The "Italian scheme": Ann Forbes, Artist in Training - AnneMcKim
"Shall I be the slave I Of ... what? A Word": Language, Silence, Beauty, and Justice in Early Translations of Shelley's The Cenci - Daniela Cerimonia
Italy and the Gothic in Mary Shelley's Short Stories - Serena Baiesi
A Rejected Prospectus: Leigh Hunt, Giuseppe Molini and the Search for New Readers - Timothy Webb
"The Dantescan voice" in Shelley's The Triumph of Life and Keats's The Fall of Hyperion - Peter Vassallo
Gabriele Rossetti and La Beatrice di Dante: Considerations on the Presence of Dante in Nineteenth-century England - Anna Enrichetta Soccio
Maria Teresa Parpagliolo Shephard, a Long Green Dialogue between Italy and England - Francesca Orestano
An Ancient, Yet Young Civilisation: D.H. Lawrence's Etruria and the Power of a Brush Stroke on a White Canvas - Stefania Michelucci
English, Italian and other Languages: Language Proficiency Skills among Tertiary-Educated Students in Bilingual Malta - Lydia Sciriha and Mario Vassallo
Liberal Cultural Exchange: Leigh Hunt and his Italian Experience – Serena Baiesi
Byron, Shelley and the Neapolitan Uprising in 1820 – Peter Vassallo
La Visione di Giuseppe di John Bryant Lane (1827): un raro caso di altarpiece anglo-romano, ricostruito tramite i periodici dell’epoca – Tiziano Casola
James Thomson’s Response to Dante in The City of Dreadful Night – Anna Enrichetta Soccio
Italy as a Cultural Metonymy in John Henry Newman’s Loss and Gain (1848) – Francesca Caraceni
An accompaniment of indescribable romance to those poetical scenes: Edward Lear’s Excursions in the Abruzzi Soundscape – Raffaella Antinucci
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Reads and Teaches English Literature: A Case of Sicilian Anglophilia – Francesca Orestano
Nino Ricci’s Version of a Childhood Trauma: An Interpretation of In A Glass House – Francesca D’Alfonso
Televised British and Italian Heterotopic Afterlives: Black Mirror and La porta rossa – Glen Bonnici
Sulla Commedia di Dante’ – Ugo Mifsud Bonnici
Dante and the Romantics – an interview with Peter Vassallo by Gloria Lauri-Lucente.
Translating Elizabeth Gaskell: Sylvia's Lovers, Wives and Daughters, A Dark Night's Work – Mara Barbuni
"Learned Italian things": W.B. Yeats and Italian Renaissance Aesthetics – Peter Vassallo
"Such is the Working of the Southern Mind": A Postcolonial Reading of E.M. Forster’s Italian Narratives – Francesca Pierini
Tradurre A Passage to India di E.M. Forster: reiterazioni verbali, ritmo narrativo e vuoti ermeneutici – Tania Zulli
Nostalgia in John Fante's "Home Sweet Home" – Francesca D’Alfonso
"Dove sta memoria": Charles Tomlinson and the Chimes of Italy – Francesco Marroni
"Nothing is as it seems": Venice and its Spectral Other in Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now – Gloria Lauri-Lucente
Notes on Contributors
General Editor: Peter Vassallo
Volume Editor: Gloria Lauri-Lucente
Contents
"A Woman of infinite wit, and agreeable conversation, always entertained me:" The Countess of Pomfret and Italian Hospitality – Anne M. Mckim
"veder quel che tutt'i ciechi non veggono:" Gabriele Rossetti e il materialismo esoterico della Commedianel carteggio con Charles Lyell – Raffaella Antinucci
"Rome disappoints me much:" Clough, Rome, and Amours de Voyage – Phillip Mallett
"The Italian Method" and the "Italian Gesture." Musico-Literary considerations on W.B. Yeats, Italian music and Italian composers – Enrico Reggiani
D.H. Lawrence, Montecassino and the "Spirit of Place" – Peter Vassallo
Naples and the Anglo-American Allied Forces: John Horne The Gallery and Francesco Rosi's "Napoli '44" – Gaetana Marrone
Shakespeare's The Tempest and Virgil's Aeneid: Gonzalo on Claribel and 'Widow Dido' – Robert Hollander
Dante, 'The Prophet of Liberty': The Mainstream Ideological Paradigm in Romantic Britain vis-à-vis Isaiah Berlin's Reflections on Liberty – Edoardo Crisafulli
The Humanist Petrarch in Medieval and Early Modern England – Alessandra Petrina
'Mia Bella Italia': Mary Shelley's Italies – Timothy Webb
'The Burning Bush': Browning's First Visit to Asolo, June 1838 – Sue Brown
'This Extraordinary Apathy': Wilkie Collins, Italy and the Contradictions of the Risorgimento – Mariaconcetta Costantini
The Italian Scenes in Anthony Trollope's He Knew He Was Right – David Farley-Hills
John Ruskin, Venice, and the 'Stones' of an Italian Utopia – Michela Marroni
William Morris's Mediaevalism between Dante and Boccaccio: A Cognitive Approach to Literature – Eleonora Sasso
By the Southern Sea: Gissing's Meridian Flight from the Realm of Modernity – Luigi Cazzato
Modernist Myths. A Comparison between La cognizione del dolore and Ulysses – Valentino Baldi
Mysterious Apparitions in the Land of Darkness: The Influence of Conrad in Buzzati's Short Fiction – Valentina Polcini
The Narrative of Realism and Myth in Francesco Rosi's Salvatore Giuliano and Michael Cimino's The Sicilian – Gloria Lauri-Lucente
Betrayal Italian Style – Sara Soncini
Counterfeit Classics: Shakespeare/Camilleri Joking with Masks, Translations and Traditions – Carla Dente
Conducting the Orchestra: Recent Experiences in Translating Italian Fiction into English – Silvester Mazzarella
This issue carries papers which were presented at the Sixth International Conference on Britain and Italy: Literary and Cultural Relations from 1300 to the present day which was hosted by the Institute in September 2008.
Contents
Romantic 'Dantism,' Travel, Visions and Exile: Byron, Ugo Foscolo and Henry Francis Cary – Susan Oliver, University of Salford
'Admirable for Conciseness and Vigour': Dante and Romantic Epic – Michael O'Neill, Durham University
John Keats on the Appian Way – Nicholas Roe, University of St Andrews
'Under Italian Skies,' the 6th Duke of Devonshire, Canova and the formation of the Sculpture Gallery at Chatsworth House – Alison Yarrington, University of Glasgow
Joseph Severn and the establishment of the British Academy in Rome – Sue Brown
'Soft Bastard Latin': Byron and the Attractions of Italian – Timothy Webb, University of Bristol
Lady Morgan and Thomas Moore: Irish Perceptions of Italy and the Uses of National Images in the Nineteenth Century – Donatella Abbate Badin, University of Torino
The Italianate Aspect of the Pre-Raphaelite Journal The Germ – Valeria Tinkler-Villani, University of Leiden
E.M. Forster, John Ruskin and the 'pernicious charm' of Italy – Peter Vassallo, University of Malta
Anna Banti and Virginia Woolf: A Grammar of Responsibility – Lucia Boldrini, Goldsmiths University of London
Robert Browning and Enrico Nencioni: A Story of Friendship and Devotion – Simonetta Berbeglia
D'Annunzio as a Reader and Translator of Browning via Shelley – Angelo Righetti, University of Verona
T.S. Eliot and Eugenio Montale: 'Similar Flowers on Distant Branches?' – Gloria Lauri-Lucente, University of Malta
'Translating Style': Tim Parks and the Tradition of Anglo-Italian Literary Relations – Ivan Callus, University of Malta
'I am Montalbano / Montalbano sono': Fluency and Cultural Difference in Translating Andrea Camilleri's Fiction – Saverio Tomaiuolo, University of Cassino
Alcune pagine dal giornale della vita di S.M. la Regina Vittoria nell'Alta Scozia (1862-1882) — Storia di una traduzione – Simonetta Berbeglia
The 1848-1849 Revolutions and the Italian Body Politic: Barrett Browning, Clough, Garibaldi and Mazzini – Arnold A. Schmidt
Imagining Italy and the Italians in the "Age of Machinery": Spectres of Industrial Modernity in the Italianate Visions of John Ruskin and D. H. Lawrence – Christopher Thorpe
Providence in the Marketplace: Vico's Philology and the Immanence of Language in Joyce's Later Narrative – Ruben Borg
Refractions of the Poetic Text: Translating W. H. Auden into Italian – Saverio Tomaiuolo
This issue carries several papers which were presented at the Fifth International Conference on England and Italy: Literary and Cultural Relations from 1300 to the present day which was hosted by the Institute in September 2005.
Contents
From Leon Battista Alberti to Jane Austen via Giacomo Leoni and BBC Drama – John Woodhouse, Magdalen College, Oxford
Absence, Desire and the Female Other in Petrarch and Wyatt – Gloria Lauri Lucente, University of Malta
Mary Shelley, Anglo-Italicus: Female Self-Assertion and the Politics of Distinction – Maria Schoina, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Presence and Absence in Byron's The Prophecy of Dante – Valeria Tinkler-Villani, University of Leiden
Enchantment and Disenchantment: English Romantic Visions of Italy – Manfred Pfister, Free University Berlin
'A Freak of Freedom': British travellers to the Republic of San Marino – Maurizio Ascari, University of Bologna
Leigh Hunt in Italy 1822-1825 – Nicholas Roe, University of St. Andrews
'Walking in the footsteps of the Illustrious Dead': Nineteenth-century Travellers in Southern Italy – Sharon Ouditt, Nottingham Trent University
Authenticating Italy: Poetry, Tourism and Browning's The Ring and the Book – Christopher M. Keirstead, Auburn University, Alabama
'A real picture of natural and feminine feeling': Anna Jameson's Diary of an Ennuyée – Kate Walchester, Liverpool John Moores University
'Fashioned from His Opposite': Yeats, Dante and Shelley – Michael O'Neill, Durham University
D.H.Lawrence and the Sicilian myth of Persephone – Peter Vassallo, University of Malta
Angels and Vagabonds: Breaking through Barriers in the Anglo-Italian Encounter – Sally Collins, Goldsmiths College, University of London
'Dark juxtaposition' : D.H. Lawrence, Verga and Cultural Difference – Michael Cronin, University of Calabria
Writing the familial past: historical and personal memoir in Sicily and England: Political and Social Reminiscences, 1848-1870 by Tina Scalia Whitaker – Giorgia Alù, University of Warwick
The Romance of Anglo-Italian Studies: Brief Fictions of Francesco Marroni – Allan C. Christensen, John Cabot University, Rome
Shakespeare's Debt to Berni – Roger Prior, Queen's University, Belfast
Verba versus Res in Shakespeare's Reversal of Petrarchan Epideictic Rhetoric – Gloria Lauri Lucente, University of Malta
Henry Francis Cary and John Taaffe Junior: The Translator of Dante and a Comment on The Divine Comedy – Antonella Braida, University of Durham
Portraits in Italy: Lord Byron and the Countess Guiccioli – Edna C. Southard, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio
Florentine Shadows: Death, Duty and Santa Croce in George Eliot's Romola – Anne O'Brien, University of Birmingham
Ruskin, Vernon Lee and the Cultural Possession of Italy – Francis O'Gorman, University of Leeds
Living with Dante and Petrarch. Monna Innominata by Christina Rossetti – Francesco Marroni, Università di Pescara
This issue carries several papers which were presented at the Fourth International Conference on England and Italy: Literary and Cultural Relations from 1300 to the present day which was hosted by the Institute in September 2000.
'With a wild surmise': on translating Lorenzo de' Medici's Ambra two hundred years after William Roscoe –Corinna Salvadori Lonergan, Trinity College Dublin
'He that travelleth into a country ... goeth to school: ' il viaggio di Sir John North verso l'Italia e ritorno (1575-1579) – Mariagrazia Bellorini, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano
Jonson, Shakespeare and the Italian Theorists – David Farley-Hills, University of Wales, Swansea
'That Italian Didapper:' Giordano Bruno and England – John Gatt-Rutter, La Trobe University
Sir Philip Sidney 'inward Sunne to Heroicke minde' and Giordano Bruno's 'sole intelligenziale' in De Gli Eroici Furori – Daniel Massa, University of Malta
Italian Pride and English Prejudice: The Reception of Otherness in the Renaissance – Patricia Ellul-Micallef, University of Malta
Felicia's Fantasy: The Vespers of Palermo – Roderick Cavaliero
Figuring Disorder: Women Travellers in Italy – Jane Stabler, University of Dundee
'All that I have dreamed and more': Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Florence – Alison Chapman, University of Glasgow
Shelley's Perception of Italian Art – Lilla Maria Crisafulli, University of Bologna
Cathestant or Protholic? Shelley's Italian Imaginings – Michael O'Neill, University of Durham
The Fallen/Unfallen Woman in Manzoni and Dickens – Allan C. Christensen, John Cabot University, Rome
La visita di Garibaldi a Malta ed in Inghilterra: L'euforia collettiva per un eroe scomodo – Abraham Borg, University of Malta
The Rossetti siblings in the correspondence of their father – John Woodhouse, Magdalen College, Oxford
Exiles at Home: The Case of the Rossettis – Valeria Tinkler-Villani, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
'Daughter of th' Italian Heaven': Madame de Stael's Corinne in England – Petra Bianchi, University of Malta
T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats and the Dantean 'familiar compound ghost' in Little Gidding – Peter Vassallo, University of Malta
This special double issue also carries several papers which were presented at the Third International Conference on England and Italy: Literary and Cultural Relations from 1300 to the present day which was hosted by the Institute in September 1997. It is dedicated to the memory of Gregory L. Lucente, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, who was a member of the Journal's Advisory Editorial Board and who died prematurely in 1997.
Chaucer's Knight's Tale – From Boccaccio to Heresy - Anthony M. Schembri
Who are the Philistines? the 'Unsearchable Dispose' of Tragedy from Della Valle's Mary Queen of Scotsto Milton's Samson – John Gatt Rutter
'Accioch' ognuno le possa intendere: The use of Italian as a Lingua Franca on the Barbary Coast of the Seventeenth Century. Evidence from the English – Joe Cremona
'The Niobe of Nations': A Romantic View of Italy, 1815-1840 – Roderick Cavaliero
Britain and The Italian Risorgimento – Denis Mack Smith
'Ivanoè' Dal romanzo al pasticcio – Abraham Borg
Rispetti and Sonnets: The Anglo-Italian Context of Augusta Webster's Later Poetry (1881-1893) – Petra Bianchi
The Italian Heritage in the Poetry of Christina Rossetti – Valeria Tinkler-Villani
Scenari italiani per un poema inglese: The Ring and the Book di Robert Browning – Mariagrazia Bellorini
Vernon Lee and Mantua – Rita Severi
Healing Agents in Novels by Alessandro Manzoni and Charles Kingsley – Allan C. Christensen
D'Annunzio and Yeats – John Woodhouse
Giorgio Bassani, James Joyce and the Storie Ferraresi – Brian Moloney Lo Shakespeare di Lampedusa - Agostino Lombardo
Un' altra America: echi Eliotiani nelle poesie fiorentine di Eugenio Montale – Paola Sica
'E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle'...but there are no stars – Corinna Salvadori Lonergan
'Absolute Milan' Two types of colonialism in The Tempest – Lisa Hopkins
'Observation with Extensive View'? English-Italian Narratives 1700-1820 – Jack Lynch
The Phenomenon of Italomania in the Nineteenth Century – Andrew Brayley
Linking England to Italy: The Brownings' Poetry of The Risorgimento – Matthew Reynolds
Minding their own business: British Diplomacy and the conflict between Italy and The Vatican during the Pontificate of Leo XIII 1878-1903 – Dominic Fenech
I Sonetti di Belli e di Burgess – Alida Poeti
Seamus Heaney's Northern Irish Ugolino: An 'Original Reproduction' of the Dantean Episode – Maria Cristina Fumagalli
This special double issue also carries several papers which were presented at the Second International Conference on England and Italy: Literary and Cultural Relations from 1300 to the present day which was hosted by the Institute in September 1993. It is dedicated to the memory of Rev. Professor Alphonse Sammut, Head of the Department of Italian, University of Malta, who died prematurely in 1994.
General Editor: Peter Vassallo
Contents
Rev. Professor Alphonse Sammut: An Appreciation – John R. Woodhouse
In gentil hertes ay redy to repaire: Guinizzelli, Francesca e Troilo – Piero Boitani
The 'Doom of Mynos' and the Christian connection in The Troilus – Anthony M. Schembri
L'evoluzione del personaggio di Tristano dal mito al racconto d'avventura: la versione inglese e la versione italiana – Cecilia Petropoli
Italian Romance and Elizabethan Comedy: Ariosto, Robert Greene and Shakespeare – Peter Brand
Ben Jonson and the Italian Neo-Classical Theorists – David Farley Hills
The Perils of Inter-Cultural Relations: The Commedia dell'arte and The Restoration Stage – Kenneth Richards
Mrs. Aphra Behn and The Commedia dell'arte – Vicki Ann Cremona
Shelley 'Translated' by the Italian Decadent Movement: The Case of Adolfo De Bosis – Lilla Maria Crisafulli
Behind The Black Veil: Italian Terror and English Imagination – Roderick Cavaliero
Anglo-Italian Love in the Novels of Giovanni Ruffini – Allan C. Christensen
Viaggiatori a teatro: appunti sul teatro italiano nelle relazioni inglesi del Grand Tour – Mariagrazia Bellorini
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Casa Guidi Windows, Arthur Hugh Clough's Amours de Voyage and the Italian National Uprisings of 1847-49 – Joe Phelan
The Englishing of D'Annunzio or Thomas Bowdler Rites Again – John R. Woodhouse
Dante, Garibaldi, Mazzini: Some English Interpretations of Italian Historical Figures – Valeria Tinkler-Villani
Cognitive Relativism and The Narrative Technique of Multiple Points of View in Luigi Pirandello and Ford Madox Ford – Vita Fortunati
The Myth of the Orient Passes through Ravenna: English and Italian Artists of the Fin de Siècle – Giovanna Franci
Ungaretti e Blake – Agostino Lombardo
The Value of Literary Curiosity: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's Letteratura inglese – Iain Halliday
The Role of Dialects in Anthony Burgess's Abba Abba – Arnold Cassola
