https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/124419 Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:38:06 GMT 2026-04-12T09:38:06Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/124583 Title: Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies : volume 1 Authors: Chaney, Edward; Vassallo, Peter Abstract: Table of contents:; - A memoir of Mario Praz: Vittorio Gabrieli; - Gabriele Bandini discepolo e amico: Mario Praz; - Some developments in the courtesy manual after Castiglione: John Woodhouse; - Disguise and recognition in Renaissance comedy: Peter Brand; - Astrology and 'Le Vice Anglais': Vittorio Gabrieli; - Giovanni Torriano: il primo insegnante di Ingelse in Italia: Sergio Rossi; - Giovanni Francesco Biondi: an Italian historian of the Wars of the Roses: Dianella Savoia; - The Grand Tour in the seventeenth century: John Stoye; - Architectural taste and the Grand Tour: George Berkeley's evolving canon: Edward Chaney; - Translations as a metaphor for salvation: eighteenth-century English versions of Dante's Commedia: Valeria Tinkler-Villani; - From Petrarch to Dante: the discourse of disenchantment in Shelley's The Triumph of Life: Peter Vassallo; - Wordsworth and Italy: Alan G. Hill; - Dickens and Italy: Michael Hollington; - L'Italia di Samuel Butler: Mariagrazia Bellorini; - Documents: Edward Chaney; - Forthcoming Publication Tue, 01 Jan 1991 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/124583 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/124581 Title: Master and pupils : a memoir of Mario Praz Authors: Gabrieli, Vittorio Abstract: Since Mario Praz's demise on March 23rd 1982 - unexpected and untimely, in view of his persisting intellectual alertness - and since the official obituaries and the appreciative offerings by disciples, colleagues and other scholars in several papers and journals, hardly anything significant has appeared in Italy to weigh and critically assess his cultural legacy, and to honour the memory of the country's 'chief of men' in English studies, scholarship and history of literature. Tue, 01 Jan 1991 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/124581 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/124579 Title: Gabriele Baldini discepolo e amico Authors: Praz, Mario Abstract: Quando Vittorio Gabrieli e venuto a chiedermi di collaborare alla Miscellanea in memoria di Gabriele Baldini mi son sentito un po' perplesso, non per l'accettazione che e stata subito spontanea, ma pel tema da trattare. I contributi eruditi non s'improvvisano, e in questo caso mi si chiedeva un sollecito adempimento della promessa, e d'altronde ristampare in questo volume uno scritto gia uscito nella stampa periodica non era desiderabile, sebbene il padre di Gabriele, Antonio, fosse solito dichiarare che nulla era stato inedito quanta il gia pubblicato, e fidando in questa massima, mi confidava ii figlio, bene spesso quel gran letterato aveva applicato di suoi scritti repetita iuvant. Pero la mia voce era stata assente alla commemorazione di Gabriele, e me n'era rimasto un segreto rammarico; e l'unica giustificazione che sapevo dare il quel non essermi fatto avanti, era che di Gabriele avevo tante cose da dire, specialmente, sulla sua personalita, ma la sua scomparsa era troppo recente perche ii carattere allegro di certe rimembranze non dovesse parere peggio che fuori posta a quella cerimonia. Ma ora e passato del tempo, e il giudizio sull'uomo non mi pare debba ancora rispettare quelle pudiche reticenze d'occasione, o assumere di necessita un tono solenne. Tue, 01 Jan 1991 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/124579 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/124541 Title: Some developments in the courtesy manual after Castiglione Authors: Woodhouse, John Abstract: No one working on courtesy manuals can be unaware of the difficulties in defining what such treatises were. Alongside specifically didactic manuals there flourished ironic accounts of life at court, sociological studies of class structure in the period after 1500, and other treatises which are no more than satires on social-climbing. Nevertheless those works, too, were read by the upwardly-mobile, hopeful of gleaning from them information on how to behave (or not to behave) in order to achieve self-promotion. The popularity of Ariosto's Satire, bizarrely considered by 1611 in England as an almanac, may be seen as typical of such a desire to learn from example and error, as well as to find wry amusement in another's predicament. Alexander Barclay's translation of Pius H's (1444) De curialium miseriis was an equally popular symptom throughout the sixteenth century. As provincial courts in Italy became concentrated in fewer major cities, and as natural forces in the great European courts favoured a centripetal tendency restricting the numbers of 'genuine' courtiers, minor noble houses, particularly in England (and in London), became mini-courts, often unconscious parodies of their formerly great predecessors. Courtly and courtesy manuals became simply hand-books for social, and thus economic and political, advancement. Tue, 01 Jan 1991 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/124541 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z