The Valmadonna Library
The Writing on the Wall. A Catalogue of Judaica Broadsides from the Valmadonna Trust Library PREFACE...
Books
Quaestio De Centauris
In the fall, crowning a twelve year effort by W.W. Norton’s editor Bob Weil, Primo Levi’s...
Architectural and Urban Histories
Fascist Italy: Architectural and Urban Histories At the heart of the historiography of architecture under...
The Fascist Effect
Reto Hofmann, The Fascist Effect. Japan and Italy, 1915–1952, Cornell University Press, 2015 During the interwar period, Japanese...
Censorship
Guido Bonsaver, Censorship and Literature in Fascist Italy, Toronto University Press, 2007 The interest in Fascist editorial and...
Translations in Fascist Italy
In the 1930s translation became a key issue in the cultural politics of the Fascist regime...
Carlo Levi’s Visual Poetics: The Painter as Writer
What does it mean for a painter to remain a visual artist even as a writer?...
Fear of Freedom: With the Essay “Fear of Painting”
Carlo Levi was a Renaissance Man without a Renaissance: A painter, a writer of essays and...
Hospital Series
Amelia Rosselli’s Serie ospedaliera among the poet’s most haunting, imaginatively intense and formally rigorous collections, has...
On Translating Amelia Rosselli
Amelia Rosselli’s experimental approach to poetry and trilingual interweaving have only recently been discovered by readers...