https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/130219 2026-05-30T10:55:53Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/130288 Title: The "Italian scheme" : Ann Forbes, artist in training Authors: McKim, Anne Abstract: The early career of Scottish portrait painter Ann Forbes (1745-1834), who trained in Rome between 1767 and 1771, provides unique insights into the particular challenges experienced by young women who aspired to become professional artists on their return to Britain. Family and friends devised what they called "the Italian scheme" to fund her painting studies in the city where many eighteenth-century British and European art students trained. Excluded by her gender from studying at the Accademia, Forbes relied on the goodwill of resident Scottish artists for her tuition and on willing art collectors to lend paintings for her copy work. Within months of her arrival in Rome, one observer described her as "a wonder" who already excelled art students who had been studying for several years. Letters to and from family and friends at home, especially those from Margaret Forbes, who accompanied and supported her daughter in Rome, and later in London, offer a compelling and often moving narrative of Ann's struggles, successes and failures. 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/130286 Title: "The Dantescan voice" in Shelley's The triumph of life and Keats's The fall of Hyperion Authors: Vassallo, Peter Abstract: This paper focuses on the impact of Dante's Divina Commedia on Keats's The Fall of Hyperion and Shelley's The Triumph of Life and the attempt of both these Romantic poets to appropriate the "Dantescan voice." With Keats this was significant because in his earlier Hyperion he was contending with the overpowering spirit of Milton which, as he acknowledged, compelled him to reproduce a feeble adaptation of the Miltonic grand style. Dante's allegorical Purgatorio and especially Dante's encounter with Beatrice served Keats as a model for the "priestess" Moneta who compels him to confront the validity of his poetic art. But it was Shelley, as T.S. Eliot recognized, who was close to appropriating the ''true Dantescan voice" in his enigmatic and ironic Dantean vision in The Triumph of Life. Here, too, the poet feels obliged to express his profound disillusion with the Enlightenment and with the possibility of political reform. 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/130285 Title: Gabriele Rossetti and La Beatrice di Dante : considerations on the presence of Dante in nineteenth-century England Authors: Soccio, Anna Enrichetta Abstract: This paper focuses on the cult of Dante in nineteenth-century Britain by discussing Gabriele Rossetti's idea of Beatrice. The Italian exile was persuaded that Dante's work could be explained only by Dante himself and he therefore strove to find the necessary evidence to substantiate such an idea. In La Beatrice di Dante. Ragionamenti critici, Rossetti identifies Beatrice first with Philosophy and then with the Ghibellin ideal, thus rendering a complex yet unique interpretation of the figure of Beatrice whom he even connected with the tradition of European occultism. 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/130280 Title: Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies : volume 19 Authors: Vassallo, Peter; Lauri-Lucente, Gloria Abstract: Table of Contents:; - 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; - Notes on Contributors 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z