https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/127280 Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:01:37 GMT 2026-04-06T17:01:37Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/127576 Title: Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies : volume 12 Authors: Vassallo, Peter; Lauri Lucente, Gloria Abstract: Table of Contents:; - 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-a-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; - Gendering Madness: Shakespeare's Macbeth re-visited by Verdi: Maria Frendo; - 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 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/127576 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/127575 Title: Shakespeare's The tempest and Virgil's Aeneid : Gonzalo on Claribel and 'Widow Dido' Authors: Hollander, Robert Abstract: It was just more than fifty years ago, in the spring of 1961, that I began and then set aside this essay. I was an Instructor in English at Columbia University, teaching in the Humanities A sequence in the College, in which I had had my first encounters at the business end of a podium with each of these texts. In the intervening years I have spent considerable time with other authors, primarily Dante and Boccaccio. Indeed, it is only recently that I found myself working once more with British writers, publishing articles in 2011 on Milton's responses to Dante in Paradise Lost (in Milton Quarterly) and on Chaucer and his significant references both to Boccaccio and to Dante in the concluding stanzas of the Troilus (in the Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies). Last April I came upon my copy of Frank Kermode's Arden edition of The Tempest (Harvard, 1958) and, folded inside it, in an examination 'blue book' from Collegiate School in Manhattan, where I had taught Latin and English between September 1955 and June 1957, several pages of jottings toward this essay. As part of my dissertation at Columbia I was compiling an assemblage of materials toward a variorum edition of the poems of Edwin Muir (1887-1959). Finishing that dissertation, in 1962, obviously had higher priority than returning to my thoughts about Shakespeare. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/127575 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/127574 Title: Dante, 'The prophet of liberty' : the mainstream ideological paradigm in Romantic Britain vis-a-vis Isaiah Berlin's Reflections on liberty Authors: Crisafulli, Edoardo Abstract: It is a well-known fact that Italian literature captivated the English mind during the Romantic age. Dante, in particular, towered in the imagination of the British Romantics. This article argues that there is a core set of ideological values which unites British Romantic intellectuals of diverse backgrounds in their reception of Dante. Ideology is regarded here as a multifaceted domain comprised of two realities- religion and politics which 'were virtually inseparable' in nineteenth-century Britain, a period 'when Christianity was considered to be part of the law of the land.' Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/127574 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/127573 Title: The humanist Petrarch in Medieval and Early Modern England Authors: Petrina, Alessandra Abstract: In 1906 Peter Borghesi published, in Italy, Petrarch and his Influence on English Literature, a first attempt to offer a comprehensive survey of the topic. Mentioned in Harold Bloom's volume dedicated to Chaucer as 'an esteemed Italian scholar of English medieval and Italian Renaissance Literature' , Borghesi in fact limited himself to an overview of the Petrarchan model present in the works of the Henrician and Elizabethan sonneteers; the few lines dedicated to the first appearance of Petrarch in English literature are, however, significant:; To understand Petrarch it was necessary to be a poet, and this poet was not long in making himself known: it was Chaucer who was the greatest of foreign verse-makers who lived in Petrarch's time. [ ... ] The influence that the Italian lyric writer had on Chaucer was great, although perhaps the former was known to the latter much more through his Latin works than through his sonnets. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/127573 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z