Italian Perspectives publishes books and collections of essays on any aspect and period of Italian literature, language, history, culture, politics, art, and media, as well as studies which take an interdisciplinary approach and are methodologically innovative. At a time of growing academic interest, the series aims to bring together different scholarly perspectives on Italy and its culture.

The series was founded by Maney Publishing under the imprint of the Northern Universities Press, and moved to the Legenda imprint in 2005. As a result, manuscripts now need to follow the MHRA Style Guide, rather than that of the Italianist journal, as used before 2005.

Editorial Committee:

  • Dr Simon Gilson, University of Warwick (General Editor)
  • Dr Francesca Billiani, University of Manchester
  • Dr Manuele Gragnolati, Somerville College, Oxford
  • Dr Catherine Keen, University College London
  • Professor Martin McLaughlin, Magdalen College, Oxford

Founding Editors:

  • Professor Zygmunt Baranski, Cambridge University
  • Professor Anna Laura Lepschy, University College London

Advisory Board: Patrick Boyde, UK; Patricia Brown, USA; Victoria De Grazia, USA; John Gatt-Rutter, Australia; Paul Ginsborg, Italy; Guglielmo Gorni, Switzerland; Giulio Lepschy, UK; Millicent Marcus, USA; Giuseppe Mazzotta, USA; Martin McLaughlin, UK; Lino Pertile, USA; Eduardo Saccone, Ireland; Rebecca West, USA; Diego Zancani, UK.

Published January 2006

Speaking Out and Silencing: Culture, Society and Politics in Italy in the 1970s
Edited by Anna Cento Bull and Adalgisa Giorgio
Italian Perspectives 12


Published May 2006

From Florence to the Heavenly City: The Poetry of Citizenship in Dante
Claire E. Honess
Italian Perspectives 13

Orality and Literacy in Modern Italian Culture
Edited by Michael Caesar and Marina Spunta
Italian Perspectives 14


Published September 2006

Pastoral Drama in Early Modern Italy: The Making of a New Genre
Lisa Sampson
Italian Perspectives 15


Published December 2006

Sweet Thunder: Music and Libretti in 1960s Italy
Vivienne Suvini-Hand
Italian Perspectives 16


Published November 2007

Il teatro di Eduardo De Filippo: La crisi della famiglia patriarcale
Donatella Fischer
Italian Perspectives 17


Published July 2009

Imagining Terrorism: The Rhetoric and Representation of Political Violence in Italy 1969-2009
Edited by Pierpaolo Antonello and Alan O’Leary
Italian Perspectives 18

Boccaccio and the Book: Production and Reading in Italy 1340-1520
Rhiannon Daniels
Italian Perspectives 19


Published 11 May 2011

Ugo Foscolo and English Culture
Sandra Parmegiani
Italian Perspectives 20


Published 6 July 2011

The Printed Media in Fin-de-siècle Italy: Publishers, Writers, and Readers
Edited by Ann Hallamore Caesar, Gabriella Romani, and Jennifer Burns
Italian Perspectives 21


Published 30 January 2012

Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature: Modernist Embodiment in Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda
Deborah Amberson
Italian Perspectives 22

Remembering Aldo Moro: The Cultural Legacy of the 1978 Kidnapping and Murder
Edited by Ruth Glynn and Giancarlo Lombardi
Italian Perspectives 23


Published October 2012

Disrupted Narratives: Illness, Silence and Identity in Svevo, Pressburger and Morandini
Emma Bond
Italian Perspectives 24


Forthcoming May 2013

Dante and Epicurus: A Dualistic Vision of Secular and Spiritual Fulfilment
George Corbett
Italian Perspectives 25   May 2013

Edoardo Sanguineti: Literature, Ideology and the Avant-Garde
Edited by Paolo Chirumbolo and John Picchione
Italian Perspectives 26   May 2013


Forthcoming August 2013

The Tradition of the Actor-Author in Italian Theatre
Edited by Donatella Fischer
Italian Perspectives 27   August 2013


Forthcoming November 2013

Leopardi’s Nymphs: Grace, Melancholy, and the Uncanny
Fabio A. Camilletti
Italian Perspectives 28   November 2013


Forthcoming 2014

Gadda, Beckett and Fractured Self-Narrative
Katrin Wehling-Giorgi
Italian Perspectives 29   2014

Caravaggio in Film and Literature: Popular Culture’s Appropriation of a Baroque Genius
Laura Rorato
Italian Perspectives 30   2014

The eleven titles published in the series under the Northern Universities Press imprint are:

11 Camorristi, Politicians and Businessmen: The Transformation of Organized Crime in Post-war Naples
Felia Allum
10 Contesting the Monument: The Anti-Illusionist Italian Historical Novel
Ruth Glynn
9 Fragments of Impegno
Jennifer Burns
8 Comedy and Culture: Cecco Angiolieri’s Poetry and Late Medieval Society
Fabian Alfie
7 Playing with Gender: The Comedies of Goldoni
Maggie Günsberg
6 Italo Calvino and the Landscape of Childhood
Claudia Nocentini
5 Origin and Identity: Essays on Svevo and Trieste
Elizabeth Schächter
4 Elio Vittorini: The Writer and the Written
Guido Bonsaver
3 Speculative Identities: Contemporary Italian Women’s Narrative
Rita Wilson
2 Nelle Carceri di G. B. Piranesi
Silvia Gavuzzo-Stewart
1 The Letters of Giacomo Leopardi 1817-1837
Edited by Prue Shaw

These titles remain available in paperback: please see www.maneypublishing.com/series/italianperspectives.