2010 Book Prizes Awarded
Three AAIS Book Prizes were awarded at the conference in Pittsburgh for the best books in Italian studies published in 2010:
Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque
Heather Webb: The Medieval Heart (Yale UP)
18th/19th Century
Francesca Savoia: Fra letterati e galantuomini (Societa’ Editrice Fiorentina)
20th Century
Michelangelo Sabatino: Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy (Toronto UP)
Previous Book Prize Winners
2009:
- MEDIEVAL, RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE: Meredith Ray: Writing Gender in Women’s Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance (U Toronto P)
- 20TH CENTURY: Lina Insana: Arduous Tasks: Primo Levi, Translation, and the Transmission of Holocaust Testimony (U Toronto P)
- FILM: Giorgio Bertellini: Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape, and the Picturesque (Indiana UP)
- GENERAL: Andrea Mirabile: Scrivere la pittura: La ‘funzione Longhi’ nella letteratura italiana (Longo)
2008: Cinzia Blum. Rewriting the Journey in Contemporary Italian Literature: Figures of Subjectivity in Progress. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2007: Guido Bonsaver. Censorship and Literature in Fascist Italy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2006: Gabrielle Langdon. Medici Women: Portraits of Power, Love, and Betrayal. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2005: Christian Moevs. The Metaphysics of Dante’s Comedy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2004: John Picchione. The New Avant-Garde in Italy: Theoretical Debate and Poetic Practices. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2003: Luca Somigli. Legitimizing the Artist: Manifesto Writing and European Modernism, 1885-1915. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2002: Nicoletta Pireddu. Decadenza ed economia simbolica nell’Europa fin de siècle. Verona: Edizioni Fiorini.
2001: Massimo Lollini. Il vuoto della forma. Scrittura, testimonianza e verità. Genua: Marietti.
2000: Olivia Holmes. Assembling the Lyric Self: Authorship from Troubadour Song to Italian Poetry Book Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press.
