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Adelia Noferi (1922-2014) was one the greatest scholars of Petrarch, Bruno, and D’Annunzio and twentieth-century poetry, as well as one of the most refined theorists of the twentieth century and its poetics. This book collects previously unpublished texts, some of which arose from the courses that Noferi taught at university; they reflect with a wealth of doctrine and suggestions on poetry and criticism through Petrarchan readings and an adventurous journey through the topoi of the forest in literature. From the locus amoenus to the labyrinth, the investigation takes place at a structural, formal, symbolic and cultural level and retraces forms and junctions of the imagination through exemplary texts (from Dante to Bigongiari and Zanzotto). The second section, enriched by an iconographic apparatus, collects profiles and testimonies in multiple voices, a biography between generations, and a complete bibliography. Adelia Noferi (1922-2014) e stata tra i piu grandi studiosi di Petrarca, Bruno, D’Annunzio, poesia del Novecento, e tra i piu raffinati teorici del XX secolo e delle sue poetiche. Questo libro riunisce testi mai prima raccolti, alcuni dei quali risultato di corsi universitari, che riflettono con ricchezza di dottrina e di suggestioni sulla poesia e sulla critica attraverso letture petrarchesche e un avventuroso percorso tra i topoi del bosco in letteratura. Dal locus amoenus al labirinto l’indagine si svolge a livello strutturale, formale, simbolico, culturale e ripercorre forme e snodi dell’immaginario attraverso testi esemplari (da Dante a Bigongiari, a Zanzotto). La seconda sezione, arricchita da un apparato iconografico, contiene profili e testimonianze a molteplici voci, una biografia tra generazioni, la bibliografia completa.

For the first time, this book parallels the works of Gongora and Tirso, analyzing their different involvement in the expressive modalities of the Baroque that both interpret and value in a hyperbolic way. With efficiency and originality, the renowned hispanist Laura Dolfi studies the style of Soledades, Panegirico, and Cigarrales, and the artifices of fiction that, in Las firmezas de Isabela and La fingida Arcadia, guide the desenlace, underlining the position of its author with respect to the literary precepts of the time (rejection or acceptance of new art and culteranismo). In addition, Gongora’s role as a playwright is valued, and his plays are studied from less accustomed points of view: the dramatic characteristics, the importance of the rhythm that his verses scanned, the diffusion and the possible corruption of the text.Por vez primera este libro pone en paralelo las obras de Gongora y de Tirso analizando su diferente implicacion en las modalidades expresivas del barroco que ambos interpretan y valoran de manera hiperbolica. Con eficacia y originalidad la destacada hispanista Laura Dolfi estudia el estilo de Soledades, Panegirico, y Cigarrales, y los artificios de la ficcion que, en Las firmezas de Isabela y en La fingida Arcadia, guian al desenlace subrayando la postura de su autor con respecto a las modas literarias del tiempo (rechazo o aceptacion del arte nuevo y del culteranismo). De Gongora, ademas, se valora el papel como dramaturgo, y se estudian sus comedias desde puntos de vista menos acostumbrados: las caracteristicas dramaticas, la importancia del ritmo que escande sus versos, la difusion y la posible corrupcion del texto.

What is the night? How can we define it and mark its edges? The gaze of those observing it is more or less mobile; does the night maintain its function as a frame? How does the difficulty to see clearly favour the artistic invention, the wondering on the infinite and death, the questions on the imaginary, the dream, the memory and the oblivion? Anna Dolfi started from questions like these in devising a book of great novelty and suggestion which, between nocturnes and music, wonders how literature, painting, cinema, opera, popular traditions and songs have narrated about blindness and vision, obsession and fear, or said nights were "tender", desperate, sublime, mysterious and mystical, told about nights of 'sickness', of repairing nights, white nights and sleepless nights, when the attempt is to resist while creating in order to challenge the breaking of dawn. The icon of Mozart’s Queen of night, together with that of Schonberg’s Pierrot, has accompanied about fifty Italian and foreign scholars and young researchers in an almost backlit way; they started from the 18th century and from Ossian's songs, continuing along a European night-themed path supported by theorists (Nietzsche, Bachelard, Jankelevitch...) and music (Mozart, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Faure, Debussy, Britten...), and have worked on Novalis, Holderlin, German Romanticism, Rilke, Celan, Muller, Hugo, Chenier, Baudelaire , Proust, Cocteau, Bonnefoy and many others, declining the Italian nocturnes from the graveyard elegies of Pindemonte to Leopardi, Di Giacomo, D'Annunzio, Onofri, Campana, Saba, Ungaretti, Sbarbaro, Montale, Penna, Pavese, Gatto, Caproni, Luzi, Bigongiari , Fortini, Jacobbi, Ripellino, Pasolini, Giudici, Rosselli, Sanguineti, De Signoribus, la Anedda, Magrelli and such. The work opens with unpublished Portuguese texts by Ruggero Jacobbi, and with verses and translations of De Signoribus and Vegliante. Starting with Donizetti’s night, the volume comes to the night of different Italian singers and songwriters (De Gregori, Dalla and more), pushing the limit of electric nocturnes which, through poetry, reveal the urban glimpses of a tormented society between the end of the century and the beginning of the millennium.Che cos’e la notte? Come definirla e segnarne i limiti? E piu o e meno mobile lo sguardo di chi la fissa; persiste nella notte la funzione cornice? In che modo la difficolta di vedere favorisce l’invenzione artistica, l’interrogazione sull’infinito e la morte, i quesiti sull’immaginario, il sogno, il ricordo, l’oblio? Da domande come queste e partita Anna Dolfi nell’ideare un libro di grande novita e suggestione che, tra notturni e musica, si chiede come la letteratura, la pittura, il cinema, l’opera lirica, le tradizioni popolari, le canzoni, abbiano parlato di cecita e di visione, di ossessione e paura, di notti «tenere», disperate, sublimi, misteriose, mistiche, di notti di ‘malattia’, di notti riparatrici, di notti bianche e di notti insonni, quando il tentativo e resistere creando, per sfidare l’approssimarsi dell’alba. L’icona della mozartiana Regina della notte, assieme a quella di un Pierrot schonberghiano, ha accompagnato come in controluce una cinquantina di studiosi e giovani ricercatori italiani e stranieri che, partendo dal Settecento, dai canti di Ossian, lungo un percorso notturno europeo sostenuto da teorici (Nietzsche, Bachelard, Jankelevitch…) e musica (Mozart, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Faure, Debussy, Britten…), hanno lavorato su Novalis, Holderlin, il Romanticismo tedesco, Rilke, Celan, Muller, Hugo, Chenier, Baudelaire, Proust, Cocteau, Bonnefoy…, declinando i notturni italiani dalle elegie cimiteriali di Pindemonte a Leopardi, Di Giacomo, D’Annunzio, Onofri, Campana, Saba, Ungaretti, Sbarbaro, Montale, Penna, Pavese, Gatto, Caproni, Luzi, Bigongiari, Fortini, Jacobbi, Ripellino, Pasolini, Giudici, Rosselli, Sanguineti, De Signoribus, la Anedda, Magrelli… Aperto da testi inediti portoghesi di Ruggero Jacobbi, da versi e traduzioni di De Signoribus e di Vegliante, il volume, dalla notte di Donizetti arriva a quella dei cantautori (De Gregori, Dalla…), spingendosi al limite di notturni elettrici che rivelano in poesia gli squarci urbani di una tormentata societa tra fi ne secolo e inizio millennio.

Giorgio Caproni is certainly among the most loved Italian poets of the 20th century. Anna Dolfi used this widespread passion to involve not only well-known scholars of Caproni, but also young researchers, in new research activities. This results in a considerably rich book which, together with an overall vision, offers a series of hermeneutical insights on themes which were not as frequently investigated until then (memory, bestiaries and so on), by combining new readings of exemplary texts with unpublished documents, with reflections on language and poetry, on musical, pictorial and mythical suggestions, never forgetting Caproni’s activity for translation, self-commentary and civic commitment. The book is functionally divided into Percorsi e attraversamenti, Letture (e immediati dintorni), Risultanze tra/dalle carte d’archivio, which enhances the diversity of the critical commentaries and the close comparisons, of the surveys and experiments of comment, of explication de texte, and highlights the great technical skill and the extreme lyrical depth of an author who, between cantability and dissonances, arpeggios and apostrophes, cabalettas and cadences, flourishes and delays, vocalizations and little verses, recoveries and leave, talkativeness and aphasia, was able to interpret the contradictory research, the questions, the fears, the faults and the incurable wounds of our time.Giorgio Caproni e sicuramente tra i poeti piu amati del nostro Novecento. Anna Dolfi ha intercettato questa diffusa passione per coinvolgere in nuove ricerche non solo noti capronisti ma anche giovani ricercatori. Il risultato e un libro di notevole ricchezza che, assieme a una visione complessiva, propone una serie di approfondimenti ermeneutici su temi fi nora meno battuti (la memoria, i bestiari…) accostando nuove letture di testi esemplari a documenti inediti, a riflessioni sulla lingua, la poetica, le suggestioni musicali, pittoriche, mitiche, senza scordare la caproniana attivita di traduzione, auto commento ed impegno civile. Una funzionale suddivisione del libro in Percorsi e attraversamenti, Letture (e immediati dintorni), Risultanze tra/dalle carte d’archivio esalta la diversita delle off erte critiche e dei serrati confronti, dei sondaggi ed esperimenti di commento, di explication de texte, e mette in rilievo la grande perizia tecnica e l’estrema profondita lirica di un autore che, tra cantabilita e dissonanze, arpeggi e apostrofi , cabalette e cadenze, svolazzi e dilazioni, vocalizzi e versicoli, riprese e congedi, loquacita e afasia, ha saputo interpretare la contraddittoria ricerca, le domande, i timori, le colpe, le ferite insanabili del nostro tempo.

The Stabat mater, like few other objects of thematics, analyzes the same posture translated into different languages, it tracks the evolution and persistence of a gesture that gives voice to the unacceptability of loss and the immobile duration of pain. From the mères en deuil of the classical antiquity to the fainting of Mary beneath the crucifixions that have marked the history of art - from Jacopone da Todi, from Giotto degli Scrovegni until today, stone and marble reliefs, wooden panels, frescoes, stained glass windows, engravings, tempera, oils, manuscripts, writing, alongside the melodies of Palestrina, Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Pergolesi, Boccherini, Rossini - countless works have re-proposed the figure of the grieving mother. In this book we have tried to record the constancy and the alterations of the topos, highlighting the differences that exist between verbal, musical and visual expressions in relation to the changing times, the reversal of the role. If narrative, especially the Italian one, is present with Manzoni, Fogazzaro, D'Annunzio, Gadda, Vittorini, Pavese, Dessí, La Morante, Calvino...; poetry with Gatto, Jaccottet, Szymborska, Merini, Yves Bichet... how intriguing, in this complex volume conceived and edited by Anna Dolfi, is the attempt to move on almost border lands, making the cinema (Pasolini) and architecture speak, making music interact with literature and opera librettos, intertwining soundtracks with celebrated movies, giving figurative models to photography (through the shots by Letizia Battaglia). Poetic texts by De Signoribus and Vegliante, brought back to the theme on this occasion, keep together a research that questions itself on models and typologies, also showing the existence of a further recent role reversal, an unprecedented one, which wants the son’s pietas to pose next to the mother.

Background and Aim. Obesity is a metabolic disorder with an increasing incidence in Western countries and childhood. It is characterized by low-grade systemic inflammation and several comorbidities, including alterations of gastrointestinal (GI) functions, which impact negatively on patients’ quality of life. There is currently limited information on the morpho-functional features of the GI tract in obese subjects. Of note, the intestinal barrier function has been found to be altered in obese subjects, even before the occurrence of body weight increase [1]. In this light, the present study was carried out to assess, in a mouse model of diet-induced obesity, whether high fat diet (HFD) is associated with morphological alterations of the colonic mucosal barrier. Methods. C57BL/6 mice (n=5/group) were fed with standard diet (SD, 18% calories from fat) or HFD (60% calories from fat). After 8 weeks, body weight, and levels of blood cholesterol, triglycerides and glucose were evaluated. Malondialdehyde (MDA, colorimetric assay), IL-1β and IL-6 levels (ELISA assays) were examined in colonic tissues. Morphological features of colonic mucosal structures (lining epithelial cells, goblet cells, inflammatory infiltrates and enteric glia) were examined by histochemistry and immunohistochemistry. Results. HFD mice displayed significant differences at both molecular and histomorphological level, as compared with SD animals: increased body weight and blood metabolic indexes; increased MDA, IL-1β and IL-6 levels in colonic tissues; altered pattern of claudin-1 expression along with upregulation of transmembrane 16A protein and induced nitric oxide synthase in the enteric epithelium facing the lumen; increased proliferation rate of crypts; altered composition of goblet cell mucous; mucosal gliosis and infiltrates with mixed inflammatory cells. Conclusions. After 8 weeks, HFD intake led to significant alterations of systemic metabolic indexes, colonic tissue inflammation, and colonic mucosal barrier in obese mice, as compared with controls. Morphological studies can be useful to allow the characterization of histopathological patterns of colonic wall remodelling and inflammation underlying bowel motor dysfunctions associated with obesity., Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology, Vol. 122, No. 1 (Supplement) 2017

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are chronic and progressive pathologies associated with invalidating abdominal symptoms and increasing incidence in Western countries. Although fibrostenosis is a rare event in ulcerative colitis [UC], it may evolve to fibrosis in the later stages (1, 2). In the present study we examined the histopathological remodeling of the colonic wall from short- and long-lasting (SL and LL) UC patients. Full-thickness left colonic surgical samples were obtained from non-stenotic SL (≤ 3 years) and LL (≥ 10 years) UC patients with a severe exacerbation of colitis and active disease, without clinical signs of fibrostenosis. Collagen and elastic fibres, vascular networks and parameters of fibrosis have been evaluated by histochemistry, immunohistochemistry, confocal immunofluorescence and/or western blot. For comparison, normal colonic control samples from subjects who underwent surgery for uncomplicated colon cancer and without IBD and diverticular disease, were considered.Both SL- and LL-UC showed a thickening in tunica muscularis and activation of transmural neovessels, with proliferating CD105-positive endothelial cells and activated nestin-positive pericytes, as compared with controls. The colonic wall of LL-UC displayed a significant increase in collagen deposition and fibrotic markers (type I and III collagen, fibronectin, vimentin, RhoA), an enhancement of proliferation (PCNA), a decrease in elastic fibres, together with a fibrotic rearrangement of the tunica muscularis smooth muscle cells. In conclusion, a significant full-thickness remodeling of the colonic wall has been documented in the colonic tissues from both SL-UC and LL-UC, as compared to controls: transmural fibrotic thickening and angiogenesis were found in both UC groups, together with a cellular fibrotic/proliferative switch in the tunica muscularis which occurs in the later stages. These histopathological remodeling may contribute to the reduced elastic properties and tissue stretch capability of the wall, thereby impairing the occurrence of a normal motor activity in these subjects., Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology, Vol. 121, No. 1 (Supplement) 2016

Background and Aim. Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by motor and non-motor clinical signs, among which gastrointestinal disturbances represent relevant manifestations [1]. Nevertheless, the morphological alterations associated with intestinal dysfunctions in PD have been barely investigated [2]. The present study was aimed at investigating the remodelling of colonic wall in a rat model of PD with central dopaminergic denervation by intra-nigral injection of the neuro-toxin 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA). Methods. Histopathological analysis of the whole colonic wall was performed 4 and 8 weeks after central 6-OHDA injection. Inflammatory infiltrates, collagen deposition as well as the remodelling of intestinal epithelial barrier and tunica muscularis were examined by microscopic techniques (histochemistry/immunohistochemistry/confocal immunofluorescence). Results. Colonic tissue from 8-week 6-OHDA rats were significantly altered, as compared with controls. The tunica mucosa showed: eosinophil infiltration; altered lining epithelium (reduced claudin-1 and transmembrane 16A protein expression) and goblet cells (increased mucus expression); enhanced glial fibrillar acid protein-positive cells and vimentin-positive fibroblast-like cells. Along with transmural collagen deposition, significant changes were observed also in the tunica muscularis: reduced expression of alpha-smooth muscle actin/desmin and increased proliferation index in smooth muscle cells; increased vimentin expression and proliferative phenotype in myenteric ganglia. Conclusions. A full-thickness structural remodelling occurs in the colon of PD rats 8 weeks after central dopaminergic denervation; the main changes include an alteration of the colonic epithelial barrier along with the activation of the mucosal defence and fibrotic switch of the colonic wall. Overall, these findings suggest that: a) early histological modifications occur in the colon of rats with experimental PD at both mucosal and muscular level; b) these changes and the fibrotic alterations might contribute to bowel motor dysfunctions associated with PD., Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology, Vol. 122, No. 1 (Supplement) 2017

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a degenerative neurological disorder, which is often associated with gastrointestinal disturbances (e.g., constipation and defecatory dysfunctions), whose mechanisms are still unknown [1]. Recently, an inflammatory pathogenesis has been proposed to explain these colonic disorders, but low literature are available. This study aims to analyze whether the central dopaminergic denervation, induced by intranigral injection of 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA), can alter the morphological arrangement of colon in rats. Animals were euthanized 4 and 8 weeks after 6-OHDA injection. Histological, histochemical and immunohistochemical analysis were carried out on formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded colonic samples in order to evaluate: histology, inflammatory cells (eosinophils and mast cells) and collagen fibers in the whole wall; glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), immunoperoxidase, alpha-smooth muscle actin (alpha-SMA) and vimentin immunofluorescence by confocal microscopy. Malondialdehyde (MDA, colorimetric assay), TNF and IL-1β (ELISA assay) levels were also examined. 6-OHDA-induced nigrostriatal denervation was associated with the following histopathological changes observed in the colonic wall: eosinophil and mast cell infiltration, collagen deposition, activation of myenteric glial cells (GFAP+), increased vimentin immunostaining associated with alpha-SMA decrease in the tunica muscularis, enhanced colonic tissue levels of MDA, TNF and IL-1β. On the basis of the present results it is possible to conclude that the induction of central nigrostriatal dopaminergic denervation is followed by inflammation and fibrotic rearrangement of the colonic wall., Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology, Vol. 121, No. 1 (Supplement) 2016

This is the first of the two volumes dedicated to Hermeticism and Florence published by Firenze University Press (the second one entitled Luzi, Bigongiari, Parronchi, Bodini, Sereni can be purchased separately). Between 1930 and 1945, a group of young people started one of the most vibrant literary seasons of the 20th century in Florence, known as Florentine Hermeticisms (or simply Hermeticism). Many of its members recognised themselves in a common narrative marked by a shared imagination, and in the silent dissent from the rhetoric of the regime, which was contrasted by the radicalism of the ethical request and by the deep bond with the Jewish-Christian, romantic and symbolist roots of the European civilisation. A hundred years after the birth of its protagonists, there is still much wondering on the nature and definition of Hermeticism, on how it was born, on what distinguished it, on what signs it suffered and left. Searching for how it changed, why it was surrounded by passion, prejudices and aversion (as done by the two essential volumes collecting the documents of a memorable conference in which Anna Dolfi involved scholars from all over the world), leads to draw a portrait of the Hermetic authors, its admirers and/or detractors, and to outline the boundaries and the characteristics of a complex chapter of Italian history which began with Fascism and recently ended with the fall of ideologies. Among masters, companions, followers, the figures of Bo, Macrí, Luzi, Bigongiari, Parronchi, Bodini and of the companion Sereni, stand out for the strength of a suggestive writing experience highly meditative, for all the critic, translation, narrative and poetry genres.

In his theoretical writings Calvino puts forward a suggestive idea, inspired by Borges, of the library not only as a collection of works, but as a crossed system of combinations. Under this light, literature itself would be a library, continuously subject to changes and aimed at undermining the canonical authors in order to bring out the apocrypha. In fact, if it is true that literature is born from desire and feeds on it, it cannot be satisfied with the data, but strives to project itself in the realm of the hidden, invisible and far away reality. Libraries, then, are not only infinite, but they change the sense of a book according to the section in which it is placed, to its location, to the methods of consultation and use, to the way the book plays with spaces and light, to its coming to the light or its being in search for the shadows (books in skyscrapers or undergrounds). The library is a place where books and readers interact in mythical spaces. Libraries are collections of narratives and not only of the books that survived the catastrophes of history, but also of the burned books, of the books which have been lost or invented. Libraries treasure all books which, by the mere fact of having been at least once written or thought, have left their mark in the world. This charming and precious book, conceived and edited by Anna Dolfi, offers examples from the major modern literature, inviting the readers to reflect on the relationship between paper and celluloid shadows, between inconturnables and marginalia, looking for books inside libraries and libraries inside books. In the background the reader will enjoy the music, the brilliant acting of Carmelo Bene, the strips of the graphics, the architectural projects, the computer screens, and the pages of an unfinished novel by Giuseppe Dessi that speaks of a walled up library and of a cascade of books at the origin of a fiction novel.In uno degli scritti teorici di Calvino troviamo la suggestiva e borgesiana proposta della biblioteca non solo come raccolta di opere, ma come sistema incrociato di combinazioni. La stessa letteratura altro non sarebbe che una biblioteca continuamente soggetta a mutamenti tesi a scalzare gli autori canonici per fare emergere gli apocrifi . Giacche, se la letteratura nasce e si nutre di desiderio, non puo accontentarsi del dato, ma proiettarsi nel luogo di quello che non c’e, o che, se anche c’e, e nascosto, ancora invisibile e lontano. Le biblioteche allora non solo sono infinite, ma cambiano il senso di un libro a seconda della sezione in cui lo dispongono, della collocazione, delle modalita di consultazione e utilizzo, del modo di giocare gli spazi, di aprire/chiudere alla luce, all’ombra (in grattacieli, in sotterranei), facendo della biblioteca un luogo dove libri e lettori interagiscono in spazi talvolta mitici. Raccolta come sono, le biblioteche, per interposto racconto, non solo dei libri sopravvissuti alle catastrofi della storia, ma di quelli bruciati, perduti, inventati, che, per il solo fatto di essere stati almeno una volta scritti o pensati, hanno lasciato traccia. In questo libro, di grande ricchezza e suggestione, ideato e curato da Anna Dolfi , si riflette, con esemplificazioni dalla grande letteratura moderna, sul rapporto tra ombre di carta e di celluloide, tra inconturnables e marginalia, alla ricerca dei libri dentro le biblioteche e delle biblioteche dentro i libri. Sullo sfondo la musica, la geniale recitazione di Carmelo Bene, le strisce dei graphic, i progetti architettonici, gli schermi dei computer, e le pagine di un romanzo incompiuto di Giuseppe Dessi che parla di una biblioteca murata e di una cascata di libri all’origine di un immaginario romanzesco.

Unfinished work or interrupted work… It is difficult to find a definition, to identify the theme, to distinguish chance from intentionality. Few 'genres' and / or variations express as the 'unfinished' the same need for what is external to the work and which somehow completes it, bringing the work in a privileged position to create a harmony with our restless modernity. No wonder that in literature, in addition to what has been brutally interrupted, the letters, the diaries, the chronicles of disease and suffering are naturally suspended works. No wonder either that incompleteness accompanies the writings referring to unsolved issues, hidden traumas, silent melancholy. Dictated by choice or by distinct degrees of incapacity, the temptation of the unfinished pursues, urges, deludes its author... The private writings, the sketches, the projects, the papers testify the path necessary for the work to develop and conquer its shape. This book is rich and suggestive and has been conceived and edited by Anna Dolfi. Like its very object, the work is drafted in the perspective of the unfinished and questions some of the many possible examples, along a diachronic arc that goes to literature at figurative arts, theatre, cinema: from Leonardo to Blake, from Ariosto to Stendhal, from Dossi to Gadda, from Kafka to Borges, from Sarraute to Morante, from unknown writers affected by 'cancroregina' to the last Pirandello staged by Tiezzi, up to Fellini of the impossible Mastorna ... At the centre of the volume the readers will find a section with the typescript pages and the unpublished notebooks of / for the work La scelta by Giuseppe Dessi. They lead to the limits of white space, where the chambre claire fixes what is hidden beyond the writing with few, rarefied signs.Non finito, opera interrotta… difficile trovare una definizione, circoscrivere il tema, distinguere il caso dall’intenzionalita. Certo pochi ‘generi’ e/o declinazioni hanno come il non finito bisogno di cio che e esterno all’opera e che in qualche modo la completa, collocandola in posizione privilegiata per la sintonia con la nostra inquieta modernita. Non stupisce che in letteratura siano naturaliter ‘sospesi’ – oltre a cio che e stato brutalmente interrotto – gli epistolari, i diari, le cronache della malattia e della sofferenza; ne che l’incompiutezza accompagni gli scritti che rinviano a grumi irrisolti, traumi nascosti, taciute malinconie. Dettata da scelta o da gradi distinti di incapacita, la tentazione del non finito, del non finire, insegue, incalza, illude… Ce ne parlano le scritture del privato, gli abbozzi, i progetti, le carte che testimoniano il cammino necessario all’opera per arrivare alla sua forma. Questo libro, ricco e suggestivo, ideato e curato da Anna Dolfi, inscritto – come il suo oggetto – all’insegna dell’incompiuto, del non finibile, si interroga su alcuni dei tanti esempi possibili, lungo un arco diacronico che va alla letteratura alle arti figurative, al teatro, al cinema: da Leonardo a Blake, da Ariosto a Stendhal, da Dossi a Gadda, da Kafka a Borges, dalla Sarraute alla Morante, dagli sconosciuti scriventi affetti da ‘cancroregina’ all’ultimo Pirandello messo in scena da Tiezzi, fino al Fellini dell’impossibile Mastorna ... Al centro del volume una sezione con le pagine del dattiloscritto ed i quaderni di appunti inediti di/per La scelta di Giuseppe Dessi conduce ai limiti dello spazio bianco, la dove la chambre claire fissa con pochi, rarefatti segni, quanto si cela oltre la scrittura.

On the one hand le cote de Guermantes and on the other that of chez Swann... Few places like Illiers-Combray offer the tangible measure of a myth that has involved not only readers and writers, but also those who have reflected on the meaning and structures of modern fiction. As the great criticism of the 20th century and the most innovative reflections on the method would not be conceivable without the Recherche. Auerbach, Curtius, Spitzer, Poulet, Jauss, Deleuze, Richard, Genette, Barthes…, as well as Solmi, Debenedetti, Contini, and Macchia in Italy, measured themselves with essays and/or memorable books, while Caproni, Fortini, Ginzsburg, Raboni... tried themselves with translation. In short, the seduction of a work with a very dense intertextuality and variety of registers still resides, not only in the ability to talk about the history and culture of the West, offering the grandiose fresco of a universe in decline, but in the possibility of inserting itself on many levels (including that of meta-literature, non-fiction) as an obligatory point of passage. Thus contributing to create a world parallel to the real one, which is now populated by its doubles: cities, cathedrals, feelings, emotions, words intermittences... From the field of fiction to that, induced, of narratology, no doubt that Proust has changed our life, the perception of the world, and the way of looking at objects, and of reading books and things. The collection that is proposed here, designed and curated by Anna Dolfi, gives a broad and evocative testimony, offering itself as an essential object of study on the traces of the unforgettable, unseizable Marcel.Da una parte le cote de Guermantes e dall’altra quello di chez Swann… Pochi luoghi come Illiers-Combray offrono la misura tangibile di un mito che ha coinvolto non solo lettori e scrittori,ma quanti hanno riflettuto sul senso e le strutture della narrativa moderna. Gia che non sarebbero pensabili la grande critica del Novecento e le piu innovative riflessioni sul metodo senza la Recherche . Vi si sono misurati, con saggi e/o libri memorabili,Auerbach, Curtius, Spitzer, Poulet, Jauss, Deleuze, Richard, Genette, Barthes…, e da noi Solmi, Debenedetti, Contini,Macchia, mentre si sono cimentati nella traduzione Caproni, Fortini, la Ginzsburg, Raboni... Insomma, la seduzione di un’opera dalla fittissima intertestualita e varieta di registri risiede ancora, non solo nella capacita di parlare della storia e cultura dell’Occidente, offrendo il grandioso affresco di un universo in declino, ma nella possibilita di inserirsi su molti livelli (compreso quello della meta-letteratura, della saggistica) quale punto obbligato di passaggio. Contribuendo a creare un mondo parallelo rispetto a quello reale, che si trova ormai popolato dei suoi doppi: citta, cattedrali, sentimenti, emozioni, parole intermittences … Dal campo della finzione a quello, indotto, della narratologia, nessun dubbio che Proust ci abbia cambiato la vita, la percezione del mondo, e il modo di guardare gli oggetti, e di leggere i libri e le cose. La raccolta che qui si propone, progettata e curata da Anna Dolfi, ne da un’ampia e suggestiva testimonianza, offrendosi ormai come un imprescindibile oggetto di studio sulle tracce dell’imprendibile, indimenticabile Marcel.

In the first pages of the Zibaldone, Leopardi had noted that the "love of learning" induces a passion for philosophy, making it a foundational element of modern culture. In this perspective, then, no doubt remains as to the prominent position of Voltaire’s Candide, or of Rousseau’s thought, which combines philosophical thinking, educational demands, political passion and autobiography. However, in order to move from the count to the novel, from the apologue and from the treatises to complex characters who also maintain a strong and speculative allure, one had to leave the 18th century, experience Romanticism, feed the reveries of the new promeneurs solitaires during the following century, with the restlessness and the questions of Dostoevsky, Kafka, Sartre, Camus, and of Pirandello, Proust, Musil and many others; of those who combined the passion for short stories with the unmasking of any deceptive theodicy. Bringing the the novel back to bourgeois intertwining and existential anxieties, starting from Cervantes’s ironic way of thinking. In the absence of declarations, however, where does one find the evidence of the presence of the philosophique in the novel, or how does one identify texts pertaining to the definition of roman philosophique? This book, conceived and edited by Anna Dolfi, does not only raises the problem, but tries to solve it as well. At the same time, it brings the ideas of the novel and from the novel together with constructive theories, and compares the insignificant with significance, mythical emblems and codes, semiosis and destiny, while also observing how language, in the parade of the authors, changes itself and even touches the figurativeness of the graphic-novel. This volume constitutes the final point of arrival of a path which, in samples, locks significant fragments in the otherwise infinite kaleidoscope of narration.Leopardi nelle prime pagine dello Zibaldone aveva osservato che l’«amore dei lumi» induce la passione per la filosofia, facendone un elemento fondante della cultura moderna. Nessun dubbio che in questa prospettiva un posto di rilievo spetti allora al Candide di Voltaire, o al Rousseau che unisce pensar filosofico, istanze educative, passione politica e schermata autobiografia. Ma per passare dal conte al romanzo, dall’apologo e dai trattati a personaggi complessi che pure mantengono una forte allure speculativa, bisognava lasciare il Settecento, sperimentare il Romanticismo, nutrire nel secolo successivo le reveries dei nuovi promeneurs solitaires con l’inquietudine e gli interrogativi di Dostoevskij, Kafka, Sartre, Camus, e di Pirandello, Proust, Musil…, di quanti hanno accompagnato la passione per il racconto con lo smascheramento di ogni ingannevole teodicea. Riconducendo il romanzo, a partire dall’ironica pensosita cervantina, ai borgesiani intrecci, alle ansie esistenziali. Ma, in assenza di dichiarazioni, dove trovare la prova della presenza del philosophique nel romanzo, o come individuare testi a cui si addica la definizione di roman philosophique? Questo libro, progettato e curato da Anna Dolfi, non solo pone il problema, ma tenta di rispondervi, mentre intreccia le idee del/da romanzo con le teorie costruttive, e attiva il confronto tra insignificante e significanza, emblemi e codici mitici, semiosi e destino, osservando come il linguaggio, nello sfilare degli autori, modifichi se stesso fino ad arrivare alla figurativita del graphic-novel. Punto estremo d’arrivo per un percorso che – per campioni – fissa significativi frammenti nel caleidoscopio per altri versi infinito del narrare.

With the 100th anniversary of Giuseppe Dessi’s birth approaching, in 2009, the Committee in charge of the celebrations launched in a widespread dissemination activity of the writer's work in many European countries. And since the translations (the main objective of the project) required a complex knowledge of the author, his style, the dialogue and the difference with the reference culture, it was suggested to study and promote them not only through the reconstruction of the history and typicality of the author’s narrative path, but also through the reconstruction of his scarce reception abroad within the framework, in the case of Dessi, of the presence, outside national borders, of Italian literature in the second half of the 20th century. Through the examination of books, editorial catalogues, magazines, anthologies, and thanks to the commitment of scholars and young collaborators of Italian and foreign universities, it is now France, England, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, Finland, Sweden and many more at the centre of the attention, with their reading preferences and aversions, together with Italy, and with the themes, stories, characters of the writer to whom this book is dedicated.Con l’avvicinarsi del centenario della nascita di Giuseppe Dessi, nel 2009, il Comitato delle Celebrazioni ha avviato una capillare attivita di diffusione dell’opera dello scrittore in molti paesi europei. E visto che le traduzioni (obiettivo principe del progetto) prevedono una complessa conoscenza dell’autore, del suo stile, del dialogo e dello scarto con la cultura di riferimento, ci si e proposti di studiarle e favorirle ricostruendo non solo la storia e tipicita di un percorso narrativo, ma quella di una difficile ricezione all’estero nel quadro, sub specie Dessi, della presenza, fuori dei confini nazionali, della nostra letteratura del secondo Novecento. Tramite lo spoglio di libri, cataloghi editoriali, riviste, antologie, grazie all’impegno di studiosi e giovani collaboratori di universita italiane e straniere, sono adesso la Francia, l’Inghilterra, la Spagna, la Germania, i Paesi Bassi, la Polonia, l’Ungheria, l’Ucraina, la Finlandia, la Svezia… a venire alla ribalta, con le loro predilezioni e preclusioni di lettura, insieme all’Italia, e ai temi, alle storie, ai personaggi dello scrittore a cui questo libro e dedicato.

This book is centred on the work of Oreste Macri: scholar of Italian, French and Spanish literature; comparatist, metricist, theorist and translator in continual dialogue with Europe; historian and friend of the leading protagonists of the Spanish generation of '25, and in Italy a penetrating and impassioned theorist/founder of Hermeticism. With clear-sighted focus, Anna Dolfi traces the fundamental stages in his critical itinerary, especially on the Italian front, bringing out the singular mix of rigour and creative ingenuity, of philology and impassioned and ineluctable militancy, that is at the basis of an unmistakably new mode of reading the texts, of dialoguing with the authors and with the reader. In a word, what has been defined as 'Macritica', either with playful admiration or with polemical distancing by those who, alarmed by the doctrine, the creativity and the choice of canons, preferred to dwell instead on the difficulty of a language that, confirming over the years Macri's singular hermeneutic capacity, also fully expressed his provocative nonconformism and his ironic intelligence. Accompanying the book is a precious CD-Rom, outcome of the work of a group of Anna Dolfi's young students (indicated with the initials "GRBM", that is, "Gruppo Ricercatori della Biblioteca Macri"), which offers a complete index of the private library donated by Oreste Macri to the "Archivio contemporaneo Bonsanti" of the Gabinetto "G. P. Vieusseux" in Florence. Open CD-ROM Oreste Macri studioso di letteratura italiana, francese, spagnola; comparatista, metricista, teorico e traduttore in continuo dialogo con l'Europa; storico e amico dei grandi protagonisti della generazione spagnola del '25 e in Italia acuto e appassionato teorico/fondatore dell'ermetismo e al centro di questo libro. Anna Dolfi con lucida attenzione ripercorre le tappe fondamentali del suo percorso critico, soprattutto sul versante italiano, mostrando la singolare mistione di rigore e di genialita creativa, di filologia e di appassionata e irrinunciabile militanza che e alla base di un modo nuovo e inconfondibile di leggere i testi, di dialogare con gli autori e con il lettore. 'Macritica' appunto, come con ammirazione scherzosa o con polemica distanza veniva chiamata da chi, sgomento per la dottrina, la creativita, le scelte di canone, preferiva piuttosto soffermarsi sulla difficolta di un linguaggio che, con il passare degli anni, confermando la singolare capacita ermeneutica di Macri, ne svela appieno anche il provocatorio anticonformismo e l'intelligente ironia. Ad accompagnare il libro un prezioso CD-Rom, risultato del lavoro di un gruppo di giovanissimi allievi di Anna Dolfi (indicati con la sigla «GRBM», ovvero «Gruppo Ricercatori della Biblioteca Macri»), che offre la schedatura completa della biblioteca privata donata da Oreste Macri all'«Archivio contemporaneo Bonsanti» del Gabinetto «G. P. Vieusseux» di Firenze. Accedi alla consultazione del CD-ROM

Il saggio propone una riflessione sul rapporto tra dimensione notturna e musica in quattro poeti della contemporaneità: Valerio Magrelli, Gabriele Frasca, Tommaso Ottonieri e Andrea Inglese

Il saggio offre un attraversamento del tema della biblioteca del parvenu in una prospettiva di letterature comparate, prendendo in considerazione tanto il mondo antico quanto alcuni capolavori dell'Otto e Novecento europeo e americano, da Balzac a Fitzgerald, da Wharton a Tomasi di Lampedusa.

Il contributo è dedicato a presentare e commentare i sei articoli dedicati da Joan Sacs (pseudonimo dell'artista, critico e caricaturista catalano Feliu Elias i Bracons) all'estetica e alla psicologia di Proust, pubblicati tra il 1933 e il 1934 sulla rivista catalana "Mirador", la cui maggiore originalità risiede nel presentare un'interpretazione realista del pensiero proustiano. Si tratta del primo contributo in assoluto specificamente dedicato a questo soggetto.

Analisi di alcuni tra i più significativi notturni di Salvatore Di Giacomo

Quali invenzioni siamo disposti ad ammettere da un testimone della Shoah? Questo contributo analizza l'uso dell'invenzione letteraria e dei miti come strumento per costruire un discorso etico. L'interesse principale è per l'opera di Primo Levi, ma vi sono anche accenni alla poesia di Dan Pagis