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Arts - 27 Novembre 2019

John P. McCormick on Machiavelli’s Populist Politics

John P. McCormick, professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, presents his book Reading Machiavelli: Scandalous Books, Suspect Engagements, & the Virtue of Populist Politics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018). In conversation with Anne Ratnoff, Ph.D. student in French at Harvard University, McCormick discusses rehabilitating the notorious political philosopher’s image, how his reading of Machiavelli […]

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Arts - 27 Novembre 2019

Gabriele Pedullà and the Machiavellian Tumult

Machiavelli in Tumult: The Discourses on Livy and the Origins of Political Conflictualism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018) is the English version of Gabriele Pedullà’s 2011 Machiavelli in tumulto: conquista, cittadinanza e conflitto nei “Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio” (Rome: Bulzoni). Professor Pedullà is associate professor of Italian Literature at the Università di Roma Tre […]

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Libri - 8 Maggio 2019

Discovering the Italianness of Tex Willer with Elizabeth Leake

Elizabeth Leake, Tex Willer. Un cowboy nell’Italia del dopoguerra, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018. Professor of Italian Studies at Columbia University, Elizabeth Leake offers her readers a fascinating exploration of Tex Willer: one of the most widely read Italian comic book heroes. In Tex Willer. Un cowboy nell’Italia del dopoguerra she enlightens us as to how much this pop-culture character embodied and shaped Italian (masculine) identity […]

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Arts - 8 Ottobre 2018

Ellen Lockhart on the Singing Statues and Animated People of Enlightenment Italy

In her recent book Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italy, 1770-1830, Ellen Lockhart, Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Toronto, breaks new ground on questions of national identity and Enlightenment ideas in Italy through the unique lens of Italian theater and ballet. Science, philosophy, music criticism, and cultural history are all in play […]

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People - 9 Gennaio 2018

In Memory of Olga Ragusa, an Italian Studies Icon in New York

After receiving her PhD from Columbia University in 1954, Olga Ragusa started teaching at Rutgers University, and then at Vassar College. In 1955 she became an assistant professor at Columbia and in 1979, she was appointed Da Ponte Professor of Italian. Upon the sudden death of her father in 1974, she became co-owner with her sister, Isa, of the S.F. Vanni bookstore and publishing house.

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