Ricerc@Sapienza

The essay summarizes the critical debate on the dissemination of Montaigne's oeuvre in Italy in the Eighteenth and in the early Nineteenth centuries, adds further documents and suggests critical and methodological perspectives. In the second part it focuses in particular on two case studies: Leopardi and Alfieri, with a thorough discussion of Bartolo Anglani's recent book on Montaigne's and Rousseau's influence on Alfieri's autobiographical writings.

Key issues of Ovidian poetics interpreted via the reading of contemporary poets and artists.

The main question of this article is whether hotspots in Italy are reception or detention structures and whether detention in these structures is law- ful under international law, namely under Article 5 of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR hereafter). In order to answer this ques- tion, I will first analyse the ECHR jurisprudence on detention and how the Court defines this concept. I will then describe the case Khlaifia and others v. Italy and explain why the ECtHR condemned Italy in that case.

This paper sketches out a history of ancient and modern discussions on the aesthetic “imperfection” of the
Iliad and the Odyssey. The views of, among others, Horace, Pseudo-Longinus, F.A. Wolf, F.W. Nietzsche
will be examined, as well as more recent evaluations of the Homeric poems. A passing comment by U. Eco
will also inspire some reflections.