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Professor-writers

Edited by 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

Edited by 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

Editor by 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

Edited by 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

Edited by 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

Edited by 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

Edited by 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

Edited by 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

Edited by 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

Edited by 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»

Edited by 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

Edited by 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

Edited by 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.