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Theatine Spirituality: Selected Writings trans and ed. by William V. Hudon

Theatine Spirituality: Selected Writings. Translated, edited and with an introduction and notes by William V Hudon. [The of Western Spirituality.] (New York and Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press.1996. Pp. xx, 287. $22.95 paperback.) Students of sixteenth-century spirituality will be grateful for this volume because it provides a fine introduction and English translation of the major writings of three members of the Theatine order in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The actual texts consist of the Rule of by Gian Pietro Carafa (1476-1559), who was later elected Pope Paul IV; the Letters of Gaetano da Thiene (ca.1480-1547), known as St. Cajetan after his canonization; and Lorenzo Scupoli's (1530-1610) augmented edition of Spiritual Combat (11 combattimento spirituale), which appeared shortly before his death.The translations are readable and the end notes are helpful. The editor of these Theatine writings is William V Hudon, who is professor and chairman of the Department of History at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania. In 1992 he published a book on Marcello Cervini and Ecclesiastical Government in Tridentine Italy (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press), which received mixed reviews in The Sixteenth Century Journal. In addition to editing the above works by Carafa, Gaetano, and Scupoli, Hudon translated the Italian letters by Gaetano and the Italian text of Spiritual Combat by Scupoli into English. Professor Bernard McGinn, the editor-in-chief of the Classics of Western Spirituality series, translated into English the Latin rule of Carafa. Moreover, Hudon wrote both the introduction and the end notes that accompany these texts. In contrast to these contributions, I found the preface by Gigliola Fragnito, professor of history in the University of Parma, which was translated by Hudon, to be self-serving and misleading at times. Her comments on the influence of Sister Paola Antonia Negri (1508-1555) on the Barnabite order, which was founded by St. Antonio Maria Zaccaria in 1534, are exaggerated when she observes:she [Negri] wound up governing both the Barnabites and the Angeliche [i.e., Angelic Sisters of St. Paul] with indisputable authority for about fifteen years . . ., (p. xvi).The co-founder of the Angelics and principal benefactor of the Barnabites was Ludovica Torelli, the countess of Guastalla, who is ignored by Fragnito. Moreover, her reference to should be translated as clerics regular (cf pp. xiii-xvii). As I indicated in my opening remarks, I found the introduction by Hudon to be a fine contribution, though I feel that the section titled General Background (pp.1-7) could have been reduced by half of its length without sacrificing anything. …

Alberto Moravia: Fetishism and Figuration

Alberto Moravia is probably Italy's most prolific novelist, and in spite of a host of post-modernist contenders for title, he is unquestionably its most controversial. Over span of some fifty years, Moravia has published better than forty book-length works. Novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, film writer, travel writer, journalist and editor; theatre critic for Italian weekly L'Espresso; co-founder and editor of Nuovi argomenti-Moravia's presence on Italian literary scene is an insistent one. Not one week passes, it seems, that Moravia does not publish something. And everything he publishes contributes to growth of what Italians call il caso Moravia, that scandal which has continued from his first novel, The Time of Indifference (1929), down to his latest, Time of Desecration (1979). Moravia's first novel scandalized Italian public by virtue of its brutal portrayal of bourgeois life under Fascism and its inauguration of a new realism in Italian letters. The realistic portrayal of Italian society was a secondary result, so it seems, of a more primary apprehension of a psychological, even ontological problem, that of man's need for an authenticity which conditions of his life rendered impossible. Moravia has often asserted that The Time of Indifference was first Existentialist novel of Europe, as well as first genuinely Marxist and Freudian novel. The question of priority aside, this claim has a certain general validity insofar as Moravia had from first, apparently, hit upon common concern with question of authenticity that each of these movements had problematized. Predating Sartre's Nausea by nine years, The Time of Indifference is archetypical of catalogue of forms of inauthenticity which Moravia would examine persistently over course of his long writing career. The title of The Time of Indifference (Gli indifferenti, literally, the indifferent ones)' prefigures Moravia's obsessive interest in forms which inauthenticity, modes of our failures to connect meaningfully with reality, can take. Subsequent titles of his works represent a veritable anatomy of such failed connections: mistaken ambitions (Le ambizioni sbagliate, 1935); conformism (II conformista, 1951); disdain (II disprezzo, 1954); boredom (La noia, 1960); automatism and fetishism (L'automa and II feticcio, 1963); and fixation or bad faith (L'attenzione, 1965). To this list we must of course add those forms of inauthenticity examined so ironically in Moravia's last work, emptiness and desecration (La vita interiore, 1979). This last novel adds terrorism to by now familiar Moravian topoi of sex and money. Significantly, La vita interiore (Time of Desecration) was banned in Rome under Italy's obscenity laws, rekindling once again issues originally raised in 1929 with appearance of The Time of Indifference. The work has been dismissed as simply filthy by some reviewers and cited by others as proof of

A Crucial Decade in the Career of Vasco Pratolini (1932-1942)

By reason of his prominent position in contemporary Italian letters, Vasco Pratolini has been the subject of an extraordinarily large number of articles and critical essays. He has been frequently interviewed by the editors and critics of Epoca, L'Europeo, La Fiera Letteraria, and other Italian magazines. His novels and short stories have been translated into many languages, and articles on various aspects of his career have appeared in a host of foreign newspapers and journals. In examining the critical work that has thus far been done on Pratolini, one is struck by the discovery that although his life and works from 1945 to the present have been studied in great detail, and information regarding his childhood and adolescence in Florence during the 1920's is available in many published interviews and biographical sketches, his career during the 1930's and early 1940's has been almost completely neglected.' One finds occasional references to his youthful involvement with Fascism in the early 1930's, to his struggle with tuberculosis in 1935 and 1936, to

The Academies and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Literature

Scholars who deal with Italian letters generally recognize, although they may deplore, the overriding importance of literary academies in the intellectual life of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy, just as students of French literature know that the salons and academies of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France had much to do with the refinement of taste and manners, with the evolution of critical standards, and with the vogue of the pastoral novel or of the vast historical romance such as Mile de Scudéry's Clélie. Students of Spanish seventeenth-century literature, however, have been remarkably incurious about literary academies, knowing at most, perhaps, that there was an Academia de los Nocturnos functioning in Valencia from 1591 to 1594, or that Lope wrote his much-debated Arte nuevo for an “Academia de Madrid,” and have seemed to regard them as no more than idle games through which the participants passed untouched. Few have asked how widespread the academies were, and even fewer have speculated on their connections with the literature of the time.

An Eclogue of Giovanni Quatrario

Of the six Latin eclogues of Giovanni Quatrario of Sulmona (1336-1402), the second is a pastoral dialogue between a boy and an old shepherd who on closer inspection prove to be Quatrario himself and Francesco Petrarca. The poem, ill-written though it is, has considerable intrinsic interest and even some importance for the history of humanism, showing as it does the veneration felt among younger men for the dean of Italian (and more especially neo-Latin) letters; but to explain both its odd tone and its position in neo-Latin literature it is necessary to deal briefly with some matters of background.

An Italian Letter by Voltaire

An Italian Letter by Voltaire

Contemporary Italian Letters

Contemporary Italian Letters

The Foreign Policy of Richard II in 1397 : Some Italian Letters

The Foreign Policy of Richard II in 1397 : Some Italian Letters

Italian Nationalism and English Letters

Italian Nationalism and English Letters

Italian Nationalism and English Letters

Italian Nationalism and English Letters

Italian letter

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVLetterNEXTItalian letterPaolo Calzolari Cite this: J. Chem. Educ. 1926, 3, 11, 1323Publication Date (Print):November 1, 1926Publication History Received3 August 2009Published online1 November 1926Published inissue 1 November 1926https://doi.org/10.1021/ed003p1323RIGHTS & PERMISSIONSArticle Views47Altmetric-Citations-LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InReddit PDF (983 KB) Get e-Alerts Get e-Alerts

Italian Letter.

Italian Letter.

Italian Letter

Italian Letter

I. An account of the earthquakes in Sicilia, on the ninth and eleventh of January, 1692/3. Translated from an Italian letter from Sicily by the noble Vincentius Bonajutus, and communicated to the Royal Society by the learned Marcellus Malpighius, physician to his present Holineß

The great secrets of nature are so inscrutable, that we find them far out of our reach whenever we go about to form a true and nice judgment of them; nor is the task less difficult to discover the effects of portentous events, divers accidents being often confounded with the effects themselves, and one cause enchained with and depending on another.

An extract of an Italian letter written from Venice by Signor Jacomo Grandi, to an acquaintance of his in London, concerning some anatomical observations, and two odd births: English'd by the publisher, as follows

Having been honour’d here with the place of Publick Anatomist of Venice , though I have given as yet but a very slender accompt of my performances, in comparison of the illustrious example of Mundinus, Veslingius, Molineta , & c .