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DA PONTE ITALIAN LIBRARY

The Lorenzo da Ponte Italian Library Series

This series makes available to English audiences ground-breaking works by Italian authors who have made significant literary, philosophical, or historical contributions to Anglo-American culture. It aims to promote Anglo-Italian dialogue through the publication of works by Ital-ian humanists, theorists, and essayists, including Aretino, Bruno, Machiavelli, Artusi, Beccaria, Croce, and Ebreo, among others.

General editors: Luigi Ballerini and Massimo Ciavolella (UCLA)

Honourary chairs: Mr Joseph Raso Esq., Ambassador Gianfranco Facco Bonetti, Honorable Anthony J. Scirica, Dr Cesare De Michelis

Advisory Board: Remo Bodei (Università di Pisa), Lina Bolzoni (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), Francesco Bruni (Università di Venezia), Giorgio Ficara (Università di Torino), Michael Heim (UCLA), Giuseppe Mazzotta (Yale University), Gilberto Pizzamiglio (Università di Venezia), Margaret Rosenthal (USC), John Scott (University of Western Australia), Elissa Weaver (Chicago)

INDEX

Addressing the Letter 13After Words 12Akbari, Suzanne Conklin 17Aldouby, Hava 4Alfano, Barbara 5Alfie, Fabian 18Aligheri, Dante 28Aretino, Pietro 35Aretino’s Dialogues 35Ariosto, Ludovico 31Armour and Masculinity in

the Italian Renaissance 22Armstrong, Guyda 20Armstrong, Lawrence 23Artusi, Pellegrino 28The Baroque Libretto 8Bartlett, Kenneth R. 22, 24Baxa, Paul 15Beasts and Beautiues 26Beccaria, Cesare 32Beecher, Donald 32Befriending the Commedia dell’Arte

of Flaminio Scala 20Belco, Victoria C. 15Benfell, V. Stanley 18The Biblical Dante 18Blakesley, Jacob S.D 9Boccaccio, Giovanni 33Boccaccio’s Expositions on

Dante’s Comedy 33Bonifazio, Paola 5Borghini, Raffaello 33Botero, Giovanni 29Breviary of Aesthetics 34Brook, Coldagh J. 6Bruno, Giordano 28Building a Civil Society 14Building a Monument to Dante 19Casillo, Robert 11Cattaneo, Carlo 34Cavallo, Jo Ann 20Chirumbolo, Paolo 12Ciabattoni, Francesco 16Civilization and Democracy 34The Civilization of the

Italian Renaissance 24The Complete Short Stories of

Natalia Ginzburg 11Copenhaver, Brian P. 29Copenhaver, Rebecca 29Cornaro, Alvise 2Corporeal Bonds 11Courtesy Lost 16Croce, Benedetto 34Dante and Augustine 18Dantean Dialogues 17Dante’s Journey to Polyphony 16Dante’s Lyric Poetry 28Dante’s Tenzone with Forese Donati 18The Decameron Third Day in Perspective 16Deutscher, Thomas B. 22Di Maria, Salvatore 21Dialogues of Love 31The Drama of the Assimilated Jew 10Ebreo, Leone 31The English Boccaccio 20Eugenio Montale, The Fascist Storm,

and the Jewish Sunflower 10Fascism, Architecture, and the Claiming

of Modern Milan, 1922–1943 7Federico Fellini 4

Ferrari, Chiara 14The First Voyage Around the World

(1519–1522) 34Florio, John 29Forni, Pier Massimo 16From Kate to Croce 29Gambarota, Paola 15Giannetti, Laura 26Ginzburg, Natalia 11Goldberg, Edward 24The Great Black Spider on Its

Knock-Kneed Tripod 6Healey, Robin 25Hertz, David Michael 10Houston, Jason M. 19Inspiring Fellini 4Irresistible Signs 15The Italian in Modernity 11Italian Literature before 1900

in English Translation 25An Italian Renaissance Sextet 35Italian Women Writers 9A Jew at the Medici Court 24Jews and Magic in Medici Florence 24John Florio 29Kilgour, Maggie 17Kirshner, Julius 23Kissing the Wild Woman 25Landon, William J. 21Leake, Elizabeth 12Lelia’s Kiss 26Lombardi, Elena 17Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi

and Niccolo Machiavelli 21Mafia Movies 6Mallette, Karla 17Mantegazza, Paolo 33Marchesi, Simone 18Mariani, Alice Gladstone 30Mariani, Umberto 30Mario Bellocchio 6Marsilius of Padua at the Intersection of

Ancient and Medieval Traditions… 17Martines, Lauro 25, 35Maulsby, Lucy M. 7Mayer, Thomas F. 23McClure, George W. 21Methods of Murder 10Migration Italy 8The Mirage of America in Contemporary

Italian Literature and Film 5Mitchell, Katharine 9Modern Italian Poets 9My Muse Will Have a Story to Paint 31Neoavanguardia 12Nissen, Christopher 25Olson, Kristina M. 16On Crimes and Punishments

and Other Writings 32On the Causes of the Greatness

and Magnificence of Cities 29On the Heroic Frenzies 28The Opera of Bartolomeo Scappi (1570) 31Pacchioni, Federico 4Palazzeschi, Aldo 35Parati, Graziella 8Parker, Mary Ann 8Parlour Games and the Public Life

of Women in Renaissance Italy 21Past, Elena 10Peterson, Thomas E. 13

The Physiology of Love and Other Writings 33

Piero Gobetti’s New World 13Pietropaolo, Domenico 8Pigafetta, Antonio 34Pirandello’s Theatre of Living Masks 30The Pleasant Nights 30The Poetics of Dante’s Paradiso 19The Poetics of Imitation in the Italian

Theatre of the Renaissance 21The Politics of Law in Late Medieval

and Renaissance Italy 23Postal Culture 7Pride in Modesty 8Punishment and Penance 22Raffaello Borghini’s Il Riposo 33Renaissance Comedy 32Renga, Dana 5, 6Reviewing Mario Pratesi 9The Revolt of the Scribe in

Modern Italian Literature 13The Rhetoric of Violence and

Sacrifice in Fascist Italy 14Ricci, Franco 3Rituals of Prosecution 23Roads and Ruins 15Robins, William 19Romani, Gabriella 7Ross, Silvia 12Russo, John Paul 11Sabatino, Michelangelo 8Salsini, Laura A. 13Sambuco, Patrizia 11Scappi, Bartolomeo 31Schiesari, Juliana 26Schmitt, Natalie Crohn 20Schooling in Modernity 5Science in the Kitchen

and the Art of Eating Well 28A Sea of Languages 17A Short History of the Italian Renaissance 22The Social World of the

Florentine Humanists, 1390–1460 25Somigli, Luca 12Soper, Steven C. 14The Sopranos 3Springer, Carolyn 22Straparola, Giovan Francesco 30Syrimis, Michael 6Syros, Vasileios 17Textual Cultures of Medieval Italy 19The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier… 14A Tournament of Misfits 35The Trial of Galileo, 1612–1633 23Tuscan Spaces 12Unfinished Business 5Urbancic, Anne 9Verdicchio, Massimo 19Wackernagel, Martin 26War, Massacre, and Recovery in

Central Italy, 1943–1948 15Ward, David 13Wickersham, Jane K. 23Wittman, Laura 14The World beyond Europe in the

Romance Epics of Boiardo and Ariosto 20

The World of the Florentine Renaissance Artist 26

Writings on the Sober Life 2