Recent work on the cultural history of modern Italy has radically challenged received opinion about the relationship of state and culture during the twentieth c

The history of totalitarian states bears witness to the fact that literature and print media can be manipulated and made into vehicles of mass deception. Censor

2001 essay collection on the Italian Church's attempt to control and censor 'knowledge' during the counter-Reformation.

Dealing with the issue of ecclesiastical censorship and control over reading and readers, this study challenges the traditional view that during the eighteenth

Twentieth Century Poetic Translation analyses translations of Italian and English poetry and their roles in shaping national identities by merging historical, c