International Studies in Humour

Volume 5, Issue 1 (2016)                        ISSN 2052-3475

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EDITORIAL:

Humour in Italy Through the Ages. Part I.

Ephraim Nissan, London                              [editorial]  (p. 1)

ARTICLES AND SUPPORT MATERIAL OF THE THEMATIC ISSUE:

“Ridendo dei nostri mali, trovo qualche conforto”:

Giacomo Leopardi’s Humour.

Roberta Cauchi-Santoro, Guelph, Ontario   [full paper]  (pp. 2–19)                

Keywords: Giacomo Leopardi; Humour; Comic; Dianoetic laughter; Desire; Freud; Lacan; Pirandello; Superiority theory of humour; Incongruity theory of humour; Relief theory of humour.

Editorial Post Script:

Farfarello between Horror and Humour,

in Dante, Leopardi, and Folklore.

Ephraim Nissan, London            [editorial postscript 1]  (pp. 20–49)

Keywords: Farfarello; Giacomo Leopardi; Operette Morali; Dante Alighieri; Divine Comedy; Malebranche; Sicilian folktales; Giuseppe Pitrè; Humour and horror; Virgil the wizard; Count Rezzonico della Torre’s voyage to Sicily; Anti-hagiography; Mi‘rāj; Cosmic Cock.

Palermo’s Vastasate: Staging a Multilingual Reality. Class-Conflict and Linguistic Barriers in 18th-Century Sicilian Farces.

Alberto Iozzia, New Brunswick, New Jersey  [full paper]  (pp. 50–63)

Keywords:  Theater; Sicily; Comedy; Multilingualism; Vastasate; Streetporters; Italy (late 18th century); Franco e Ciccio; Ignazio Buttitta; Palermo; Folklore; Proxemics.

Resource about the vastasate, from Giuseppe Pitrè’s La vita in Palermo cento e più anni fa (1904).         [resource]  (pp. 64–73)

Lengua che no’ la ’ntienne, e tu la caca. Irony and Hilarity of Neapolitan Paroemias in Pompeo Sarnelli’s Posilecheata (1684).

Daniela D’Eugenio, Nashville, Tennessee          [full paper]  (pp. 74–111)

Keywords:  Baroque; Comedy; Dialect; Fable; Irony; Neapolitan; Paroemias; Proverbs; Proverbial Phrases; Pompeo Sarnelli; Posilecheata.

Dialogue and Comedy: On the Pragmatics of Humour in Quattrocento Humanism. Satirical Intents and Irony in Lorenzo Valla’s Dispute with Poggio Bracciolini,

Countering the Latter’s Virulent Criticism.

Stefano Gulizia, Sacramento, California            [full paper]  (pp. 112–126)

Keywords:  Lorenzo Valla; Poggio Bracciolini; Dispute; Humanists’ Latin; Satirical intent in controversy, Humanism, Quattrocento; Relationship between literary genres.

Nonsense and Noise: The Audial Poetics of Immanuel Romano’s Bisbidìs. An Introduction, and the Text with a Facing Translation.

Fabian Alfie, Tucson, Arizona                            [full paper]  (pp. 127–139)

Keywords:  Bisbidis; Immanuel Romano (Manoello Giudeo); Poesia giocosa; Cangrande della Scala; Verona; Frottola; Onomatopoeia; Word- and sound-repetitions.

Editorial Post Script:

A Non-Exhaustive Survey, and a Sampling of, Medieval through Early Modern Humour from Italy, Leaping to Modern Parodies — with a Focus on Forms and Genres of Humour from the Cinquecento.

Ephraim Nissan, London            [editorial postscript 2]  (pp. 140–216)

Keywords:  Humour in Italian literature (history of); Humour in non-Italo-Romance, non-Latin literature from Italy; Late first millennium’s Venosa; Silano’s prank; Burlesque poets of medieval Tuscany or Umbria; Poesia giocosa; Immanuel Romano (Manoello Giudeo); Dante; Parody of Dante’s Vita nuova; Outsider status and social identity of medieval Italy’s burlesque poets or singers; Cinquecento; Ruzante; Il Coppetta (Francesco Beccuti); Francesco Berni; capitolo ternario; Bernesque poets; Paradoxical encomium; Annibal Caro; Cesare Caporali; Pietro Aretino; Il Lasca (Antonio Francesco Grazzini); Guido Casoni; L’ospedale de’ pazzi incurabili; Madhouse humour; Tomaso Garzoni; Teodoro Angelucci; Encomia of folly; Alessandro Pera; Accademico Sviluppato (penname); Girolamo Amelonghi (Il Forabosco); La Gigantea; La Nanea; La Guerra dei Mostri; Sciarra Fiorentino’s (Piero Strozzi’s) Stanze sopra la rabbia di Macone; Cantici di Fidenzio by Camillo Scroffa; Fidentian poets; Baldus by Teofilo Folengo; Macaronic poetry; Macaroidos by Bernardino Stefonio; Beans being associated with Florence; Satire; Comic exegesis; I Cicalamenti del Grappa; French Disease (Pox); Farce; Strambotto; Canzone villanesca or villanella alla napolitana in music; Velardiniello; Neapolitan zoonyms’ denotation; Nonsense animal fantasies; Burchiellesque nonsense poetry; Il Burchiello (Domenico di Giovanni); Double entendre; Commedie rusticali; Joseph Santafiora; Giordano Bruno’s Cabala del cavallo pegaseo; Galileo Galilei’s humour; Humorous devices in early modern debate in astronomy; The “New Star” of 1604; Seicento; Giulio Acciano; Alessandro Tassoni; La secchia rapita (heroicomic epic); Italian parodies in the 20th century (Eduardo Scarpetta, Paolo Vita-Finzi); Tullo Massarani as a humour scholar.