https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/125282 Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:31:52 GMT 2026-04-19T21:31:52Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/125595 Title: Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies : volume 4 Authors: Vassallo, Peter Abstract: Table of Contents:; - '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 Pontification 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 Sun, 01 Jan 1995 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/125595 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/125562 Title: 'Absolute Milan' : two types of colonialism in the tempest Authors: Hopkins, Lisa Abstract: It has very frequently been remarked that The Tempest is a text immediately concerned with colonialism. Sophisticated Europeans find themselves deposited on a remote island which, because its actual location is unspecified, can be taken to stand for any or all of the various territories where seventeenth-century imperialism was at work, from Ireland to America with numerous stops in between. Once there, Europeans immediately set to work to subjugate those already inhabiting the island and mercilessly to exploit them, even the virtuous Gonzalo is unable to refrain from responding to the island in thoroughgoing colonial terms, as evinced by the inherent contradictions which fissure his imagined Utopia and reveal that he is unable to think of human relationships within any framework other than a dominance/submission one, as Sebastian and Antonio point out: Gonzalo: I'th' commonwealth l would by contraries Execute all things. For no kind of traffic Would I admit, no name of magistrate. Letters should not be known. Riches, poverty, And use of service, none. Contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none. No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil. No occupation: all men idle, all,And women too, but innocent and pure. No sovereignty (aside to Antonio) Yet he would be king on't. (aside to Sebastian) The latter end of his commonwealth forgets the beginning. Sun, 01 Jan 1995 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/125562 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/125560 Title: "Observation, with extensive view"? English-Italian travel narratives, 1700-1820 Authors: Lynch, Jack Abstract: Italy was central in English imaginary geography throughout the eighteenth century, whether as a mandatory stop on a routine Grand Tour or a Napoleonic-era locus amoenus of radical utopian escapism: the British public consumed a continuous and constantly growing diet of travel accounts about Italy throughout the century and well into the next. The catalogue of travel narratives largely or entirely about Italy stretches across . the century not only chronologically but also temperamentally, comprehending those traditionally labeled both Augustan and Romantic. Italian travels provide, therefore, an exceptional opportunity to explore some of the characteristic uses of travel narratives in eighteenth-century England. Sun, 01 Jan 1995 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/125560 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/125558 Title: The phenomenon of Italomania in the nineteenth century Authors: Brayley, Andrew Abstract: The tradition of Anglo-Italian literary and cultural relations goes back to the time of Chaucer and continues to the present day but there is one period in particular - we refer to the years following the Battle of Waterloo until about 1830 - in which the links between the two countries become extremely close and which is characterised by what has been called Italomania. Professor C.P. Brand in his well-known book - Italy and the English Romantics- analyses this phenomenon, while Franco Venturi has spoken of "quella straordinaria passione per l'Italia che sboccera, caduto ormai Napoleone, nel romanticismo britannico e durera, violenta e multiforme, per tutti gli anni venti e ancora negli anni trenta". Sun, 01 Jan 1995 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/125558 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z