Caleidoscopio. Revista de Italianistica de ADILLI

Las voces contemporáneas en la lengua y en la literatura italianas se hacen escuchar

Elena Victoria Acevedo, Gonzalo Javier Arzuaga — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 14:23:27 +0000

Nota editorial

La Italianística en Argentina (1985-2024)

Adriana Cristina Crolla — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 13:05:30 +0000

In Argentina, many important politicians and intellectuals, aided by important developments in the editorial market, contributed during the 19th and the 20th centuries to the study and the circulation of Italian language and literature. The institutionalized study of Italian started in 1896 with the first Italian course in the Dante Alighieri institute in Buenos Aires. At university level, the first Italian Literature course was taught at Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1898. The creation of ADILLI (Spanish for Association of Italian Language and Literature Scholars) constitutes an important landmark. This association organizes yearly scholarly exchanges, summons meetings and publishes research results. This paper attempts to commemorate these first 40 years in the history of ADILLI and reflect about its possible future.

Sciascia, scrittore «civile», e il giallo

Elvio Guagnini — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 14:09:57 +0000

Sciascia was a reader of detective novels since his adolescence. Critical towards any aspects of entertainment of this gendre, he was an attentive connoisseur, disenchanted, sometimes polemical. Sciascia was interested in some great writers, among others Simenon, Dürrenmatt, Gadda. He has written essays and notes about several authors of mystery literature. These works are interesting o to understand and to explain the nature of his books and his choices as a writer.
From Il Giorno della civetta [The day of the owl] (1961), to Una storia semplice [A simple story] (1989; the year of his death), Sciascia has utilized the detective story in different ways, also for critique or parody, to represent the mechanisms of the Mafia, the collusions between Mafia and power, the metamorphosis of the organized criminal activities, the involvement (in these activities) of powerful figures of the establishment.
Sciascia has written narrative pages of high and relevant testimonial value, which reveal the ambiguity and the violences to justice, developed between rules and parody, truth and fiction, reality and imagination, always supported by a deep civil conscience, very far from any spirit of compromise.

Mafia e media nei libri di testo di italiano

María Soledad Balsas — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 13:38:42 +0000

I libri di testo per imparare l’italiano da lingua straniera divengono in uno spazio privilegiato per disputare le immagini associate sia alla mafia che all’antimafia, soprattutto fuori dall’Italia. Il presente contributo è mirato a riflettere criticamente sul ruolo strategico che l’industria editoriale potrebbe svolgere nella formazione di un’opinione pubblica informata in contesti come quello argentino, in cui le informazioni affidabili sulle mafie sono ancora scarse. Riscontrando che quello della mafia è un argomento piuttosto recente nelle proposte editoriali, che viene presentato come un prodotto siciliano quando non direttamente italo-statunitense, il cui racconto è principalmente elaborato attraverso il cinema, il quadro teorico-metodologico della media education risulta utile in questa sede, per analizzare il rapporto tra mafie e media che i testi veicolano.

El monólogo interior en Fuoco infinito. Tiepolo 1917 de Melania Mazzucco

Liliana Swiderski — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 14:20:20 +0000

Fuoco infinito. Tiepolo 1917 by Melania Mazzucco (Rome, 1966) presents two parallel and related narrative lines: on one hand, the biography of the great Baroque painter; on the other, the experiences of Nilo Boschini, an art history professor assigned to the preservation of artistic heritage during World War I. Concurrently, the narrator changes: Nilo’s interior monologues, aimed at reconstructing Tiepolo’s life through certainties, questions, and hypotheses, appear in the sections titled Cose che so di lui; while his experiences during the war are narrated by a third person in interspersed sections. The characteristics of the interior monologue in the novel will be examined, especially in relation to time, deixis and syntax; as well as its use in supporting biographical writing, ekphrasis and art criticism.

Bibliofilia, mundos posibles y umbrales en La memoria vegetal de Umberto Eco

Elena Victoria Acevedo — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 13:18:59 +0000

Mineral, plant and virtual memory; the future of the book, human communication, the extinction of planet Earth and the thresholds are concerns that Umberto Eco develops in his book La memoria vegetale e altri scritti di bibliofilia. This work reflects on these themes which are linked to fictional worlds that disturb the notion of “real world” that we have built.

Antichi naviganti e pastori erranti

Luca Marzolla — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The reception of Italo Calvino's novel Mr. Palomar in the Spanish-speaking context is mediated by a single translation, used by all editions, in which a reference to Giacomo Leopardi's Night Song Of A Wandering Shepherd In Asia, originally included in the chapter The Contemplation of the Stars, is lost. The present work points out this loss, examining how this is not a somewhat secondary or insignificant reference, but, on the contrary, an allusion that positions Calvino's text within a literary tradition concerning the topos of the contemplation of the celestial vault. The reference to the "ancient navigators" and to the "wandering shepherds" presumes two different ways of relating to the observation of the sky, in a sort of tripartite movement of which Palomar occupies the last step, that of the contemporary urban man, for whom the contemplation of the stars no longer implies serenity and orientation, but, on the contrary, lack of understanding, insecurity and bewilderment.

The most beloved journey

Daniel Del Percio — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 13:33:34 +0000

Variaciones sobre el fin

Federico Gonzalo Ferroggiaro — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 13:32:17 +0000

Se presenta una reseña de la traducción del libro de Guido Morselli: Dissipatio H.G.

La cura della pioggia

Nancy Leonor Osorio — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 13:31:00 +0000

Review of La cura della pioggia, by Emiliano Cribari (2023). Portogruaro: Edicycle

Arte y maquinación: tras las bambalinas de Bernini

Carolina Sager — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 13:29:48 +0000

Reseña de La comedia de las máquinas (o una comedia sin nombre). Traducción al español de la comedia Fontana di Trevi. Estudio preliminar, traducción, notas y apéndice documental de Nora Sforza.
Autor: Gian Lorenzo Bernini

La palabra deseada

Facundo Martínez Cantariño — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 14:15:14 +0000

Reseña de La palabra deseada: La Divina comedia en el mundo contemporáneo de Mariano Pérez Carrasco.