At Guardia Sanframondi(BN), every seven years, the Madonna Assunta is celebrated with a very complex religious ritual that “stages” the corporal mortification of penitents; the immobile bodies of the figures ...

This article presents an English translation of an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, explaining the background to the play and its writer, the Congolese novelist and playwright, Sony Labou Tansi. Best known in the West for ...

Translation and interpretation may be all that are needed to break the bulwark surrounding meanings of folktales in some remote cultures. Using a combination of Peircean’s semiotic objects, representamen and interpretant; ...

In 1933-34, the Bloomsbury Group painters Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell honored twelve actresses and dancers from XVIIto XXcentury in The Famous Women Dinner Service, the Wedgewood dinner set which was one of Bell and ...

This work (divided in two parts) looks at Walter Siti’s Il contagiofrom an anthropological perspective. Throughout the reading of Amselle, Augéand Lévi-Strauss a new way of reading one of the most ...

This essay analyzes some letters that Michel Vâlsan, the main follower of René Guénon’s work, addressed to the scholar Philippe Guiberteau in the late 1950s in order to illustrate the presence of a doctrine of the multiple ...

This study offers a translation analysis of the linguistic and cultural aspects of the theatrical work of Tirso de Molina Don Gil da las calzas verdes by comparing the Spanish version of the author of the siglo de oro with ...

The paper focuses on the complex interpretative question of an unusual medieval fresco, perhaps a unique example in the history of western art, located in a room of the surviving structure of the Church of S.Paolo in ...

Continuing an acclaimed literary tradition, ranging from the anti-historical and humorous novels by de Roberto and Pirandello, to Brancati’s Baroque-styled moralism, until Sciascia, Andrea Camilleri elevates the ...