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The former president wants you to remember he wasn't always a politician

In a class I was taking I was asked to offer the male perspective during our biweekly discussions, a task that I found as arduous as fully connecting with the female characters and their daily struggles. What does a male...

Stephanie Malia Hom, author of The Beautiful Country. Tourism and the Impossible State of Destination Italy (University of Toronto Press, 2015), discusses how her research on Italy as a powerful touristic imaginary can help us to better understand the national...

Valeria Finucci, author of The Prince's Body: Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine (Harvard University Press, 2015), sits down with Amelia Linsky (PhD student in Italian Studies at Harvard University) to discuss how Vincenzo Gonzaga, Prince of Mantua, changed the Western...

Ask not what Dante did for his times, ask what his times did for him. Cecily Cai, a graduate student in comparative literature at Harvard, interviews Lino Pertile on the recent book that he presented at the De Bosis Colloquium...

In Mario Perniola’s book L’arte espansa, published by Einaudi, the world of art appears in an expanded and less definite form. In the length of barely a hundred pages the author attempts to address the fundamental questions of contemporary art...