Il pensiero corporativo in Miguel Reale: interpretazioni del fascismo italiano nell’integralismo brasiliano by João Fábio Bertonha

“…Finally, for his upbringing, both personal and educational, marked by the Italian culture, that led to a special influence of Italian fascism in his thought and in his political action. …”
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Emanuele Crialese’s Nuovomondo and the Triumph of the Mediterranean Heritage by Simonetta Milli Konewko

“…Describing their positive beliefs about their future but also those moments that generate despair and lack of understanding, the director highlights his concerns and a paradoxical perception of the New World in opposition to the values of the southern Italian culture they left behind. Through an examination of the modern American culture that infuses hope and optimism while distorting expectations and dreams, Crialese underlines the values of the Mediterranean heritage that emphasizes the affirmation of values internal to human beings and associated with fraternity and solidarity among individuals. …”
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BBC’s "Sherlock" and Europeanness: A Case Study on the Circulation of a European TV Crime Series in Italy by Luca Antoniazzi, Sara Casoli

“…To some extent Sherlock has triggered both reflections on British television and self-reflections on Italian culture. Nevertheless, from the data we have collected, we observe that such reflections, however significant, remain limited. …”
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Libertà e identità: la fede e l’arte nelle colonie italoamericane negli anni dell’emigrazione di massa. L’esempio di Bartolomeo Boggio by Marina Loffredo si è laureata in Storia con una tesi sulla pittura di paesaggio statunitense; nel 2011 ha conseguito la Laurea magistrale in Storia della Civiltà Cristiana presso l’Università Europea di Roma. Attualmente continua a studiare il filone di indagine legato alla vita degli italiani in America e alla semiotica dell’arte.

“…The identity of the United States as “nation of hope” smoothed the way to their activity, but these important works can be correctly understood only in relation to the fundamental concept – defined by Mother Cabrini – of the inseparability of the Italian culture from its religious tradition.…”
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Mon Semblable, Mon Frère: Identity Needs, Imaginary, and Aesthetics in Marco and Antonio Manetti’s Diabolik Trilogy by Giorgio Busi Rizzi, Lorenzo Di Paola, Rodolfo Dal Canto

“…Diabolik has marked a decisive watershed in Italian culture and imagination. Confronting the way it tra- versed sixty years of Italian history allows us to examine the complex plot that links Italian comics to me- dial and socio-cultural changes. …”
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The spatial representation of the Blessed Mary in Italian poetry at the time of the Second Vatican Council by Magdalena Maria Kubas

“…Building on these considerations, the purpose of this article is to analyse recent Marian representations – both poetic and theological – in Italian culture. I will demonstrate that, during the 20th century in Italy, Marian sacrum was moved closer to or even inside interior space (I), as the Blessed Virgin started to appear mostly in scenes of daily life and her divine traits gradually lost importance. …”
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The Genetic Essence of Houses and People: History as Idealization and Appropriation of an Imagined Timelessness by Pierini Francesca

“…Within narratives centred on this notion, Italian culture, perceived as holding a privileged relation with history and the past, is often contrasted with the displacement and rootlessness that seem to characterize the modern places and people of England and North America. …”
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La musica corale nel Ventennio. Convergenze e intersezioni fra pedagogia, musicologia e musica d’arte by Alessandro Maras

“…While this is not the appropriate place to chronicle and evaluate the development of vocal polyphony instruction in Italian schools and academies during this period, nor its educational -or rather “re-educational2 function in the Fascist sense- within the “Opere nazionali,” it is fair to say that its impact on Italian culture was not negligible. By narrowing the focus of my research, I aim to highlight the role that this renewed attention to choral singing - in pedagogical, socio-cultural, and political terms - played within the musicological discourse and artistic compositional practice of the time. …”
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Traduzione, riscrittura e manipolazione ideologica: le ‘cover’ delle canzoni di Dylan negli anni ‘60 by Giuliana Elena Garzone

“…While in those days only a limited intellectual elite was seriously interested in such phenomena and in their political and artistic relevance, the record industry – then thriving – merely exploited them for the superficial appeal they could have on the public at large, at a time when a rising wave of juvenilism and xenophily was sweeping the still largely parochial scene of contemporary Italian culture. Against this background, this study discusses the main strategies adopted in the translation of Dylan’s texts into Italian, focusing on two among his most popular songs, “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “Rainy Day Women 12 & 35”, and shows that the translation evidently gives more consideration to the recipients’ tastes and to the record industry’s marketing strategies than to the original message, which is altered and deprived of its potentially subversive ideological value, an alteration also made possible by the failure to abide by copyright laws (Dylan’s authorship is not even acknowledge on record labels). …”
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Storia di un romanzo africano in Italia by Framattei, Linda

“…This study is aimed at offering a view on the history of L’Enfant noir in Italy, thus reconstructing the evolution Italian culture went through during the second half of the 20th century. …”
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COME L’ARTE PUÒ MOTIVARE L’INTERESSE PER APPRENDENTI DI LINGUA ITALIANA L2 by Antonietta Gobbis, Marco Paoli Legler

“…If appropriately chosen, works of art are remarkable stimuli to encourage and motivate use of authentic Italian, offering the students direct contact with Italian culture.…”
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Understanding Organised Space by Giorgio Liverani

“…This research does not want to be an historiographical analysis of the development of projects but rather a process of synthesis of the compositional thought of the architect and the influences deriving from the Italian culture context, whether explicit or documented, but also stemmed from personal experiences and architectures visited by Tavora during his travels to Italy. …”
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Lo stereotipo del Sud fra Otto e Novecento. Il caso della Sardegna by Maria Bonaria Urban

“…The Case of Sardinia   Following Italian unification, the North-South dichotomy which had for centuries been part of European tradition was reformulated in Italian culture, resulting in the definition of a homogeneous concept of the South and with it what is probably the most significant and persistent stereotype in the national collective imagination. …”
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Foodways, Campervans and the Terms of Mobility: Transnational Belonging, Home, and Heritage in the Narrative of “Sud Italia” by Georgia Wall

“…A range of analytical approaches have become concerned with food and drink in Italian culture: the importance of food industries in patterns of Italian migration and Italy’s economy, the recurrence of the Mediterranean diet in public health debates, the emotive value attached to foodways, and their role in constructing subjectivity are all recognized as fertile terrain for research. …”
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The recent global financial crisis that began in the US and spread sporadically to other parts of the world has been a sort of awakening that financial stability of financial insti... by Paolo Pietro Biancone, Mohammad Ziad Shakhatreh

“…The study concentrates on exploring the Italian laws that are resembled to Shariah principle in order to make it more acceptable for the Italian culture. The study concludes that using Islamic finance can be used to finance infrastructure projects by using existing laws and regulations. …”
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Self-perception of parental role, family functioning and familistic beliefs in Italian parents: early evidence by Elisa eDelvecchio, Daniela eDi Riso, Silvia eSalcuni

“…These results introduce important implications for family studies in Italian culture, and open to comparison with parenting in other cultures.…”
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“OH, MIO CARO FRATELLO DI LATTE” – PAOLO MAZZOLENI AND NICCOLÒ TOMMASEO by Boško Knežić

“…The articles also bear witness to the change of attitude towards Tommaseo which was conditioned first of all by the sudden political turmoil on the cultural and political scene in Dalmatia, starting with the dominant position of Italian culture and language in the last decade of the 19th century, through the raising of the Croatian national awareness at the beginning of the previous century, until the break out of the First World War and the role Italy and Dalmatian Italians had in it. …”
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The fragments of impegno : interpretations of commitment in contemporary Italian narrative, 1980-1995 by Burns, J

“…I conclude by considering the specificity of these 'fragments' to Italian culture, within the general context of the postmodern lapse of faith in ideologies.…”

THE FOURTH COLONY OF ITALIAN IMMIGRATION: A CULTURAL LANDSCAPE IN THE CENTRAL REGION OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL. A Quarta Colônia de imigração italiana: uma paisagem cultural na região c... by Vanessa Manfio

“…As the landscape of the region of the fourth colony of Italian immigration, located in the central region of Rio Grande do Sul and colonized by Italian immigrants, who in addition to the beautiful natural forms of relief has materialized on the Italian culture, artifacts that identify the region as: the colonial houses, monuments of Italian colonisation between others. …”
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Italian Version of the YQOL-DHH Questionnaire: Translation and Cross-cultural Adaptation by Manuela Gragnaniello ST, Claudia Celletti MD, PhD, Alessandra Resca ST, Giovanni Galeoto PT, PhD, Filippo Camerota MD

“…The translated items were pertinent to the Italian culture and equivalent to the original ones. A validation study is suggested to make the instrument feasible for use in different clinical or educational contexts. …”
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