Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies Vol. 12 (2013) Volume Editor: Gloria Lauri-Lucente Contents: Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Virgil’s Aeneid: Gonzalo on Claribel and ‘Widow Dido’ - Robert Hollander Dante, ‘The Prophet of Liberty’: The Mainstream Ideological Paradigm in Romantic Britain vis-à-vis Isaiah Berlin’s Reflections on Liberty - Edoardo Crisafulli The Humanist Petrarch in Medieval and Early Modern England - Alessandra Petrina ‘Mia Bella Italia’: Mary Shelley’s Italies – Timothy Webb ‘The Burning Bush’: Browning’s First Visit to Asolo, June 1838 – Sue Brown ‘This Extraordinary Apathy’: Wilkie Collins, Italy and the Contradictions of the Risorgimento Mariaconcetta Costantini The Italian Scenes in Anthony Trollope’s He Knew He Was Right - David Farley-Hills Gendering Madness: Shakespeare’s Macbeth re-visited by Verdi - Maria Frendo John Ruskin, Venice, and the ‘Stones’ of an Italian Utopia - Michela Marroni William Morris’s Mediaevalism between Dante and Boccaccio: A Cognitive Approach to Literature Eleonora Sasso By the Southern Sea: Gissing’s Meridian Flight from the Realm of Modernity - Luigi Cazzato Modernist Myths. A Comparison between La cognizione del dolore and Ulysses - Valentino Baldi Mysterious Apparitions in the Land of Darkness: The Influence of Conrad in Buzzati’s Short Fiction Valentina Polcini The Narrative of Realism and Myth in Francesco Rosi’s Salvatore Giuliano and Michael Cimino’s The Sicilian - Gloria Lauri-Lucente Betrayal Italian Style - Sara Soncini Counterfeit Classics: Shakespeare/Camilleri Joking with Masks, Translations and Traditions - Carla Dente Conducting the Orchestra: Recent Experiences in Translating Italian Fiction into English - Silvester Mazzarella