Per una breve storia della santità letteraria. Da Goethe a Pasolini

Il saggio punta a ricostruire brevemente la storia della santità nella letteratura moderna e contemporanea, isolando alcune esperienze paradigmatiche di rappresentazione della pura bontà nella scrittura letteraria tra la fine del Settecento e il secondo Novecento. Mentre il Wilhelm Meister sembra mettere fine ad ogni forma tradizionale di santità cattolica, l’Ottocento di Manzoni e Fogazzaro recepisce il modello eroico della santità morale, intesa come elevazione dal ‘basso’ dell’esperienza quotidiana. In direzione opposta, sia gli scrittori confessanti novecenteschi come Bernanos (e Green), sia, in partibus infidelium, Dostoevskij e Pirandello, così come Roth e Pasolini, disegneranno un modello di santo come soggettività totalmente incarnata.The essay aims briefly reconstruct thehistory of sanctity in modern and contemporary literature, isolating some paradigmatic experiences of representation of pure goodness between the late eighteenth century and the second twentieth century. While ‘Wilhelm Meister seems to finish every traditional form of catholic sanctity, the nineteenth century by Manzoni and Fogazzaro incorporates the heroic model of moral sanctity, understood ad elevating from the ‘below’ of everyday experience. In the opposite direction, both twentieth-century confessional writers such as Bernanos (and Green), and, ‘in partibus infidelium’, Dostoevskij and Pirendello, as well as Roth and Pasolini, will disgn a model of saint totally incarnated

«Pirandellonazionale». Una scommessa filologica ed ermeneutica

The new digital edition of Pirandello’s Opera omnia, housed online at www.pirandellonazionale.it, contains, in a high structured whole, in-depth philological tools, digitized editions of complete texts, manuscripts and other writings, enriched by a set of didactic tools for teachers and students. It also contains a complete vocabulary of Pirandello’s works, that users can explore trough lemmas.L’edizione digitale dell'Opera omnia di Pirandello, attiva nel sito www.pirandellonazionale.it, include, in un insieme fortemente strutturato, strumenti filologici di alta scientificità, edizioni critiche dei testi, manoscritti e altri testimoni, arricchiti da una serie di strumenti didattici per docenti e studenti. Essa contiene anche il vocabolario integrale delle opere di Pirandello, ricercabile per lemmi

Self-reported nonceliac wheat sensitivity in an outpatient digestive endoscopy center: high frequency but insufficient medical approach

Objective: 'Self-reported wheat sensitivity' (SRWS) is a self-reported condition caused by wheat ingestion in the absence of celiac disease or wheat allergy. The aim of the study was to investigate the frequency and characteristics of SRWS in outpatients referred for digestive endoscopy. Methods: The study, performed at the University of Palermo, enrolled 496 outpatients. Results: Seven individuals (1.4%) had an already established diagnosis of celiac disease. The questionnaire was administered to the other 489 individuals: 98 subjects (20%) were SRWS, the remaining 391 served as controls (i.e. not-SRWS). SRWS patients were younger (P < 0.001), with a higher percentage of females (P = 0.002) than not-SRWS. 'gastroesophageal reflux disease and ulcer-like dyspepsia' and 'chronic unexplained diarrhea' were more frequently the reasons for the endoscopy study in SRWS than in not-SRWS (P = 0.002, and P = 0.05, respectively). Food allergies/intolerances (P = 0.04), milk allergy/intolerance (P = 0.0001), GERD (P = 0.0001), IBS (0.0001), anxiety (P = 0.005) and depression (P = 0.04) were the previous medical diagnoses reported more frequently in SRWS patients than in not-SRWS. In the SRWS group, 38% of the patients had already undergone previous upper endoscopy and 24% colonoscopy. After these investigations, 58% of SRWS patients received no diagnosis, and the other 42% were informed that they 'were not suffering from celiac disease or wheat allergy'. Finally, 28.6% SRWS patients had followed a gluten-free diet (GFD), and 71.4% of them referred being asymptomatic on GFD. Conclusions: Our data showed a high frequency of SRWS in outpatients referred to a digestive endoscopy center and a lack of medical accuracy in identifying a possible gluten-related disease. Registration: The study was registered on Clinicaltrials.gov (registration number: NCT04154137), accessible at: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04154137?term=non+celiac+wheat&draw=2&rank=1

Et in Arcadia ego. L'ecloga virgiliana tra Auden e Zanzotto

Il contributo intende interpretare e flettere il campo d\u2019indagine promosso dall\u2019iniziativa di studio orientandosi sulla direttrice della riappropriazione novecentesca del genere pastorale, nella sua declinazione di ecloga. Si intende restringere il focus a due opere poetiche esemplari n\ue9 troppo distanti cronologicamente, afferenti a due distinte realt\ue0 linguistiche e culturali eppure affini nella sorte d\u2019imprimere una chiave di volta in seno sia alla poetica del rispettivo autore sia nel panorama storico-letterario: L\u2019Et\ue0 dell\u2019Ansia (1948) di W. H. Auden e IX Ecloghe (1962) di Andrea Zanzotto. Si prospetta di approfondire, sfruttando l\u2019apertura dell\u2019approccio comparativo, come nel poemetto anglofono il genere risulti peculiarmente vitalizzato con l\u2019impiego del verso allitterativo germanico antico e mediante un imprinting ondivago tra il lirico e il tragico; e come altres\uec Zanzotto, modulando il canto su una materia che programmaticamente si apparenta a \uabcose d\u2019ecloga degne\ubb, attui tale reviviscenza rianimando la centralit\ue0 bucolica del Soggetto, volgendo la voce al miraggio di una sua liberazione.The essay makes a comparison between The Age of Anxiety (1948) by Auden and the IX Ecloghe (1962) by the italian poet Zanzotto, in order to analyse how the virgilian form of the eclogue returns in two important poetic examples of the twentieth century