
