Revista de la Sociedad Española de Italianistas

Writing «Soltanto la Vita e Soltanto Se Si Ha Qualcosa da Dire che Non Si Vuole Vada Perduto»: the Voluntary Memory of Luisa Adorno Rosario Castelli

2025-04-09T12:19:51+02:00

In Luisa Adorno’s writing, there is a constant search for a point of convergence between collective history and personal micro-history. The irruption of wartime events in her life will be the traumatic element that will inexorably mark all her relationships, leading her to approach the circles of anti-fascist intellectuals and the Resistance. Most of the works, halfway between autobiography and novel, are linked to that memory, in which the remembrances of multiple intellectual ties is aroused from time to time by minimal sensations and the reduction of the great events of the 20th century to the measure of the everyday, through the mixture of private, biographical and memoir insights, marks the narrated life of the author like a sort of metronome.

The (Re)Construction of Memory in the Italian Historical Novel: Women and Belic Conflicts

2025-04-09T12:19:49+02:00

Modern societies pay attention to memory in terms of revision and reconstruction of personal and collective past. With special attention when it concerns the legacy and the agency of women. Due to this, this study aims to emphasize the importance of the historical novel and the Italian women writers in the role played by women during the war conflicts, with a particular focus on the 20th-century wars.

The Fierce Competition against Destiny of Micòl, Giorgio Bassani’s Jewish Heroine, between Literature and Tennis

2025-04-09T12:19:47+02:00

The aim of the essay is to trace and deepen new literary archetypes about Bassani’s personage of Micòl –one of the exemplary victims of the Shoah, whose identity has been much discussed and fabled– interweaving the search for these cultured matrices with the discussion on the symbolic reasons for the choice of the author to make his heroine a tragic tennis icon, a sport loved and practiced all his life along with writing.

The Ideological Metamorphosis of the Character in Renata Vigano’s L’Agnese va a morire

2025-04-09T12:19:44+02:00

The emilian writer Renata Viganò narrates her own Resistance throught the eyes of Agnese, the undisputed protagonist of the eponymous work L’Agnese va a morire (1949). Throughout the novel, set in the valleys of Comacchio, we witness a complete evolution of the character: initially seen as a simple illiterate laundress, detached from politics and social issues, in the second part she arrives at a new reality that, despite being dominated by the danger and uncertainty of war, will lead her to develop a new awareness, transforming her intro a conscious heroine and symbol of the Italian partisan war.

A Pioneer of Modern Italian Feminism: The Activism of Fausta Cialente in the Contemporary Age

2025-04-09T12:19:42+02:00

The role of women in society, politics and literature has always been essential. The advent of WWI and WWII marks a change in the perception of women’s role. Hence, this article aims to present the condition of women and the existence of several female artists and writers who, often, precisely due to their gender, were marginalized and forgotten. To this end, the story of Fausta Cialente, an Italian writer and journalist, whose writing is characterized by a strong social and political commitment, will be analyzed as a perfect pioneer of modern feminism.

Writing and Resistance: I Giorni Veri by Giovanna Zangrandi

2025-04-09T12:19:40+02:00

This work highlights the exceptional figure of Giovanna Zangrandi, Italian alpinist, writer and partisan. She was a resolute and emancipated woman who, after the armistice of 1943, decided to fight back and confront the Nazi occupation by participating in dangerous missions that were decisive for the survival of her partisan brigade. At the end of the war, she then devoted herself to writing, achieving prestigious literary awards.

The aim of this essay is to remember Giovanna Zangrandi experience, celebrating her courage and analyzing in particular her work I giorni veri. Diario della Resistenza, the notebooks written by the author during the most critical phases of the war.

Woman’s Words against War: the Writings of Anna Garofalo

2025-04-09T12:19:38+02:00

Anna Garofalo (Rome, 1903-1965) was the author of an autobiographical novel entitled In guerra si muore (1945), in which she told the terrible experience she lived as the mother of a soldier at the front and in which emerges all her hatred against fascism. This contribution, through the examination of the writings in which she has addressed the issue of war and its consequences, intends to bring to light a female voice now forgotten, essential witness of many crucial events of the twentieth century that Anna Garofalo told with her tireless work as a writer and investigative journalist.

Renata Viganò: Italian Women in the Fight for Liberation

2025-04-09T12:19:36+02:00

This article shows the figure of Renata Viganò (1900-1976), an Italian partisan and writer, and her historical and literary importance, specifically through his literary production of a memoir on the Partisan Resistance during de World War II. Culminating, then, in an analysis of the role of women in the struggle of the Resistance and how, in addition to Viganò, other Italian partisans and writers sacrificed themselves to record that both men and women participated in the active struggle for liberation of the country.

Diario Partigiano and its Contribution to the Resistance Literature

2025-04-09T12:19:35+02:00

This article aims to outline an overview of the Italian literature focused on the experience of the Resistance to Nazi-fascism and its cataloging by critics. From the overall analysis, the literature of Resistance emerges so varied in its genres and in the literary language proposed to reconsider the manualistic schematization handed down so far. In this literary context, more attention was given to the analysis of Diario partigiano by Ada Prospero Gobetti, which offers a report so lucid and precise and so human and emotional at the same time, that it is considered a significant and indispensable contribution to the literature of the resistance.

Women of Sicily: «Victims» of Brancati’s Gallismo

2025-04-09T12:19:33+02:00

The first half of the twentieth century is marked by the publication of the works of Vitaliano Brancati, an ironic writer of his contemporary human community. Critic of Italian society in full fascist regime, he wrote the trilogy of Gallismo, composed of the novels: Don Giovanni in Sicilia, Il bell’Antonio and Paolo il caldo. These texts help us to investigate into the socio-marital condition of Sicilian women, a metaphor for all women, in that historical moment of the 20th century poised between the two World Wars.

Donatella Mascia’s Fiction from the Debut to 2023

2025-04-09T12:19:31+02:00

In the contribution I scan the so far published texts written by this original writer. Texts that confirm her ability to maintain a pleasant, funny, light but thoughtful narrative tone. Donatella Mascia is currently the author of the following five novels: Magnifica Visione, 2013, Lo spione di Piazza Leopardi, 2015, Quel gran signore del gatto Aldo, 2016, Una Giulietta rossa, 2021, L’urlo nella notte, 2023. Donatella Mascia in also the author of two collections of stories: Di uomini e di animali, 2019, and Racconti in famiglia con qualche meraviglia, 2020 and of other narrative and plays.

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Raggi, Carlo (2023). Dall’illuminismo alla restaurazione. Angelo Dalmistro (1754-1839) fra storia, filosofia e letteratura. Venezia: Marcianum Press.

2025-04-08T18:50:20+02:00

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2025-04-08T18:53:45+02:00