Science and Literature in Italian Culture: From Dante to Calvino. A Festschrift for Pat Boyde. Ed. by PIERPAOLO ANTONELLO and SIMON A. GILSON. Oxford: Legenda. 2004. xviii + 303 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-900755-84-x.
It has long been a requirement of Festschrift editors to prove the viability of a volume by convincing publishers of its unity of theme. Italianist contributors to such collections have, by and large, been more anarchic than their editors. The present essays ...