D'orlando).Another cluster of essays focuses on Montale, highlighting yet another fragment of his love story with Irma Brandeis (Tramuta), as well as the passion for contemporary Italian literature the poet pours over his extensive journalistic output (Maxia).A final cluster deals with the theme of travel or more broadly with artful explorations of space.Here one moves from Pascoli's vindication of the vanity of all travels, safe for those of a contemplative nature (De Poli) to Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy, illuminated through Walter Benjamin's observations on the city (Pala); and from Bufalino's inner journey leading to the rescue of memory through the encyclopedic model typical of Baroque literature (Caltagirone) to Eric Rohmer's successful attempt at staging a medieval notion of space in Perceval (1978) (Guglielmi); and finally to the presentation of CARTA-DITALIA-a scholarly journal and book catalogue sponsored by the Italian Institute of Culture in Stockholm-as 'vehicle' for a wider International circulation of contemporary Italian culture (Grossi).All in all, this volume represents a substantial contribution to the field of Italian Studies, which may possibly leave the reader with the only regret of not having better tools to peruse it more efficiently (an index of authors may have been helpful in this respect).Particularly inspiring for its scientific rigor and its impressive polyglotism-bibliographical references in most essays are in two languages (Italian and French), on occasions also in English, along with ancient Greek and Latin-it stands as a remarkable example of what European Literaturwissenschaft is, at its best, and how culturally diverse it can be.
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Iacovetta et al. (2014) studied this question.