About the Journal
Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani is a peer-reviewed international journal of Italian Studies dedicated to the study of Italian culture from its origins to the present day. Since its founding in 1985, the journal has published original research across a wide range of disciplines, including history, literature, linguistics, philosophy, art history, music, cinema, and theatre. The journal actively encourages interdisciplinary contributions that cross traditional boundaries within the Humanities. It also welcomes research that examines Italy within transnational and comparative contexts. In doing so, the journal seeks to foster critical debates on the interconnected and evolving nature of Italian culture in a European and global context.
Incontri is the journal of the Werkgroep Italië Studies (WIS), an Italian Studies workgroup based in the Dutch and Flemish academic research community.
Incontri is recognised by ANVUR as a “Scientific Journal” for Area 10 (Ancient, Philological-Literary and Historical-Artistic Sciences).
Current Issue
Vol. 40 No. 1 (2025): Special Issue - Between Rhetoric and Engagement: The Image of Italy in Literature from Unification to Verismo
Special Issue - Between Rhetoric and Engagement: The Image of Italy in Literature from Unification to Verismo.
Guest Editors: Marco Borrelli (Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”) & Maria Collevecchio (Università degli Studi di Parma)
Introduction: Introduzione (Marco Borrelli & Maria Collevecchio)
Articles: Umorismo e identità nazionale: il Risorgimento di Giuseppe Augusto Cesana tra memorialistica e giornalismo (Rainer Maria Ceci) • L’Italie post-unitaire entre théâtre bourgeois et drame à thèse: regards sur la comédie ricciardienne Un’elezione (Sofie Barthels) • Teatro nazionale e teatro dialettale: il caso di On milanes in mar di Cletto Arrighi (Davide Ciprandi) • Raccontare la scienza tra positivismo e crisi fin de siècle: appunti a margine di alcuni scritti giornalistici di Paolo Lioy (Maria Collevecchio) • ‘Istruire il popolo, non divertirlo’: la rappresentazione del popolo in Entusiasmi di Roberto Sacchetti (Ruben Donno) • Il sostrato artistico-letterario dell’impegno civile del primo Sonnino: un percorso tra i salotti fiorentini e i circoli macchiaioli (Marco Borrelli) • Rappresentazioni del Regno d’Italia in alcune novelle verghiane (Nicole Valeri)
Published:
2026-07-28
