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Tra dolore e poesia: Catullo, il fratello e l'Usignolo della Daulide
2002
Sugli aspetti metaletterari della metafora dell'usignolo nel carme 65 di Catullo. On the metaliterary aspects of the nightingale metaphor in Catullus' c. 65.
Il mito di Procne nel corpus tragico senecano: threnos, teatro, metateatro
2006
The metaphor of the nightingale, connected with the myth of Procne and Philomela, in Seneca's tragedies.
Procne e Filomela. Dal mito al simbolo letterario
2005
Una monografia sulla saga di Procne e Filomela da Omero a Ovidio, esaminata in primo luogo dal punto di vista mitografico, nello sviluppo delle diverse versioni del mito, quindi da quello metaletterario, in relazione alla metafora del poeta-usignolo e al suo percorso dalla letteratura greca arcaica alla letteratura latina di età augustea A monograph on the saga of Procne and Philomela from Homer to Ovid, surveyed first from a mythological point of view - taking into account the development of the myth's different versions -, then from a metaliterary one, following the path of the poet-nightingale metaphor from archaic Greek literature to augustan Latin literature.
Florence Nightingale as a Victorian career woman
2016
The chapter focuses on the role of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) in turning nursing into a trained profession and a viable and respectable career option for Victorian women seeking employment outside of the home. Nightingale's accomplishments and her thoughts on women's lot in life as expressed in her essay "Cassandra", are presented against the backdrop of the ideology of separate spheres which circumscribes women within the domestic domain. The chapter discusses Nightingale's work in British military field hospitals during the Crimean War, her successful efforts to reform the ways in which such hospitals were run, and the establishment of the Nightingale School and Home for Nurses and …