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Toronto Italian Studies

Toronto Italian Studies offers an unrivaled breadth of scholarship on Italy's social, historical, poetic, cinematic, linguistic, semiotic, and architectural contributions, past and present.

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Speaking Spirits

Speaking Spirits

Ventriloquizing the Dead in Renaissance Italy

by Sherry Roush

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9781487547585

Pub Date: June 2022

In Speaking Spirits, Sherry Roush presents the first systematic study of early modern Italian eidolopoeia.

The Decameron Ninth Day in Perspective

The Decameron Ninth Day in Perspective

Edited by Simone Marchesi and Susanna Barsella

Price: $80.00

ISBN: 9781487540494

Pub Date: June 2022

This collection of original essays from leading scholars breaks new ground in our understanding of the tales belonging to the Ninth Day of the ​Decameron.

A Sudden Frenzy

A Sudden Frenzy

Improvisation, Orality, and Power in Renaissance Italy

by James K. Coleman

Price: $70.00

ISBN: 9781487563448

Pub Date: June 2022

A Sudden Frenzy explores the intellectual and cultural history of improvisation and oral poetry in Renaissance Italy.

Mussolini, Architect

Mussolini, Architect

Propaganda and Urban Landscape in Fascist Italy

by Paolo Nicoloso

Translated by Sylvia Notini

Price: $95.00

ISBN: 9781442631045

Pub Date: September 2022

Mussolini, Architect documents the numerous ways in which Mussolini used architecture to shape Italy and its citizens.

Veronica Franco in Dialogue

Veronica Franco in Dialogue

by Marilyn Migiel

Price: $65.00

ISBN: 9781487542580

Pub Date: April 2022

Veronica Franco in Dialogue reconsiders the literary and cultural significance of a well-known sixteenth-century Venetian courtesan and writer.

Feeding Fascism

Feeding Fascism

The Politics of Women’s Food Work

by Diana Garvin

Price: $75.00

ISBN: 9781487528188

Pub Date: February 2022

Feeding Fascism uses food as a lens to examine how women’s efforts to feed their families became politicized under the Italian dictatorship.

Modernist Idealism

Modernist Idealism

Ambivalent Legacies of German Philosophy in Italian Literature

by Michael J. Subialka

Price: $85.00

ISBN: 9781487528652

Pub Date: November 2021

Modernist Idealism develops a framework for understanding modernist production as the artistic realization of philosophical concepts elaborated in German idealism.

Measured Words

Measured Words

Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy

by Arielle Saiber

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9781487541958

Pub Date: June 2021

Measured Words brings together rarely discussed Renaissance thinkers to show both the commonalities within and the variety of the conversations between computation and writing.

The Decameron Sixth Day in Perspective

The Decameron Sixth Day in Perspective

Edited by David Lummus

Price: $75.00

ISBN: 9781487508715

Pub Date: June 2021

The expert readings in this collection explore the ten stories of Day Six of Boccaccio's Decameron – a day that involves meditations on language, narration, and meaning

Galeazzo Ciano

Galeazzo Ciano

The Fascist Pretender

by Tobias Hof

Price: $85.00

ISBN: 9781487507985

Pub Date: May 2021

Through the prism of the rise and fall of Galeazzo Ciano (1903–1944), this biography is a comprehensive study of a leading member of the fascist regime other than Benito Mussolini.

Seeing Through Closed Eyelids

Seeing Through Closed Eyelids

Giuseppe Penone and the Nature of Sculpture

by Elizabeth Mangini

Price: $65.00

ISBN: 9781487500580

Pub Date: April 2021

This book provides a material and social history of the art of Giuseppe Penone, a leading protagonist of Arte Povera, whose work explores the interconnectedness of humans and the phenomenal world.

The Ugly Woman

The Ugly Woman

Transgressive Aesthetic Models in Italian Poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque

by Patrizia Bettella

Price: $31.95

ISBN: 9781487541941

Pub Date: February 2021

Taking a philological and feminist approach, and drawing on the Bakhtinian concept of the grotesque body and on the poetics of transgression, The Ugly Woman is a unique look at the essential counterdiscourse of the celebrated Italian poetic canon and a valuable contribution to the study of women in literature.

The Decameron Fourth Day in Perspective

The Decameron Fourth Day in Perspective

Edited by Michael Sherberg

Price: $74.00

ISBN: 9781487507473

Pub Date: November 2020

This compilation of eleven essays offers exciting new perspectives on one of the greatest works of Italian literature.

Tuscan Spaces

Tuscan Spaces

Literary Constructions of Space

by Silvia M. Ross

Price: $37.95

ISBN: 9781487526269

Pub Date: August 2020

In Tuscan Spaces, Silvia Ross focuses on constructions of Tuscany in twentieth-century Italian literature and juxtaposes them with English prose works by such authors as E.M. Forster and Frances Mayes to expose the complexity of literary representation centred on a single milieu.

Italian Neorealism

Italian Neorealism

A Cultural History

by Charles L. Leavitt IV

Price: $89.00

ISBN: 9781487507107

Pub Date: July 2020

This book seeks to redefine, recontextualize, and reassess Italian neorealism – an artistic movement characterized by stories set among the poor and working class – through innovative close readings and comparative analysis.

Poetry on Stage

Poetry on Stage

The Theatre of the Italian Neo-Avant-Garde

by Gianluca Rizzo

Price: $89.00

ISBN: 9781487506667

Pub Date: August 2020

Based on meticulous research in the archives of some of the most prominent Italian avant-garde writers, Poetry on Stage examines the literary and ideological climate of the sixties and seventies.

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