Massimo Verdicchio
Biographic Data
| ID | 486514 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Massimo Verdicchio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Massimo |
| FAMILY NAME | Verdicchio |
| SIGNATURE | VERDICCHIO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Aristotle’s influence in Dante’s works
Griselda Between Boccaccio and Petrarch
The focus of the paper is Petrarch's Latin translation of Boccaccio's Griselda, the last tale of the last day of the Decameron (X, x). The translation became popular in Europe and was eventually adapted by Chaucer in his “Clerk's Tale.” Petrarch's translation, however, departs substantially from Boccaccio's original story, and the scholars have been divided ever since as to whether the translation is an improvement on the tale, or a censored vers…
Under Western Critical Eyes
The trend toward world literature and globalization in literary studies motivated Gayatri Spivak to make the ominous claim that Comparative Literature is dead. Her solution was to suggest that Comparative Literature join forces with Area Studies, and combine its techniques of “close reading” with a more focused and in-depth analysis of national literatures that only Area Studies can provide. Although this appears a welcome suggestion to give “new…
Europe and Empire
The European Union and the single currency have given Europe more stability than it has ever known in the last thousand years, yet Europe seems to be in perpetual crisis and “unshakably undecided,” so to speak, when it comes to defining its stand in the world arena. To the Asians, Europe was once the Land of Sunset, the place where exiles took refuge. Many empires had their day in Europe. In the end, however, they all bowed down to the multiplici…
Poetics of Dante's Paradiso
Europe and Empire
The European Union and the single currency have given Europe more stability than it has known in the past thousand years, yet Europe seems to be in perpetual crisis about its global role. The many European empires are now reduced to a multiplicity of ethnicities, traditions, and civilizations. Europe will never be One, but to survive as a union it will have to become a federation of 'islands' both distinct and connected. Though drawing on philoso…
Rereading Baudelaire’s “Le Cygne”
Rereading Baudelaire’s “Le Cygne” Massimo Verdicchio (bio) Baudelaire’s “Le Cygne” (1861) stands out among the other poems of Les Fleurs du mal not only for the number of studies that have been devoted to it by the best critical minds writing on poetry today,1 but also for certain characteristics of the poem that render it unique. According to F. W. Leakey, “Baudelaire’s unusual achievement and innovation in “Le Cygne” is ... to have made a poem …
Southern Thought and Other Essays on the Mediterranean
Machiavelli on Dante on language
Machiavelli’s ‘Discorso o dialogo intorno alla nostra lingua’ (c. 1515) is not one of the major treatises on the ‘questione della lingua’. Critics even doubt that the author is Machiavelli since the work contains injurious attacks on Dante that are believed unlikely from someone who wrote highly of him in his other works. Machiavelli scholars have tried to justify his position toward Dante in the treatise as an attempt to make a case for Italian …
Vico and Naples. The Urban Origins of Modern Social Theory / On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians. Drawn From the Origins of the Latin Language
Barbara Ann Naddeo (2011) Vico and Naples. The Urban Origins of Modern Social Theory (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press), 289 pp., ISBN 9780801449161, $49.95, hard cover Giambattista Vico (2010)
The Poetics of Dante's Paradiso
A highly original and comprehensive reading, The Poetics of Dante's Paradiso challenges established scholarly interpretations to demonstrate that the intricacies of Dante's text reveal a subtle irony, employed to deliver a sharp critique of the corrupt church and empire of his own time.
The Unpolitical
Massimo Cacciari is one of the leading public intellectuals in today's Italy. This collection of chapters on political topics provides an introduction, in English, to his thought to date. It includes chapters on Hofmannsthal, Lukács, Benjamin, Nietzsche, Weber, Derrida, Schmitt, Canetti, and Aeschylus. Written between 1978 and 2006, the chapters address the most hidden tradition in European political thought: the unpolitical. Far from being a ref…
The Unpolitical
Ancient Shore. Dispatches from Naples
Nietzsche's Zarathustra
The Legacy of Benedetto Croce
Papers on Vico at the American Association of Italian Studies
A Reader like Phaedrus
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A Reader like Phaedrus
Papers on Vico at the American Association of Italian Studies
The Legacy of Benedetto Croce
Nietzsche's Zarathustra
The Unpolitical
Massimo Cacciari is one of the leading public intellectuals in today's Italy. This collection of chapters on political topics provides an introduction, in English, to his thought to date. It includes chapters on Hofmannsthal, Lukács, Benjamin, Nietzsche, Weber, Derrida, Schmitt, Canetti, and Aeschylus. Written between 1978 and 2006, the chapters address the most hidden tradition in European political thought: the unpolitical. Far from being a ref…
The Unpolitical
Ancient Shore. Dispatches from Naples
The Poetics of Dante's Paradiso
A highly original and comprehensive reading, The Poetics of Dante's Paradiso challenges established scholarly interpretations to demonstrate that the intricacies of Dante's text reveal a subtle irony, employed to deliver a sharp critique of the corrupt church and empire of his own time.
Vico and Naples. The Urban Origins of Modern Social Theory / On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians. Drawn From the Origins of the Latin Language
Barbara Ann Naddeo (2011) Vico and Naples. The Urban Origins of Modern Social Theory (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press), 289 pp., ISBN 9780801449161, $49.95, hard cover Giambattista Vico (2010)
Machiavelli on Dante on language
Machiavelli’s ‘Discorso o dialogo intorno alla nostra lingua’ (c. 1515) is not one of the major treatises on the ‘questione della lingua’. Critics even doubt that the author is Machiavelli since the work contains injurious attacks on Dante that are believed unlikely from someone who wrote highly of him in his other works. Machiavelli scholars have tried to justify his position toward Dante in the treatise as an attempt to make a case for Italian …
Southern Thought and Other Essays on the Mediterranean
Rereading Baudelaire’s “Le Cygne”
Rereading Baudelaire’s “Le Cygne” Massimo Verdicchio (bio) Baudelaire’s “Le Cygne” (1861) stands out among the other poems of Les Fleurs du mal not only for the number of studies that have been devoted to it by the best critical minds writing on poetry today,1 but also for certain characteristics of the poem that render it unique. According to F. W. Leakey, “Baudelaire’s unusual achievement and innovation in “Le Cygne” is ... to have made a poem …
Europe and Empire
The European Union and the single currency have given Europe more stability than it has ever known in the last thousand years, yet Europe seems to be in perpetual crisis and “unshakably undecided,” so to speak, when it comes to defining its stand in the world arena. To the Asians, Europe was once the Land of Sunset, the place where exiles took refuge. Many empires had their day in Europe. In the end, however, they all bowed down to the multiplici…
Poetics of Dante's Paradiso
Europe and Empire
The European Union and the single currency have given Europe more stability than it has known in the past thousand years, yet Europe seems to be in perpetual crisis about its global role. The many European empires are now reduced to a multiplicity of ethnicities, traditions, and civilizations. Europe will never be One, but to survive as a union it will have to become a federation of 'islands' both distinct and connected. Though drawing on philoso…
Under Western Critical Eyes
The trend toward world literature and globalization in literary studies motivated Gayatri Spivak to make the ominous claim that Comparative Literature is dead. Her solution was to suggest that Comparative Literature join forces with Area Studies, and combine its techniques of “close reading” with a more focused and in-depth analysis of national literatures that only Area Studies can provide. Although this appears a welcome suggestion to give “new…
Griselda Between Boccaccio and Petrarch
The focus of the paper is Petrarch's Latin translation of Boccaccio's Griselda, the last tale of the last day of the Decameron (X, x). The translation became popular in Europe and was eventually adapted by Chaucer in his “Clerk's Tale.” Petrarch's translation, however, departs substantially from Boccaccio's original story, and the scholars have been divided ever since as to whether the translation is an improvement on the tale, or a censored vers…
Aristotle’s influence in Dante’s works
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