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Sicily. Dialect of Pietraperzia (Caltanissetta), spoken by Salvatore Martorano: Ph 2943 [CD 1: 4]
2019
This article is a part of Volume and Series 17-6 of “Recordings from Prisoner-of-War Camps, World War I. Italian Recordings”, edited by Christian Liebl and Gerda Lechleitner, and published by VÖAW. A s far as the description of the entire work is concerned, Series 17/1–6 is a commented source edition of sound documents featuring prisoners of war from World War I. The collection, compiled by various scholars in cooperation with the Phonogrammarchiv of Wien, comprises 250 language and music recordings. State-of-the-art re-recording and special signal processing, together with the expertise in handling historical sound documents, form the basis for processing and making these unique sources ac…
Sulla trincea di quei giorni. Su AA. VV., Italo Pietra
2012
About Italo Pietra’s life and role during the war.
Presi in una rete di sventure, con riscatto
2019
About "True Heart" By Sylvia Townsend Warner
Alcune figure della diserzione nell'opera di Pavese
2022
Deserting Characters in Pavese’s Work ∙ Pavese’s experience of World War ii has been widely controversial. Anti-fascist without joining the Italian Resistance, Pavese reimagines his nonparticipation to the confict across several of his post-1945 works. The essay ofers a thematic reading on deserting fgures in some poems from La terra e la morte, in I due (included in Dialogues with Leucò), in the novel The House on the Hill. The reading brings out the torn and evolving development of the issue of deserting in Pavese’s oeuvre.
Donne-gufo: resistenze e metamorfosi
2010
Review of Filosofi dinnanzi alla Grande Guerra, 1914-1918
2017
review of the work edited by Francesco Ghia – Massimo Giuliani Filosofi dinnanzi alla Grande Guerra, 1914-1918, monographic issue in the journal «Humanitas», 70, 6/2015: a collection that aims to offer a diversified sample of impressions and reflections at the turn of the World War I, problematizing the instances of intellectual militancy in time of conflict.
Islam politico e Guerra fredda: alternative islamiste in Iraq e Libano (1967-1991)
2019
This article seeks to evaluate the impact of Cold War strategies and superpowers initiative in the Middle East with a particular reference on the evolution of political Islam. Based on a storiographical analysis, the article also focuses its attention on two particular cases of the Shia social and political thought (the Lebanese Hezbollah and Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr writings) in order to show how these two particular expressions of the Islamic political thought have been influenced by the Cold War and what was their positioning in this regards. In the first paragraph a particular attention is dedicated to the applicability of Cold War paradigm to the Middle East and in this sense, by using H…
La corda calata dal cielo: l’importanza del dettaglio nell’esperienza narrativa di Aḥmad Bašīr al-‘Aylah
2023
Aḥmad Bašīr al-‘Aylah is one of the most prolific and versatile authors of Contemporary Palestinian literary landscape. He is probably best known for his poetical collections, but he is also a journalist, a novelist, a script editor, a radio producer and a short story writer. In 2016 he published his first short story collection entitled Al-ḥabl allaḏī tadallà min al-samā’ (The rope hanging from the sky), that has never been translated into European languages. The stories included in this work are mainly set in Benghazi, which is the city where the author lives since he was a child, and they focus on the tragedy of war and its disasters, first of all the loss and destruction of houses and b…
Una Nueva Planta nella Sicilia di Filippo V: riforme militari per la “conservazione” e la difesa del Regno
2019
In 1701, in the aftermath of the ascension to the Spanish throne, Philip V began to design political and military reforms aimed at making administration more efficient and rationalizing the bureaucratic apparatus. This process had significant repercussions in the balance between the central power and representatives of local political powers who, in the delicate conjuncture of the War of Succession, redefined their participation within the Monarchy. This also happened in Sicily, where a large corpus of reform was directed to modify the island's defensive structure so as to guarantee the "conservation" of the kingdom and protect it from external and internal enemies, who worked jointly in su…
“Come se non si fosse cambiato padrone”. Il regno di Sicilia dagli Asburgo ai Borbone, tra politica internazionale e dinamiche locali (1700-1703)
2019
The death of Charles II of Habsburg and the designation of Philip of Anjou as the legitimate heir caused - in any territory belonging to the Spanish monarchy - the definition of new political languages and the creation of new networks of political and social relationships. This happened also in the kingdom of Sicily, where the internal and international dynamics were strictly connected. In this context, the role played by the island was not passive, but allowed – respecting the hierarchies of power – to build networks of relationships, to achieve specific goals and to rethink the participation of the Kingdom within the larger context of Spanish monarchy. The paper aims to highlight as well …