Papers by Robert Buranello
The Sixteenth Century Journal, 2005
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An Italian Region in Canada. The Case of Friuli- …, 1998
The focus of this study is the articulation of the immigration phenomenon in _Strada Bianca_, by ... more The focus of this study is the articulation of the immigration phenomenon in _Strada Bianca_, by Giovanni Angelo Grohovaz, an Italian refugee from Fiume.
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The focus of this article is to provide a social and intellectual contextualization of Sperone Sp... more The focus of this article is to provide a social and intellectual contextualization of Sperone Speroni’s Apologia dei dialogi whose attempts to untie the hermeneutical Gordian knot with which the Papal censors had bound literature led to the paradoxical condition of the parrhesiastes who reveals that truth lies in error.
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The focus of this study is the articulation of the immigration phenomenon in the novel _Strada Bi... more The focus of this study is the articulation of the immigration phenomenon in the novel _Strada Bianca_, by Giovanni Angelo Grohovaz, an Italian refugee from Fiume.
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"... the unveiling of the hidden ways and means of _La Cazzaria_ should clarify aspects of 'the i... more "... the unveiling of the hidden ways and means of _La Cazzaria_ should clarify aspects of 'the intersections of sexuality, politics and learning' that characterize Renaissance pornography as an issue of fundamental importance." (60)
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This is an analysis of the literary invention of Pietro Aretino's dialogues which satirize the It... more This is an analysis of the literary invention of Pietro Aretino's dialogues which satirize the Italian court as the centre of discourse and seek an alternative wherein the sixteenth-century man of letters may speak the *truth* ...
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This study is the first to analyze the Italian-language newspaper published in the Zonderwater PO... more This study is the first to analyze the Italian-language newspaper published in the Zonderwater POW camp in South Africa, entitled "Tra i reticolati" that was published between 1941 and 1946. This publication provided local and foreign news, sports, and even published literary works written in Italian by the camp's inmates. As such, "Tra i reticolati" is an important primary source for the study of Italian South African literature.
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This study analyzes the figure of the famed courtesan Tullia d'Aragona in Sperone Speroni's _Dial... more This study analyzes the figure of the famed courtesan Tullia d'Aragona in Sperone Speroni's _Dialogo d'amore_
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... an analysis of Speroni's dialogue and the nature of paradoxical discourse ...
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... some contextualizations concerning the Julian Dalmatians ...
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In the field of Italian immigration studies, South Africa has only infrequently received scholarl... more In the field of Italian immigration studies, South Africa has only infrequently received scholarly attention. This is likely due to the relatively small number of immigrants to that country, and the relative scarcity of the documentation. Nonetheless, a study of Italian immigration to South Africa provides unique and revealing insights to the phenomenon of the Italian diaspora. Distinct traces of the Italian presence can be detected from the very beginnings of the South African colony. They are present in the documentation of the arrival of the French Huguenots who accompanied the Dutch East India Company to the Cape Colony, the Italian settlers who helped the British populate the more eastern parts of the Cape Province, the volunteers for the Afrikaner cause in the South African War, the almost 100,000 military personnel who were captured after Italian defeats in north and east Africa in WWII and accommodated in Prisoner Of War camps, the immediately post-war and apartheid-era immigration stream, and contemporary European migration to the new, democratic South Africa. Particularly significant to the contemporary context is the impact of the Italian POWs who attempted to return to post-war, apartheid South Africa, thereby changing their previous status of enemy alien to welcome European immigrant. They constitute the most numerous and remarkable group of Italians in South Africa.
Through archival research of original documents, consultation of the relevant historical, geographical, and literary studies, and reference to works of contemporary South African literature that treat Italian immigration, I address the facts and fictions that surround the phenomenon of Italian immigration to South Africa and arrive at a clearer and more comprehensive view of a little-known yet important aspect of Italian migration studies.
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Abstract: The Ragionamento del Zoppino, attributed to Pietro Aretino, is an important work of Ita... more Abstract: The Ragionamento del Zoppino, attributed to Pietro Aretino, is an important work of Italian Renaissance pornography that combines revulsion with enticement. Published in the 1530s, this dialogue on whoredom mingles the political satire typical of early pornography with a scopophobic fascination with whores as objects of desire and disgust. The main character, Zoppino, a pimp turned monk, lists many prominent courtesans of Rome and
offers an in-depth analysis of their cunning, fraudulent eloquence as a means to destroying the erotic potential of the female body and achieving victory over his interlocutor, the pimp Ludovico. Zoppino s intimate knowledge of the whore s persuasive skills is accompanied by a disturbing desire to dwell on the more sordid and unsavory details of her commercial transactions. That
Zoppino narrates his stories in graphic detail in exchange for payment indicates a continuous use of woman as commodity in the guise of pious persuasion. The intention of this article is to investigate the Ragionamento del Zoppino s mixture of malice, misogyny, and meretricious misrepresentation.
Key Words: Aretino, courtesan, misogyny, pornography, Renaissance Rome, Zoppino
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Quaderni d'italianistica, Jan 1, 1995
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Papers by Robert Buranello
Through archival research of original documents, consultation of the relevant historical, geographical, and literary studies, and reference to works of contemporary South African literature that treat Italian immigration, I address the facts and fictions that surround the phenomenon of Italian immigration to South Africa and arrive at a clearer and more comprehensive view of a little-known yet important aspect of Italian migration studies.
offers an in-depth analysis of their cunning, fraudulent eloquence as a means to destroying the erotic potential of the female body and achieving victory over his interlocutor, the pimp Ludovico. Zoppino s intimate knowledge of the whore s persuasive skills is accompanied by a disturbing desire to dwell on the more sordid and unsavory details of her commercial transactions. That
Zoppino narrates his stories in graphic detail in exchange for payment indicates a continuous use of woman as commodity in the guise of pious persuasion. The intention of this article is to investigate the Ragionamento del Zoppino s mixture of malice, misogyny, and meretricious misrepresentation.
Key Words: Aretino, courtesan, misogyny, pornography, Renaissance Rome, Zoppino
Through archival research of original documents, consultation of the relevant historical, geographical, and literary studies, and reference to works of contemporary South African literature that treat Italian immigration, I address the facts and fictions that surround the phenomenon of Italian immigration to South Africa and arrive at a clearer and more comprehensive view of a little-known yet important aspect of Italian migration studies.
offers an in-depth analysis of their cunning, fraudulent eloquence as a means to destroying the erotic potential of the female body and achieving victory over his interlocutor, the pimp Ludovico. Zoppino s intimate knowledge of the whore s persuasive skills is accompanied by a disturbing desire to dwell on the more sordid and unsavory details of her commercial transactions. That
Zoppino narrates his stories in graphic detail in exchange for payment indicates a continuous use of woman as commodity in the guise of pious persuasion. The intention of this article is to investigate the Ragionamento del Zoppino s mixture of malice, misogyny, and meretricious misrepresentation.
Key Words: Aretino, courtesan, misogyny, pornography, Renaissance Rome, Zoppino