Italiana I Selected Papers from the Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Italian. Dec. 27–28, 1986. New York, NY Albert N. Mancini, Paolo Giordano, & Pier Raimondo Baldini, Editors. © 1988, Rosary College Albert N. Mancini. Introduction. LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS Marcel Danesi. The Development of Metaphorical Competence: A Neglected Dimension in Second Language Pedagogy. (1) R. J. Di Pietro. An Interactive Approach to Conversation in Italian. (11) Jana Vizmuller-Zocco. “La legge Tobbler Mussafia” from a Textual Perspective. (21) Kelly Konchar. Expanding the Advanced Language Italian Class. (29) BIBLIOGRAPHY Marco Santoro. Glosse a margine del Catalogo delle secentine napoletane della Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli. (39) Eleanor Morgan-Rodini. Computer Searching of Humanities Databases. (51) LITERATURE S. Wayne Storey. The Missing Picture in the Text of Escorial e. III. 23: Guittone’s Trattato d’amore. (59) Margherita De Bonfils Templer. Ragione e Intelletto nel Convivio. (77) Franco Masciandaro. The Paradise of Paolo and Francesca and the Negation of the Tragic: A Dramatistic Reading of Inferno V, 97–138. (87) Joy Potter. Beatrice Ammiraglio, Purgatorio XXX, 58–66. (97) Paul Colilli. Petrarch and the Poetics of Aletheia. (109) Eugenio Frongia. Insanabilis scribendi morbus: Petrarca and the Dynamics of Writing in Familiaries XIII, 7. (119) Arshi Pipa. Umanisti Italo Albanesi. (127) Peter Carravetta. In Pursuit of the Chameleon: The Interpretations of Pico. (141) Theodore Cachey. On the Biographical and Cultural Background for Pietro Bembo’s Revision of the 1505 Asolani. (153) Joseph Falvo. The Rhetoric of Human Conduct in Castiglione’s Libro del Cortegiano. (163) Michael Lettieri. Some Considerations for a Critical Edition of Aretino’s Orazia. (175) Nancy D’Antuono. The Commedia alla spagnolesca: Theatrical Success; Literary Failure. (185) Rinaldina Russell. Religious Authority and Seicento Theories of Lyric Poetry. (199) Salvatore Cappelletti. Origine e sviluppo della commedia borghese. (209) Daniela Bini. Leopardi e Michelstaedter tra autenticità e inautenticità. (219) Silvio Covi. La Sixtine di Remy de Gourmont: Stilnovismo e simbolismo. (229) Deanna Shemek. Prisoners of Passion: Women and Desire in Matidle Serao’s Romanzi d’amore. (243) Umberto Mariani. Pirandello all’origine del teatro esistenzialista e dell’assurdo. (225) Maria Rosaria Vitti-Alexander. Tecniche filmistiche in alcune Novelle per un anno. (271) Beno Weiss. Il malocchio: Svevo’s Fascination with the Occult. (281) Robin Pickering-Iazzi. The Poetics of Discovery: Female Storytelling and the Terza Pagina in Early Twentieth Century Literature. (291) Anthony J. Tamburri. Aldo Palazzeschi’s Later Poetry: A Continuation. (307) Nicholas Patruno. Vittorini Translator of Steinbeck. (321) Mario Aste. Ledda’s Politics of Language from Padre padrone to Lingua di falce. (333) Angela Jeannet. The Worlds of Ferdinando Camon. (347) Fiora Bassanese. Of Priests and Politics: Fulvio Tomizza’s La miglior vita. (361) Italiana is a journal of critical essays, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and translations from Italian to English published by Bordighera Inc. ISSN 0897-2583.