Event Category: Italian

Cherpack Lounge Writing in 1911 of the crisis facing the olive producers of the Ligurian province of Imperia, Giovanni Boine shares a vision of biocultural entanglement that sees human, plant, and earth intertwined in the production of a culture rooted in agricultural tradition. Published in the pages of modernist literary journal La Voce (1908-1916), Boine’s meditation on […]

625 Van Pelt Library In a brief but influential passage from European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (1948), Ernst Robert Curtius explored the unresolved tension within medieval Christian culture regarding ‘Comedy’: the Church’s condemnation of humor contrasted with the recognition of laughter as a fundamental aspect of human nature. However, the concept of humor […]