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The paper discusses the Italian reception of Russian language poetry taking into account translations carried out between 1987 and 2022. The survey deals mainly with anthologies, journal issues devoted entirely or partially (but significantly) to Russian poetry, and single volumes of Russian poets translated into Italian entirely devoted to poets writing in Russian. With more than four hundred publications, it is clear Russian poetry has found a place in the Italian language. This is shown by the amount of poets who have appeared in Italian (and have been included in the table attached to the paper), and by the extensive bibliography placed in the repository of the journal “Studi Slavistici”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The original edition of Giacomo Zanella’s “Nuove poesie” di Giacomo Zanella published in 1878, with the poet’s handwritten dedication to Queen Margherita, was found and rescued years ago when it was about to be destroyed in a paper mill. The volume, which bears no inventory markings, was perhaps lent and never returned, as the queen herself lamented this sometimes happened at the court. The essay briefly outlines the figure of the poet from Vicenza, author, among other things, of the poem “Sopra una conchiglia fossile nel mio studio,” appreciated by Alessandro Manzoni and Giosuè Carducci, and in the 20th century by the poet Andrea Zanzotto. When Zanella died, Queen Margherita mourned him, professing to be a sincere admirer of his talent. As the Royal Library of Turin has a collection of books that belonged to the queen, including some editions of Carducci’s works with his hand-written dedications, the volume was donated to the Library, also to add to the history of the relationship between the queen and the intellectuals of her time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyses the Leiden Manifesto for research metrics, an important text published last 23 April in the scientific journal "Nature". The Manifesto, developed by famous scientometricians, contains ten principles (best practices) to guide research evaluation. It is intended to offer useful tools to understand the purpose of bibliometrics and the risks of " pervasive misapplication of indicators to the evaluation of scientific performance". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Four critical readings analyse some recent books about Southern Italy in the late Middle Ages: especially, the fundamental structures of society and those of the public administration. The study of feudalism, as well as the study of the city and of the monarchy, provide a convincing framework of the mechanisms of public affairs at that period, in an area where the institutional experimentation has original characters and innovative strength. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]