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35 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 3,147 Italian Fascism and Post-war Society papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • Surprisingly, the post-1989 reception of her translations has been limited to the reissue of only two titles: Principele by Machiavelli and Asupra iubirii or Banchetul lui Platon by Marsilio Ficino.

    LA FORTUNA DELLE TRADUZIONI DI NINA FAÇON · 2026 · DOI
  • In 2023, thanks to the Rakow Grant, I was able to broaden my scope beyond Murano to glassware producers throughout Italy, which, in the shadow of the fame of Venetian glass, have rarely been studied.

    The Italian Glassware Industry during the Fascist Regime · 2025 · DOI
  • Although she was a successful author and a Nobel Prize winner (1926), she is little known and little studied, especially when compared with the other Nobel laureates, in particular male ones.

    Le “pagine sempre mediocri” di un premio Nobel per la letteratura. Excursus nella critica deleddiana del suo tempo · 2024 · DOI
  • US researchers, also owing to American exceptionalism, were scarcely interested in history, and they preferred to focus on the present interaction between attitudes, environment, and the inner world.

    US Social scientists of the 1950s in the Mezzogiorno and Ernesto de Martino: Two divergent approaches to history and development · 2022 · DOI
  • Despite their status as major fixtures in the American literary canon, Edith Wharton (1862–1937) and Willa Cather (1873–1947) are rarely examined together.

    Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the Place of Culture by Julie Olin-Ammentorp · 2021 · DOI
  • This article focuses on an under-researched aspect of William Faulkner’s Italian publishing history, the publication of his collected works – the Opera Omnia – conceived by the author himself and Fernanda Pivano, his Italian editor at Mondadori, in 1955.

    Faulkner <i>Vincit Omnia</i>: The Doing and Undoing of the Mondadori Edition of William Faulkner’s Collected Works · 2021 · DOI
  • While the authors’ choice to recreate the migrant’s perspective through fiction can be read as a strategy to re-humanise the protagonists of these journeys, I argue that such borrowing of the migrant’s story from a non-autobiographical, external viewpoint simultaneously risks further disempowering and silencing them, raising a number of ethical questions on authorship and advocacy whose implications, in literature as in other contemporary media, still remain to be urgently addressed.

    Borrowed voices: narrating the migrant’s story in contemporary European literature between advocacy, silence and ventriloquism · 2019 · DOI
  • This article traces the development of the feminist or, more specifically, ‘feminine’ thought of Amalia Guglielminetti (1881–1941), which was not fully understood by her contemporaries and critics but which, on closer inspection, coincides with early emblematic steps towards future emancipation.

    ‘La mia persona m’appartiene, io posso disporne come voglio’. L’orgoglio femminile nell’opera di Amalia Guglielminetti · 2018 · DOI
  • Each major work is analyzed on basis of alibi motif which enables Morante not only to disclose her vision and facets of her personality, but also allows her to remain elusive, like mysterious Sheherezade wrapped in veil of fiction and narrative lies that intend simultaneously to reveal and hide universal and poetic truths.

    Contemporary Women Writers in Italy: A Modern Renaissance // Review · 1994
  • 6, ’Commenti del Signor X’, contains many of the original transcripts used by the announcer, who still remains unknown. For within the puppet regime set up at Salo-the so-called Italian Social Republic-both the technical transmitting facilities and the authority to use them were severely limited by the Germans. 1I7 The subjects and themes of wartime broadcasts varied widely, concerning every aspect of the Italian war effort.

    The Radio in Fascist Italy · 1972 · DOI
  • ’ Many critics insisted that Deledda’s Sardinia, little known on the ‘Continent’ at the time, enjoyed considerable success precisely because of its ‘exotic’ quality.

    Le “pagine sempre mediocri” di un premio Nobel per la letteratura. Excursus nella critica deleddiana del suo tempo · 2024 · DOI
  • Through his accounts and various written reports, Coposu reveals insights into private discussions he had with Maniu—some of which were little known at the time and remain so even today.

    Iuliu Maniu, de la Carol al II-lea la Ion Antonescu(Din textele lui Corneliu Coposu: jurnal, confesiuni, conferințe) · 2024 · DOI
  • While the study of social movements and collective memory has grown considerably in the last decades, the study of repertoires remains largely under-researched in this field.

    Repertoires of action and collective memory: the re-emergence of feminist self-managed health centers in Italy · 2024 · DOI
  • Based on understudied diplomatic, colonial, and police records, this research aims at analyzing the attempts of an international working-class movement in a hierarchical colonial situation also through Italian, French, and Tunisian sources.

    Tunis in the Global Radical Web: Diasporas, Transnational Anarchism, and Labor Movements (1887–1912) · 2023 · DOI
  • These are conditions offering the opportunity to address unexplored topics and explore open questions, with particular reference to the growing ethnic stratification of Italian society, on the one hand, and to the role that the crises have had in modifying the consolidated structures, on the other.

    Migrazioni e disuguaglianze sociali nel mercato del lavoro italiano · 2023 · DOI
  • Specifically, it focuses on the presence of Esso oil company branding, frequently featured in Italian films from the 1950s and 1960s that centre depictions of feminised labour, including but not limited to the sale of sex.

    Interrogating the Esso Insignia: Feminised Labour Depictions and the Economic Boom · 2022 · DOI
  • Bureaucratic records contained in the municipal archives of these cities shed light on the dynamics of both urban disease management in the early nineteenth century and the interactions between Jews and Christians during this relatively understudied period of Italian history.

    Outsiders on the Inside: Italian Jewish Ghettos and Cholera in the 1830s · 2019 · DOI
  • The study is not limited to the works of writers who experienced the war themselves but also includes novels of subsequent generations, which allows us to analyse the changes which these memories have undergone over the decades.

    ‘Spain in our hearts’ · 2018 · DOI
  • Although scholars have long established the influence of the meridionalisti on Verga's verismo, the way in which he breaks from the basic pattern of their moral imaginary has not been explored.

    The liberal imagination of Giovanni Verga: <i>verismo</i> as moral realism · 2017 · DOI
  • Robinson was actually a Romanian Jew, born Emmanuel Goldenberg in Bucharest, in 1893, a relatively little known fact nowadays.

    A Romanian Jew in Hollywood: Edward G. Robinson · 2014 · DOI
  • Yet Infante's posthumous fame as an avatar of intercultural tolerance masks two understudied aspects of his work and its afterlife: his repudiation of Catalan nationalism and his influence on the discourse of Spanish colonialism in Morocco.

    “In Andalucía, there are no foreigners”:<i>andalucismo</i>from transperipheral critique to colonial apology · 2014 · DOI
  • To date, their testimonies have not been reported in any historical work, nor have they aroused any interest in cultural institutions responsible for safeguarding the memory of the crimes and persecutions during the fascist regime.

    The internment of Italian Sinti in the province of Modena during fascism: From ethnographic to archival research · 2013 · DOI
  • The persecution and internment of Gypsies in Fascist Italy is still a topic that has not been addressed either at a historical level or at a political one.

    The internment of Italian Sinti in the province of Modena during fascism: From ethnographic to archival research · 2013 · DOI
  • While much of her vast literary, scholarly and journalistic output, remains to be studied in full, her travel writing from years in exile in the East has been of particular interest to recent readers.

    CRISTINA DI BELGIOJOSO: SCHOLAR IN EXILE · 2013 · DOI
  • Although the topic itself is appealing and intellectually stimulating, the relationship between the Czech Catholic Church and Fascism has not been systematically studied and analyzed yet.

    Osobnost Benita Mussoliniho a obraz italského fašismu v českém katolickém prostředí v kontextu první republiky · 2012

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