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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (3): 285–304.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Giuseppe Gazzola Abstract This essay traces the interrelationship between Italian literary canon formation and constructions of national identity in the literary histories of Girolamo Tiraboschi and Francesco De Sanctis. It examines both the ruptures and the continuities between eighteenth...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 March 2013
...: Du Bellay’s Imitations of the Giolito Anthology Poets .” French Forum 14 , no. 2 : 133 – 46 . ———. 2009 . Unlikely Exemplars: Reading and Imitating beyond the Italian Canon in French Renaissance Poetry . Newark : University of Delaware Press . Du Bellay Joachim . 1904 . La...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (2): 213–244.
Published: 01 June 2006
... a decadent canon. It is telling that
what Pater calls du Bellay’s greatest achievement is his free translation
into French of a Latin poem by an Italian author. Although he com-
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posed this poem in France, he had to reach beyond the borders...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (1): 29–52.
Published: 01 March 2024
... Hogarth Press was the first to publish Svevo’s work in English. His story “The Hoax” marked their first translation from Italian and his short story collection The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl and Other Stories their second, helping shape the press’s international modernist program. Despite residing...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (4): 505–526.
Published: 01 December 2012
... of the Renaissance,
especially the Italian Renaissance, to the new critical problem of the
relationship between modern European vernaculars and classical mod-
els. In this version the idea of literary historicity was advanced by those
who argued for change based on different national and linguistic tradi...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (2): 141–164.
Published: 01 June 2022
..., these externalities—the tangle of contextual resonances and implications explored in this essay—would undoubtedly have been activated and brought to the fore, in which case Oggi si vola might have been explicitly remembered and canonized as an antifascist work, rather than remaining a curiosity in the Italian...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (4): 612–614.
Published: 01 December 1965
... these practices with
the parlare in gergo ossia furbesco and scrivere in cifra, which long remained
popular in Italian versification. Mar0 assigned three goals to scinderatio:
sagacitatis adprobandae, decus eloquentiae, ne mystica repperiantur. The
last is closer to the spirit of trobar clus, while...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (3): 363–379.
Published: 01 September 1995
... 1960s and early 1970s: Italian hill-towns, the villages and houses
celebrated in Bernard Rudofsky’s Architecture without Architects and
some, but very few, examples of “critical regionalism.”8 That is, all
these examples combine precisely the myth, ritual, and domesticity
that Bloomer’s more...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1998) 59 (2): 139–169.
Published: 01 June 1998
...Daniel Javitch Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Daniel Javitch is professor of comparative literature at New York University. His book Proclaiming a Classic: The Canonization of “Orlando Furioso” (1991) will appear in Italian this year. He is at work on a history...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1985) 46 (1): 29–47.
Published: 01 March 1985
...W. Paul Elledge Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE
By W. PAULELLEDGE
By the time Byron began Beppo in the autumn of 18 17, he was well
practiced in the experience and the poetry of separation...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1967) 28 (2): 249–252.
Published: 01 June 1967
.... By HUGOFRIEDRICH. Frankfurt am Main:
Vittorio Klostermann, 1964. xvi + 784 pp. DM 68.50.
In this truly monumental work, Hugo Friedrich discusses the major
Italian poets and schools of Italian poetry, beginning with the Sicilians
and concluding with Marino. He devotes separate chapters to five...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (2): 136–146.
Published: 01 June 1966
... standards of the
counterrevolution have already been raised. Patricia Thomson’s pre-
cise analysis of the relationships among Wyatt, Petrarch, and Petrarch’s
Italian followers illuminates, in turn, the richness of Wyatt’s inheri-
tance from Chaucer and the native English lyric tradition6 For Thom...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (4): 386–391.
Published: 01 December 1963
...William B. Coley Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 FIELDING, HOGARTH, AND THREE ITALIAN MASTERS
By WILLIAMB. COLEY
Unlike his near-contemporary Pope, Henry Fielding does not
appear to have been fond of drawing upon the supposed parallels...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (4): 419–449.
Published: 01 December 2006
...”
of Italian literature.40 Therefore the contribution of this literature to
the European canon, by way of Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, and others,
is measured by the national identity of their work in Italian, and not
in Latin, as can be seen in Sismondi’s assessment of the Divine Comedy:
“Without...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (1): 106–108.
Published: 01 March 1950
... 107
Cassirer, and Professors Paul Oskar Kristeller and John Herman Randall, Jr.,
of the Department of Philosophy of Columbia University. The work contains an
introduction describing the main trends and problems of the earlier Italian
Renaissance philosophy and selections from the works...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (3): 277–291.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Joseph Luzzi Joseph Luzzi is associate professor of italian and director of italian studies at Bard College. He is author of Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy (2008), which received the Modern Language Association's Scaglione Prize for italian Studies and was named an outstanding...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (3): 397–423.
Published: 01 September 1996
... of Petrarch’s legacy into a high standard for the cul-
ture of a new age.
The nuts and bolts of doing so occupied Bembo for forty years or
more. While still a comparatively young man, he helped prepare the
1501 Aldine edition of Petrarch’s Italian poetry. It not only offered a
better text...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (2): 395–414.
Published: 01 June 2000
....” See
his preface to Orlando Furioso: Translated from the Italian of Lodovico Ariosto; With Notes,
vol.1 (London, 1783), li.
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Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (1): 184–202.
Published: 01 March 1965
...
discovery is pertinent to two areas of curiosity: to a characterization of
Petrarch’s intellectual tendencies and to a description of the main ideas
that fashioned Italian humanism in the Trecento. But you have learned
little, if anything, about the way the Africa works as a poem, you have...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (4): 539–545.
Published: 01 December 2005
... literatures. In a concession to the more traditional option, the authors
refer occasionally, or when they deem it appropriate, to German and north-
ern Italian authors. Ultimately, and after some hesitation, one may admit
that Konstantinovic´ and Rinner were right to structure the book as they
did...
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