/library/oar/handle/123456789/124416 2025-12-25T01:16:53Z 2025-12-25T01:16:53Z Vassallo, Peter /library/oar/handle/123456789/136089 2025-06-04T09:11:42Z 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies : volume 8 Authors: Vassallo, Peter Abstract: Table of Contents:; - From Leon Battista Alberti to Jane Austen via Giacomo Leoni and BBC Drama: John Woodhouse; - Absence, Desire and the Female Other in Petrarch and Wyatt: Gloria Lauri Lucente; - Mary Shelley, Anglo-Italicus: Female Self-Assertion and the Politics of Distinction: Maria Schoina; - Presence and Absence in Byron's The Prophecy of Dante: Valeria Tinkler-Villani; - Enchantment and Disenchantment: English Romantic Visions of Italy: Manfred Pfister; - 'A Freak of Freedom:' British travellers to the Republic of San Marino: Maurizio Ascari; - Leigh Hunt in Italy 1822-1825: Nicholas Roe; - 'Walking in the footsteps of the Illustrious Dead:' Nineteenth-century Travellers in Southern Italy: Sharon Ouditt; - Authenticating Italy: Poetry, Tourism and Browning's The Ring and the Book: Christopher M. Keirstead; - 'A real picture of natural and feminine feeling?' Anna Jameson's Diary of an Ennuyee: Kate Walchester; - 'Fashioned from His Opposite:' Yeats, Dante and Shelley: Michael O'Neill; - D. H. Lawrence and the Sicilian myth of Persephone: Peter Vassallo; - Angels and Vagabonds: Breaking through Barriers in the Anglo-Italian Encounter: Sally Collins; - 'Dark juxtaposition' - D. H. Lawrence, Verga and Cultural Difference: Michael Cronin; - Writing the familial past: historical and personal memoir in Sicily and England: Political and Social Reminiscences, 1848-1870 by Tina Scalia Whitaker: Giorgia Alu; - The Romance of Anglo-Italian Studies: Brief Fictions of Francesco Marroni: Allan C. Christensen

2006-01-01T00:00:00Z McKim, Anne /library/oar/handle/123456789/130288 2025-01-03T10:19:25Z 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The "Italian scheme" : Ann Forbes, artist in training Authors: McKim, Anne Abstract: The early career of Scottish portrait painter Ann Forbes (1745-1834), who trained in Rome between 1767 and 1771, provides unique insights into the particular challenges experienced by young women who aspired to become professional artists on their return to Britain. Family and friends devised what they called "the Italian scheme" to fund her painting studies in the city where many eighteenth-century British and European art students trained. Excluded by her gender from studying at the Accademia, Forbes relied on the goodwill of resident Scottish artists for her tuition and on willing art collectors to lend paintings for her copy work. Within months of her arrival in Rome, one observer described her as "a wonder" who already excelled art students who had been studying for several years. Letters to and from family and friends at home, especially those from Margaret Forbes, who accompanied and supported her daughter in Rome, and later in London, offer a compelling and often moving narrative of Ann's struggles, successes and failures.

2023-01-01T00:00:00Z Grima, Sala M. A. /library/oar/handle/123456789/130287 2025-01-03T10:17:30Z 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Sulla Commedia di Dante Authors: Grima, Sala M. A. Abstract: Nei decenni precedenti l'epoca che Johan Huizinga ha definito "l'autunno del Medioevo", l'Europa era non solo impegnata nella costruzione di cattedrali magnifiche, ma era anche dedita, parallelamente, all' elaborazione di una particolareggiata, se non compiuta visione del mondo. Una delle piu grandi - forse, addirittura, la piu grande - e la summa teologico-filosofica di Tommaso d' Aquino. Fra le altre cattedrali concettuali che dobbiamo a intelletti sublimi non si puo tacere quella di Bonaventura da Bagnoregio.

2021-01-01T00:00:00Z Vassallo, Peter /library/oar/handle/123456789/130286 2025-01-03T10:12:59Z 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: "The Dantescan voice" in Shelley's The triumph of life and Keats's The fall of Hyperion Authors: Vassallo, Peter Abstract: This paper focuses on the impact of Dante's Divina Commedia on Keats's The Fall of Hyperion and Shelley's The Triumph of Life and the attempt of both these Romantic poets to appropriate the "Dantescan voice." With Keats this was significant because in his earlier Hyperion he was contending with the overpowering spirit of Milton which, as he acknowledged, compelled him to reproduce a feeble adaptation of the Miltonic grand style. Dante's allegorical Purgatorio and especially Dante's encounter with Beatrice served Keats as a model for the "priestess" Moneta who compels him to confront the validity of his poetic art. But it was Shelley, as T.S. Eliot recognized, who was close to appropriating the ''true Dantescan voice" in his enigmatic and ironic Dantean vision in The Triumph of Life. Here, too, the poet feels obliged to express his profound disillusion with the Enlightenment and with the possibility of political reform.

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