The thesis is focused on the topic Italo Calvino and Italian Falktales referring to the collection Sulla fiaba. This thesis presents the life and lifework of Italo Calvino, describes the studying of the Italian falktales, explains the influence of Ariosto at Calvino's production. My thesis devotes to the situation on the Italian territory and analyses the tales contained in the collection Fiabe italiane, in detail refers to the animals which appear in the tales from Tuscany, Sicily, Venice and Friuli. The thesis is written in Italian language.

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O objetivo desta tese é analisar a construção da imagem de escritor e a recepção dos livros de João de Minas, pseudônimo de Ariosto Palombo (1896-1984), no campo literário brasileiro entre 1927 e 1989. Foi realizada uma pesquisa documental em livros, jornais e revistas para localizar textos de sua autoria e opinativos sobre sua pessoa e suas obras. A análise das atividades do escritor mineiro é focada em três momentos: jornalista governista (1927-1930), que publicou textos sobre os sertões brasileiros e artigos de defesa das oligarquias encabeçadas pelo Partido Republicano Paulista; um escritor popular (1934-1937), atuante nos gêneros aventuras, sentimental-sexual e policial, bastante difundidos à época; e profeta (1935- 1969), criador de uma eclética religião que misturava kardecismo, catolicismo, protestantismo, umbanda e esoterismo. As opiniões sobre João de Minas e seus livros mudaram conforme se intensificou a orientação popular de suas atividades: tornou-se famoso por ser reconhecido como talento literário promissor por escritores membros da Academia Brasileira de Letras em 1929; foi criticado pela agressiva autopromoção e pelo mau gosto da linguagem de seus livros voltados ao grande público; e sua guinada à religião ressaltou entre os intelectuais e escritores uma imagem de oportunista e arrivista sobre João de Minas, que levou seu nome a ser apagado das enciclopédias e histórias literárias nacionais. Orientador: Elias Thomé Saliba / The aim of this thesis is to analyze the construction of writer image and reception of João de Minas books, pseudonym of Ariosto Palombo (1896-1984), in the Brazilian literary field between 1927 and 1989. We conducted documentary research in books, newspapers and magazines to locate texts of his own and opinions about his person and his works. The analysis of the writer activities is focused on three moments: loyalist journalist (1927-1930), who published texts about brazilian wilderness and articles in defense of the oligarchies headed by Paulista Republican Party; a popular writer (1934-1937), active in pulp fiction like adventure novel, women and erotic fiction, and detective stories, quite widespread at that time; and prophet (1935-1969), creator of an eclectic religion that blended kardecism, Catholicism, Protestantism, umbanda and esotericism. Opinions about João de Minas and his books had changed as the popular direction of his activities was intensified: in 1929, he became famous for being recognized as promising literary talent by writers members of the Brazilian Academy of Letters; after 1934 was criticized by aggressive self-promotion and bad taste language of his books focused on general public; and his turn to religion stressed among intellectuals and writers an image of opportunist and upstart about João de Minas, that took his name to be erased from national literary histories and encyclopedias.

O objetivo desta tese é analisar a construção da imagem de escritor e a recepção dos livros de João de Minas, pseudônimo de Ariosto Palombo (1896-1984), no campo literário brasileiro entre 1927 e 1989. Foi realizada uma pesquisa documental em livros, jornais e revistas para localizar textos de sua autoria e opinativos sobre sua pessoa e suas obras. A análise das atividades do escritor mineiro é focada em três momentos: jornalista governista (1927-1930), que publicou textos sobre os sertões brasileiros e artigos de defesa das oligarquias encabeçadas pelo Partido Republicano Paulista; um escritor popular (1934-1937), atuante nos gêneros aventuras, sentimental-sexual e policial, bastante difundidos à época; e profeta (1935- 1969), criador de uma eclética religião que misturava kardecismo, catolicismo, protestantismo, umbanda e esoterismo. As opiniões sobre João de Minas e seus livros mudaram conforme se intensificou a orientação popular de suas atividades: tornou-se famoso por ser reconhecido como talento literário promissor por escritores membros da Academia Brasileira de Letras em 1929; foi criticado pela agressiva autopromoção e pelo mau gosto da linguagem de seus livros voltados ao grande público; e sua guinada à religião ressaltou entre os intelectuais e escritores uma imagem de oportunista e arrivista sobre João de Minas, que levou seu nome a ser apagado das enciclopédias e histórias literárias nacionais. Orientador: Elias Thomé Saliba / The aim of this thesis is to analyze the construction of writer image and reception of João de Minas books, pseudonym of Ariosto Palombo (1896-1984), in the Brazilian literary field between 1927 and 1989. We conducted documentary research in books, newspapers and magazines to locate texts of his own and opinions about his person and his works. The analysis of the writer activities is focused on three moments: loyalist journalist (1927-1930), who published texts about brazilian wilderness and articles in defense of the oligarchies headed by Paulista Republican Party; a popular writer (1934-1937), active in pulp fiction like adventure novel, women and erotic fiction, and detective stories, quite widespread at that time; and prophet (1935-1969), creator of an eclectic religion that blended kardecism, Catholicism, Protestantism, umbanda and esotericism. Opinions about João de Minas and his books had changed as the popular direction of his activities was intensified: in 1929, he became famous for being recognized as promising literary talent by writers members of the Brazilian Academy of Letters; after 1934 was criticized by aggressive self-promotion and bad taste language of his books focused on general public; and his turn to religion stressed among intellectuals and writers an image of opportunist and upstart about João de Minas, that took his name to be erased from national literary histories and encyclopedias.

Du Roland furieux de l’Arioste (1516-1532) au Songe de Kepler (1634), cette thèse propose une étude des récits de voyages aériens dans la fiction narrative de la Renaissance (romans, poèmes épiques, satires) ainsi que des discours théoriques abordant la question du vol et de l’élévation (démonologie, cosmographie, astronomie, discours sur la possibilité du vol humain ou le vol des oiseaux, etc.). Trois principaux objets sont mis en valeur : les voyages célestes écrits dans la lignée de récits comme le Songe de Scipion de Cicéron ou l’Icaroménippe de Lucien de Samosate ; les voyages aériens de la fiction chevaleresque ; le motif du transport diabolique. L’étude montre ainsi l’importance prise par l’imaginaire du vol à la Renaissance, à la croisée de la fiction et des discours savants, et dessine une « pré-histoire » des fictions d’envol avant les récits de Godwin (The Man in the Moone, 1638) et de Cyrano de Bergerac (Etats et Empires de la Lune et du Soleil, 1657 et 1662). Au cœur de cette rêverie se loge tout à la fois le désir de prendre la mesure du monde et les inquiétudes suscitées par ce même désir. / From Ariosto’s Orlando furioso (1516-1532) to Kepler’s Somnium (1634), this thesis offers a study of aerial and celestial voyages in Renaissance narrative fiction (romances, epic poems, satires) as well as of learned treatises related to the question of flying (demonology, cosmography, astronomy, learned discourses on human and bird flight, etc.). It focuses on three main subjects: cosmic voyages in the tradition of Cicero’s Dream of Scipio or Lucian of Samosata’s Icaromenippus; aerial voyages in chivalric romance; diabolical transvection (eg. fly to the sabbath). It thus shows the extent to which flight captured the Renaissance imagination, at the cross-roads between fiction and learned discourse, and it traces a « pre-history » of fictional flying before Godwin’s Man in the Moone (1638) or Cyrano de Bergerac’s Etats et Empires de la Lune et du Soleil (1657 and 1662). At the heart of this fantasy lies a desire to measure the world from above – together with the anxieties produced by the same desire.

Le Roland furieux constitue un réservoir d'intrigues inépuisable pour l'opéra baroque. Nous prenons en compte un corpus de quatre-vingts livrets mais aussi pièces de théâtre et ballets, résumés dans l'Annexe et analysés au fil d'une réflexion qui vise à dégager des grandes lignes d'histoire de l'opéra pouvant justifier la disparition des personnages, qui coïncide avec le passage du texte source au second plan après le XVIIIe siècle. Le point de vue adopté dans la première partie nous permet de mettre en lumière la circulation des sujets et de démêler les différents filtres de réécritures intermédiaires en fonction des influences littéraires, mais aussi politiques et matérielles. La plasticité de l'Arioste qui le rend adaptable à tous les contextes, entraîne également une fortune sérieuse aussi bien qu'une fortune comique. Les épisodes de l'épopée privilégiés à l'opéra, au-delà des différences entre contextes de création et genres, sont ceux qui mettent en scène l'excès et le désir. Les deux personnages qui cristallisent ces thématiques suivent, dans l'histoire des réécritures opératiques, deux trajectoires inversées. Roland ébranle les conventions génériques et perd dans ses plus belles réalisations l'essentiel de sa charge comique tandis qu'Alcine, se fondant dans tous les genres, de sérieuse, devient comique. / Ariosto's Orlando furioso offers a countless multitude of plots for the baroque opera. Our corpus is composed of eighty librettos and also of some dramatic plays and ballets, presented in the appendix. This thesis intends to consider why Ariosto's heroes disappeared from European scenes, while they lost their aura, by taking in account the main lines of operatic history. Firstly, we would like to accent the circulation of the plots between cultural areas and to analyze the different literary, political and factual influences that can alter the original text. Then, our purpose is to examine the ariostan plasticity, which suits to all the contexts and explains the ambivalent generic posterity of the epic romance on operatic stages, either comic or serious. Finally, we want to highlight that the most adapted episodes are related to excess and desire. The both characters, that carry these themes, meet an opposite fate. Orlando's most achieved treatments subvert more and more the generic conventions, by reducing his comic aspect, whereas Alcina loses her serious nature and becomes a comic figure.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Committee on Social Thought, Jun. 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-196). Also available on the Internet.