Three Reappearances of a Perennial Motif in Italian Literature: The Figure of Judas Iscariot

1996 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 385-406
Author(s):  
Umberto Mariani
Keyword(s):  
Italian Literature ◽  
Judas Iscariot

La malattia di Niemann-Pick Descrizione di un caso

1961 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-259
Author(s):  
Antonio Gullo
Keyword(s):  
Italian Literature ◽  
Niemann Pick Disease ◽  
Niemann Pick ◽  
Pick Disease

SUMMARYA case of Niemann-Pick disease is reported. This is the fourth described in Italian literature and diagnosed during life. In this case hereditary transmission in homozigous individual is admitted; it is uncertain whether the character behaves as semidominant or recessive.

Self-reflection in Italian literature

2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-317
Author(s):  
Olivia Santovetti
Keyword(s):  
Italian Literature ◽  
Self Reflection

Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation. An Annotated Bibliography 1929-2008

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-267
Author(s):  
Robin Healey (book author) ◽  
Corrado Federici (review author)
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Italian Literature ◽  
Annotated Bibliography

British Romanticism and Italian Literature

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Bandiera ◽  
Diego Saglia
Keyword(s):  
Italian Literature ◽  
British Romanticism

Between Divinity and Dullness: The Advent of Personal Computers in Italian Literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-42
Author(s):  
Eleonora Lima
Keyword(s):  
Personal Computer ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Italian Literature ◽  
Mass Diffusion ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Personal Computers ◽  
Cultural Impact ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Computer Culture

This article examines the cultural impact of personal computers in Italian literature in the first decade of their mass diffusion (from the mid-1980s to the second half of the 1990s) through the analysis of four texts written by some of the most respected writers of the time: Primo Levi’s article “Personal Golem” (1985), Umberto Eco’s novel Il pendolo di Foucault (1988), Francesco Leonetti’s novel Piedi in cerca di cibo (1995), and Daniele Del Giudice’s story “Evil Live” (1997). More than simply addressing the advent of personal computers, what these texts have in common is the use of religious images and metaphors in order to make sense of the new technology. This study aims at showing how this frame of reference served the four writers in expressing the contradictions inherent to the machine. Bulky and tangible because of its hardware, but animated by an elusive and mysterious software, the personal computer was perceived at the same time as a dull office appliance and a threatening virtual entity. Finally, by showing how timely and well-informed these literary works on the impact of PCs are, this article wants to make the case for considering the role of literature in shaping computer culture.

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