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?...
Books
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...
Bound in Venice. The First Talmud
Bound in Venice: The Serene Republic and the Dawn of the Book, Europa Editions 2013 A...
The Pope Who Tried
During the past fifty years, most of the debate on the Catholic Church’s relationship with fascism...
Spina’s Shadow
“Darling, this is Alessandro Spina, who is trying to make Italians feel guilty about their colonial...
The Nação in the Eternal City
James Nelson Novoa, Being the Nação in the Eternal City: New Christian Lives in Sixteenth-Century Rome...
Italian Jews in the Modern Era
Marina Caffiero, Storia degli ebrei nell’Italia moderna. Dal Rinascimento alla Restaurazione. Carocci editore, Rome, 2014 Marina...
Italian Jewish Women Artists in the 20th Century
Between June and October 2014, an exhibition entitled Artiste del Novecento tra visione e identità ebraica...