How can one make poetry in a disenchanted age? For Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) this was the modern subject’s most insolvable deadlock, after the Enlightenment’s pitiless unveiling of truth.
Suvini-Hand (Italian, Royal Holloway, U. of London, UK) examines the literary influences on five vocal compositions from 1960-71 written by Italian composers of the twentieth century: Luigi Dallapicco
Scholars of modern Italian history and literature examine the printed media there from unification with the annexation of Rome in 1870 to Italy's entry into World War I in 1914. They offer a wide arra
If Madame Bovary's death in Flaubert's 1857 novel marked the definitive end of the Romantic vision of literary disease, then the advent of psychoanalysis less than half a century later heralded an ent
