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Dante navigates the afterlife by speaking with the persons that populate it, his interactions gradually shaping his concept of humanity and personhood. Souls in Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise appear not as physical embodiments of the persons they were in life,...

A partire dall’etimologia della parola, con Italia. L’invenzione della patria (Bompiani, 2016) Fabio Finotti ci guida in un viaggio dall’antichità al mondo contemporaneo che ripercorre le origini e le varie interpretazioni della "patria" nella tradizione europea e nella cultura italiana. Lungo continui...

Rhiannon Noel Welch's new book, Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy, 1860-1920 (Liverpool University Press, 2016), aims to revise the general perception of Italy's colonial past by showing how race and colonialism were essential components of the period between Unification...

  In a wide-ranging meditation on the changing conceptualization of territory and borders throughout time, Charles Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University, considers the birth of the frontier, the different spaces of empires and states, and Italy’s...

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...

Smartphone, tablet, computer: sono tutti "apparecchi di registrazione e mobilitazione dell'intenzionalità". Cioè A.R.M.I.. Che cosa significa convivere quotidianamente con questo apparato tecnologico? A quali risposte siamo chiamati? Maurizio Ferraris, tra i più noti filosofi italiani, ne ha scritto in Mobilitazione...

Qual è l’eredità di Pasolini nel mondo contemporaneo? Secondo Stefania Benini, autrice di Pasolini: The Sacred Flesh (Toronto University Press, 2015), essa risiede nell’importanza assegnata dallo scrittore alla dimensione del sacro. Di quest’ultimo, la studiosa offre un’inedita lettura cinematografica, riconoscendone la qualità...

The title of Douglas Biow's latest book encapsulates it perfectly well: On the Importance of Being an Individual in Renaissance Italy: Men, Their Professions, and Their Beards (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015). While reviving a studied consideration of the individual...

For centuries, Siena served as a place for pilgrims to rest their heads, yet its own people, beauty, and innovation have remained unheralded. What is it, then, about this Tuscan city that so enchants? Jane Tylus, professor of Italian and...

In Nevada Matteo Renzi inaugura impianto Green Power dell' Enel, a Chicago visita i laboratori Fermi e incontra le aziende italiane che investono negli USA, cantando poi col sindaco Emanuel al ritmo dei Blues Brothers. A Boston annuncia importante accordo...