Francesco Medici
Articoli e Recensioni pubblicati per La rivista di Arablit
Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet Reread through its Twelve Illustrations
Francesco Medici2022-05-06T18:11:59+00:00Articolo della Rivista, Anno X, numero 19, giugno 2020
in La rivista di Arablit, a. X, n. 19, giugno 2020, pp. 29-54. Famous Lebanese-American poet Kahlil Gibran was also a very talented painter. Like many of his other books in Arabic and in English, The Prophet includes some of his most charming and inspiring paintings and drawings. This article, far from being an art essay in a technical sense, aims to point out the connections between the Author’s literary and figurative poetics in the light of his intercultural and interreligious vision through an accurate analysis of each one of the twelve plates that illustrate his celebrated [...]
Figli dei cedri in America. Il carteggio tra Ğubrān Ḫalīl Ğubrān e Amīn Fāris al-Rīḥānī
Francesco Medici2020-03-08T19:25:00+00:00Articolo della Rivista, Anno I, numero 1, giugno 2011
(Cedars sons in America. The correspondence between Ğubrān Ḫalīl Ğubrān and Amīn Fāris al-Rīḥānī) in La rivista di Arablit, a. I, n. 1, giugno 2011, pp. 83-112. The few letters that Ğubrān and al-Rīḥānī wrote to each other - and which are published for the first time in Italian within this article - show the common interest of the two intellectuals in promoting a campaign to reawaken the sense of freedom and independence from Ottoman rule and Western colonization amongst Lebanese and Syrians. These epistolary texts also attest the authors' dismay concerning the state of political and [...]
