In this work, Guarino reports the adventure of a personal night, looking around for a Presence, a light who eventually will come to save him and bring him away from the darkness. The author try to escape from this sense ...

The influence of Machiavelli on Early Modern British drama is quite obvious. The character named after him haunts the stage in different forms. Despite the official ban enacted by ecclesiastical and secular authorities ...

In Giorgio Strehler’s brechtian itinerary, Saint Joan of the Slaughterhouses is one of the most controversial production and even less known. Brecht wrote the play in 1929 to expose the evil and contradictory gears of ...

The present study offers an overview of recurring themes and images in the work of Vittorio Sereni. Through the various poetic collections, he tries to dialogue with the past and with the present, to experiment without ...

Partiranno is a singular novel within the unique literary biography of Luce d’Eramo. It is her most beloved novel, a science fiction, but also a police thriller and a spy story. The writer mixes differtent literary genres, ...

The essay reconstructs the many journeys made by Ennio Flaiano in his life, analyzing the desires of this little-remembered writer, author of about 60 films including some masterpieces directed by Federico Fellini, until ...

Alongside the academic tradition of Dante’s studies, there have been, especially from the late Romantic period, proposals for an “esoteric” interpretation of the Commedia. René Guénon, with L’ésotérisme de Dante, takes ...