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Edizioni Polistampa
Le avventure di Pinocchio
Illustrate con le grafiche dell’edizione originale dal “Giornale per i Bambini” 1881–1883
by Carlo Collodi
Everyone knows Pinocchio, but few really know his story. Not the one about how he was transformed from a block of wood
into a little boy after an adventure or two, but of his creation by the Florentine journalist Carlo Lorenzini. Under the pen name of
Collodi, Lorenzini wrote the future masterpiece in installments for a local children’s review between 1881 and 1883. Young and
old alike can now discover the original Pinocchio, reedited as it appeared with its simple, original illustrations, and rediscover
the story that has delighted generations. Italian text.
200p, b/w illus, hardback, 9788856300185, $22.00(s), Edizioni Polistampa, December 2008, Children’s Corner 8.
Pirandello postmoderno?
by Franco Zangrilli
Newly distributed by DBBC!
Nuove archeologie
Pirandello e altri scritti
by Elio Providenti
Elio Providenti continues his archeological approach to the life and work
of Luigi Pirandello, this time sifting through the author’s personal relations.
Pirandello’s correspondence reveals aspects of his bittersweet
relationship with Jenny Schulz Lander, significant aspects of his philosophical
views, as well as personal episodes such as his residence in the
Papal Palace during the Roman republic of 1849. Italian text.
240p, b/w illus, paperback, 9788859605188, $30.00(s),
Edizioni Polistampa, October 2009.
La musa sotto i portici
Caffè e provincia nella narrativa di Piero Chiara e Lucio Mastronardi
by Stefano Giannini
Stefano Gianni examines the works of Piero Chiara and Lucio Mastronadi through a topos of early twentieth-century
Italian culture: the popular, provincial café. For both authors, the café was a zone of free expression, where
protagonists could earn respect and superiority with only their intelligence and will. Chiara and Mastronardi’s
tales of cafés in Lombardy demonstrate the narrative richness of an apparently poor province, and ultimately the
importance the authors ascribe to storytelling as both a personal need and moral activity. Italian text.
240p, paperback, 9788856400472, $29.50(s), Edizioni Polistampa, December 2008, Italianistica nel mondo 2.
literary studies
Cher Sis
Scritture femminili
nella corrispondenza di Sismondi
by Maria Pia Casalena and Francesca Sofia
Luigi Pirandello’s last, incomplete play, I giganti della montagna, displays
many aspects of what would later be considered postmodernism,
including metatheatrical discourse, autocitation and intertextuality,
often marked by an ironic humor that unmasks society’s blind march
towards the abyss and self-destruction. Italian text.
104p, paperback, 9788859604266, $20.00(s), Edizioni Polistampa,
December 2008. Pubblicare il Valla
The correspondence of the Genevan writer Jean-Charles
Léonard Simon de Sismondi reflects the moods, passions,
rivalries and hopes of a vital milieu that represented
public opinion in the first half of the nineteenth
century. The first half of this collection addresses the
writer’s principal feminine correspondents, investigating
his own development as well as the nineteenthcentury
feminine presence and condition. The second
half concentrates on exchanges between Sismondi and
Julia and Harriet Garnett between 1826 and 1840, totaling
83 letters in all. Italian text.
472p, paperback, 9788859604549, $46.00(s),
Edizioni Polistampa, December 2008, Sismondiana 2.
edited by Mariangela Regoliosi
Collection of articles dealing with the critical edition of
texts written by the 15th-century Italian humanist and
theologian, Lorenzo Valla. The essays survey manuscripts
of Valla’s works, address the edition of specific pieces of
Valla’s corpus, and provide commentaries on a few of
Valla’s writings. Italian text.
632p, hardback, 9788859604983, $105.00(s),
Edizioni Polistampa, December 2008,
Edizione Nazionale delle opere di Lorenzo Valla 1.
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