Hemingway and Italy: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives

by Mark Cirino (Editor), Mark P. Ott (Editor)

Overview

Exploring the importance of Ernest Hemingway's time in Italy to his writing and legacy

From his World War I service in Italy through his transformational return visits during the decades that followed, Ernest Hemingway’s Italian experiences were fundamental to his artistic development. Hemingway and Italy offers essays from top scholars, exciting new voices, and people who knew Hemingway during his Italian days, examining how his adopted homeland shaped his writing and his legacy. The collection addresses Hemingway’s many Italys—the terrain and people he encountered during his life and the country he transposed into his fiction. 

Contributors analyze Hemingway’s Italian works, including A Farewell to Arms, Across the River and into the Trees,lesser-known short stories, fables, and even a previously unpublished Hemingway sketch, “Torcello Piece.” The essays provide fresh insights on Hemingway’s Italian life, career, and imagination. 

  Contributors: Giacomo Ivancich | Ruggero Caumo | Scott Donaldson | Sergio Perosa | Rosella Mamoli Zorzi | Davide Lorigliola | Alberto Lena | Miriam B. Mandel | Michael Kim Roos | John D. Schwetman | Adam Long | Marina Gradoli | Piero Ambrogio Pozzi | Kirk Curnutt | Cam Cobb | Kei Katsui

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813081137
Publisher:	University Press of Florida
Publication date:	06/03/2025
Pages:	262
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

Mark Cirino, associate professor and Melvin M. Peterson Endowed Chair of English at the University of Evansville, is the author or editor of several books, including Ernest Hemingway: Thought in Action.

Mark P. Ott, Head of School at The Kiski School in Pennsylvania, is the author or editor of several books, including A Sea of Change: Ernest Hemingway and the Gulf Stream—A Contextual Biography.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“A true gift for Hemingway aficionados! With previously unpublished work by Hemingway, memories of the writer by those who knew him, and essays by an outstanding international team of scholars, this collection deepens our understanding of Hemingway’s relationship to a country that he loved and that was central to his fiction.”—Carl P. Eby, author of Hemingway’s Fetishism: Psychoanalysis and the Mirror of Manhood “These extremely powerful essays bring a richer and more cosmopolitan understanding of the Italian underpinnings of Hemingway’s writing.”—Linda Patterson Miller, editor of Letters from the Lost Generation: Gerald and Sara Murphy and Friends “A useful experience for readers. Its blending of biography and textual study is perfect.”—Linda Wagner-Martin, editor of Hemingway: Eight Decades of Criticism

Editorial Reviews

An indispensable source for anyone seeking wider knowledge of twenty-first-century Hemingway research, particularly with respect to his works set in Italy.”—Modern Language Review



“An accessible introduction to Hemingway and Italy. . . . The collection is a pleasure.”—Hemingway Review



“Mark Cirino and Mark P. Ott have put together a collection of essays that showcases a considerable variety of critical approaches, as well as an array of international perspectives and sensibilities, which truly befits Hemingway’s cosmopolitanism. Hemingway and Italy is a welcome addition both to Hemingway studies and to scholarship devoted to the venerable tradition of the international theme, particularly as regards the complex, fruitful relationship between American writers and Italy.”—Modernism/modernity



“This volume beckons us with a truly unique and heretofore unearthed consideration of Hemingway’s Italy by engaging with a wide variety of Hemingway experts, connoisseurs, friends, and acquaintances alike, who deliver a provocative read about Hemingway’s connection with Italy.”—Italian Americana



From the Publisher