Professor Franco Baldasso’s Against Redemption Wins Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History
Professor Franco Baldasso’s book Against Redemption: Democracy, Memory, and Literature in Post-Fascist Italy (Fordham University Press) has been awarded the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History from the Society of Italian Historical Studies. Baldasso is an assistant professor of Italian and director of the Italian Program at Bard College.
In its citation for the prize, the society notes:
“Franco Baldasso’s Against Redemption expertly addresses the Italian literary scene after the fall of Benito Mussolini’s Fascist regime at the end of the Second World War. His examination of authors like Carlo Levi, Vitaliano Brancati, Giuseppe Berto, and Curzio Malaparte presents challenges, nuance, and new vistas to the dominant Neorealist and Resistance literature of the postwar years. Based on impressive research and convincingly argued, Baldasso’s work alters how we consider collective memory in the transition from Fascist to post-Fascist Italy.”
Read more about Against Redemption: Democracy, Memory, and Literature in Post-Fascist Italy.
Post Date: 01-26-2024
In its citation for the prize, the society notes:
“Franco Baldasso’s Against Redemption expertly addresses the Italian literary scene after the fall of Benito Mussolini’s Fascist regime at the end of the Second World War. His examination of authors like Carlo Levi, Vitaliano Brancati, Giuseppe Berto, and Curzio Malaparte presents challenges, nuance, and new vistas to the dominant Neorealist and Resistance literature of the postwar years. Based on impressive research and convincingly argued, Baldasso’s work alters how we consider collective memory in the transition from Fascist to post-Fascist Italy.”
Read more about Against Redemption: Democracy, Memory, and Literature in Post-Fascist Italy.
Post Date: 01-26-2024