Ignore the ludicrous barbie comparison and go watch this film. Out tomorrow in the UK and Ireland. I keep thinking about the standing ovation in the small, provincial Italian cinema where I saw it in December. A strange sense of Italy coming together in front of a screen

More great Dante events coming your way from the CDSI. Dante and the Irish Visionary Tradition! Well done Aistė Kiltinavičiūtė & Elsina! Dept of Early and Medieval Irish, UCC CASiLaC_UCC Italian UCC SIS IrishResearchCouncil CACSSS - Research College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences UCC Research @UCC

3rd edition of the brilliant ‘Dante Futures’ coming up next November King's College, Cambridge DanteInIreland ItalianMMLL SIS

The 2022 Shelley Conference Special Issue of 'Romanticism' is here! It was such a pleasure to edit with Dr Anna Mercer, with gratitude to Prof. Nick Roe, & all of our contributors ✨️ And I'm thrilled to share my essay on 'Shelley’s Last Treescapes' 🌳🍃 euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.336…

We are thrilled to share that the 2022 Shelley Conference special issue of Romanticism (Edinburgh University Press) has been published! Edited by Dr Amanda Blake Davis (abdavis.bsky.social) and Dr Anna Mercer, it features essays by our keynotes, organisers, and early career Shelley scholars✨
euppublishing.com/toc/rom/30/1

Free Kafka

Byron: ‘Lewis said to me, “Why do you talk Venetian […] to the Venetians? and not the usual Italian?” I answered, partly from habit, and partly to be understood, if possible. “It may be so,” said Lewis, “but it sounds to me like talking with a brogue to an Irishman”.’

Oxfam find

Beware

Irish weather in Trieste

Fiorella Mannoia’s 1992 version👌🏼

open.spotify.com/track/3Jxcc7WV…

Our next seminar promises to be a cracker.

20 March, 17:15, Dan Sperrin (Cambridge) 'Swift and the Secret World'.

In person at QMUL Mile End Campus Graduate Centre 222 and online via zoom (register here: qmul-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/868600……)

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Catching up with early career friends you haven’t seen in a while:

Friday, 8th week

He’s back. He’s studying mechanics. No one is safe.

Spotted in the Restricted Section Queen's College Library

Today’s gems from Queen's College Library:
‘Ibernia’, from the first Italian vernacular atlas (Berlinghieri’s Geographia), and the MS of Hardy’s Winter Words

My review of Valentina Varinelli’s recent book on Shelley’s writings in Italian is now available here ⤵️
tandfonline.com/eprint/ZB8GZKI…