«Annali d'Italianistica», Books Received (March 2024)

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For further information, see https://annali.org/upcoming/ BOOK REVIEWS PUBLICATION DEADLINE Colleagues who have accepted to review books should submit their reviews as soon as possible. They must be received by January 31 (early deadline) or May 31 (latest deadline) to appear in the 2024 issue. Books Received March 2024 Agovino, Teresa. “Sotto gli occhi benevoli dello Stato”. La banda della Magliana da Romanzo criminale a Suburra. Napoli: La scuola di Pitagora, 2024. Pp. 240. Bardazzi, Adele. Eugenio Montale. A Poetics of Mourning. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2022. Pp. xviii + 246. Berni, Bruno, Paolo Borioni, and Catia De Marco, eds. Proiezioni dal Nord. L’immagine della Scandinavia in Italia tra letteratura e società. Roma: Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, 2023. Pp. 245. Bertland, Alexander U. Myth and Authority. Giambattista Vico’s Early Modern Critique of Aristocratic Sovereignty. New York: SUNY Press, 2023. Pp. 348. Brecciaroli, Giulia. Mapping Post-War Italian Literature. Boom and Aftermath (1956-1979). London: The U of London P, 2024. Pp. 244. Cadel, Francesca, and Paola Nastri, eds. Italy in the Second Half of the 19th Century: Bridging New Cultures. Delaware: Vernon Press, 2023. Pp. 266. Camassa, Lelio. Dio, l’oscurità e il talento. Le novelle di “cose catoliche” del Decameron. Potenza: Basilicata UP, 2023. Pp. 210. Camilletti, Fabio. Spettri familiari. Letteratura e metapsichica nel secondo Novecento italiano. Trezzano sul Naviglio: Unicopli, 2024. Pp. 239. Cappozzo, Valerio, ed. “Leonardo Sciascia: American Myth/Mediterranean Myth.” Todomodo 13.2 (2023). Pp. 143. Carle, Barbara. Vestigia: Poesie in italiano e inglese. Roma: Caramanica Editore, 2023. Pp. 146. Cordibella, Giovanna, and Martina Mengoni, eds. “Esemplari umani”. I personaggi nell’opera di Primo Levi. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2024. Pp. viii + 274. Di Nino, Nicola, ed. “‘Con lievi mani’. Sulle traduzioni di Cristina Campo nel centenario della nascita.” Cahiers d’études italiennes 36 (2023), online. Pp. 351. Elet, Yvonne. Urban Landscape in the Third Rome: Raphael’s Villa and Mussolini’s Forum. Firenze: Edifir-Edizione, 2023. Pp. 263. Fabbri, Lorenzo. Cinema Is the Strongest Weapon. Race-Making and Resistance in Fascist Italy. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2023. Pp. 299. Ferrara, Sabrina, and Gaia Tomazzoli, eds. Lecturae Dantis Turonenses, Dante à Tours. Études réunies à l’occasion du septième centenaire de la mort de Dante (2021). Paris: Honoré Champion, 2024. Pp. 312. Finch-Race, Daniel A., Emiliano Guaraldo, and Marco Malvestio, eds. Italian Science Fiction and the Environmental Humanities. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2023. Pp. 240. Forni, Giorgio, ed. “‘Queste rive ch’amai sì caldamente’. Venezia per Gaspara Stampa.” Pandemos. Rivista di scienze umane, politiche e sociali 1 (2023). Online. Franceschini, Fabrizio, and Serena Grazzini, eds. L’Ebreo errante. Nuove prospettive su un mito europeo. Roma: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2023. Pp. xvi + 498. Griffiths, Jennifer S. Marisa Mori and the Futurists. A Woman Artist in an Age of Fascism. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. Pp. ix + 164. Ilievska, Ana, and Pietro Russo, eds. Contemporary Sicilian Poetry: A Multilingual Anthology. New York: Italica Press, 2023. Pp. 492. Lazzarin, Stefano, and Mariella Colin, eds. “Les mystères urbains en Italie – volume 2: Les réécritures du XXe siècle.” Transalpina 26 (2023). Pp. 220. Lombardi, Elena. Ulysses, Dante, and Other Stories. Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2023. Pp. x + 310. Lonzi, Carla. Feminism in Revolt. An Anthology. Edited by Luisa Lorenza Corna, and Jamila M. H. Mascat. Transl. Luisa Lorenza Corna, Matthew Hyland, and Cristina Viti. Chicago: the U of Chicago P, 2023. Pp. 312. Lovito, Giuseppe, ed. “Leonardo Scascia: le pouvoir du (contre)récit du Pouvoir.” Babel 48 (2023). Pp. 391. Magnani, Nicolò. I dettami della musa. Strumenti dell’imitazione nella Poetica di Gian Giorgio Trissino. Manziana: Vecchiarelli Editore, 2023. Pp. 512. Martignoni, Alice, and Franco Pierno, eds. Convergenze plurilingui. Incroci e convivenze linguistiche tra Medioevo e prima età moderna. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. 258. Mattioli, Tiziana, ed. Carlo Bo, alla ricerca di un Proust niente affatto perduto. Rimini: Raffaelli Editore, 2023. Pp. 185. Milani, Mila. Publishing Contemporary Foreign Poetry. Transnational Exchange in the Italian Publishing Field, 1939-1977. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2023. Pp. 256. Milone, Pietro. L’oltraggio di Pirandello e Dante. Dio, inconscio, fantasmi, poesia. Pesaro: Metauro, 2023. Pp. 407. Moliterni, Fabio. Finzioni meridionali. Il Sud e la letteratura italiana contemporanea. Roma: Carocci, 2024. Pp. 136. Montalbano, Alessandra. Ransom Kidnapping in Italy: Crime, Memory, and Violence. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2024. Pp. xii + 288. Moraly, Yehuda. Dream Projects in Theatre, Novels and Films. The Works of Paul Claudel, Jean Genet, and Federico Fellini. Chicago: Sussex Academic Press, 2021. Pp. 196. Murray, Jacqueline, ed. Patriarchy, Honour, and Violence: Masculinities in Premodern Europe. Toronto: Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, 2022. Pp. 358. Palmieri, Pasquale. The Land of Devotion. Saints, Politics and Media Culture in 18th-Century Italy. Roma: Viella, 2023. Pp. 160. Pastorino, Gloria. Per amor di Battuta. Dario Fo e la reinvenzione della lingua scenica. Milano: Biblion Edizioni, 2023. Pp. 260. Pedone, Valentina, and Miriam Castorina, eds. Words and Visions Around/About Chinese Transnational Mobilities. Firenze: Firenze UP, 2023. Pp. 194. Peruško, Tatjana. Geometrie ambigue. La narrativa di Antonio Tabucchi. Genzano di Roma: Aracne, 2023. Pp. 188. Petrocchi, Valeria. Spunti e riflessioni per una didattica della traduzione e dell’interpretariato nelle SSML. Configni: Compomat, 2022. Pp. 135. Robin, Anne. À la recherche de l’équilibre. De la maladie à la santé: l’histoire de la lieta brigata du Décaméron. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2022. Pp. 164. Savonarola, Michele. A Mother’s Manual for the Women of Ferrara: A Fifteenth-Century Guide to Pregnancy and Pediatrics. Ed. Gabriella Zuccolin. Transl. Martin Marafioti. New York: Iter Press, 2022. Pp. xi + 254. Severi, Rita, and Julia Bolton Holloway, eds. “Oh bella libertà!” Le poesie di Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Firenze: Le Lettere, 2022. Pp. 486. Spignoli, Teresa, Gloria Manghetti, Giovanna Lo Monaco, and Elisa Caporiccio, eds. “Il tramonto d’Europa”. Ungaretti e le poetiche del secondo Novecento. Firenze: Firenze UP, 2023. Pp. 198. Steinberg, Justin. Law and Mimesis in Boccaccio’s Decameron. Realism on Trial. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2023. Pp. 245. Zampieri, Chiara, Martina Piperno, and Bart Van den Bossche, eds. Modern Etruscans. Close Encounters with a Distant Past. Leuven: Leuven UP, 2023. Pp. 187.