https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/126968 Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:12:42 GMT 2026-06-19T17:12:42Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/136089 Title: Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies : volume 8 Authors: Vassallo, Peter Abstract: Table of Contents:; - From Leon Battista Alberti to Jane Austen via Giacomo Leoni and BBC Drama: John Woodhouse; - Absence, Desire and the Female Other in Petrarch and Wyatt: Gloria Lauri Lucente; - Mary Shelley, Anglo-Italicus: Female Self-Assertion and the Politics of Distinction: Maria Schoina; - Presence and Absence in Byron's The Prophecy of Dante: Valeria Tinkler-Villani; - Enchantment and Disenchantment: English Romantic Visions of Italy: Manfred Pfister; - 'A Freak of Freedom:' British travellers to the Republic of San Marino: Maurizio Ascari; - Leigh Hunt in Italy 1822-1825: Nicholas Roe; - 'Walking in the footsteps of the Illustrious Dead:' Nineteenth-century Travellers in Southern Italy: Sharon Ouditt; - Authenticating Italy: Poetry, Tourism and Browning's The Ring and the Book: Christopher M. Keirstead; - 'A real picture of natural and feminine feeling?' Anna Jameson's Diary of an Ennuyee: Kate Walchester; - 'Fashioned from His Opposite:' Yeats, Dante and Shelley: Michael O'Neill; - D. H. Lawrence and the Sicilian myth of Persephone: Peter Vassallo; - Angels and Vagabonds: Breaking through Barriers in the Anglo-Italian Encounter: Sally Collins; - 'Dark juxtaposition' - D. H. Lawrence, Verga and Cultural Difference: Michael Cronin; - Writing the familial past: historical and personal memoir in Sicily and England: Political and Social Reminiscences, 1848-1870 by Tina Scalia Whitaker: Giorgia Alu; - The Romance of Anglo-Italian Studies: Brief Fictions of Francesco Marroni: Allan C. Christensen Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/136089 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129278 Title: From Leon Battista Alberti to Jane Austen via Giacomo Leoni and BBC drama Authors: Woodhouse, John Abstract: Despite the exalted presence in the title of the names of Leon Battista Alberti and Jane Austen, the present paper is fundamentally a plea for greater recognition of the talents and achievements of Giacomo Leoni (1686-1746), as editor of the great Italian humanist, Leon Battista Alberti, as an architect in his own right and as a proselytiser of AngloPalladian architecture. Leoni's English edition of Alberti's great Renaissance treatise On Architecture (1726-29) endured for two and a half centuries, and even now has a strong presence in the only other translation done since that date, Joseph Rykwert's edition of 1988. Leoni helped create and consolidate a taste for Palladian or Anglo-Palladian architecture in England through that edition of Alberti, and through his earlier publication of Andrea Palladio's The Four Books of Architecture (1715-20). Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129278 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129277 Title: Absence, desire and the female other in Petrarch and Wyatt Authors: Lauri Lucente, Gloria Abstract: 'Absence gives rise to desire and desire gives rise to the poet's song, but desire itself is never to be fulfilled, never to secure its object.' This thematized model of the origins of the lyric tradition lies at the heart of Francis Petrarch's formulation of the paradigmatic Western idiom of desire as expressed in his Canzoniere. In what follows, I will be focusing on such a formulation and on its appropriation and transformation by Sir Thomas Wyatt, particularly as exemplified in his poems They flee from me and Whoso list to hunt. In examining the interplay between absence and desire, I will attempt to recover the muted voice of the displaced and objectified female figure in both Petrarch's and Wyatt's verse. While acknowledging the appeal of the recovery of the female muted voice in male-authored texts, especially the feminist appropriation, the underlying danger of creating a presence or plenitude which never really existed in the first place will also be considered. The female figure in Petrarch's Canzoniere and in Wyatt's body of verse is, after all, a masculine construct that tells us less about female desire and more about male fantasy. Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129277 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129276 Title: Mary Shelley, 𝘈𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘰-𝘐𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘴 : female self-assertion and the politics of distinction Authors: Schoina, Maria Abstract: Written in Genoa a few months after Percy Shelley's death, Mary Shelley's mourning poem The Choice records the speaker's dejection and bereaved condition caused by the tragic loss of her husband and two children while in Italy: 'Here let me cling, here to these solitudes, /These myrtle shaded streams and chestnut woods; I Tear me not hence - here let me live & die,/ In my adopted land, my country, Italy!' The Choice, unsurprisingly, depicts Italy in contradictory and often confusing colours. On the one hand, the country assumes a soothing, almost therapeutic role, on account of the happy memories it evokes, of its natural setting and stimulating environment. On the other hand, Italy looms as an implacable accomplice to the domestic misfortunes and sad destiny which beset the speaker. Italy is cast simultaneously as 'murdress' and healer. Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129276 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z