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This article analyzes the influence that the figure and work of Giovanni Papini had on Mircea Eliade, focusing especially on the relationship between the autobiographical Novel of the Nearsighted Adolescent, of the illustrious Romanian philosopher, and The Failure of the controversial Italian writer and intellectual. Starting from the analysis of references in Mircea Eliade's diary prose on Giovanni Papini and to the influence that the latter's work had on the entire Romanian 'young generation', we will try to show that the correspondence of themes and ideas between the two intellectuals cannot be considered accidental. Eliade is the most prominent figure of that generation of Romanian intellectuals dominated by the so-called "huliganism", a generation for which all rules are reinterpreted if not actually cancelled. Papini's influence is particularly evident in the Novel of the Nearsighted Adolescent, a prose that, as the author himself specified, is not to be intended as a result of artistic creation, but rather as a model of personal confession, that is, a mirror of his own soul. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the relationship of the young Giovanni Papini to the notion of imperialism. The period of Papini's intellectual formation was a time of intense debate among the Italian intelligentsia concerning imperialism and its relationship to nation and culture. He joined the conversation with a distinctive interpretation of the idea, one that could at once make him heir apparent to the tradition of Umbertian nationalism, while also rejecting the positivist slant of his forebears. William James's porous conception of the subject and Papini's sense of his own fragmented subjectivity provided the ground for a psychological understanding of imperialism: one that relied on knowledge and appreciation, which translated into literature at the individual level, and into culture at that of the nation. Ultimately, however, disappointments abroad, the demands of nationalist politics, and Papini's own avant-garde posture, led him to abandon his intellectual empire in favour of a more concrete one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the complex encounters between Florentine, Italian and Anglo-American modernism and feminism as they emerged in the journals and magazines published in Florence, examining, as a case study, a series of texts written by the British-born poet and painter Mina Loy during her stay in the city. The analysis of the dialogue between the avant-garde journal Lacerba, Loy and the coterie gathered around the American heiress Mabel Dodge on the topics of sexuality, female emancipation and sexual morality presents a complex picture of cultural exchange and encounters, in which Florence emerges as an important modernist nexus. By providing an account of such exchanges, the article also aims to contribute to a decentring and provincialization of modernism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]