Italo-Hispanic Literary Relations

Italo-Hispanic Literary Relations

This collection of comparative essays re-examines and discovers new literary links between Italy, Spain, and Latin America which will provide the reader with a better understanding of the meaning, significance, and literary value of the works examined. Among the co-authors and their essays are: Nancy D'Antuono on commedia dell'arte in Spain; Giulio Massano on Italian influences in the genesis of the pícaro; Luigi Imperiale on Aretino and Francisco Delicado; Mario Aste on Hispanic-Sardinian writers. In addition, this collection also includes two Italo-Latin American essays by Vincenzo Bolletino and Galo Acevedo-Vaca.

  • Cover
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Three Hispanic-Sardinian writers: Delitala, Suñer, and Zatrillas
  • The Influence of Carlo Levi in the Narrative of Gabriel García Márquez
  • Pantalone Hispanicized: The Comic Father Figure in Lope de Vega's La Francesilla
  • Fuentes italianas de la mendicidad, la vagancia y el fraude en la novela picaresca española
  • Captación auditiva e imagen visual en la Roma de Francisco Delicado y Pietro Aretino
  • Influenze italiane sulle genesi e struttura del romanzo picaresco spagnolo
  • Boccaccio – Piccohmini – Rojas: A return to the Sources
  • Cervantes e Pirandello