Looking Back from the Centre: Experiences of Italian Humanities Scholars Living and Writing Abroad

摘要: It seems bizarre to characterize as semiperipheral the homeland of Dante, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. Throughout centuries Italy has enriched world’s culture in all areas thought human knowledge, Italian language, way life now more than ever seem exert an international fascination with a recognized — if rather stereotyped identity worldwide. However, also been known for its complexity contradictions, Pirandello L’Umorismo well realized, it is through these paradoxes that real nature things revealed. Realities, thoughts lives tend open themselves plurality interpretations, place where opposites coexist. This may be said situation academia, caught web contradictions multi-layered influences, experiences academics especially humanities scholars whose are emblematic need juggle contrasts reconcile seemingly irreconcilable phenomena.