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Item Open Access Le muse, le maschere e il sublime. Giambattista Vico e la poesia nell'età della "ragione spiegata"(Guida, 1992) Lollini, MassimoThis book studies Vico’s reflection on the evolution of poetry, poetics and rhetoric from Renaissance to Baroque. Vico believes that poetry, having lost its mythological origins, no longer has any eternal or fixed content. This process was particularly acute in the baroque period. The emergence of the mask as an emblem of Baroque culture testifies, as Vico writes, to the loss of the perception of nature as divine substance, producing a loss both of the constitutive referentiality of language and of its supposed “natural” origin.Item Open Access Intrecci mediterranei. La testimonianza di Vincenzo Consolo(Italica, 2005) Lollini, MassimoThe essay studies the relationship between the sea and the orientation towards the infinite, between the sea and war that is established in Greek culture. Vincenzo Consolo in his writings reflects on the ecological and political disasters occurring in the Mediterranean basin and reinterprets the myth of Odysseus as representing the archetype of the actual crisis of European episteme.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 Il vuoto della forma. Scrittura, Testimonianza e Verità(Marietti, 2001) Lollini, MassimoThe book examines the formation of a philosophical and religious idea of testimony in antiquity by focusing on some selected texts from Plato, the Bible and Augustine. Then it studies the emergence of the literary notion of testimony by analyzing crucial works by Dante and Petrarch. The modern and contemporary part of the book concentrates on the philosophical notion of testimony developed by Emmanuel Levinas and on the “testimonies” of important writers of the XXth century such as Renato Serra, Luigi Pirandello, Antonio Gramsci, Italo Calvino, Primo Levi and Paul Celan.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 "I narratori di Pasolini e l'angolo d'incidenza della vita"(Il Piccolo Hans, 1994) Lollini, Massimo, 1954-A study of "Petrolio" by Pier Paolo PasoliniItem 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 Antropologia ed etica della scrittura in Italo Calvino(Annali d'Italianistica, 1997) Lollini, Massimo, 1954-This article studies the relationships between anthropology and phenomenology in the works of Italo Calvino.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 "La luce che si è spenta. Gramsci interprete di Renato Serra"(Italian Culture, 1992) Lollini, Massimo, 1954-This article studies the relationship between Antonio Gramsci and Renato Serra in the context of early Nineteenth-Century Italian Culture.Item Open Access Perché si scrive? Primo Levi e Paul Celan(Rivista di letterature moderne e comparate, 1999) Lollini, Massimo, 1954-This articles examines Primo Levi's relationship with Paul Celan's poetry and discusses the notion of "testimony" in literatureItem 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 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 A review article of Il profondo e l'espressione. Filosofia, Psichiatria e Psicanalisi di Carlo Sini(Italian Studies in Southern Africa, 1996) Lollini, Massimo, 1954-Item Open Access "Scrittura obbediente e mistica tridentina in Veronica Giuliani"(Annali d'Italianistica, 1995) Lollini, Massimo, 1954-This article studies the relationships between mysticism and autobiography in the works of Veronica Giuliani and in the context of Baroque religion and culture.Item Open Access "Vico e il pensiero dell'infinito"(Quodlibet, 2002) Lollini, Massimo, 1954-This article studies the evolution of the idea of "infinite" from Humanist and Renaissance philosophy to Giambattista Vico's idea of "ideal eternal history".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.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 "Scrittura e alterità in Francesco Petrarca"(Annali d'Italianistica, 2001) Lollini, Massimo, 1954-In this essay on "Scrittura e alterità in Petrarca," Massimo Lollini is interested in ethics as a point of intersection between philosophy and literature. Lollini studies how the notion of otherness in literature emerges in Petrarch's writings, which, for Lollini, constitute a necessary premise to modern critical discourse on alterity. In the writing process Petrarch discovers two main form of alterity, first of all, the alterity of the face of Laura, which he cannot "write" or present in its proper form (Canzoniere 308: 5-8). Lollini then argues that the ethical moment in the Canzoniere is located precisely in Petrarch's awareness of the impossibility to reduce the face of the other to a pure representation because in that face there is something infinite (Canzoniere 339: 9-14). The second fundamental dimension of alterity explored by Petrarch is related to his reflection on time and death, through which he introduces a notion of truth grounded not on the ontological and transcendental plane but on the ethical discourse.