https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129235 Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:38:07 GMT 2026-04-08T04:38:07Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129329 Title: Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies : volume 15 Authors: Vassallo, Peter; Lauri Lucente, Gloria Abstract: Table of Contents:; - "A Woman of infinite wit, and agreeable conversation, always entertained me:" The Countess of Pomfret and Italian Hospitality: Anne M. Mckim; - "veder quel che tutt'i ciechi non veggono:" Gabriele Rossetti e ii materialismo esoterico della Commedia nel carteggio con Charles Lyell: Raffaella Antinucci; - "Rome disappoints me much:" Clough, Rome, and Amours de Voyage: Phillip Mallett; - "The Italian Method" and the "Italian Gesture." Musico-Literary considerations on W.B. Yeats, Italian music and Italian composers: Enrico Reggiani; - D.H. Lawrence, Montecassino and the "Spirit of Place": Peter Vassallo; - Naples and the Anglo-American Allied Forces: John Horne Bums's The Gallery and Francesco Rosi' s "Napoli '44": Gaetana Marrone; - Notes on Contributors Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129329 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129328 Title: "A woman of infnite wit, and agreeable conversation, always entertained me : " the Countess of Pomfret and Italian hospitality Authors: McKim, Anne M. Abstract: On 20th December, 1740 Henrietta Louisa Fermor, Countess of Pomfret, marked the anniversary of her arrival in Florence by composing a narrative poem which she sent on Christmas Day to her friend, the minor poet, Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford. In her poetical review of the previous year she exalts Florence as her "happy safe retreat" after being "forced from friends" and home in England by the need for the family to retrench. Throughout her three years abroad, Lady Pomfret maintained a regular correspondence with Lady Hertford in which she recorded the impact her travels, particularly her residence in Italy, made on her. Like other travellers, in her letters home Lady Pomfret documents the sites visited, the new experiences enjoyed, and the people encountered, including British tourists and other residents abroad. A striking feature of her letters to her friend, however, is her repeated acknowledgements of the warm hospitality she everywhere received in Italy. Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129328 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129327 Title: "veder quel che tutt' i ciechi non veggono : " Gabriele Rossetti e il materialismo esoterico della Commedia nel carteggio con Charles Lyell Authors: Antinucci, Raffaella Abstract: In ogm tempo e luogo, confrontarsi con l'opera di Dante ha significato addentrarsi nel labirinto serniotico di un joyciano chaosmos, un universo finzionale che possiede l'organicita di un cosmo ordinato, ma la cui discendenza esegetica si staglia di fronte al critico nelle forme irregolari e disorientanti di un caos. II macrotesto dantesco, per dimensioni e complessita, costituisce una sfida ermeneutica che spesso conduce alla rinuncia, assecondando un orientamento che trascura in parte o in toto l'anteriore tradizione, per dare luogo a interpretazioni improntate al piu cornpleto soggettivismo. Tale non puo dirsi il percorso intrapreso dall'abruzzese Gabriele Rossetti (1783-1854), che consacro la sua intera vicenda biografica e professionale allo studio, e al culto, del Sommo Poeta. Giunto in Inghilterra nel 1824 come esule politico, Rossetti si rivelo instancabile nel promuovere la conoscenza e la diffusione di Dante in terra d'Albione, dando l'avvio ad una tradizione famigliare che nel corso dell'Ottocento ha rappresentato la piu laboriosa "officina" dantesca, nelle parole di Alison Milbank, "the home-grown Dante industry. Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129327 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129326 Title: "Rome disappoints me much : " Clough, Rome, and Amours de Voyage Authors: Mallett, Phillip Abstract: Arthur Clough's Amours de Voyage can be briefly if inadequately described as an epistolary novella in verse, set in Rome in 1849, and tracing the cultural, political, and erotic adventures of Claude, a young Englishman not long graduated from Oxford, and the author of most of the letters. Or rather, since he refuses to commit himself, it traces his near-adventures: Emerson observed, grumpily, that it exhibited "much preparation to no result", which was "bad enough in life, and inadmissible in poetry." The author of a celebrated essay on "Self-Reliance" was unlikely to be won over by a hero whose vacillating nature is insinuated in his name (claudus: lame), but other friends had similar misgivings. John Shairp, reading the poem in manuscript, protested that "everything crumbles to dust beneath a ceaseless self-introspection and cynicism which is throughout the only inspiration." Matthew Arnold "forbore to comment", or even to apologise for not doing so: "what is to be said when a thing does not suit you [?]'' Recent critics have made the case for Amours de Voyage as a witty, poignant, and original work, but even now it is less often discussed, and more importantly less widely enjoyed, than it deserves. Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129326 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z