Recent Publications in the Department of Italian

Helena Sanson and Kate Mitchell, Women and Gender in Post-Unification Italy
George Corbett, Dante and Epicurus. A Dualistic Vision of Secular and Spiritual Fulfilment.
Pierpaolo Antonello, Dimenticare Pasolini: Intellettuali e impegno nell'Italia contemporanea
Robert Gordon, The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944-2010
Adam Ledgeway, From Latin to Romance; Morphosyntactic Typology and Change
Pierpaolo Antonello, Contro il Materialismo; Le "due culture" in Italia: bilancio di un secolo
Helena Sanson, Women, Language and Grammar in Italy, 1500-1900
Adam Ledgeway, ed. The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages. Volume 1: Structures
Adam Ledgeway, ed. Syntactic Variation: The dialects of Italy
Pierpaolo Antonello, ed. Impegno postmoderno: Etica e engagement nella cultura italiana contemporanea
Pierpaolo Antonello, ed. Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith: A Dialogue
Abigail Brundin, ed. Forms of Faith in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Adam Ledgeway. Grammatica diacronica del napoletano
Pierpaolo Antonello. Identità e desiderio: La teoria mimetica e la letteratura italiana
Pierpaolo Antonello, ed. Imagining Terrorism: The Rhetoric and Representation of Political Violence in Italy 1969-2009

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