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1 NemlaItalianStudiesJournal of Italian StudiesItalian SectionNortheast Modern Language AssociationSpecial Issue:New Perspectives on VenetoLiterary and Cultural ItinerariesEditors:Simona WrightThe College of New JerseyGiovanni SpaniCollege of the Holy CrossVolume xxxv, 2013!!!!! Nemla Italian Studies (ISSN 1087 6715)Is a refereed journal published by the Italian section of the Northeast Modern Language Association under the sponsorship of Nemla and The College of New JerseyDepartment of World Languages and Cultures2000 Pennington RoadEwing, NJ 08628 0718 It contains a section of articles submitted by Nemla members and Italian scholars, exceprts from published and unpublished authors, and a section of book is open to those who qualify under the general Nemla regulations and comply with the guidelines established by the editors of Nemla Italian appearing in this journal are listed in the PMLA and issue of the journal is listed in PMLA Directory of Periodicals.

2 Ulrich International Periodicals Directory, Interdok Directory of Public Proceedings, Index to Social Sciences and Humanities subscription is obtained by placing a standing order with the editor at the above The College of New Jersey address. Individual subscription is optained by subscribing online through the Nemla Italian Studies webpage: Each new or back issue is billed $10 at mailing.**!""Editorial Board for This VolumeFounderJoseph Germano, Buffalo State CollegeEditorsGiovanni Spani, College of the Holy CrossSimona Wright, The College of New JerseyAssistant to the Editors as RefereesFabio Benincasa, Duquesne University Rome CampusFrancesco Rosetti, Independent ScholarLetizia Modena, Vanderbilt UniversityFulvio Orsitto, California State University ChicoFederico Canaccini, LUMSA RomaChristopher Nissen, Northern Illinois UniversityGloria Pastorino, Fairleigh Dickinson UniversityPierpaolo Antonello, University of Cambridge UKUmberto Mariani, Rutgers UniversityAndrea Malaguti, University of Massachusetts AmherstPhilip Balma.

3 University of Connecticut StorrsEditorial AssistantAnna Strowe, University of Massachusetts Amherst"!"!!!"#$%&'((()*+, WRIGHT and GIOVANNI Venetia (Venice) : Its Formation and Meaning in the Middle AgesLUIGI ANDREA !"#$%$%&'#()$#$%&*+#("%"%,$-$.("/%0%1+23 -%45$2"%-+6(2%'(*7%5$%Venetia, protagonisti della vita politica e culturale a Venezia *#"%3-$%8$5(+$)+%$%9(-"&'(:$-*+CHIARA da Caff , Sociability and Gender in Eighteenth Century VeniceIRENE ZANINI bibliotecario sotto inchiesta per antifascismo a Venezia al tempo della guerra d EtiopiaSTEFANO CINEMA THEATER4;+:$% )(% :"-5+% "% 5(#$% <-"% '+&"% ="*$2">?% (-5()(5<"2(*7% $%iniziativa femminili nelle lettere della vedova Maria SavorgnanPAOLO sublime in ZanzottoMARCO Paura e il Mondo: Presentazione della poesia di Riccardo HeldENRICO "!))))))))))))

4 !!Alcune poesie inedite di Ernesto Calzavara. Saggio di edizione criticaANNA Landscapes: On the Mutation of a Territory and Its Literary Representations: The Case of Contemporary Veneto and the Example of Massimo CarlottoENRICHETTA L. paesaggio veneto in Piovene. Inverno d un uomo felice: una proposta di lettura MARIA PIA ;+:<-(*7%'@(<&$?%Io sono Li, La Giusta distanza e Cose dell altro mondoRON Galileo: Marco Paolini and the History of ScienceCRISTINA :THE PLACE TO BEALESSANDRO CANZIAN. The Place to Be ..271 FABIO MARIA SIMON !#BOOK REVIEWSC olleoni, Federica, e Francesca Parmeggiani, a cura di. Forme, volti e linguaggi della violenza nella cultura italiana.))

5 Lonato del Garda, Brescia: Edibom Edizioni Letterarie, 2012. Pp. , Joseph. Leonardo Sciascia e la funzione sociale degli intellettuali. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2012. Pp. Diop, Cristina, and Caterina Romeo, eds. Postcolonial Italy: Challenging National Homogeneity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. , Venezianella e Studentaccio. A cura di Patrizio Ceccagnoli e Paolo Valesio. Mondadori, Milano, 2013. Pp. , Fulvio, ed. Cinema e Risorgimento: visioni e re visioni. Da La presa Di Roma a Noi credevamo. Manziana (Roma): Vecchiarelli, 2012. Pp. DI FLORIO , Maurizio. Malaparte: Vite e leggende. Venice: Marsilio, 2012.

6 Pp. , Giovanni, and Philip Balma, eds. L Italia letteraria !" #$%!&'()*+',#'" -'." /!#)%-)" 0)1!#!%()" '$" *$)+%$" %)/(+$. Cuneo: Nerosubianco, 2013. Pp. , David, and Tiziano Cherubini. The Ultimate Italian : Review and Practice. New York: McGraw Hill Companies. 2013. Pp. xiv + ##!Introduction. New Perspectives on Veneto: Literary and Cultural ItinerariesNella collezione dei luoghi comuni, popolari, letterari, colti e (5(+*(%A2$%5$3-(.(+-(%B+&&+-+%"-'@$%'+(- '(5$#$CD%'@$%@ e gli industri Lombardi .. al Veneto, ai Veneti, *+''"*"%$%*+''"%"-'+#"D%<-"%B"*$-*$%5(%F #+&&+2"-"%6+-"#($*7D%B+'"%apparenza e grandi virt di fondo, con una nota di compatimento.))))))

7 Soldati valorosi, gran lavoratori .. e devotissimi a Bacco, i Veneti e il Veneto, terra di serve fedeli e devote, di frati e monsignori, regione patriottica e subalterna, legalitaria, clericale, insomma 2"%,"-5$"%5E0*"2("D%'+:$%2E@"--+%&B$&&+% '2"&&(3'"*"D%6+-*7%2+#+D%inviati speciali e titolisti di quattro quinti della stampa italiana. Cinema e televisione: attendenti fedelissimi e tose saporite ma stupidelle, domestiche sceme, preti lepidi, pace agreste, virt palesi e vizi Zorzi s entertaining selection of notorious commonplaces on the region and its inhabitants, inaugurates the introduction of a comprehensive volume dedicated to what was then considered (we are in 1983), contemporary The famed Venetian author and journalist s ouverture unfolds into a brief but passionate overview of the region s glorious past, for the most part linked to the grandeur and power of its undisputed queen, Venice.))

8 While Zorzi s piece is an emotional, subjective tapestry of a Veneto more imagined than real, replete with nostalgia for virtues that were already by then long extinct, the many contributions that form the collection point to a more objective and systematic exploration of the subject matter. The table of contents illustrates the variety and comprehensiveness of the volume s scope, with articles dedicated, most notably, to Veneto s cultural traditions, literature, cinema, architecture, theater and society, schools, landscape, and environment. Observed from today s lens, Veneto contemporaneo is a rare document that depicts a region in the midst of a series of sudden and, in many$%&&''(%!)

9 "#"$%&'%#$"()%*+#"%&,-%'."$/&"&'01$0*+23 %'!)*+, *0!%12,,-3%$456(%#!!!(#!!456789:;6485way s traumatic, economic, social, and cultural transformations. The Eighties and Ninenties of the Novecento marked for Veneto a distinct historical moment, a time of unprecedented economic growth marked 6I%*@$%#+6<&*%$JB"-&(+-%+=%=":(2I%+K-$5% 6<&(-$&&$&%5#()$-%6I%L$J(62$%and dynamic manufacturing standards. Needless to say, the passage from what was mainly an agrarian culture to the industrial model, with its corresponding escalation of wealth, was not painless. On the '+-*#"#ID%(*&%L"K&%"-5%2(:(*"*(+-&%6$'": $%(::$5("*$2I%$)(5$-*/%H-5%they are particularly manifest today, when a series of political impasses and the rapid economic downturn produced by the introduction of the euro have drastically reduced the number of businesses, leaving many without a job, looking at a most uncertain, unsettling is why, exploring Veneto s cultural and social horizon today is again a most interesting project, an idea that was borne of the common interest of the editors, both native of the region, in understanding the historical moment, in presenting how some of the contradicting dimensions of the economic development have played out in the local realities.)))))))))))

10 And in locating some of the forces and energies that are active on the territory, indicating that amid a crisis *@"*%(&%6+*@%$'+-+:('%"-5%'<2*<#"2D%&(F- (3'"-*%$JB$#($-'$&%"#$%*"M(-F%place, pointing to a social substratum still infused with vitality and creativity. The volume is divided into three parts, to situate each article in a contextually meaningful setting that renders thematic connections, (-*$#"'*(+-&D%"-5%(:B+22(-"*(+-&%B+&&(62 $/%0-%*@$%3#&*%B"#*D%*@$%=#":$%+=%the investigation is Andrea Berto s meticulous reading of late Roman and early Venetian documents functions as a preface to the volume, examining both the semantic shifts connected to the province originally created by Octavian Augustus in 7 and the territorial expansions that gradually brought the Venetia of the islands to control the mainland and the region that we know as Veneto today.))))))))))))