Until July 9, the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston hosts the exhibition "Botticelli and the Search of Divine" with thirty works by the Italian painter that focuses on Botticelli's visual poetry and his different styles during the years, from mythological subjects to religious ones

Perhaps the best-known figure of seventeenth-century Italy is Galileo Galilei. What is not as widely known, though, is that Galileo exchanged letters with natural philosopher and poet Margherita Sarrocchi. In Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo: Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy, Professor Meredith Ray of the University of Delaware...

In "Italia. L'invenzione della patria," Fabio Finotti, Mariano DiVito chair in Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, explores centuries of literature and cultural output in the Italian peninsula, tracing how the meaning of the term patria has been changing

In L’Eleganza è frigida e L’Empire des signes. Un sogno fatto in Giappone (FUP 2016), Dalila Colucci – dottorata in Discipline Filologiche e Linguistiche moderne alla Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa – offre un’inedita analisi comparata delle appassionate esperienze in Giappone di Goffredo Parise e Roland Barthes. Autori assai diversi – scrittore e...