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Review of “Speaking Truth to Power,”, J.A. Cavallo and C. Lottieri: Annali di Italianistica

Review of “Speaking Truth to Power,”, J.A. Cavallo and C. Lottieri: Annali di Italianistica J Écon Études Humaines 2016; 22(2): 213­219 Review of "Speaking Truth to Power," J.A. Cavallo and C. Lottieri, eds., Annali di Italianistica. USA: Annali d'italianistica, Tempe, AZ 85287-4402, 2016, 34, 456 pp., ISBN: 978-0692794135 Reviewed by Stefano Adamo, Banja Luka University, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, E-mail: stefano.adamo@unibl.rs DOI 10.1515/jeeh-2017-0001 "Speaking truth to power" is the title of a special issue edited by Jo Ann Cavallo and Carlo Lottieri of the Italian studies journal Annali di Italianistica (vol 34, 2016), which revolves around an uncommon interdisciplinary endeavor that extends the potential readership of the volume quite beyond the boundaries of the community of Italianists. To my knowledge, this is the only collection of literary studies to contain essays that explore the relationship between literature and power from a free-market standpoint in a diachronic national perspective. By asking contributors to bring together literary history and political reflection, the editors collected twenty essays, eleven of which in English and nine in Italian, that shed light both on Italian literary texts and on the various articulations that power has taken in the Peninsula from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. What makes this volume truly unique, however, is the perspective http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal des Économistes et des Études Humaines de Gruyter

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J Écon Études Humaines 2016; 22(2): 213­219 Review of "Speaking Truth to Power," J.A. Cavallo and C. Lottieri, eds., Annali di Italianistica. USA: Annali d'italianistica, Tempe, AZ 85287-4402, 2016, 34, 456 pp., ISBN: 978-0692794135 Reviewed by Stefano Adamo, Banja Luka University, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, E-mail: stefano.adamo@unibl.rs DOI 10.1515/jeeh-2017-0001 "Speaking truth to power" is the title of a special issue edited by Jo Ann Cavallo and Carlo Lottieri of the Italian studies journal Annali di Italianistica (vol 34, 2016), which revolves around an uncommon interdisciplinary endeavor that extends the potential readership of the volume quite beyond the boundaries of the community of Italianists. To my knowledge, this is the only collection of literary studies to contain essays that explore the relationship between literature and power from a free-market standpoint in a diachronic national perspective. By asking contributors to bring together literary history and political reflection, the editors collected twenty essays, eleven of which in English and nine in Italian, that shed light both on Italian literary texts and on the various articulations that power has taken in the Peninsula from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. What makes this volume truly unique, however, is the perspective

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