Études romanes de Brno

The dispute of women on the Italian and Iberian peninsulas (15th–17th centuries) : introduction

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Genealogies of women writers in wome 15th- and 16th- century philogynist texts of the Querelle des Femmes

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The work De mulieribus claris composed by Giovanni Boccaccio in 1361 represents a decisive moment in the Querelle des Femmes debate. Following the publication of Cristina da Pizzano's La città delle dame, many authors in the 15th and 16th centuries would use this text as a reference and starting point for the elaboration of catalogues and treatises dedicated to famous women. The aim of this article is to analyse the presence of women writers in some texts composed by authors and to observe how they contribute to the visibility of women of the past but also contemporary women, with a special focus on women writers. Retrieving and rereading the texts of these authors becomes fundamental for the reconstruction of a female genealogy and the redefinition of a non-androcentric literary canon.

An approach to the Querelle des femmes through the paratexts of Diego de Valera's Tratado en defensa de las virtuosas mujeres

2026-01-16T20:04:05+01:00

The foundations of Women's History as a discipline are rooted in a willingness to give the female gender, one that has been ostracized by the historiographical tradition, a voice. This marginal role held by women bears a certain resemblance to the peripheral position that paratexts are confined to in literary texts. Likewise, this position is as secondary as the attention paratexts receive in studies on the Querelle des Femmes, since there are few academic approaches to this Middle Ages-born philogynist movement from a purely paratextual standpoint. This paper, based on Diego de Valera's Tratado en defensa de las virtuosas mujeres (ca. 1444), analyses the complexities of establishing precise limits between texts and paratexts and, simultaneously, explores the possibility of an autonomous reading of the biographical glosses included in the treatise without sacrificing the pro-feminine nature of the text.

Giovanni Mario Filelfo's eulogy for Isotta Nogarola

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Two years after she passed away in 1466, Isotta Nogarola was praised in a long eulogy by the famous humanist Giovanni Mario Filelfo (1426–1480). Filelfo, who was at the time in Verona, dedicated to Isotta's brother Ludovico Nogarola a eulogy related to her life, portraying her as a poet and as a marvellous woman who refused to be married and embraced the humanist studies. The article explores the eulogy's content and the significance of its words by proposing a translation of the Latin text and by adding a commentary to certain lyrics of it. Filelfo managed to describe Isotta's life and advancement in the literary world in a vivid way, drawing inspiration on her private correspondence and the fame that was following her name. Filelfo's dedicatory work consists of a poem written in hexameters and of two sonnets written in the Italian of the time where he also praises Isotta's virtues.

Reflections on the critical edition of Gynevera de le clare donne, by Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti

2026-01-16T20:04:06+01:00

The existence of a single 19th century publication of the work Gynevera de le clare donne, by the Bolognese Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti, composed around the end of the 15th century, made it necessary to elaborate a critical edition based on all the manuscript and printed testimonies that have been preserved to date. In the introduction to this work, will analyse the historical and social context that framed Sabadino degli Arienti's masterpiece – dedicated to Ginevra Sforza, Lady of Bologna – in which he describes the qualities of thirty-three women of admirable virtues. Afterwards, reference will be made to the state of the art, studies and research carried out in recent years on the Gynevera de le clare donne. In addition, the critical apparatus will be described, giving some examples of the different variants highlighted in the recently published critical edition, the result of in-depth analysis of Arienti's manuscript codices held in the State Archive in Bologna and the Palatine Library in Parma.

Textual disguises : philogynous writers in 16th-century Italy

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In the Renaissance, men and women shared the same city spaces and some symbolic spaces. The debate of the Querelle des Femmes not only develops on the basis of more or less philogynous texts where equality between the sexes is supported, but on the basis of a social and cultural transformation implemented, in which women are participants in events and cultural, military, political and religious discussions. In this scenario, gender relations are destined to change, women will be considered from a literary and philosophical point of view equal to men and many new cultural and educational initiatives in this sense, while the superiority of men is questioned, both in dialogues philosophical-literary as well as in popular genres such as jokes. The sexual hierarchy will be the object of irony and parody, with the consequent virilization of women and the feminization of men.

The philosophy of love in the Querelle des femmes : from Leon Hebreo to Galeazzo Flavio Capra

2026-01-16T20:04:07+01:00

A new interpretation of the Platonic philosophy penetrated Renaissance culture through the first translations from Greek original manuscripts, bringing about a change of mentality in European society between the 15th and 16th centuries; the impact of which was particularly important regarding the positive transformation of the consideration of women. This paper compares the possible correspondences and influences of Leo the Hebrew (or Jehuda Abarbanel) in the treatise Della eccellenza e dignità della donna (1525) by Galeazzo F. Capra (or Cappella), an aspect not yet studied among his sources. Through Capra's work, we will observe the humanist reception of the Dialogues of Love, written by Leo the Hebrew between 1501 and 1502, which circulated in manuscript form through the Italian courts until the complete Tuscanized and posthumous edition of 1535, leaving a mark on almost all the authors of the Querelle des femmes, with repercussions in Hispanic thought as well, with the translation of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega.

Courtesans and adulteresses : dishonesty and the inverted world in three Renaissance comedies

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During the Renaissance, there were comedies that, imitating those of classical antiquity, reversed the roles of participating characters, particularly in the power dynamics between parents and children, servants and masters, and men and women. This work focuses on relationships between the sexes and aims to explore how, in this world alla rovescia, the frequently reviled female characters — the courtesan and the adulteress — use dishonesty to achieve their desires. It will also examine whether this behavior reflects a philogynous or misogynistic perspective, hypothesizing about the intentions of the authors.

Ortensio Lando's participation in the Woman Question

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This study, focused on the figure of the prestigious humanist Ortensio Lando, presents the main writings that made him one of the main male protagonists of the Querelle des Femmes of the Italian Renaissance. Among other aspects, it will analyze the reasons for his defense in favor of female merits, his most outstanding works in this regard, the questions about their authorship and the game of simulation that he carried out in some of them - which he even signed with the names of illustrious ladies of his time, such as Isabel Sforza and Lucrezia Gonzaga, giving them a voice in the literary debate on the issue of women -, as well as the repercussion that both the works and their author had on the Querelle.

The ambivalent play of contrasts in the defence of women in a work attributed to Ortensio Lando

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The present paper will highlight the arguments Ortensio Lando used to praise or mock women, explaning what resources he employed to discredit or exalt certain female figures of his time. The study is based on the careful and in-depth observation of the work entitled Una breve prattica di medicina per sanare le passioni dell'animo, by focusing both in the close study of the socio-cultural aspects of the author's time, albeit briefly, and in the analysis of the structural configuration of the text. Some names of the women who enjoyed Lando's great admiration and the author's works in which they appear will also be mentioned. The article concludes with the transcription of two pieces of advice that once again emphasise Lando's ambivalent 'game' of opposites.

The determined defence of women by Domenico Bruni da Pistoia

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The work Difese delle donne, written by the priest and writer Domenico Bruni da Pistoia in 1552, through a metaphorical and meticulous intellectual, aesthetic, theological and philosophical exalt both the dignity of the female sex and the beauty of literature, embracing the concepts of power ethics and transtextuality. Traces the path of redemption of women's honor and prestige, often questioned by self-righteous, wounded or disappointed literati, but also by some philosophers and legislators who are not inclined to support the cunning and intelligence of the female half of the human being. His philogine voice offers an alternative vision and weaving the praise to women from multiple points of view, relying on reasoned intra- and intertextual connections, integrating thoughts and different related studies in the Querelle des Femmes of the Italian Renaissance.

La bella e dotta difesa delle donne : approach to the Palatine manuscript and its variations

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Luigi Dardano (1429–1511) is presented as one of the pioneering writers in the writing of works in defense of the female sex during the Women's Quarrel in Italy. Although La bella e dotta difesa delle donne was published posthumously in 1554, with a series of modifications and revisions made by his grandson Ippolito Dardano, the manuscript version dates from between 1507 and 1508. The aim of this article is to analyze the existing variants between the two versions from a philological and genre studies perspective, as well as to launch a new hypothesis regarding Ippolito Dardano's censorship of some parts of the text, such as the introduction and an eighth book, both present in the manuscript and absent in the printed version.

Philogyny and Querelle des femmes : translational dichotomies in the linguistic transfer into Spanish of Antonio della Pagliara's proto-feminist message

2026-01-16T20:04:10+01:00

Philogynist treatises played a decisive role in the Italian Renaissance. Despite being overlooked by literary critics, these contributions are now widely recognized for their early advocacy of women's equality in the 16th century. This article examines Dell'economia o vero del governo della casa (1555), a seminal work authored by Antonio della Pagliara that sought to introduce structural reforms in support of female parity in 16th century Tuscan society. The process of translating this piece of work into Spanish has presented a number of difficulties, with the rendering of archaisms being the main philological challenge faced by the translator of the original work. Attention is thus focused on the hurdles that arise from the linguistic interpretation of archaic structures and diachronic Italian expressions, presenting contrasting examples and well-reasoned arguments to support the translation decisions made in the target text.

Le dieci paradosse degli Academici Intronati da Siena (1564) : an alternative space for women

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This article analyzes the collective work Le dieci paradosse (1564) published by the Accademia degli Intronati of Siena and how it deals directly or indirectly, but insistently, with issues related to women, especially in the field of love, through paradox and play. This perspective, apparently ludic and uncompromising, reveals a critical and defiant attitude towards the most widespread conventions and trends in Italian Renaissance society and literature, which results in the creation of an alternative space not only for the intellectuals, but also for women. Although it is a space located on the margins of everyday life, it allows women to project themselves in society in a freer way, with greater dignity, with a voice of their own, and to approach non-canonical forms of behavior.

Querelle des femmes in the 16th century Padua : La difesa delle donne (1588) by Prodicogine Filarete

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This article aims at an initial analysis of Prodicogine Filarete's La difesa delle donne. Published in Padua in 1588, it is a literary reaction against Onofrio Filiriaco's Vera narratione delle operationi delle donne. The methodology of the work brings together cultural and philological studies from a gender perspective, to show that Filarete's text constituted a document of social denunciation within the Querelle des femmes of the 16th century. A literary introduction is presented that serves to contextualise the work, followed by an analysis of the text, highlighting the philogynistic arguments of Prodicogine Filarete, in such a way as to contribute to the studies carried out previously and suggest new research itineraries.

Dell'eccellenza della donna : synthesis, interpretations and insights into the discourse of Hercole Filogenio

2026-01-16T20:04:12+01:00

On 1589 Hercules Philogenius wrote a speech entitled Dell'eccellenza della donna with the dual objective of praising female virtues and at the same time preserving women from the reproach manifested by the hegemonic machismo of his time, thus deserving a place in the Querelle des femmes. He chose to dedicate his writing to Flavia Peretti Orsina, a distinguished woman of her time, who thanks to her innovative spirit and her most varied interests contributed to the social advancement. The author arrived at two Conclusions, that the Woman is superior and more excellent than the Man in many respects but above all in the acuteness of her intellect, and that the Woman is neither inferior nor less excellent than the Man. In support of the opinions expressed, he develops all the necessary arguments in the pages of the treatise.

The male voices of Querelle des femmes : Cristoforo Bronzini e Francesco Agostino della Chiesa

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Querelle des Femmes occupied much of the literary debate between Humanism and the Renaissance and for the centuries to follow. The undisputed protagonists of this dispute between the sexes are female writers and poets who have followed one another to defend female virtues and accuse the misogynistic texts that for centuries have discredited female nature. The voices of authors such as Lucrezia Marinella, Moderata Fonte and Arcangela Tarabotti have been joined by the signatures of many writers who have contributed to the defense of the women's cause. Figures such as Cristoforo Bronzini d'Ancona and Francesco Agostino della Chiesa have enriched the literary debate by proposing new and old models of illustrious women, through the writing of Dialogues and Catalogues. The objective of this contribution is the comparative analysis of the female figures present in the Dialogue of the Della Dignità e della nobiltà delle donne (1624) by Cristoforo Bronzini d'Ancona and in the Theatro delle donne literate (1620) by Francesco Agostino della Chiesa.

The implications of silence in Leïla Slimani's Chanson douce and Atiq Rahimi's Syngué sabour

2026-01-16T20:04:13+01:00

Silence is one of the most recurring themes in literature. Taking on various forms and meanings, it asserts itself as a key element of literary discourse due to its ability to reveal complex realities that transcend language. Authors such as Albert Camus, Annie Ernaux, and Patrick Modiano have made unspoken words a powerful means of conveying human experiences that cannot be expressed through simple words. The works of Leïla Slimani and Atiq Rahimi belong to a literary tradition that grants silence a distinctive place. In both authors' writings, silence is often associated with concealed suffering and plays a fundamental role in exploring psychological and social tensions. Therefore, in this contribution, we will examine the various issues related to the writing of silence in Slimani and Rahimi's novels Chanson douce and Syngué Sabour.

From the horror of the impossible to the horror of the social : ideological dimensions in Santiago Eximeno's fantastic fiction

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Spanish research on the fantastic has not always shown interest in delving into the ideological aspects of the works under study. This attitude has changed significantly in recent times, due to the increasingly evident and militant presence of socio-political concerns in the works belonging to the different unrealistic or non-mimetic genres. In this study we focus on the fiction by Santiago Eximeno, one of the most imaginative authors of the current narrative scene, concerned, at the same time, to contemporary issues. Specifically, we analyze the story "Desahuciada", focused — at least in principle — on the drama of the evictions as a consequence of the economic crisis that began in 2008. As we will see, its writing hides a most original and effective twist.

The poetics of Machado in the poetry of Luis García Montero : intertextuality and transduction

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In this paper we want to highlight the dialogical relationship between the work of Antonio Machado in the two books of poetry Diario cómplice (1987) and Habitaciones separadas (1994) by Luis García Montero and their problematics in the transductive act, and we will adopt Lubomír Doležel's (1990) concept of transduction. The study is based on an analysis of the verses that are connected and come into contact with each other, in order to assess how the transducer of a work that maintains a strict intertextual relationship with other work(s) has to reflect. If the complexity of a translation is already per se a continuous process of considerations between language and the inherent aspects of literature, the matter becomes more complicated when dialogical elements such as intertextuality converge in the original poetic whole. It is in our interest to develop a transductological and literary reflection on the idea of the transducer's approach to these issues, which we consider fundamental when it comes to poetic transduction.

Transfer in translation vs transference in psychoanalysis

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This article seeks to problematize the dialogue of translation with psychoanalysis. Thus, from their common base constituted by desire, we will confront the psychoanalytic act and the act of translating. We will try to outline their similarities and differences. In order to conclude that if transference in psychoanalysis can be defined as an affective state experienced for an object extended to another object, the act of translating presents itself as a semantic, expressive and cultural transfer from one language to another. The positions taken are illustrated above all by examples from the seminar The Formations of the Unconscious of Jacques Lacan and the novel The Blue Flowers of Raymond Queneau.

"You cherish it… it washes away sorrow..." : euphoric and dysphoric images in the short story "O Vinho" by Miguel Torga

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This paper offers an analysis of "O Vinho", a short story from Miguel Torga's Contos da Montanha, through the lens of Freudian psychoanalysis and Bachelardian imagery. Focusing on the inner monologue of a drunken man torn between elation and despair, the study highlights the wine's ambivalent role as both a source of sensorial euphoria and a trigger for existential confrontation. The narrative unfolds in three phases – unconscious, preconscious, conscious – marked by contrasting images in both landscape and psyche. The article thus reveals a tragic and intense short story in which human subjectivity oscillates between impulses and repression, light and darkness, within a dialectic of euphoria and dysphoria.

L'Empreinte à Crusoé : Patrick Chamoiseau's philosophical narrative

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Daniel Defoe's novel The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner (1719) engendered numerous sequels reproducing the chronotope and narrative schema of an existential and civilizational challenge. Patrick Chamoiseau's L'Empreinte à Crusoé (2012) seizes the opportunity to develop a narrativized philosophical reflection which, in the guise of a resurging noesis of the self, takes the starting point of post-colonial and negritude thought (Césaire, Fanon, Glissant) and moves beyond it by integrating it into the universalist occidental context (Parmenides, Heraclitus, Leibniz, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Ricoeur). The article attempts to identify three elements of the novelistic text: (1) revival and overcoming of New World myths; (2) poetic strategies underlying the philosophical mode of narration; (3) analysis of the noesis in Robinson-Ogomtemmêli's narrative.

Preposition omission before declarative finite complement clauses ('queísmo') selected by verbs in contemporary written European Portuguese

2025-06-17T16:59:44+02:00

This paper discusses the tendency to omit argumental prepositions before the conjunction que 'that', i.e. before declarative finite complement clauses. Several prepositions are scrutinised, mainly de 'of', em 'in', com 'with', and para 'for'. The focus is on the (neutral or formal) written registers of contemporary European Portuguese, as documented, for example, in newspaper texts or in translated fiction. After a brief literature review, quantitative data obtained from systematic queries in corpora is used to characterise the trend in question, with an emphasis on the verbs it most frequently co-occurs with. This data may be useful for different language professionals (in areas such as teaching, translation or proofreading). It is underlined that verbs are grouped into different classes, depending on the frequency of the omission at stake, and that these classes associate with differences in the speakers' perception of greater or lesser adequacy in highly formal contexts.

Old paths and new horizons : the discovery of Brazilian Portuguese in the Italian grammar of the Portuguese language

2025-06-24T08:12:48+02:00

As part of a larger research project aimed - in the wake of Tarallo's original and fruitful insight - at reconstructing the history of the emergence of Brazilian Portuguese through the production of grammatical compendia of the Portuguese language published both in Brazil and abroad, this paper focuses specifically on the earliest, tentative signs of Brazilian variants within Italian grammatical works. Drawing on three grammars of the so-called "Portuguese-Brazilian" language published in Italy during the first half of the 20th century, the analysis presented here does not limit itself to looking at the phenomena that appear to be gradually – and at times almost unconsciously - shaping a distinct Brazilian Portuguese still in its embryonic form, but also considers these features in light of how they were described in various grammatical and linguistic studies produced in Brazil, both before and after the Italian texts. In doing so, it contributes indirectly and retrospectively to an unexpected and, in certain respects, illuminating dialogue between past and present understandings of this linguistic variety.

Reflecting from literature: dignity and courage in wartime contexts : women's stories about the Italian annexation of South Tyrol / Südtirol

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Angela Nikoletti, Sabine Gruber, Lili Gruber and Francesca Melandri analyse the context of violence, deceit and neglect in the annexation of South Tyrol. We analyse their denunciations of the greed of the Italian, Austrian and German governments and reflect on the structures of resilience in relation to hope. We look at the topicality of these colonially nuanced events in geopolitical power games. We focus on how literature written by women is a medium for purposeful reflection.

The chorus in Joaquín Sabina's lyrics : variations and possibilities

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Building upon the research proposal by Emilio de Miguel Martínez in his pioneering and now classic book, Joaquín Sabina. Concierto privado (2008), this article examines the poetic craft of the Spanish singer-songwriter in one of the fundamental elements of contemporary popular song: the chorus. After acknowledging the generally high regard for Sabina's choruses, they are observed from various perspectives in order to account for their heterogeneity. To this end, attention is paid to the frequency with which they appear both in his songbook and in his songs; to their typographic marking; to their length; to their location in the lyrics; to their narrative, semantic, syntactic and metric continuity; to their function of condensing the meaning of the lyrics; and to their variability.

A revisiting of the Episodes on the Romantic Life by Mário Cláudio - of the character's rewriting existence

2026-01-16T20:04:18+01:00

Published in 2018, Treze Cartas e Três Bilhetes de Rachel Cohen, by Mário Cláudio, comes out on the 130th anniversary of the release of The Maias as a tribute to the great Portuguese novelist of the 1800s. The purpose of the following article is to reflect on the question of the character's survival and the mechanisms adopted, such as transfictionality. The spaces left blank by Eça de Queirós, nebulous narratives, are utilised by Mário Cláudio who uses them as a means of giving continuity to figures who would otherwise not reach the level of a great literary character with human density and psychological complexity, as is the case of Raquel Cohen. As well as analysing Raquel's survival, I will also look at João da Ega and Alencar, in order to understand how the suggestive Queirosiano silences take on new contours in Cláudio's narrative.

[Álvarez Álvarez, Susana. La traducción y la formación de traductores en entornos digitales: retos, competencias y estrategias]

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Reviewed work:

Álvarez Álvarez, Susana. La traducción y la formación de traductores en entornos digitales: retos, competencias y estrategias. Granada: Comares, 2024. xiii, 179 p. ISBN 978-84-1369-769-7.

[Pešková, Andrea. L2 Spanish and Italian intonation: accounting for the different patterns displayed by L1 Czech and German learners]

2025-08-12T08:29:39+02:00

Reviewed work:

Pešková, Andrea. L2 Spanish and Italian intonation: accounting for the different patterns displayed by L1 Czech and German learners. Berlin: Language Science Press, 2023. viii, 373 p. ISBN 978-3-98554-076-1.