The Wounded Body

1. Preface (Fabrizio Bondi, Massimo Stella, Andrea Torre).- 2. The Wounded Poet. On the Twenty-First Series of Deleuze's Logic of Sense (Rocco Ronchi).- 3. The Scars and the Tale, the Wounds and the Drama (Anna Beltrametti).- 4. The 'aperto segno' and the 'colpo ascoso'. The Love Wound in Cavalcanti and Dante (Gabriele Frasca).- 5. Through the Wound, and What Petrarch Found There (Andrea Torre).- 6. Untimely wounds in Shakespeare's Macbeth (Iolanda Plescia).- 7. An Anatomy of the Destructiveness of Knights. Wound Imagery and the Culture of Physical Force in 'Langue d'oïl' Heroic Narrative (Alvaro Barbieri).- 8. Adventure and the Wound: History of a Paradoxical Relationship (Manuel Mühlbacher).- 9. The Wounded Body in Boiardo's 'Innamorato' and Ariosto's 'Orlando Furioso' (Sabrina Stroppa).- 10. The Bleeding Scar. Towards a Reading of 'Gerusalemme liberata' as the Poem of Belatedness (Giancarlo Alfano).- 11. The Meta-Physical Wound: Shakespeare's Roman Plays (Massimo Stella).- 12. 'Chacun de nous tient sa blessure ouverte, sì che tal piaga il mondo unqua risalde'. The Wound in Women's Poetry (that of Cixous and Colonna among others) (Tatiana Crivelli).- 13. A masochistic Prometheus: the Wound in Tasso's Lyric Poetry (Fabrizio Bondi).- 14. 'And of what force your wounding graces are'. Importing and Augmenting the Wound from Italy to Elizabethan England (Selene Scarsi).- 15. Amoretta and Lucrece: Wounded Identities (Luca Manini).- 16.'Risguarda quella piaga'. Stigmata and the Education of the Gaze in Early Modern Franciscan Iconography (Giuseppe Capriotti).- 17. 'What Are These Wounds?' Stigmata and/as Memory in Italian Religious Literature (Andrea Torre). 

Fabrizio Bondi is Lecturer in Italian Literature at Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples, Italy.

Massimo Stella is Lecturer in Comparative Literatures and Theory of Literature at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy.


Andrea Torre is Associate Professor of Italian Literature at Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, Italy.