About the Journal

Focus and Scope

As an interdisciplinary, inter-university and international journal, «DNA – Di Nulla Academia. Rivista di Studi Camporesiani» has the dual purpose of continuing the research methodology started by Piero Camporesi and of updating its interpretive potential. We propose a reenvisioning of Italian Studies that ranges from the library to the multiple environments of the bios: the body, cookery, the piazza, the carnival, the land of hunger as well as the land of plenty. Listening to the words of ancient and modern cantinbanco, wandering from exotic places to countries of utopia, real upside-down worlds where everything can still be achievable, we mean the narration of the world in a changing propagation of stories. Therefore an alternation of representations, oxymoronic voices and moods, temperate or not, takes place. Once turned over, the carpet of literature shows the signs of the body that are inscribed in it, its vital twine. We want to experience the splendor, opulence and beauty of literary criticism by rediscovering and enhancing every harmony, even the most imperceptible between body and text, between writing and real life.

«DNA – Di Nulla Academia. Rivista di studi camporesiani» is a scientific journal recognized by ANVUR (Italian National Agency for Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes) for disciplinary areas 10 (Antiquities, Philology, Literary Studies, Art History) and 14 (Political and Social Sciences). It has also obtained the “Class A” rating for recruitment fields 10/F1 (Italian literature) and 10/F2 (Contemporary Italian literature).

Section Policy

Professor-writers

Bruno Capaci

The “Piero Camporesi” research and study center recalls and celebrates the great Bolognese season of the master-writers, who were active during the 1970s and 1990s at our University. Mainly academic writers, but, in the case of Umberto Eco, also writers of fiction, they were published by important national publishers, reviewed both in specialized journals and in the national press and read by a wider audience than just the experts in their field.

Ars coquinaria, Artusi and other banquets

Alberto Natale, Alberto Capatti

Piero Camporesi started his research career as literary philologist when he encountered the Artusi’s work which completely deviated his intellectual path, causing his gaze to move from the ‘literaliness’ of literature to the interstitial spaces that literature often showed as incidental testimony.

Body: Humors, balms, poisons and monstra

Massimo Ciavolella, Stefano Scioli, Bruno Capaci and Patrizia Cremonini

This section aims to receive contributions from different research areas which, with an interdisciplinary approach, could explore topics and problems concerning corporeity, studied in historical and contemporary time. This approach would create a successful combination of reflections, ideas, paths. The body’s universe – anatomophysiological entity and our subjective experience of reality – creates issues that live at the root of our being-in-the-world, questioning each and every one in search of transverse and interrelated paths of meaning and knowledge routes.

The spies of the sky. Astrology, science and popular culture

Elide Casali

The challenging research of The spies of the sky, carried out under the sign of astrological prediction in the modern era, is cited in this section to introduce Camporesian themes and methodologies applied to studies conducted on “Astrology, science and popular culture”. This research contains a variety of sources from different cultural levels (elite, “popular” and folkloric ones); based on multiple traditions (written and oral ones), on the history of book, on literacy and reading; on different forms of periodic literature (predictive, astrological and calendar literature), “popular” and proto-journalistic (functional, street and colportage literature) and folkloric (in its various “genres”).

Language, oratory and preaching in the reverse worlds

Fabio Giunta

Oratory and preaching in Italy, from the Middle Ages to the present day, constitute a particularly productive field of investigation, thanks to the incisive impact on multiple levels of the material, cultural and spiritual life of societies (the influence on psychology and ideals of the masses, introspection, militancy, rhetorical treatises, the diffusion of Italian language models, the aestheticization of eloquence). Between pulpits, courtyards, benches, squares and stages, orally and in printed texts, speakers and preachers aim to construct ideal portraits and reverse worlds, in which the visions of hope or anxiety juxtapose life and death, vices and virtues, barbarism and health, famine and salvation, hunger and satiety.

Physiognomy and biography

Lucia Rodler

The biographical narration has therefore fascinated Camporesi: telling the physiognomy of an individual, the moods and zoomorphic similarities, the character and habits, the adventures in the different ages of life. Enter his world, live next to him, share his passions. Physiognomy and biography pursue a maybe impossible aim: the “governance of the body” (to quote Camporesi again), that is, the orderly and simple story of the complex and elusive reality of each human being.

Rhetoric and Science

Maria Freddi

This section gathers contributions by humanities scholars as well as scientists, aimed at delineating the discursive practices and different forms of scientific communication.

Inspired by Piero Camporesi’s writings about sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scientist-physicians and by his interest in the material conditions in which scientific knowledge develops, the Rhetoric and Science section aims to explore the connection between rhetoric and science both from a historical perspective and with a focus on the contemporary and constantly evolving forms of knowledge dissemination.

Travel literature. Geographies and landscapes

Andrea Campana and Stefano Scioli

Travel literature and travel as a literary and artistic topos. The “physical” journey (destinations, itineraries, borders, customs and habits) and the journey as a place of fantasy, cultural path, encounter, dialogue, manifestation of attitude. Symbolic uses: life as journey, knowledge as journey, education as journey, research as journey, language as journey, literature as journey, art as journey, desire as journey, disease as journey, pain as journey and even fear as journey.

Actors, storytellers and popular opinions

Tatiana Korneeva, Piermario Vescovo, Elisabetta Selmi, Roberto Puggioni and Enrico Zucchi

From squares to markets, the storytellers, the charlatans who proclaim their extraordinary remedies, the readers of almanacs and fairy horoscopes constitute the background of the improvised acting that gave a great fortune to the diaspora of the wandering actors and the companies of the art that from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century filled the streets thanks to the fame and the recognition of courts and European public. This section opens a dialogue between anthropology and history of theater, between the square and the stage and between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries.

The new storytellers – Rite and orality: From contemporary theater to songwriters

Nicola Bonazzi

Some forms of contemporary or in any case more recent theater develop starting from a popular tradition in which festive dimension and orality, rite and dramaturgy connect in highly suggestive representative ways, even in the diversity of structures and morphology: consider from the dramatics ‘Maggi Musicali’ to the antics of Dario Fo or to the narrations of Ascanio Celestini and other authors-actors of the Italian scene. This section aims to explore these forms, in which the anthropological and theatrical aspects are consolidated, creating, in some cases, new successful codes.

«Visible speaking»: Literature and media

Rosario Castelli

The section includes contributions that, in addition to the aspect of transposition from the book page to the audiovisual languages ​​system or to the mere historical-evolutionary recognition of the relationships between linguistic codes, investigate the correspondences and analogies between different narrative and dramaturgical-spectacular practices, on the linguistic and formal level, proposing examples that relate authors and texts from a more empirical than theoretical perspective.

Myth, psychology: Psiche in the world

Gloria Leonardi

A journey between psychology and anthropology, two borderlands that man travels in his incessant search for recognition and knowledge. A knowledge made of symbols, experiences and sharing where reality gives meaning to the thought and the thought makes its existential meaning to reality. Myths and religions become emotions and judgment. An interweaving of personal and collective history with boundaries beyond the individual limit but joined in a single being: the Man.

Starting from Issue 1 2021 the section “Myth, Psychology and magic: Psiche in the world” is named in “Myth, Psychology and magic: Psiche in the world”.

Books wayfarer: Piero Camporesi’s bibliography and library

Alberto Di Franco and Paolo Tinti

The figure of the wayfarer, who explores the most uncertain paths to attempt an authentic recovery of memory among the ruins of the past, appears as the most suitable image to redefine a new map, a sort of modern knowledge encyclopedia, capable to keep together literature, history, sociology and anthropology. The section hosts writings dedicated to the bibliography as well as to the library and papers of Camporesi, a special fund inside the “E. Raimondi” of FICLIT, which investigates on the origin, the composition, the bibliographic nature, uses and storylines tied with the Camporesian creative universe.

Peer-Review Process

Each contribution, once it arrives in the editorial office via the online platform, will be evaluated by the directors and the steering committee and may be sent back to the author for a further first review; as soon as it is definitively accepted, it will be sent to two reviewers, in double-blind peer review; the two peers will be sent to the author, who will have no more than one month available to adapt his piece to the requests. The entire process will always take place via the online platform.

Publication Frequency

«DNA – Di Nulla Academia. Rivista di studi camporesiani» is published twice a year, in June and December. The uploading of the songs therefore takes place only in conjunction with these releases.

Open Access Policy

The journal follows an open access policy in all its contents, in order to facilitate as much as possible the diffusion of scientific knowledge among scholars and all interested people.

By submitting a paper to «DNA – Di Nulla Academia», the author implicitly accepts its publication under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

This license allows anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy the contributions. The works must be properly attributed to its author(s). It is not necessary to ask further permissions both to author(s) or journal board, although you are kindly requested to inform the journal for every reuse of the papers.

The authors who publish in this journal retain copyright.

The journal does not charge fees for either the submission of papers or their review.

Publication Ethics

The following statement is inspired by COPE Code of Conduct.

“DNA – Di Nulla Academia” is a peer-reviewed journal and follows this model for the publication of scientific articles. All parties involved in the publication — authors, Editorial Team, reviewers and publisher — are aware of the required ethical standards and subscribe to them.

Duties for the Editorial Team

Editorial team takes all reasonable steps to ensure the quality of the material published in “DNA – Di Nulla Academia”.

Editorial team have a duty to act if they suspect misconduct or if an allegation of misconduct is brought to them. This duty extends to both published and unpublished papers.

The decision of Editorial team and of the International Editorial Board as to accept or reject a paper for publication in the journal is based on subject relevance and originality and is guided by the review of suitably qualified reviewers.

Editorial team will ensure that appropriate reviewers are selected for submissions.

Editorial team strives to ensure that peer review at the journal is fair, unbiased and timely.

A description of peer review process is published, and Editorial team is ready to justify any important deviation from the described process.

Editorial team and International Editorial Board evaluates manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Editorial team’s decision may be constrained by such legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. Editorial team provides guidance to authors that encourage accuracy, completeness and clarity of research reporting, including technical editing and the use of appropriate guidelines and checklists.

Editorial team has a system to ensure that material submitted to the Journal remains confidential while under review. Confidentiality of individual information obtained in the course of research or professional interactions is guaranteed.

Duties for Authors

Authors are responsible for the articles they submit: they must assure the originality of their works, being aware of the consequences of misconduct.

Authors should always acknowledge their sources and provide relevant citation details for all publications that have influenced their work.

Authors are asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication in order to provide access to such data.

Authors are asked to follow the Author’s Guidelines published in the Journal’s website (https://dnacamporesi.unibo.it/), therefore ensuring accuracy, completeness and clarity of research reporting, including technical editing.

Duties for Reviewers

Reviewers are provided guidance on everything that is expected of them including the need to handle submitted material in confidence.

Reviewers are required to disclose any potential competing interests before agreeing to review a submission.

Reviewers are encouraged to comment on the originality of submissions and to be alert to redundant publications and plagiarism. They will alert Editorial team regarding intellectual property issues and plagiarism and work to handle potential breaches of intellectual property laws and conventions.

Reviewers should help identifying relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors.

The Journal policies will be reviewed periodically, particularly with respect to new recommendations from the COPE.

Archiving Policy

The University of Bologna has an archival arrangement with the National Central Libraries of Florence and Rome within the national project Magazzini Digitali.
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Publisher

Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Italianistica – FICLIT
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna

Via Zamboni, 32
40126 - Bologna (Italy)