Call for papers for the 2025 issue (the deadline to send proposals is July 21, 2025): https://www.italianisti.it/news/call-for-papers/cfp-volume-vii-2025-letteratura-cavalleresca-italiana
“Letteratura cavalleresca italiana responds to the desire to establish a cultural and academic arena in which to examine the specific literary subject indicated by the journal’s title, whether in poetry or in prose, and including Franco-Italian literature, composed in the centuries ranging from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century. The term ‘Chivalric Literature’ means those works written to exalt the ideals and virtues of knights, be they members of King Arthur’s court or the paladins of Charlemagne, as well as the heroes and anti-heroes of other literary traditions in which knights and chivalry itself become the object of praise and respect or of jokes and ridicule. Therefore the journal will concern itself not only with those Arthurian romances, largely of French origin, and with the great Renaissance epic poems of Boiardo, Ariosto and Tasso deriving, for the most part, from Carolingian material, but also with the cantari on chivalric themes, with the Franco-Italian chansons de geste, with mock-heroic and satirical poems from Pulci to the Nineteenth Century, including Leopardi’s Paralipomeni.”
A Yearly Journal * Fascicoli / Issues*
Founded by: Christopher Kleinhenz, Davide Puccini
Editors-in-Chief:
Maria Cristina Cabani (Università di Pisa, Italia), Maiko Favaro (Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italia), Giorgio Forni (Università di Messina, Italia), Davide Puccini (Piombino, Italia), Renzo Rabboni (Università di Udine, Italia), Christian Rivoletti (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Deutschland)
Advisory Board:
Matthias Bürgel (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Deutschland), Anna Carocci (Università di Roma Tre, Italia), Alberto Casadei (Università di Pisa, Italia), Jo Ann Cavallo (Columbia University, New York, USA), Corrado Confalonieri (Chapman University, Orange, USA), Francesco Lucioli (Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italia), Eleonora Stoppino (University of Illinois, Urbana, USA), Franca Strologo (Universität Zürich, Schweiz), Matteo Venier (Università di Udine, Italia), Juliann Vitullo (Arizona State University, USA)
Guarantee Board:
Gloria Allaire (University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA), Albert Russell Ascoli (University of California, Berkeley, USA), Cristina Barbolani da Montauto (Università Complutense, Madrid, España), Daniela Delcorno Branca (Università di Bologna, Italia), Christopher Kleinhenz (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA), Antonio Lanza (Università dell’Aquila, Italia), Leslie Zarker Morgan (Loyola University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA), Maria Bendinelli Predelli (McGill University, Montréal, Canada), F. Regina Psaki (University of Oregon, Eugene, USA), Paola Vecchi Galli (Università di Bologna, Italia)
Double blind peer reviewed articles are published. The reviewers are absolutely independent of the authors and not affiliated with the same institution.
More information available on the Letteratura cavalleresca italiana website.
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