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In the customary and deeply-rooted division of Italian writers into those from the north and those from the south, the iconoclastic ...

French-Italian writer Jean-Noël Schifano’s Chroniques Napolitaines (1984) contains six tales built around actual persons and events f...

Reading Giambattista Basile’s The Tale of Tales ( Lo Cunto de li Cunti , or alternately, the Pentamerone ), I wondered at the evoluti...