Romance Languages and Literatures

Mattia Acetoso

Associate Professor of Italian

Graduate Program Director

BOOKS

Echoes of Opera in Modern Italian Poetry: Eros, Tragedy, and National Identity. New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2020. https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783030460907

RECENT ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS (selected)

“Renato Poggioli Beyond Exile.” In Exile and Creativity. New York: CPL Editions, 2020.

“Misteriose vicende di un tempo diverso: L’Orologio tra viaggio, sogno e magia” Forum Italicum 50.2 (2016): 484-493.

“Dove poesia e verità coincidono.” Introduction to L’Orologio by Carlo Levi. Turin: Einaudi, 2015: v-xvi.

“Come un fulgore azzurro: Umberto Saba and the Verdian Sound of Italy.” California Italian Studies 4.1 (2013): 1-21. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8nh1s4c1

“Renato Poggioli’s Intellectual Project and the Psychology of Exile.” In Renato Poggioli. An Intellectual Biography. Eds. Lino Pertile, Massimo Riva, and Roberto Ludovico. Florence: Olschki, 2012: 125-143.

TRANSLATIONS

Francesco Cavalli. Orion. English translation of L’orione (1653). Libretto by Francesco Melosio. Eds. Davide Daolmi and Nicola Usula. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2015: XXXIX-LXXXVI.

Joseph Luzzi. Il romanticismo italiano e l’Europa. Fantasia e realtà nell’immaginario occidentale. Rome: Carocci, 2012. Italian translation of: Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy. New Haven: YUP, 2008.