In Praise of Illusions: Giacomo Leopardi‘s Ultraphilosophy by Geir Sigurðsson, Geir Sigurðsson, Geir Sigurðsson

“…Judging from his most prominent works, the Italian poet and writer Giacomo Leopardi (1898-1937) may seem to have been a rather isolated proponent of classical thinking in his backward Recanati during Europe‘s powerful thrust to modernity. …”
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Il suicidio di Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) by Giovanna Armellin Secchi

“…Cesare Pavese( 1908-50), Italian poet and novelist. He also translated the writings of numerous Americans into Italian and wrote Iiterary criticismo His anti-Fascist writings led to his imprisonment, which in tum led to his creative writing. …”
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Ancient Latin epics in Girolamo Vida's Christiad by Cianciosi, S

“…<p>The topic of this thesis is the influence of ancient Latin epics on the Christiad, a Neo-Latin epic poem published in 1535 in Cremona and written by an Italian poet and Catholic bishop, Girolamo Vida (circa 1485-1566).…”

Cándido María Trigueros, traductor de Metastasio y suversión castellana inédita de Endimione by Cristina BARBOLANI

“…The learned translator’s admiration for the renowned Italian poet, whose production he knew very well, is paralleled by the indubitable ideological affinity between them, with a clearly moderate tendency within the Age of Enlightenment. …”
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Cándido María Trigueros, traductor de Metastasio y suversión castellana inédita de Endimione by Cristina BARBOLANI

“…The learned translator’s admiration for the renowned Italian poet, whose production he knew very well, is paralleled by the indubitable ideological affinity between them, with a clearly moderate tendency within the Age of Enlightenment. …”
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'Maschera della maschera': le traduzioni dall'anglo-americano di Giovanni Giudici (anni 1950-1960) by Franco, T

“… <p>My thesis focuses on the Italian poet Giovanni Giudici (1924-2011) and specifically on his activity as a translator from Anglo-American poetry, during the decade 1950-1960. …”

JOHN DONNEʼS “THE ANNIVERSARIES” AS PETRARCHAN TEXTS by Mariana V. Markova.

“…At the same time, John Donne significantly expanded the semantic volume of the borrowed Petrarchan elements, and even those which were only barely outlined in the works of the Italian poet himself, acquired additional details (for example, the comparison of Elizabeth with the state) and scale (pictures of the soul’s afterlife journey through the heavenly spheres) in the English writerʼs texts. …”
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Ancora su Hölderlin e gli scrittori di lingua italiana (da Giosue Carducci a Fabio Pusterla). In appendice: Giosue Carducci: [Achille]. Ms. Casa Carducci, Bologna, Cart. II, 56, 1r... by Giovanna Cordibella

“…A discussion of the long-term “Hölderlinism” of Italian poets, starting from Vigolo’s essay on Hölderlin and the music (1966), moving back to Carducci’s translations, with a critical edition of his version of Hölderlin’s Achill (1874, see the leaf reproduced in the appendix), and concluding with a look at later Italian poets up to Pusterla (2004).…”
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The Effects of Information Technology on Contemporary Italian Poetry by Filippo Milani

“…The aim of this paper is to investigate the different ways in which the contemporary italian poets approach the inevitable interference between poetry and Web in the age of global communication. …”
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«Im Kunstwerk lerne das Leben». Tradurre Hölderlin al tempo dell’ermetismo by Marco Menicacci

“…The linguistic texture of the original, as well as peculiar philological and exegetical problems, forced the translators to reconceive their own definitions of poetry and style, and encouraged them to find new formal solutions which proved highly influential for contemporary Italian poets and intellectuals.…”
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Dante, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Their Verbal/Visual Personae by Paola Spinozzi

“…The New Life (La Vita Nuova), published in The Early Italian Poets from Ciullo D’Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300) (1847-48, published 1861) and the innumerable sketches, drawings, and paintings he dedicated to Dante generate connections between two different epochs and cultural areas. …”
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« Tuttor ch’eo dirò “gioi” ». La « joie » appellatif de la dame dans la lyrique romane médiévale by Federico Saviotti

“…The analysis of the occurrences in the Troubadours’, Trouveres’ and Italian poets’ corpora allows to formulated an hypothesis about the evolution of his poetic function: from a proper pseudonym to a generic expression whose success is witnessed by its persistence in nowadays common language.…”
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La «melodia selvaggia» della Natura by Massia, Federica

“… The article aims at verifying how Gabriele d’Annunzio’s idea of the correspondence between poetry and nature has influenced many Italian poets at the beginning of the 20th century, with particular regard to their choice of the free verse. …”
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Divided Mediterranean, Divided World: The Influence of Arabic on Medieval Italian Poetry by Samar Attar

“…Divided Mediterranean, Divided World: The Influence of Arabic on Medieval Italian Poetry describes the significant role played by Arabic and Islamic poetry, legends, tales, and philosophy on major Italian poets in the Middle Ages in spite of the denial of some of the poets themselves of such an influence. …”
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La presencia de los poetas españoles en los textos de la polemica en torno a Góngora by Juan Matas Caballero

“…I have tried to find out which Spanish authors were the most quoted in those texts, what their role was in the debate about the classics and the Italian poets, and which precise aspects of the debate gave birth to the said allusions. …”
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