2025-10-29
Maria Vardalà
Two years after she passed away in 1466, Isotta Nogarola was praised in a long eulogy by the famous humanist Giovanni Mario Filelfo (1426–1480). Filelfo, who was at the time in Verona, dedicated to Isotta's brother Ludovico Nogarola a eulogy related to her life, portraying her as a poet and as a marvellous woman who refused to be married and embraced the humanist studies. The article explores the eulogy's content and the significance of its words by proposing a translation of the Latin text and by adding a commentary to certain lyrics of it. Filelfo managed to describe Isotta's life and advancement in the literary world in a vivid way, drawing inspiration on her private correspondence and the fame that was following her name. Filelfo's dedicatory work consists of a poem written in hexameters and of two sonnets written in the Italian of the time where he also praises Isotta's virtues.
2025-10-29
Adriana Lastičová
Reviewed work: Álvarez Álvarez, Susana. La traducción y la formación de traductores en entornos digitales: retos, competencias y estrategias. Granada: Comares, 2024. xiii, 179 p. ISBN 978-84-1369-769-7.
2025-10-29
Leonor Sáez Méndez
Angela Nikoletti, Sabine Gruber, Lili Gruber and Francesca Melandri analyse the context of violence, deceit and neglect in the annexation of South Tyrol. We analyse their denunciations of the greed of the Italian, Austrian and German governments and reflect on the structures of resilience in relation to hope. We look at the topicality of these colonially nuanced events in geopolitical power games. We focus on how literature written by women is a medium for purposeful reflection.
2025-10-29
Matteo Pupillo
This paper offers an analysis of "O Vinho", a short story from Miguel Torga's Contos da Montanha, through the lens of Freudian psychoanalysis and Bachelardian imagery. Focusing on the inner monologue of a drunken man torn between elation and despair, the study highlights the wine's ambivalent role as both a source of sensorial euphoria and a trigger for existential confrontation. The narrative unfolds in three phases – unconscious, preconscious, conscious – marked by contrasting images in both landscape and psyche. The article thus reveals a tragic and intense short story in which human subjectivity oscillates between impulses and repression, light and darkness, within a dialectic of euphoria and dysphoria.
2025-10-29
José García Fernández
Philogynist treatises played a decisive role in the Italian Renaissance. Despite being overlooked by literary critics, these contributions are now widely recognized for their early advocacy of women's equality in the 16th century. This article examines Dell'economia o vero del governo della casa (1555), a seminal work authored by Antonio della Pagliara that sought to introduce structural reforms in support of female parity in 16th century Tuscan society. The process of translating this piece of work into Spanish has presented a number of difficulties, with the rendering of archaisms being the main philological challenge faced by the translator of the original work. Attention is thus focused on the hurdles that arise from the linguistic interpretation of archaic structures and diachronic Italian expressions, presenting contrasting examples and well-reasoned arguments to support the translation decisions made in the target text.
2025-10-29
Milagro Martín Clavijo
This article analyzes the collective work Le dieci paradosse (1564) published by the Accademia degli Intronati of Siena and how it deals directly or indirectly, but insistently, with issues related to women, especially in the field of love, through paradox and play. This perspective, apparently ludic and uncompromising, reveals a critical and defiant attitude towards the most widespread conventions and trends in Italian Renaissance society and literature, which results in the creation of an alternative space not only for the intellectuals, but also for women. Although it is a space located on the margins of everyday life, it allows women to project themselves in society in a freer way, with greater dignity, with a voice of their own, and to approach non-canonical forms of behavior.
2025-10-29
Javier Soto Zaragoza
Building upon the research proposal by Emilio de Miguel Martínez in his pioneering and now classic book, Joaquín Sabina. Concierto privado (2008), this article examines the poetic craft of the Spanish singer-songwriter in one of the fundamental elements of contemporary popular song: the chorus. After acknowledging the generally high regard for Sabina's choruses, they are observed from various perspectives in order to account for their heterogeneity. To this end, attention is paid to the frequency with which they appear both in his songbook and in his songs; to their typographic marking; to their length; to their location in the lyrics; to their narrative, semantic, syntactic and metric continuity; to their function of condensing the meaning of the lyrics; and to their variability.
2025-10-29
Spiros Koutrakis
On 1589 Hercules Philogenius wrote a speech entitled Dell'eccellenza della donna with the dual objective of praising female virtues and at the same time preserving women from the reproach manifested by the hegemonic machismo of his time, thus deserving a place in the Querelle des femmes. He chose to dedicate his writing to Flavia Peretti Orsina, a distinguished woman of her time, who thanks to her innovative spirit and her most varied interests contributed to the social advancement. The author arrived at two Conclusions, that the Woman is superior and more excellent than the Man in many respects but above all in the acuteness of her intellect, and that the Woman is neither inferior nor less excellent than the Man. In support of the opinions expressed, he develops all the necessary arguments in the pages of the treatise.
2025-10-29
Miguel Carrera Garrido
Spanish research on the fantastic has not always shown interest in delving into the ideological aspects of the works under study. This attitude has changed significantly in recent times, due to the increasingly evident and militant presence of socio-political concerns in the works belonging to the different unrealistic or non-mimetic genres. In this study we focus on the fiction by Santiago Eximeno, one of the most imaginative authors of the current narrative scene, concerned, at the same time, to contemporary issues. Specifically, we analyze the story "Desahuciada", focused — at least in principle — on the drama of the evictions as a consequence of the economic crisis that began in 2008. As we will see, its writing hides a most original and effective twist.
2025-10-29
María Mascarell García
Luigi Dardano (1429–1511) is presented as one of the pioneering writers in the writing of works in defense of the female sex during the Women's Quarrel in Italy. Although La bella e dotta difesa delle donne was published posthumously in 1554, with a series of modifications and revisions made by his grandson Ippolito Dardano, the manuscript version dates from between 1507 and 1508. The aim of this article is to analyze the existing variants between the two versions from a philological and genre studies perspective, as well as to launch a new hypothesis regarding Ippolito Dardano's censorship of some parts of the text, such as the introduction and an eighth book, both present in the manuscript and absent in the printed version.
2025-10-29
Miriam Bucuré
The present paper will highlight the arguments Ortensio Lando used to praise or mock women, explaning what resources he employed to discredit or exalt certain female figures of his time. The study is based on the careful and in-depth observation of the work entitled Una breve prattica di medicina per sanare le passioni dell'animo, by focusing both in the close study of the socio-cultural aspects of the author's time, albeit briefly, and in the analysis of the structural configuration of the text. Some names of the women who enjoyed Lando's great admiration and the author's works in which they appear will also be mentioned. The article concludes with the transcription of two pieces of advice that once again emphasise Lando's ambivalent 'game' of opposites.
2025-10-29
Giuliana Antonella Giacobbe
This article aims at an initial analysis of Prodicogine Filarete's La difesa delle donne. Published in Padua in 1588, it is a literary reaction against Onofrio Filiriaco's Vera narratione delle operationi delle donne. The methodology of the work brings together cultural and philological studies from a gender perspective, to show that Filarete's text constituted a document of social denunciation within the Querelle des femmes of the 16th century. A literary introduction is presented that serves to contextualise the work, followed by an analysis of the text, highlighting the philogynistic arguments of Prodicogine Filarete, in such a way as to contribute to the studies carried out previously and suggest new research itineraries.
2025-10-29
Francisco Jose Rodríguez Mesa
2025-10-29
Outhman Boutisane, Adil Boudiab
Silence is one of the most recurring themes in literature. Taking on various forms and meanings, it asserts itself as a key element of literary discourse due to its ability to reveal complex realities that transcend language. Authors such as Albert Camus, Annie Ernaux, and Patrick Modiano have made unspoken words a powerful means of conveying human experiences that cannot be expressed through simple words. The works of Leïla Slimani and Atiq Rahimi belong to a literary tradition that grants silence a distinctive place. In both authors' writings, silence is often associated with concealed suffering and plays a fundamental role in exploring psychological and social tensions. Therefore, in this contribution, we will examine the various issues related to the writing of silence in Slimani and Rahimi's novels Chanson douce and Syngué Sabour.
2025-10-29
Roberto Mulinacci
As part of a larger research project aimed - in the wake of Tarallo's original and fruitful insight - at reconstructing the history of the emergence of Brazilian Portuguese through the production of grammatical compendia of the Portuguese language published both in Brazil and abroad, this paper focuses specifically on the earliest, tentative signs of Brazilian variants within Italian grammatical works. Drawing on three grammars of the so-called "Portuguese-Brazilian" language published in Italy during the first half of the 20th century, the analysis presented here does not limit itself to looking at the phenomena that appear to be gradually – and at times almost unconsciously - shaping a distinct Brazilian Portuguese still in its embryonic form, but also considers these features in light of how they were described in various grammatical and linguistic studies produced in Brazil, both before and after the Italian texts. In doing so, it contributes indirectly and retrospectively to an unexpected and, in certain respects, illuminating dialogue between past and present understandings of this linguistic variety.