Ricerc@Sapienza

MITE is a two-years research project funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) through the PRIN 2022 PNRR call.

Starting with the case of Walter Benjamin, a forced exile from Nazi Germany and suicide on the French-Spanish border, we intend to reflect on the position of those intellectuals, especially Jewish-Germans, grappling with the political and cultural emergency of the time, such as Erich Auerbach; but also of French authors who in the same years were thinking of a literary and anthropological "flight" southwards, as a radical reformulation of their cultural positioning in the years between the wars.

In 2016, the concept of "post-truth" - indicating any linguistic regime of discourse in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotions and personal beliefs - gained significant attention in academia, although now its very pervasiveness risks oversimplifications. This research tackles the multifaceted phenomenon of post-truth as a complex network where a whole set of communicative, literary, and technological issues converge and interact with each other.

The research proposal aims to create a Digital Library that will contain texts of modern Greek, Serbian, and Croatian, Romanian and Czech, literature translated in Italian. The purpose of the research project is the creation of a digital library that will promote the translated texts. Another goal is the exhaustive bibliographic recording, description and analysis of all products related to the history of the above foreign literatures in Italy during the 20th century (1900-1999).

The project sets out to study the figures, works and cultural relations that have helped form the idea of modern Greece in the Italian peninsula over the last two centuries.

Questo è un gruppo di ricerca nato attorno alle cattedre di Filologia Romanza della Sapienza di Roma ed è parte integrante del più ampio progetto Letteratura Europea. Composto da professori e ricercatori di varie università, appartenenti a varie aree disciplinari e aperto a tutti i contributi in linea con il suo programma, ha come oggetto di studi la lirica romanza intesa come una tradizione culturale unitaria che ha le sue radici nella classicità e nel medioevo latino.

The research team aims to collect evidence about the work of scholars dealing with Central and Eastern European subjects, in the field of the Humanities, during the XXth century.