Roberto Sanesi’s The First Day of Spring. An Act of Love for Humanity

Review of: Roberto Sanesi, The First Day of Spring. Il primo giorno di primavera, Matteo Brera (ed.), Heather Scott (trans.), Leicester, Troubador, 2014, xv + 137 p. ISBN: 9781783063772, £ 9.95

<em>Montale e la parola riflessa</em> By Christine Ott (2006)

Montale e la parola riflessa is the title of Christine Ott’s recent study on Eugenio Montale’s entire poetic production which analyzes his poetry as the artistic result of a fusion between lyric and self-commenting poetic language, where the word riflessa assumes particular poetic, but also metapoetic significance. In her volume Ott re proposes a post-structuralist perspective on the whole of Montale’s poetic-linguistic excursus thus emphasising the need for a return to a metalinguistic analysis as a unifying key to the understanding not only of his poetry, but also of the enigmatic self lying behind the poetic language. Even more cogently, Ott points out the necessity of understanding the complex relationship between the Montalean poetic self and the language available to him for the expression of the complexities of the modern self

Fantasising the self, fantasising the other : memory and re-visions in Mario Martone's L'amore molesto

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'Il filo di Arianna':<i>La stanza del figlio</i> and the healing value of Nanni Moretti’s cinema of poetry

In this essay Nanni Moretti’s La stanza del figlio (2001) is studied through the deployment of symbols belonging to several artistic languages. By interpreting the references made by Moretti in La stanza del figlio to Raymond Carver’s poetry and to Brian Eno’s song ‘By this river’, and by adopting the concept of ‘cinema of poetry’ as conceived by Pier Paolo Pasolini, this study will introduce the image of the river and its elements of horizontality and linearity to the poetics of Moretti’s cinema. This will enable us to better evince the possibility of poetry and its healing effects within his cinematic language and, fundamentally, to assist in reading La stanza del figlio in an original way