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Item Open Access ‘Laughter and the “Popular” in Lina Wertmüller’s The Seduction of Mimì’(2013-03-20) Rigoletto, SergioItem Open Access ‘Country Cousins: Europeanness, Sexuality and Locality in Contemporary Italian Television’(2013-03-20) Rigoletto, SergioItem Open Access ‘The Fair and the Museum: Framing the Popular’(2013-03-20) Rigoletto, SergioItem Open Access Item Open Access "Natura, ragione e modernità nella Scienza nuova di Giambattista Vico"(2011-06-24) Lollini, Massimo, 1954-This videoconference discusses on the one hand Vico's idea of nature in relation to the emergence of human history; on the other hand it analyzes Vico's idea of modernity. Finally, it offers some reflections on Vico's "more than human humanism."Item Open Access Humanism in the Digital Age(Humanist Studies &the Digital Age, 2011) Lollini, Massimo, 1954-The importance of writing and reading in Humanist Studies from manuscript to digital culture.Item Open Access Return to Philology and Hypertext in and around Petrarch’s Rvf(Humanist Studies & the Digital Age, 2011) Lollini, Massimo, 1954-This article examines the theoretical premises and consequences of the renewed attention to the intersection between philology, hermeneutics, and criticism in humanist studies in general and in Petrarch studies in particular. The most recent philological achievements—from the new facsimile of Rerum vulgarium fragmenta: Codex Vat. Lat. 3195 (Rvf), edited by Belloni, Brugnolo, Storey, and Zamponi, to the new critical edition of Petrarch’s masterpiece by Giuseppe Savoca—are presented and discussed as introduction to reflections on the role that a hypertext project, such as the Oregon Petrarch Open Book initiated at the University of Oregon, may play in the return to philology as necessary tool of textual criticism and hermeneutics.Item Open Access Vico's More than Human Humanism(Annali d'Italianistica, 2011) Lollini, Massimo, 1954-This essay considers how in Vico the alterity of nature plays a role in the formation of humanity, as part of the complexity and interconnectivity of life, resisting acritical historicization and reduction to purely human paradigms. The theoretical implications of this problematic approach to Vico's humanism and making of history lead to a new understanding of Auerbach's idea that "our philological home is the earth," one in which philology and philosophy in a genuinely Vichian fashion return to interrogate not only the historical institutions but also their relationships to earth and the natural environment as a significant part in the formation of humanity. Thus, this essay proposes Vico's idea of "places of humanity" as the driving force of a new humanism, one that is "more than human," and finally pays attention to what has been excluded or not valorized from purely historicist interpretations of his philosophy.Item Open Access Poetic Inspiration and the Ethics of Writing as a Source of Higher Narrative in Cervantes and Manzoni(Pearson Education, India, 2010) Lollini, Massimo, 1954-This essay addresses the problematic nature of the elevated style within the modern novel; it focuses on Cervantes' Don Quixote —a fundamental point of reference for modern and post-modern theories of the novel— and on Manzoni’s The Betrothed, one of the greatest European novels of the nineteenth century. The author discusses two opposing readings of Cervantes’ elevated style, Auerbach’s and Pirandello’s; then, he introduces the Romantic theory of the novel, the question of ‘poetic inspiration’ and the ethics of writing in Manzoni’s The Betrothed.Item Open Access "La questione del soggetto nelle Lettere dal carcere di Antonio Gramsci tra testimonianza e letteratura(Centro di Studi Filologici Sardi, 2009) Lollini, Massimo, 1954-This essay analyzes the evolution of the subject position in Antonio Gramsci's Letters from Prison.Item Open Access "Il Mediterraneo dalla contingenza metafisica di Montale all'apertura etica di Saba"(Presses Universitaires Paris Ouest,, 2009) Lollini, Massimo, 1954-This article studies the relationships of Eugenio Montale's and Umberto Saba's poetry to the Mediterranean sea.Item Open Access Letteratura e trauma in Primo Levi(Peter Lang, 2008) Lollini, Massimo, 1954-This article studies the importance of literature for Primo Levi's survival in Auschwitz.Item Open Access Humanisms, Posthumanisms, and Neohumanisms: Introductory Essay(Annali d'Italianistica, 2008) Lollini, Massimo, 1954-Humanisms, Posthumanisms and Neohumanisms, proposes a reflection articulated in different parts, from revisiting early Humanism, to a study of Humanism in an historical perspective that comprises the beginning of European Colonialism in the “New World,” and the violent historical events that took place in the twentieth century, including the Shoah. Finally, this volume introduces the notion of Neohumanisms and investigates the notion of Posthuman philosophy and literature.Item Open Access “L’autobiografia dell’artista 'divino' tra sacro e secolarizzazione”(Annali d'Italianistica, 2007) Massimo, LolliniThis article analyzes the “deification” of the Renaissance artist as a consequence of the encounter of Neoplatonic and Christian trends, which will ultimately usher in secular autobiography.Item Open Access Norberto Bobbio e l'autobiografia intellettuale contemporanea(Il Mulino, 2007) Lollini, Massimo; Lollini, Massimo"Il saggio studia la disaffezione alla scrittura autobiografica in prima persona in forme che in maniera sia pure diversa manifestano la comune tendenza «oggettivante» a trasformare l'io in un Sé come un altro, come direbbe Pau Ricoeur. Il discorso viene approfondito in particolare attraverso la lettura dei testi autobiografici di Norberto Bobbio, in rapporto alIa riflessione sui grandi temi della vita e della morte di cui la sua autobiografia intellettuale si fa veicolo."Item Open Access “Italo Calvino e l’esperienza della Guerra Civile,”(Clueb, 2006) Lollini, Massimo, 1954-This article analyzes Italo Calvino's contribution to the literature of the Italian Resistance during World War II.Item Open Access Trieste e l'antico mare perduto di Umberto Saba(Annali d'Italianistica, 2006) Lollini, Massimo, 1954-This article is part of a monographic volume of the Annali d'Italianistica (2006) on "Italian Identities," edited by Norma Bouchard.It shows how Saba’s Canzoniere, and particularly the verses of the section Mediterranee, propose an epistemology of space based on the Mediterranean Sea, open to cultural exchange, transmission, encounter and dialogue. Saba is of extreme relevance today in that he allows readers to inhabit a space that can be intersubjectively shared and, by so doing, provides an answer to the dangerous attempts to create exclusionary models of ethno- cultural and religious identity that have become part of our daily 21rst -century lives.Item Open Access "Padre mite e dispotico": riflessioni sull'eredità culturale di Petrarca(Annali d'Ialianistica, 2004) Lollini, Massimo, 1954-This article is part of the monographic volume of the Annali d'Italianistica (2004) on "Francis Petrarch & the European Lyric Tradition." It reflects on how the notion of Petrarchism has been developed in recent criticism and in contemporary poetry. The attempt at tracing the complex problem of Petrarch’s cultural and poetic heritage has to go beyond the search for the “true” historical Petrarch or for his influence on modern poets. The real challenge is to take on Petrarch invitation to appreciate the value and the limits of poetic discourse in the context of modern culture, religion and philosophy.Item Open Access "The order of Writing and Death in Pirandello’s Il fu Mattia Pascal”(PSA The Journal of the Pirandello Society of America, 2004) Lollini, Massimo, 1954-This essay examines the philosophical dimension of Pirandello's idea of writing and the different literary genres included in II fu Mattia Pascal (1904). The analysis begins with Pirandello's representation of journalism in the moment in which Mattia discovers his "death"; it continues with the bureaucratic writing responsible for Mattia's social identity, and finally it focuses on the tomb inscription that concludes the novel. What role does Pirandello attribute to writing in the search for human identity? How does writing relate to death as a fundamental theme of II fu Mattia Pascal? What are the implications of Pirandello's order of writing for the autobiographical dimension of the novel?Item Open Access “Filosofia ed eroismo tra Socrate e Vico”(Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2004) Lollini, Massimo, 1954-This article studies the evolution of the idea of "heroism" in Giambattista VIco's works.