Cover -- Titel -- Imprint -- Notes -- Acknowkledgments -- Contents -- Alberto Comparini: Italian Ovid. A Perspective on the Ever-Presence of Metamorphosis -- I Ovidian Philology -- Sergio Casali: Ovid and Italian Philology -- 1 âQuellenforschungâ in the Early Twentieth Century -- 2 Between the Two Wars -- 3 The 1940s, the 1950s, and the Bimillenary Celebrations of 1957-1958 -- 4 Ovid and the Self-Consciousness of Poetry -- II Ovid and the (Two) Italian Crowns -- Francesca Irene Sensini: âReferre idem aliter.â Vestiges of Ovid in Giovanni Pascoliâs Work -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Ovid in the Anthologies -- 3 Ovid on the Bookshelves and in the Archives -- 4 Ovid Translated (and Metamorphosed -- 5 Ovid in the Backstory -- 6 Conclusion -- Raffaella Bertazzoli: âNec species sua cuique manet.â DâAnnunzio, Ovid, and the Re-Use of a Classic -- 1 The âWill to Singâ -- 2 Other Myths (beyond Ovid) -- 3 What Myth? -- 4 The Metaphorical Muse -- 5 Between Myth and Vision -- 6 The Metamorphosis of the Self -- 7 The Etiologic Myth and Beyond -- 8 The Reuse of the Myth -- III Ovid and the Lyric, Part I -- âTu che il non mutato amor mutata serbi.â Ovid and Montale -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Montale versus DâAnnunzio. Different Models and Strategies of Metamorphosis -- 3 Montalean Mythology: Annetta -- 4 Montalean Mythology: Clizia -- IV Ovid between Modernism, Magism, and Surrealism -- Alessandro Giammei: Massimo Bontempelliâs Re-Inventions. Magism, Metaphysics, and Modern(ist) Mythology -- 1 Those Who Had âan Ovidâ in the Novecento -- 2 Rescuing vs. Restoring Ovid, from Prussia to Valòria -- 3 Taking Mythology Seriously, or How to Remake Ovid -- Lucilla Lijoi: âDegno del canto di un Ovidio.â The âMetamorphosesâ as Key to Understanding Modernity in the Poetics of Alberto Savinio -- 1 Ovid as âpersona agens 2 Savinioâs Metamorphic Poetics -- Laura Bardelli: The Lure of the Apennines. The Myth of the Were-Goat in Tommaso Landolfi -- 1 Introduction. Ovid, Landolfi, and the Apennines -- 2 Goatsâ Footsteps (Ovid, Landolfi, Pavese, Montale, Levi) -- 3 The Village/Mountain Dichotomy and Pivotal Role of the Were-Animal -- 4 A Poetic Initiation -- V Interdisciplinary Ovid -- Rosalba Galvagno: The Metamorphosis of Daphne in Carlo Levi -- 1 The Portrait of Daphne in Verse -- 2 The Portrait of Daphne in Painting -- 3 The Prose Portrait of "Daphne and Apollo -- Bart van den Bossche: Paveseâs Dialogue with Ovid. The Destiny of Metamorphosis in âDialoghi con Leucòâ (1947) -- 1 Pavese and Ovid -- 2 Tweaking the Motif of Metamorphosis -- 3 Metamorphosis as a Hybrid Condition. The Story of Lycaon -- 4 Lycaon and the Sovereign Ban -- 5 A New Order. Gods, Animals and Otherness -- 6 Conclusion -- Vilma De Gasperin: Protean Metamorphoses in Anna Maria Ortese -- 1 âFamilienähnlichkeit.â Metamorphoses in Ortese and Ovid -- 2 âOmnia mutantur, nihil interitâ -- 3 âVolucres animae.â Wings, Wind, Voice, and Poetic Imagination -- 4 The Metamorphosing Gaze in âLâIguanaâ (1965) -- 5 Decline, Fear, and Longing. Metamorphosis in âIl Cardillo addoloratoâ (1993) -- VI Ovidian Rewrtings between Modernism and Postmodernism -- Barbara Olla: âLâarcano della favola splendida.â Gaddaâs Re-writing of the Narcissus Myth -- 1 A Classical Heritage -- 2 Behind the Ovidian Symbolism: Gaddaâs âEmilio e Narcissoâ -- Alberto Comparini: Calvino, Ovid, and the âMetamorphoses.â A Reading of âLe cosmicomicheâ (1965) -- 1 Textual Inferences. Calvino, Reader of Ovid -- 2 Postmodernist Mythologies. Calvinoâs âCosmicomicheâ -- Susanna Pietrosanti: âAriadneanly.â Secret Ovid in Antonio Tabucchi 1 âArs allusiva.â Ovid, the Storyteller -- 2 The Metamorphosis after âThe Metamorphoses:â âSogni di sogniâ -- 3 âLetters mingle souls:â the âHeroidesâ -- 4 âAriadneanly.â Ovid, the Mythographer -- 5 âQuoniam coniunx mea non potes esse, / arbor eris certe:â âLettera da Casablancaâ -- 6 âSince it is natureâs law to change, / constancy alone is strange:â Vertumnus -- 7 âLa tessitura del labirinto.â Ovidian roots in Antonio Tabucchi -- VII Ovid and the Lyric, Part II -- Alessandro Fo: Traces of Ovid. A Look at Recent Italian Poetry -- 1 In Search of a Face -- 2 âMetamorphoses Exist.â The Transformations of Myths -- 3 âInhabitant of Distance.â The Metamorphosis of Ovid in Exile -- 4 Digression and Conclusion -- Index -- Bios and Abstracts -- Backcover
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