The Valmadonna Library
The Writing on the Wall. A Catalogue of Judaica Broadsides from the Valmadonna Trust Library PREFACE Now the wise ones . . . should read the writing [on the wall]…
Books
Quaestio De Centauris
In the fall, crowning a twelve year effort by W.W. Norton’s editor Bob Weil, Primo Levi’s complete works will be available in English for the first time. Norton’s Liveright imprint…
Architectural and Urban Histories
Fascist Italy: Architectural and Urban Histories At the heart of the historiography of architecture under Italian fascist rule lie questions of political allegiance and valence. How ‘fascist’ were the…
The Fascist Effect
Reto Hofmann, The Fascist Effect. Japan and Italy, 1915–1952, Cornell University Press, 2015 During the interwar period, Japanese intellectuals, writers, activists, and politicians, although conscious of the many points of intersection between…
Censorship
Guido Bonsaver, Censorship and Literature in Fascist Italy, Toronto University Press, 2007 The interest in Fascist editorial and ideological politics has produced some excellent work in the last decade, including Giorgio Fabre’s…
Translations in Fascist Italy
In the 1930s translation became a key issue in the cultural politics of the Fascist regime due to the fact that Italy was publishing more translations than any other country…
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? Carlo Levi’s Visual Poetics engages this question through a critical re-examination of one of…
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 fiction, a physician and politician (in the order of his talents), he came of…
Hospital Series
Amelia Rosselli’s Serie ospedaliera among the poet’s most haunting, imaginatively intense and formally rigorous collections, has just been published by New Directions as Hospital Series, translated by Deborah Woodard, Roberta…
On Translating Amelia Rosselli
Amelia Rosselli’s experimental approach to poetry and trilingual interweaving have only recently been discovered by readers of English. The daunting challenges of translating her work are only partly responsible for…