In Homes and Novels: Early Italian Pictures in England from Early Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Century Elisa Camporeale From the beginning of the nineteenth century, Early Italian pictures were hung in English private homes and, later, in public galleries and exhibitions. The birth and growth of the interest in the Italian «Primitives» in the English…

Fosclo’s Parallel between Dante and Petrarch: A Perfect Harmony of Contrasts Assunta De Crescenzo During his stay in England from 1816 to 1827, Ugo Foscolo was particularly aware of the importance of giving a new value and deeper meanings to Italian literature; that is why a fresh approach was needed in his mind, a sort…

«Sotto il sembiante d’una pacata mestizia…» La cacciata del duca d’Atene dal Medioevo all’Ottocento fra cronaca, affresco, narrazione e pittura Roberto Risso This article reconstructs the relationship between a medieval fresco, a nineteenth-century picture and Niccolò Tommaseo’s historical narration entitled La cacciata del duca d’Atene. The analysis focuses on the historical, political and artistic relevance…

Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Salutatio Beatricis: Tradition as Translation Chiara Moriconi This article focuses on the importance that D.G. Rossetti attributed to the re-semantization of Dante’s work, his visual translations of the Vita Nuova proving most revealing when adhering less to their source text. The translating strategies adopted by the poet-painter in his illustration of The…

John Ruskin: A new Saint Francis of Assisi? The Saint, the Art Critic and the Yearning for Renewal Marie Tavinor This paper studies the quaint comparison between John Ruskin and Francis of Assisi which was made in some intellectual circles in France and Italy at the end of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century….

American collecting, Stefano Bardini & the Taste for Trequattrocento Florence Lynn Caterson Just around the turn of the century, the desire on the part of wealthy American and European collectors for Italian art was exorbitant. Operating out of Florence, the dealer Stefano Bardini (1836-1922) succeeded in matching that demand by stocking collections with ample quantities…

A 21st-century Invention of a 19th-century Giotto Revival; the ‘Stendhal Syndrome’ Robert Gibbs