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I propose reading for atmospheres in two medieval Italian texts: Dante’s Comedy and Boccaccio’s Decameron. The rationale here is that both texts strategically employ a term that is related to […]

Against dominant interpretations that equate Western classicism with permanence and durability, the work of Donato Bramante—unanimously acknowledged as one of the founders of this tradition—points in a different direction. Seen […]

Pulcinella, the Neapolitan clown of the commedia dell’arte tradition, took to the streets in Rome in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was a star on popular stages, and a […]