About the Journal
Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani is a peer-reviewed international journal of Italian Studies dedicated to the study of Italian culture from its origins to the present day. Since its founding in 1985, the journal has published original research across a wide range of disciplines, including history, literature, linguistics, philosophy, art history, music, cinema, and theatre. The journal actively encourages interdisciplinary contributions that cross traditional boundaries within the Humanities. It also welcomes research that examines Italy within transnational and comparative contexts. In doing so, the journal seeks to foster critical debates on the interconnected and evolving nature of Italian culture in a European and global context.
Incontri is the journal of the Werkgroep Italië Studies (WIS), an Italian Studies workgroup based in the Dutch and Flemish academic research community.
Incontri is recognised by ANVUR as a “Scientific Journal” for Area 10 (Ancient, Philological-Literary and Historical-Artistic Sciences).
Current Issue
Vol. 41 No. 1 (2026)
Special Issue - Rhetorical Culture and Literary Practices in Italy (13th–17th Centuries). Editors: Cristiano Amendola (KU Leuven), Claudio Di Felice (Università “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara) & Emma Grootveld (Leiden University)
Introduction: Cristiano Amendola, Claudio Di Felice & Emma Grootveld
Articles: Forms and Structure. The ars dictaminis and the Rhetorical School of Southern Italy in the Thirteenth Century (Fulvio Delle Donne) • Pietro da Prezza’s Dictamina between Rhetoric and Literature (Martina Pavoni) • Style and Honour in Inf. V 107 (Gandolfo Cascio) • «Ornarse de laudata peritia». Epistolary Rhetoric and Socio-Stylistic Networks in Fifteenth-Century Vernacular Italian (Cristiano Amendola) • The Rhetoric of Anti-Rhetoric. Pietro Aretino and the Myth of ‘Natural’ Writing (Paolo Procaccioli) • Towards a Mapping of the Rhetorical Continent through Bernardino Tomitano’s Quattro libri (1570) (Teodoro Katinis) • Rhetoric between the Useful and the Pleasant in Guidebooks to Italian Cities in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Harald Hendrix) • Rhetorical Experiments of the Comici dell’Arte at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century: The Arlecchino-Martinelli Case (Philiep Bossier) • Tesauro’s Il Cannocchiale aristotelico in the Twenty-First Century: In Light of the Recent Critical Edition (Angelo Lombardo & Teodoro Katinis)
Published:
2026-09-12
