Rivista d'italianistica

Spunti e Ricerche is a refereed journal which has been run by the Editorial Board consisting of Australian-based Italianists since the 1980s. While studies of Italian literature have been a major interest, the journal welcomes and has published submissions in all areas of Italian studies.

Current Issue

Vol. 36 (2021): Dante Alighieri 1265-1321. Dante Anniversary Edition

Spunti e Ricerce 36 (2021)
Edited by Diana Glenn (Flinders University)

Published: 2022-08-08

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Front matter

Front Matter, Abstracts, Introduction (Diana Glenn)

1-10

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Articles

“As you walked next to death ...”: The Dantesque Iter of Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek

Mary Watt

11-23

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The Inferno of Pinocchio: Dante’s Legacy in Le avventure di Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

Luigi Gussago, Andrea Pagani

24-38

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Mandelshtam and Dante: The Russian Connection

Julia Titus

39-52

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Dante e Matelda nell’Eden perduto

Marcella Di Franco

53-78

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"scuri boschi, in luoghi strani e inculti": The Literary Afterlives of Dante’s Wood of the Suicides in the Italian Renaissance

Emma Louise Barlow

79-101

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BOOK REVIEWS

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102-110

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Reviews

Pezzotti, Barbara. Investigating Italy’s Past through Historical Crime Fiction, Films, and TV Series. Murder in the Age of Chaos. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Mirna Cicioni

102-105

James, Carolyn. A Renaissance Marriage. The Political and Personal Alliance of Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490–1519. Oxford UP, 2020.

Andrea Rizzi

107-107

Newbigin, Nerida. Making a Play for God: The ‘Sacre Rappresentazioni’ of Renaissance Florence. Toronto, Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, 2021. 2 vols.

Carolyn James

107-110

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