Journal of Early Modern Studies, n. 7 (2018), pp. 5-6 
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/JEMS-2279-7149-22834

ISSN 2279-7149 (online)
www.fupress.com/bsfm-jems
2018 Firenze University Press

Contents

Editorial 7
Riccardo Bruscagli

Part One

Introduction

Storytelling , Memory, Theatre 25
Cesare Molinari

Part Two

Case Studies

Chivalric Poetry between Singing and Printing in Early Modern Italy 43
Luca Degl’Innocenti

Voices from the New World: Giuliano Dati’s La storia della inventione 
delle nuove insule di Channaria indiane 63

Riccardo Bruscagli

‘Parole appiastricciate’: The Question of Recitation in the  
Ariosto-Tasso Polemic 99

Christopher Geekie

Animated Pulpits: On Performative Preaching in Seventeenth-Century Naples 129
Teresa Megale

‘Donna il cui carme gli animi soggioga’: Eighteenth-Century Italian 
Women Improvisers 139

Antonella Giordano



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Reading Aloud in Britain in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century: 
Theories and Beyond  157

Roberta Mullini

Appendix

‘and I would like to be hearing about them night and day’ 179
Paola Pugliatti

Contributors  221