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Journal articles on the topic "Italian civilisation":
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Pretelli, Matteo. "Education in the Italian colonies during the interwar period." Modern Italy 16, no. 3 (August 2011): 275–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13532944.2011.586502.
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Fascism saw education as a key way to ‘make Italians’ both at home and in its colonies. Schools for Italians and for the indigenous population in Africa were a key part of this project. These educational institutions were set up, partly, to convince young Italians of their role as colonisers and bearers of an idea of ‘Italian civilisation’. A small minority of Africans, who were permitted to attend schools created for a section of the local population, were given an education that was designed to reinforce their role as inferior and as targets for an idea of a superior ‘Italian civilisation’. This article will analyse the role of the schools set up in the colonies both for Italians and for the local population, as well as their use of politics, propaganda and their educational techniques. The article looks at continuities and breaks with the pre-Fascist period, as well as the radicalisation of racist educational policies after the proclamation of the empire.
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Dagnino, Jorge. "The Myth of the New Man in Italian Fascist Ideology." Fascism 5, no. 2 (October 27, 2016): 130–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22116257-00502003.
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This article addresses the key concept of the New Man within Fascist ideology, often considered as means and end of the Fascist revolution by the Fascists. Usually dismissed as an empty slogan by historians, it is argued in the following pages that the myth of the New Man is essential for a better understanding of the regime’s totalitarian and revolutionary aspirations along with its quest of creating an alternative modernity and a post-liberal and post-socialist type of civilisation based on the primacy of the collectivity - a realm where Italians could realise their full potential as human beings.
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Yampolskaya, A. V. "The works of Paolo Cognetti, or In praise of the wild boy." Voprosy literatury, no. 2 (June 17, 2021): 221–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2021-2-221-235.
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The author examines works by Paolo Cognetti in light of the myth he has created about a wild boy from the Alps and the wise mountain folk inhabiting various corners of the world. The myth, including the appeal to return to one's roots, to life in harmony with nature, has resonated with many people who are feeling out of place in modern urban civilisation. At the same time, Cognetti has developed his distinctive poetics by combining traditions of the American short story and those of Italian prose and by proposing a compelling stylistic ideal. The article dwells on the origins of Cognetti's writing, its defining features and Italian as well as foreign influences on his works. Cognetti's principal work, the novel The Eight Mountains [Le otto montagne], is analysed along with autobiographical stories The Wild Boy: A Memoir [Il ragazzo selvatico. Quaderno di montagna] and Without Ever Reaching the Summit: A Himalayan Journey [Senza mai arrivare in cima: Viaggio in Himalaya]. The myth of a savage and idealisation of the past help to explain Cognetti's popularity and the fact that he has lent his voice to a whole generation.
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Priorelli, Giorgia. "‘The founders of a European era’? The Fascist and Falangist plans for Italy and Spain in the new Nazi order." Modern Italy 24, no. 3 (April 25, 2019): 317–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mit.2019.15.
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At the dawn of the Second World War, the successes of the Axis seemed to herald the realisation of a new anti-Bolshevik and anti-democratic European order dominated by Nazi-fascist powers. Italian Fascists and Spanish Falangists enthusiastically welcomed plans for the ‘new civilisation’ in which they were determined to participate as protagonists. This article sheds light on the roles projected for the respective countries in the New European Order in the postwar period, according to the black and the blue shirts. It also investigates the ideological and cultural foundations of the Fascist and Falangist projects related to the new continental configuration, identifying similarities and differences between them. Considering the scarcity of comparative writings about fascist movements in the Mediterranean area, the present research fills a historiographic gap.
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Isaacs, Rico. "Vico and Populism." ProtoSociology 37 (2020): 45–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/protosociology2020373.
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This essay brings Italian political philosopher Giambattista Vico’s thought to bear on the issue of contemporary populism. Contemporary populism can be refected in Vico’s cyclical philosophy of the three ages of civilisation: the divine, heroic and human ages (corso e ricorso). Contemporary populism represents a return to the barbarism of the heroic age through the descent into individualism and private interest, the return of divinely ordained rulers and the recourse to myth, violence and morality. Humankind’s reason has become corrupted by the complexity of highly developed society, releasing the destructive forces of contemporary populism and a descent into a ‘barbarism of refection’. Corsi e ricorsi illustrates how contemporary populism remains but a stage in the Vichian cycle, alluding to how it represents an essential form of political life throughout history.
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Guazzaloca, Giulia. "‘In the name of justice and compassion’: animal protection in Italy during the Liberal Age (1861-1914)." Modern Italy 22, no. 3 (August 2017): 261–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mit.2017.36.
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This essay reconstructs the emergence of a growing sensitivity towards animal welfare in Italy during the so-called ‘liberal’ years. An examination of the origins and activities of animal protection societies, the debate on use of animals for scientific experimentation, and the earliest provisions for animal protection, reveals a growing concern for animal welfare in Italy too during the course of the twentieth century. This was channelled by the liberal-bourgeois values of the time: public decency, moderation, and goodwill towards animals as well as humans were all seen as signs of ‘civilisation’ and ‘progress’. It was claimed that foreign influence, particularly British, was of vital importance in such developments in Italy, including both the thoughts of the anti-vivisectionists and the work and propaganda of the societies for animal protection. This essay also examines the 1913 Law, which was the first important Italian legislation governing animal welfare and protection.
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Cerasi, Laura. "Empires ancient and modern: strength, modernity and power in imperial ideology from the Liberal period to Fascism." Modern Italy 19, no. 4 (November 2014): 421–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13532944.2014.968116.
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This article examines the image of Empire developed in public discourse in Italy during the late Liberal period and Fascism by placing it in the context of representations of the British Empire, with which Italian imperial ambitions were compared. There is a continuity in seeing the British Empire as the expression of industrial and commercial modernity and its resultant strength, but what in the Liberal period was seen as an unparalleled superiority became under Fascism a supremacy acquired in a particular period but now exhibiting signs of decline, which Fascism should contest and surpass. Admiration of the British was mixed with disparagement: key figures expressed a competitive resentment towards Britain and its dominant international position, seeing it as the epitome of ‘modern’ imperial power against which Fascism was destined to be measured. In the 1930s signs of the British Empire's decline were sought, developing the idea in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire that British domination would also rise and fall, and announcing the replacement of the ‘British order’, founded on commercial modernity and the strength of money and capital, by Fascism's new civilisation, with its authentic heritage of imperial romanità. This competitiveness towards Britain, which historiography has principally seen as a component of foreign policy (as was clear over Ethiopia), has additional significance when seen as an element of political culture that relates to the concept of the State. The autonomy and strength of the State were an important feature of Fascism's self-representation and of its legal culture, and in this light the possession of an empire came to be seen as an essential aspect of statehood and power.
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Chapoutot, Johann. "Mussolini et Hitler, nouveaux Auguste? Autour du bimillenaire de la naissance d’Auguste, 1933-1938." REVISTA DE HISTORIOGRAFÍA (RevHisto) 27 (November 27, 2017): 127. http://dx.doi.org/10.20318/revhisto.2017.3967.
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Résumé: En plein coeur du XXeme siècle et au centre de l’Europe, deux régimes vantant leur propre modernité se réfèrent ouvertement au précédent impérial romain, et è la figure d’Auguste. Quel peut-être le sens de cette référence? Et quelle différence peut-on constater entre l’usage fasciste italien et l’usage nazi de l’antiquité romaine?Mots-clés: Empire Romain, Civilisation Occidentale, fascisme, usages de l’histoire, propagande politique.Resumen: A mediados del siglo XX y en el centro de Europa, dos regímenes que presumen de su propia modernidad se refieren abiertamente al precedente imperial romano y a la figura de Augusto. ¿Que sentido puede tener esta referencia? Y ¿qué diferencia puede encontrarse entre el uso fascista italiano y el uso nazi de la antigüedad romana?Palabras clave: Imperio romano, civilización occidental, fascismo, uso de la Historia, propaganda política.
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Facci, Serena, and Alessandra Ciucci. "The Akazehe of Burundi: Polyphonic Interlocking Greetings and the Female Ceremonial. By Serena Facci. Translated by Alessandra Ciucci." Ethnomusicology Translations, no. 10 (April 24, 2020): 1–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.14434/emt.v0i10.30278.
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Akazehe is one of the names in Burundi for forms of sung greeting performed exclusively by women. Studies carried out during the colonial era (in particular Rodegem 1965, 1973) and in more recent times (Ndimurwanko 1985-6) have shown how the contents of these greetings among women are closely linked to the feminine world in which these greetings are used—in specific private and public spaces in accordance with rural tradition. Although these greetings were becoming less common at the time the research for this article was conducted, the author was able to record a number of akazehe after listening to examples of them in the sound archives of the Centre de civilisation burundaise.
A greeting is defined by linguists as a formalized parenthesis that defines, reiterates, and encloses the relation between two participants. The formulaic character of a greeting makes it different from ordinary speech. In the case of the akazehe, the greeting emphasizes gestural and sound qualities to such an extent that it creates a veritable musical texture.
This article presents transcriptions and analysis of some models of akazehe, focusing on one that features procedures of vocal interlocking. The two parts—gutera and kwakira—are organized according to musical rules that manifest a strong spirit of cooperation between the two women who sing the two parts in dialogue. Furthermore, well-defined rules of exchange for the two roles semantically remind us of the social equality between the two participants. The musical enrichment of the time reserved for the greeting is experienced as amusing by the performers. The greeting also represents an opportunity for artistic expression in a social reality that otherwise allows few performance spaces for women.
Citation: Facci, Serena. The Akazehe of Burundi: Polyphonic Interlocking Greetings and the Female Ceremonial. Translated by Alessandria Ciucci. Ethnomusicology Translations, no. 10. Bloomington, IN: Society for Ethnomusicology, 2020.
Originally published in Italian as "Akazehe del Burundi: saluti a incastro polifonico e cerimonialità femminile." In Polifonie: Procedimenti, tassonomi e forme: una reflessione a più voci, edited by Maurizio Agamennone, 123-61. Roma: Bulzoni Editore, 1996.
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Bressan, Edoardo. "Le vie cristiane della sicurezza sociale. I cattolici italiani e il welfare state." SOCIOLOGIA E POLITICHE SOCIALI, no. 3 (January 2013): 91–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/sp2012-003007.
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In Italy, from the 1930s until the end of the century, the relationship between the Catholic world and the development of the Social state becomes a very relevant theme. Social thought and Catholic historiography issues witness a European civilisation crisis, by highlighting problems of poverty and historical forms of assistance. Furthermore, by following the 1931 Pope Pius XI encyclical Quadragesimo anno these issues interacted with fascist corporativism. After 1945, other key experiences arose, as the discussion on social security as the conclusion of the whole public assistance debate shown. These themes are reported in the Bologna social week works in 1949 and in Fanfani's and La Pira's positions, which present several correspondences with British and French worlds, such as Christian socialism, Reinhold Niebuhr's thought and Maritain's remarks. The 1948 Republican Constitution adopts the Welfare State model assumptions, and it is in those very years that the problem of a system based on a universal outlook arose. Afterwards, governments of coalition led by centre and left-wing parties fostered social security through welfare and health reforms until the '80s. While this model falls into crisis, and new social actors begin to be involved in a context of subsidiarity.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Italian civilisation":
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Naccarella, Pierpaolo. "La « seconde génération » de l'élite dirigeante du Parti communiste italien : entre fascisme, antifascisme et communisme." Thesis, Paris 10, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA100189.
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Les membres de la « seconde génération » de l’élite dirigeante du Parti communiste italien (PCI) se forment sous le fascisme. Pendant les années 1930, ce sont de jeunes intellectuels qui adhèrent au « fascisme de gauche ». A partir du milieu de cette décennie-là, ils commencent à s’éloigner du fascisme. Ils rejoindront ensuite le PCI. Entre 1944 et 2006, une vingtaine d’entre eux publient des « écritures de soi » (des ouvrages autobiographiques et personnels), dans lesquelles ils expliquent leur itinéraire politique. Ils y revendiquent leur cohérence : les principales raisons pour lesquelles ils ont adhéré au fascisme coïncident avec les raisons de leur engagement dans le PCI.Ils écrivent également que leur soutien au régime mussolinien a été le résultat de la tromperie dont ils ont été victimes sous le fascisme, qui leur a imposé une fausse image de lui. La jeunesse intellectuelle n’a pas adhéré au « vrai » fascisme, mais à une représentation erronée de celui-ci. En conséquence, ils ont toujours été antifascistes tout en se croyant fascistes.Le contenu de ces ouvrages est influencé par le leader du PCI, Palmiro Togliatti, qui utilise les « écritures de soi » datant des années 1940 pour attirer les jeunes ex-fascistes, dont son parti a besoin pour former une nouvelle classe dirigeante et gagner le combat pour la conquête du pouvoir.Ces « écritures de soi » influencent à leur tour plusieurs historiens et l’opinion italienne qui, pendant longtemps, ont accepté leurs thèses sans les remettre en question et ont fondé sur elles la façon de représenter et décrire l’engagement politique et culturelle dont la jeunesse intellectuelle a fait preuve sous le fascismeThe members of the ''second generation'' of the ruling elite of the Italian Communist Party (ICP) come together under fascism. During the 1930s they are young intellectuals who belong to ''left-wing fascism''. From the middle of this decade they start to move away from fascism. They will later join the ICP.Between 1944 and 2006 twenty of them publish ''personal texts'' (personal and autobiographical works), in which they explain their political itinerary. In them they claim to be coherent: the main reasons for which they followed fascism are the reasons for their commitment to the ICP.They also write that their support for the Mussolini regime was the result of the fact that they were deceived under fascism which gave them a false impression of itself. The young intellectuals did not adhere to the ''real'' fascism, but a false representation of it. Consequently they had always been antifascists while believing themselves to be fascists.The content of these publications is influenced by the leader of the ICP, Palmiro Togliatti, who uses the ''personal texts'' dating from the 1940s to attract young ex-fascists whom his party needs to form a new ruling class and to win the battle for the conquest of power.These ''personal texts" in turn influence several historians and Italian opinion which, for a long time, accepted their theses without calling them into question, and based their way of representing and describing the political and cultural commitment shown by young intellectuals under fascism on them
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Grenzi, Chiara. "L'image de la langue et de la civilisation françaises au sein de l'éducation nationale italienne : les représentations des acteurs du FLE des établissements scolaires de Modène." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014MON30061/document.
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Titre : L'image de la langue et de la civilisation françaises au sein de l'Éducation nationale italienne. Les représentations des acteurs du FLE des établissements scolaires de Modène.Résumé : Plusieurs études ont montré l'influence que les représentations d'une langue, d'un pays et de ses habitants peuvent exercer sur les apprenants de la langue en question, au niveau de l'attitude envers la discipline, de la motivation, de la disponibilité à vêtir un autre habit langagier et mental. Cette thèse reprend la définition et les caractéristiques du concept de représentation et naît du désir de trouver des réponses à des situations vécues en tant que professeure de FLE dans le secondaire en Italie. Nous nous sommes toujours demandée pourquoi les apprenants que nous avons connus, dans des établissements très différents, connaissaient si peu la langue, mais surtout le pays. S'agit-il d'un problème commun à tous les apprenants ? Pourquoi semblent-ils posséder les mêmes (non) connaissances que leurs camarades n'étudiant pas le français ? Dans ce travail, d'abord nous décrirons l'histoire de l'Éducation italienne et le parcours du français langue étrangère dans son sein. Une section sera consacrée aussi à l'illustration des étapes accomplies par la didactique des langues étrangères pour devenir une discipline. Notre enquête concerne les apprenants et les enseignants de différents établissements de la province de Modène, dans l'Italie du Nord. Dans ce territoire, influencé historiquement par la France au point de posséder un dialecte proche de cette langue, quelles sont les représentations des apprenants et des enseignants ? Quel type de didactique émerge-t-elle ? Quels sont les atouts et quelles sont les faiblesses ? Pour répondre à ces questions, nous avons interviewé par questionnaire 896 apprenants et 36 enseignants : questions fermées, ouvertes, à choix multiple, jeu de libres associations, invitation au dessin, activités de reconnaissance d'image et récit de propres opinions et expériences nous aideront à creuser pour trouver quelques réponses et suggérer, avec toute la modestie possible, quelques solutions éventuelles.Mots-clefs : représentations sociolinguistiques - stéréotypes - motivation - didactique - français langue étrangère - école secondaire supérieure - apprenants - enseignantsTitle: The image of French language and culture in Italian school. Representations of teachers and students (survey in Modena).Summary: Several studies have long shown the influence that the representation of a language, of a country, and of its people can have on those who are studying that language in terms of their attitude towards it, their motivation, their willingness to enter a different state of mind and language. This dissertation, which will trace the meaning and features of the concept of representation, originates from a deep need to provide an answer to a firsthand experience as a teacher of French as a foreign language in the secondary school: during the three years spent working in schools of different types, I started to wonder why most of the students I met knew the language very poorly and, most of all, knew hardly anything about the country whose language they were studying. Is this a common problem amongst students of FFL? Why do they seem to have the same lack of knowledge as their peers who are not studying French? In the present work I will first describe the history of the Italian system, and the events that characterized FFL teaching in the past. A broad section will focus on how foreign language teaching became a discipline. This investigation will concern students and teachers from the Province of Modena, Northern Italy, and it will include schools of very different types and backgrounds. What are the students' and teachers' representations in a territory like Northern Italy? A territory as thoroughly influenced by France as to have a dialect very much like the French language? What is the scenario, when French language teaching is about? Which are its strength and weaknesses? To answer these questions I asked 896 students 36 teachers to fill in a questionnaire composed of yes - no, open-ended, and multiple choice questions, free association games, suggested drawings, picture recognition activities and description of personal opinions and experiences. The analysis of these results will help me go deeper into these topics, answer some questions and humbly suggest some possible solutions.Keywords: sociolinguistic representations - stereotypes - motivation - languages attitudes - teaching - French as a foreign language - secondary school - teachers - student
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Vittorini, Valerio. "L'image du monde arabe dans la littérature française et italienne du XIXe siècle : analogies, différences, possibles influences." Thesis, Nice, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015NICE2013/document.
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L'image du monde arabe la plus répandue aujourd'hui dans l'opinion publique, même la plus cultivée, italienne, française et européenne, est construite surtout de lieux communs et stéréotypes. Les réactions aux récents "Printemps Arabes" en sont une preuve éloquente. Cependant cette image est assez récente: elle n'existait pas avant le XIXe siècle. On trouve dans la littérature italienne et française du Moyen Âge au XIXe siècle des images du monde arabe bien différentes de celle d'aujourd'hui. Le monde arabe, jusqu'au XIXe siècle, n'était pas aux yeux des Européens, un monde radicalement "autre", mais, bien au contraire, une partie tout à fait légitime et familière de la civilisation méditerranéenne, un monde avec lequel on pouvait avoir des âpres conflits, mais aussi des relations économiques, commerciales, politiques et culturelles très utiles. Au XIXe siècle cette image change radicalement et le monde arabe devient un monde barbare, incapable de progrès, radicalement "autre", un monde pour lequel la seule possibilité réside dans la colonisation européenne. Cette image, née en France et en Angleterre au même moment de la politique impérialiste, ne tarde pas à s'affirmer aussi en Italie, l'Unité nationale achevéeThe conception of the Arab society, still so predominant with the public opinion, even with the most cultured one, be it Italian French or in winder terms European, originates from stereotype. The reactions to the latest "Arab springs" are a clear evidence. The belief arose in the XIX century and not in more ancient times as most people believe and think. Before that time, stating from the Middle Age, both Italian and somehow French literary production gave diverse pictures of the Arab society, which are very different from the current ones. Up to the XIX century this conception was not drastic and the Arab word was considered to be a legitimate and usual part of the Mediterranean civilization you could have strong conflicts with, but at the same time also business, political, economic and cultural relations. In the XIX century this belief totally changes and the Arab world seems to be an uncivilized society whose only opportunity is the European colonization. This opinion was born in France and Italy when the imperialist politics started and it finished in the second half of the century, after the union of Italy
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Balsamo, Jean. "L'Italie françoise : italianisme et anti-italianisme en France à la fin du XVIe siècle." Paris 4, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1988PA040107.
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La culture française de la fin du XVIe siècle repose sur une part conjointe d'italianisme et d'anti-italianisme. La cour des derniers Valois n'hésite pas à se servir des suggestions innombrables offertes par l'Italie moderne,et à se définir dans le même temps par une dépréciation systématique de sa rivale. A travers l'expérience du "voyage d'Italie",dans la polémique liée à l'immigration italienne,dans la réflexion politique anti-machiavélienne,se précisent les lieux communs du discours équivoque des Français et leur rôle dans la constitution d'une conscience nationale. Illustrant le conflit des langues vulgaires,la traduction,pourtant lieu par excellence de l'italianisme,sert à l'apologie de la langue française et dévoile,dans un écart volontaire aux oeuvres originales,moins une "influence" de l'Italie,que les impératifs du goût français des élites mondaines et savantesLate sixteenth century french culture is based on connected parts of italianism and anti-italianism. The last Valois' court doesn't hesitate to use innumerable possibilities offered by modern Italy and to define itself by systematically depreciating such a rival. .
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Ardiccioni, Renzo. "Culture cybernétique en Italie : histoire et perspectives." Rennes 2, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000REN20048.
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Cette recherche sur la culture cybernétique en Italie, du futur antérieur au futur à venir, entend confronter ce pays avec son développement, ses mutations et ses transformations. Centrée sur l'espace communicationnel, cette étude constitue aussi une introduction à l'Italie contemporaine -ses nouveaux habitus et ses nouveaux profils culturels- en relation avec l'avènement des nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communication. L'explosion de la techno-communication italienne est un phénomène sans précédent, qui bouscule les traditions culturelles de le péninsule, jusqu'alors dominées par la rhétorique classique et la dialectique fermée du rapport strapaese-stracittà. Cette nouvelle Italie, ouverte à une pléthore de messages, dont les frontières mentales comme physiques se déplacent massivement vers l'inconnu, a pourtant de sérieuses références locales. Nous les trouvons en partie dans le mouvement futuriste, auquel nous consacrons une approche documentée et attentive. Là gisent, selon nous, certains repères qui ont permis l'ouverture à l'innovation techno-communicationnelle et l'évolution de la perception de l'identité italienneOur research on cyberculture in Italy, from former future up to next future, is a travel all around this country and its development, its changes, and challenges. Starting from the concept of communication-space, our study is also and introduction to contemporary Italy -its new way of life and its new culture- following the advent of the new media. The explosion of techno-communication in Italy is an event without precedent, that upsets the cultural traditions of this country still marked by the rhetoric and a restricted dialectic kind of strapaese-stracittà. Nevertheless, we could even find in that modern country -now open to several messages while moving to new unknown physical and mental frontiers- many former strong local references. We found some of these in the Futurist movement, to which we devoted a large part of our research. We went throughout Futurism to find some important landmarks, which allowed the techno-communication change as well as the evolution in the perception of the Italian identity
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Ernst, Paul. "Recherches sur les pratiques culturelles des Italiens à Délos aux IIe et Ier siècles avant notre ère." Thesis, Paris 8, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA080050.
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À une époque marquée par les interventions et les conquêtes romaines dans la Grèce égéenne, ainsi que par la décision du Sénat romain, en 167, de placer Délos sous le contrôle d’Athènes et d’en faire un port exempté de taxes douanières, les individus originaires de la péninsule italienne furent de plus en plus nombreux à s’installer ou à séjourner temporairement sur cette île qui, devenue fortement cosmopolite, joua un rôle de relais économique entre l’Italie et la Méditerranée orientale.À partir d’une documentation abondante et variée de nature essentiellement épigraphique et archéologique sont successivement abordés trois thèmes : les lieux de résidence et les modes de vie domestique des Italiens et de leur entourage familial et clientélaire, leur participation aux activités du gymnase et aux concours organisés sur l’île, et leurs pratiques religieuses. Les causes, la nature, la portée et les enjeux (parfois sociaux, économiques et/ou politiques) de chaque pratique font l’objet d’interprétations qui permettent de mieux comprendre, dans toute sa complexité, l’importante hellénisation de ces Italiens qui se sont quelquefois distingués par des usages romains.L’étude s’achève par une mise en perspective du cas délien afin de déterminer ce qui en fait à la fois un exemple représentatif des pratiques culturelles des Italiens dans la Grèce égéenne et un cas particulier. C’est l’intensité de phénomènes d’intégration multiples auxquels prenaient pleinement part les Italiens, dans le contexte de rapports de pouvoir favorables à Rome et à tous ceux qui se réclamaient de cette cité, qui paraît avoir constitué une singularité de la vie culturelle délienneThe 2nd and 1st centuries BC were marked by Roman interventions and conquests in the Aegean Greece, and by the decision of the Roman Senate, in 167, to place Delos under the control of Athens and to make it a port exempt from customs tax. As a result, individuals who came from the Italian peninsula were more and more numerous to settle or reside temporarily on the island which became highly cosmopolitan and played a part as an economic bridge between Italy and the eastern Mediterranean.Based on a wide range of varied documents which are mainly epigraphic and archaeological, the study deals with three themes : the places of residence and the domestic daily life of Italians, their family circle and their clients, their participation in the gymnasium activities and in competitions organized on the island, and their religious practices. This dissertation tries to interpret the causes, the nature and the significance of each of these practices. It also analyses their social, economic and/or political dimensions in order to better understand the complexity of the advanced hellenization of those Italians who sometimes distinguished themselves by using Roman customs.The study concludes with a larger perspective in order to determine what makes Delos both a representative example of the Italians’ cultural practices in the Aegean Greece, and a special case. Ultimately, the distinctive feature of cultural life in Delos seems to have been the wide range of integration patterns in which Italians fully took part. This phenomenon took place in the context of a balance of power that was favourable to Rome and to all those who identified with this city
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Chiarini, Silvia. "Anthropologie d'une construction identitaire et territoriale : le cas des Vallées occitanes d'Italie." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016AIXM3066.
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L'objectif de ce travail est d'appréhender l'émergence et l'affirmation du territoire des Vallées occitanes d'Italie et le processus de construction identitaire qui le sous-tend. En partant d'une « protohistoire » de la revendication d'oc jusqu'à une ethnographie du présent, cette enquête prend en compte les représentations revendiquées et/ou visibles de la culture, de l'identité et du territoire et donc les discours et les pratiques des « entrepreneurs identitaires », que sont en premier lieu les occitanistes. La délimitation des frontières ethno-linguistiques, la création et la diffusion de symboles, la construction d'un patrimoine musico-chorégraphique, d'une architecture occitane et d'un « occitan imaginé », constituent les principaux procédés mis en œuvre à cet effet. L'institutionnalisation de la revendication au cours des années 1990, qui aboutit à la promulgation d'une loi reconnaissant une « minorité occitane » dont l'État italien protège « la langue et la culture » (1999), a impliqué aussi l'analyse des usages sociaux et politiques du « fonds patrimonial » élaboré par les militants à l'extérieur des groupes revendicatifs. Celui-ci est dès lors mis au service du développement du territoire en un double souci identitaire et économique à travers la réalisation d'une politique culturelle et linguistique institutionnelle, la création de produits et labels à connotation occitane et la mise en tourisme d'un territoire jusqu'alors dépourvu d'éléments d'attractivité et de différenciation conséquentsThe purpose of this work is to understand the emergence and affirmation of the Italian Occitan Valleys territory and the identity construction process that underlies it. Starting from a “proto-history” of the oc claim to a present ethnography, this research considers the claimed and / or visible representations of culture, identity and territory, and therefore the speeches and the practices of “identity entrepreneurs” that are primarily the occitanists. The demarcation of ethno-linguistic border, the creation and diffusion of symbols, the construction of a musical-choreographic heritage, as well as an Occitan architecture and an “imagined Occitan” language, are some of the processes implemented by the occitanists to this end. The institutionalization of the claim in the 1990s, which resulted in the enactment of a national law officially recognizing the “Occitan minority” (1999), also involved to lead the analysis of social and political uses of “heritage fund” developed by activists outside the protest groups. This last one has been therefore dedicated to territory development with a double identity and economic concern, through the implementation of a cultural and linguistic institutional policy, the creation of economic activities and labels with Occitan patterning, and the launching for tourism of a territory devoid of substantial elements of attractiveness and differentiation
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Aubert, Natacha. "Usage et réception du thème de l'antiquité dans le cinéma muet italien (1905-1930)." Paris 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA030022.
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A partir d'un corpus de 157 films italiens muets mettant en scène l'antiquité, cette recherche se divise en deux parties. La première aborde les films comme une série documentaire. Une étude quantitative permet d'appréhender l'évolution statistique de l'emploi du thème de l'antiquité entre 1900 et 1930, en le replaçant dans un contexte international puis en le situant, dans la cinématographie italienne, par rapport aux autres périodes historiques traitées. L'étude de la réception des films à sujet antique peut se faire à travers les comptes rendus, puisqu'il semble qu'ils sont considérés comme le fer de lance de la production nationale. La seconde partie se veut une approche qualitative. A travers l'analyse de plusieurs films, il apparaît que l'adaptation de l'antiquité n'est jamais innocente et a toujours un lien avec les préoccupations du présent. Au-delà du divertissement et de l'exotisme, il y a toujours une part de discours idéologique interne à l'Italie ou vis-à-vis de l'étrangerBased on 157 Italian silent films presenting antiquity, this project is bipartite. Part one studies the films as a series of documents. A quantitative study yields an understanding of the statistical evolution of the use of the theme of antiquity between 1900 and 1930, first in Italian cinematography, then in the international context and finally in relation to other historic periods. Reception of films on the subject of antiquity, considered the spearhead of national film production, is studied through film reviews. The second part offers a qualitative approach. Through the analysis of several films, it is apparent that the adaptation of antiquity is never innocent and is always linked to the preoccupations of the present. Beyond entertainment and exoticism, there is always the facet of ideological discourse internal to Italy or vis-à-vis foreign countries
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Kirchner, Daniela. "Le mythe populaire de l'Amérique dans l'Italie de l'entre-deux-guerres à l'après-guerre : littérature, chanson, cinéma." Paris 10, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992PA100021.
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Le mythe italien de l'Amérique est présent dans toutes les couches de la société italienne et fascine les intellectuels et les paysans. Ce travail se concentre sur le mythe populaire de l'Amérique et non pas l'Amérique des intellectuels. Il étudie le rêve qui a motivé de nombreux paysans à émigrer de l’Italie du sud jusqu'en Amérique, rêve qui a aussi été alimenté par ceux qui ont toujours espéré partir sans jamais y parvenir. Une variété d'expériences réelles, d'impressions et de rêves se reflètent dans différents medias tels que la littérature, les chansons populaires, le cinéma, le jazz américain et le langage italo-américain et créent une image souvent ambiguë et contradictoire. Dominée par la réalité indéniable de l'émigration et par l'espoir de l'émigrant d'un monde meilleur, l'image populaire italienne de l'Amérique se révèle à la fois réaliste et idéalisée, concrète et fantasmatique, amère et douce. L'étude approfondie de ce mythe et de sa réalité culturelle nous permet aussi de réfléchir sur l'existence et les effets possibles de mythes similaires qui existent dans d'autres pays et d'autres culturesThe Italian myth of America permeates all the classes of Italian society and fascinates intellectuals and peasants alike. This thesis deliberately focuses on the popular myth of America and not on the intellectual one. It studies that dream which motivated many peasants to emigrate all the way from southern Italy to America. That same dream grew in the minds of those people who did not make it and were left behind to feed on it. A variety of real experiences, impressions and dreams are reflected through different media such as literature, popular songs, cinema, America jazz and italo-american jargon. These constitute an image, which is often ambiguous and contradictory. Dominated by the undeniable reality of emigration and by the hope of the emigrant for a better world, the popular Italian image of America reveals itself real and idealized, concrete and fantastic, bitter and sweet. The study in depth of this particular myth and its cultural reality helps us also to understand the existence and possible effects of similar myths which are present in other countries and other cultures
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D'Ercole, Maria Cecilia. "Importuosa Italiae litora : la côte Adriatique entre le Biferno et l'Ofanto : le paysage et les échanges à l'époque archai͏̈que." Paris 1, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA010746.
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Cette these etudie les relations d'echange et les influences culturelles sur la cote adriatique meridionale de l'italie, dans la region comprise entre les fleuves biferno et ofanto, a l'epoque archaique. Le travail se repartit en trois sections. La premiere comprend le bilan de la recherche historique et archeologique (premier chapitre). La deuxieme partie traite la reconstitution du paysage ancien ( chapitre deuxieme ) et la topographie des sites archaiques cotiers (chapitre troisieme). La troisieme section traite de la circulation des biens dans ces regions adriatiques et notamment des ambres (chapitre quatrieme) des metaux (chapitre cinquieme) des ceramiques d'omportation (chapitre sixieme), des ceramiques indigenes exportees (chapitre septieme) et d'autres produits d'echange, tels que le ble ou le sel (chapitre huitieme); le chapitre neuvieme examine les representations des navires dans l'art archaique indigene. Le chapitre conclusif presente le bilan sur la nature des echanges, sur la distribution des reseaux commerciaux et sur les effets sociaux des relations commerciales. La recherche est completee par un annexe de sources litteraires anciennesThis thesis studies commercial and cultural relationships between the native people of south italy's adriatic coast in the archaic period. The dissertation is divided in three sections. The first, relates to the historical and archaeological researches on this subject (chapter one). The second, concerns the reconstruction of the ancient coastal landscape ( chapter two) and the topography of the ancient coastal settlements ( chapter three ). The third, examines to the commercial relationships and the circulation of goods in this adriatic district, mostly ambers (chapter four), metals (chapter five), imported vessels (chapter six), exported vessels (chapter seven), some perishable goods, like corn and salt (chapter eight). Chapter nine examines the ship models represented in local sculptures. The concluding chapter analyses the nature of exchanges, the distribution of commercial networks, and the social effects of trade relationship
Books on the topic "Italian civilisation":
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Ferrari, Valeria. Civilisation, laicité, liberté: Francesco Saverio Salfi fra illuminismo e Risorgimento. Milano: F. Angeli, 2009.
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Parks, Tim. Un educazione Italiana. Milano: Bompiani, 1998.
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Martinet, Gilles. Les Italiens. Paris: B. Grasset, 1990.
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Springer, Carolyn. Armour and masculinity in the Italian Renaissance. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.
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Barzini, Luigi Giorgio. The Italians: A full-length portrait featuring their manners and morals. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1996.
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Schiesari, Juliana. Beasts and beauties: Animals, gender and domestication in the Italian renaissance. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.
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Ceccucci, Piero, ed. Fiorenza mia…! Firenze e dintorni nella poesia portoghese d'oggi. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-8453-329-6.
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In the Portuguese imagination Florence is justly considered the cradle of modern western civilisation. Seen and admired from the Renaissance on as the new Athens, for the Portuguese it has always represented not only a model of culture and civilisation to take as inspiration, but also and above all the locus amoenus of spiritual and intellectual harmony and balance, dreamed-of and unattainable, that floods and pervades the soul with a vague, nostalgic sentiment of admiration. Evidence of this, now as in the past, are the serried ranks of poets who for centuries have sung its praises and raised it to the rank of myth. This brief anthology proposes only a few of them, among the most renowned of recent generations. In a truly original way these poets have managed to convey to the hearts and minds of their compatriots their own stunned vision of the city, illustrating emotions that cannot fail to move even the Florentines and, in a broader sense, we Italians as a whole. Thus what is offered in these pages, in fine Italian translation, is this mesh of voices, an intimate and enthralling polyphony of city, poet and reader, unfurling in an evocative melody and proposing the legend of Florence in a new light – possibly more authentic and illuminating.
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Zorzi, Andrea, ed. La civiltà comunale italiana nella storiografia internazionale. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-113-7.
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This book contains the proceedings of the first international conference organised by the Centro di Studi sulla civiltà comunale of the University of Florence, and offers a fine overview of the contribution made by international historiography to the history of the Italian Comunes. One of the most significant periods in the country's past is addressed here by some of the leading international specialists through the reconstruction of the approaches, issues and outcomes of the principal foreign historiographies (German, French, American, Spanish and English). The result is a fairly articulated picture of how the civilisation of the Comune has been treated and appraised over time outside Italy. Consequently, the book is offered as an updated tool of historiographic reflection and as a useful yardstick for studies devoted to the European urban world.
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Ara, Angelo. Trieste: Une identité de frontière. [Paris]: Seuil, 1991.
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Sciascio-Andrews, Josie Di. How the Italians created Canada: From Giovanni Caboto to the cultural renaissance. [Edmonton]: Dragon Hill, 2007.
Book chapters on the topic "Italian civilisation":
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Soykut, Mustafa. "THE TURK AS THE "GREAT ENEMY OF EUROPEAN CIVILISATION" AND THE CHANGING IMAGE IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE SECOND SIEGE OF VIENNA: (IN THE LIGHT OF ITALIAN POLITICAL LITERATURE)." In Historical Image of the Turk in Europe, 15th Century to the Present, 45–116. Piscataway, NJ, USA: Gorgias Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.31826/9781463225483-004.
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Burckhardt, Jacob. "The Italian State and the Individual." In The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy, 129–33. Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429059780-11.
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"The myth of the Italian pioneer, 1000–1492." In The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation, 116–33. Cambridge University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511489013.008.
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Fazel, Shirin Ramzanali. "2 Io e l’Islam." In Diaspore. Venice: Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-411-0/002.
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This chapter gathers Shirin’s reflections about her experience as a Muslim Italian woman who has lived in Italy and the United Kingdom. Shirin portrays her daily life, including her experience of religious and racist discrimination. In particular, the text analyzes how Muslims are depicted in media and the frequent association between Islam and terrorism. “Io e l’Islam” does not only criticise the hypocrisy of xenophobe Europeans who believe that Western civilisation is inherently ‘superior’ to all other civilisations, but it also highlights the contradictions of extremist Muslims who contravene the teaching of Islam.
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Burckhardt, Jacob. "The Foreign Policy of the Italian States." In The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy, 88–97. Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429059780-8.
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Scalora, Francesco. "Modern Greek studies in Italy (1866–1897) : Philhellenic revival and classical tradition through the lens of the Nuova Antologia." In Languages, Identities and Cultural Transfers. Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89 1018 VR Amsterdam Nederland: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462988071_ch06.
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During the long era of Italian philhellenism, interest in modern Greece was more than just political and ideological. In particular, in the second half of the nineteenth century, the philhellenism of the Risorgimento period was animated by an interest in the culture of modern Greece and by the wish to investigate the character and most significant aspects of the civilisation and literary production of modern Greece. In the context of literate and pluralistic Italian editorial opinion, the magazine Nuova Antologia exhibited a sincerity of interest in modern Greece in the years when Italy and Greece were still engaged in the process of national resolution and finding their places within the European political and cultural scene.
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Coletta, Michela. "Against the poetics of decadence: Latin America and the aesthetics of regeneration." In Decadent Modernity, 116–43. Liverpool University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781786941312.003.0005.
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In the late nineteenth century, sociological studies often functioned as a channel between the psychological and criminological sciences and the traditional field of literature. I argue that Nordau’s work, which drew as much upon Italian criminology as it did upon Jean-Marie Guyau’s sociological theory of aesthetics, constituted a major path by which ideas of degeneration taken from the medical and criminological sciences came to be a fundamental tool of interpretation of modern Latin American culture. One of the main lines of argument in this chapter is that social theories on the degeneration of modern art were useful to vast sectors of the late-nineteenth-century intellectual elites to identify with the values of modern civilisation. By linking the development of literary modernismo to the wider engagement with questions about the features of modern civilisation, this discussion offers a new reading of modernismo as a movement that in its boom phase helped foster ideas of modernity as an essentially urban − and therefore transnational − phenomenon through notions of refinement, disease and degeneration. The second part of the chapter shows how Rodó’s seminal essay Ariel marked a turning point from decadent civilisation to the idea of Latin American culture by building on a moral conception of aesthetics.
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Biagi, Paolo. "Ca’ Foscari and Pakistan. Thirty Years of Achaeological Surveys and Excavations in Sindh and Las Bela (Balochistan)." In 150 Years of Oriental Studies at Ca’ Foscari. Venice: Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-252-9/010.
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This paper regards the research carried out by the Italian Archaeological Mission in Sindh and Las Bela province of Balochistan (Pakistan). Until the mid ’80s the prehistory of the two regions was known mainly from the impressive urban remains of the Bronze Age Indus Civilisation and the Palaeolithic assemblages discovered at the top of the limestone terraces that estend south of Rohri in Upper Sindh. Very little was known of other periods, their radiocarbon chronology, and the Arabian Sea coastal zone. Our knowledge radically changed thanks to the discoveries made during the last three decades by the Italian Archaeological Mission. Thanks to the results achieved in these years, the key role played by the north-western regions of the Indian Subcontinent in prehistory greatly improved.
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Burckhardt, Jacob. "Journeys of the Italians." In The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy, 283–88. Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429059780-26.
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Bassi, Shaul, and Pia Masiero. "Incroci di civiltà, undici anni di letteratura a Venezia: 2008-18." In Le lingue occidentali nei 150 anni di storia di Ca’ Foscari. Venice: Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-262-8/020.
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This contribution presents Incroci di civiltà (Crossings of Civilisations), Venice International Literary Festival. Specifically, it traces its birth within the former Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, its development in the two Linguistic Departments of the University, and the many Venetian collaborations that have made it recognisably unique in the Italian cultural landscape because of its thematic focus and engagement with crucial issues of our present-tense world.