OAR@UM Collection:/library/oar/handle/123456789/1292352025-12-26T15:29:19Z2025-12-26T15:29:19ZJournal of Anglo-Italian Studies : volume 15Vassallo, PeterLauri Lucente, Gloria/library/oar/handle/123456789/1293292025-06-10T11:47:39Z2017-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies : volume 15
Authors: Vassallo, Peter; Lauri Lucente, Gloria
Abstract: Table of Contents:; - "A Woman of infinite wit, and agreeable conversation, always entertained me:" The Countess of Pomfret and Italian Hospitality: Anne M. Mckim; - "veder quel che tutt'i ciechi non veggono:" Gabriele Rossetti e ii materialismo esoterico della Commedia nel carteggio con Charles Lyell: Raffaella Antinucci; - "Rome disappoints me much:" Clough, Rome, and Amours de Voyage: Phillip Mallett; - "The Italian Method" and the "Italian Gesture." Musico-Literary considerations on W.B. Yeats, Italian music and Italian composers: Enrico Reggiani; - D.H. Lawrence, Montecassino and the "Spirit of Place": Peter Vassallo; - Naples and the Anglo-American Allied Forces: John Horne Bums's The Gallery and Francesco Rosi' s "Napoli '44": Gaetana Marrone; - Notes on Contributors2017-01-01T00:00:00Z"A woman of infnite wit, and agreeable conversation, always entertained me : " the Countess of Pomfret and Italian hospitalityMcKim, Anne M./library/oar/handle/123456789/1293282024-11-27T06:42:31Z2017-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: "A woman of infnite wit, and agreeable conversation, always entertained me : " the Countess of Pomfret and Italian hospitality
Authors: McKim, Anne M.
Abstract: On 20th December, 1740 Henrietta Louisa Fermor, Countess of
Pomfret, marked the anniversary of her arrival in Florence by
composing a narrative poem which she sent on Christmas Day to her
friend, the minor poet, Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford. In
her poetical review of the previous year she exalts Florence as her
"happy safe retreat" after being "forced from friends" and home in
England by the need for the family to retrench. Throughout her
three years abroad, Lady Pomfret maintained a regular
correspondence with Lady Hertford in which she recorded the
impact her travels, particularly her residence in Italy, made on her.
Like other travellers, in her letters home Lady Pomfret documents
the sites visited, the new experiences enjoyed, and the people
encountered, including British tourists and other residents abroad.
A striking feature of her letters to her friend, however, is her
repeated acknowledgements of the warm hospitality she everywhere
received in Italy.2017-01-01T00:00:00Z"veder quel che tutt' i ciechi non veggono : " Gabriele Rossetti e il materialismo esoterico della Commedia nel carteggio con Charles LyellAntinucci, Raffaella/library/oar/handle/123456789/1293272024-11-27T06:33:10Z2017-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: "veder quel che tutt' i ciechi non veggono : " Gabriele Rossetti e il materialismo esoterico della Commedia nel carteggio con Charles Lyell
Authors: Antinucci, Raffaella
Abstract: In ogm tempo e luogo, confrontarsi con l'opera di Dante ha
significato addentrarsi nel labirinto serniotico di un joyciano
chaosmos, un universo finzionale che possiede l'organicita di un
cosmo ordinato, ma la cui discendenza esegetica si staglia di fronte al
critico nelle forme irregolari e disorientanti di un caos. II macrotesto
dantesco, per dimensioni e complessita, costituisce una sfida
ermeneutica che spesso conduce alla rinuncia, assecondando un
orientamento che trascura in parte o in toto l'anteriore tradizione, per
dare luogo a interpretazioni improntate al piu cornpleto soggettivismo.
Tale non puo dirsi il percorso intrapreso dall'abruzzese Gabriele
Rossetti (1783-1854), che consacro la sua intera vicenda biografica e
professionale allo studio, e al culto, del Sommo Poeta. Giunto in
Inghilterra nel 1824 come esule politico, Rossetti si rivelo instancabile
nel promuovere la conoscenza e la diffusione di Dante in terra
d'Albione, dando l'avvio ad una tradizione famigliare che nel corso
dell'Ottocento ha rappresentato la piu laboriosa "officina" dantesca,
nelle parole di Alison Milbank, "the home-grown Dante industry.2017-01-01T00:00:00Z"Rome disappoints me much : " Clough, Rome, and Amours de VoyageMallett, Phillip/library/oar/handle/123456789/1293262024-11-27T06:21:05Z2017-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: "Rome disappoints me much : " Clough, Rome, and Amours de Voyage
Authors: Mallett, Phillip
Abstract: Arthur Clough's Amours de Voyage can be briefly if inadequately
described as an epistolary novella in verse, set in Rome in 1849, and
tracing the cultural, political, and erotic adventures of Claude, a
young Englishman not long graduated from Oxford, and the author
of most of the letters. Or rather, since he refuses to commit himself,
it traces his near-adventures: Emerson observed, grumpily, that it
exhibited "much preparation to no result", which was "bad enough in
life, and inadmissible in poetry." The author of a celebrated essay
on "Self-Reliance" was unlikely to be won over by a hero whose vacillating nature is insinuated in his name (claudus: lame), but other
friends had similar misgivings. John Shairp, reading the poem in
manuscript, protested that "everything crumbles to dust beneath a
ceaseless self-introspection and cynicism which is throughout the
only inspiration." Matthew Arnold "forbore to comment", or even
to apologise for not doing so: "what is to be said when a thing does
not suit you [?]'' Recent critics have made the case for Amours de
Voyage as a witty, poignant, and original work, but even now it is
less often discussed, and more importantly less widely enjoyed, than
it deserves.2017-01-01T00:00:00Z