Zeitsprünge

During Francoism, the Spanish musical cinema was a highly popular and lucra­tive genre, since it allowed movie directors to avoid politically sensitive topics by turning their productions into vehicles for catchy songs. This paper analyzes Más...

The essay investigates the complex depiction of deception across both socio-po­litical and literary dimensions in 17th-century Ligurian narratives. The paper discusses the ambivalent portrayal of ruses and stragatems, particularly their...

This paper delves into the reception of Francesco Petrarca’s Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (RVF), during the Italian Quattrocento, a period often overshadowed by the subsequent developments of Petrarchism. Focusing on the commentaries by Francesco...

Among midwives, we find “many ties and knots, more than those of a fishing net,” states Francisco Santo in his novel Día y noche de Madrid. The thread metaphor employed by the 17th-century author prompts an examination of the signs and symbols...

This article examines the uses and semantics of traps in a farcical Italian co­medy, Giovan Battista della Porta’s Chiappinaria. Instrumental to these traps is a bear-skin costume: three characters wear it, pretending to be bears, and eroding the...