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Recent developments in the field of Digital Humanities have offered researchers new methodo- logical perspectives, by combining the methods and statistical tools typical of corpus linguistics with the her- meneutic practice of literary criticism. Despite a large number of works has illustrated the advantages of using computational methods in literary studies, most literary scholars still disregard the epistemological connection that exists between the quantitative and qualitative approaches, thus treating them as mutually exclusive.

Fabrizia Ramondino: The Birth of a Writer between Morante and Gadda · The article outlines Fabrizia Ramondino’s tormented transition from the private space of her writing to the public sphere, which saw her authoring, at the age of forty- ve the dazzling Althénopis (1981), one of the most important novels of the second half of Italy’s twentieth century.