Davide Messina
Biographic Data
| ID | 3472134 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Davide Messina |
| GIVEN NAMES | Davide |
| FAMILY NAME | Messina |
| SIGNATURE | MESSINA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3813-5501 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Calvino’s Guizzo
The role of passions in the works of Italo Calvino is still largely overlooked. This essay uses narrative semiotics to show that passions are an essential aspect of his writing, as they contribute to shaping his notion of literary realism through different periods, genres, and styles. Analysis focuses on a semiotic reading of the guizzo in Calvino’s last novel, Palomar (1983). It is a complex word that expresses a startling perception, a flash of…
Narcissus and the Moon
This essay develops a comprehensive approach to the study of parallax effects in early modern images, with critical emphasis on painting. Parallax is the apparent displacement of an object relative to a given background, as caused by the movement of the observer. In the cosmological debate that accompanied the Copernican revolution, the apparent absence of stellar parallax was taken as decisive evidence against the hypothesis of the motion of the…
Blind windows
This essay examines the way in which an Italian poem of the nineteenth century, i.e. Giacomo Leopardi’s idyll L’Infinito (The Infinite, 1819), created one of the most famous places in the Italian literary imagination: a Romantic landscape turned inside out, where life and 'nothingness' can be experienced at once. A comparative study of paintings by one of the most representative artists of the so-called ‘abstract sublime’, Mark Rothko, offers a n…
L’arco tragico del Principe
This article elaborates on the possible connections between Machiavelli and Renaissance tragedy in the context of the early-modern rediscovery of Aristotle’s Poetics. The possibility of a tragic reading of Il Principe, in particular, focuses on the metaphor or simile of the ‘prudent archers’ (arcieri prudenti) in chapter vi, suggesting a pragmatic interpretation of the tragic ‘error’ (hamartia) in contrast to the moral correlation of character fl…
Leggere e tradurre Primo Levi
Il saggio propone un modo nuovo di leggere e tradurre la testimonianza letteraria di Primo Levi a partire dalla relazione fra poesia e prosa in Se questo è un uomo. Collegando la poetica della traduzione di Henri Meschonnic con la linguistica dell’enunciazione sviluppata da Émile Benveniste, il saggio cerca di definire e analizzare il “poema dello sterminio” che sottende la scrittura di Levi, mette alla prova i relativi pregiudizi critici della t…
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Leggere e tradurre Primo Levi
Il saggio propone un modo nuovo di leggere e tradurre la testimonianza letteraria di Primo Levi a partire dalla relazione fra poesia e prosa in Se questo è un uomo. Collegando la poetica della traduzione di Henri Meschonnic con la linguistica dell’enunciazione sviluppata da Émile Benveniste, il saggio cerca di definire e analizzare il “poema dello sterminio” che sottende la scrittura di Levi, mette alla prova i relativi pregiudizi critici della t…
L’arco tragico del Principe
This article elaborates on the possible connections between Machiavelli and Renaissance tragedy in the context of the early-modern rediscovery of Aristotle’s Poetics. The possibility of a tragic reading of Il Principe, in particular, focuses on the metaphor or simile of the ‘prudent archers’ (arcieri prudenti) in chapter vi, suggesting a pragmatic interpretation of the tragic ‘error’ (hamartia) in contrast to the moral correlation of character fl…
Blind windows
This essay examines the way in which an Italian poem of the nineteenth century, i.e. Giacomo Leopardi’s idyll L’Infinito (The Infinite, 1819), created one of the most famous places in the Italian literary imagination: a Romantic landscape turned inside out, where life and 'nothingness' can be experienced at once. A comparative study of paintings by one of the most representative artists of the so-called ‘abstract sublime’, Mark Rothko, offers a n…
Narcissus and the Moon
This essay develops a comprehensive approach to the study of parallax effects in early modern images, with critical emphasis on painting. Parallax is the apparent displacement of an object relative to a given background, as caused by the movement of the observer. In the cosmological debate that accompanied the Copernican revolution, the apparent absence of stellar parallax was taken as decisive evidence against the hypothesis of the motion of the…
Calvino’s Guizzo
The role of passions in the works of Italo Calvino is still largely overlooked. This essay uses narrative semiotics to show that passions are an essential aspect of his writing, as they contribute to shaping his notion of literary realism through different periods, genres, and styles. Analysis focuses on a semiotic reading of the guizzo in Calvino’s last novel, Palomar (1983). It is a complex word that expresses a startling perception, a flash of…
Art (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Historical and Literary Analyses (2 works) · History (2 works) · Humanities (2 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Renaissance Literature and Culture (2 works) · Semiotics (2 works)