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OBJECTS IN ITALIAN LIFE AND CULTURE Fiction, Migration, and Artificiality

Paolo Bartoloni

Italian and Italian American Studies Series Editor Stanislao G.Pugliese Hofstra University Hempstead, New York, USA

This series brings the latest scholarship in Italian and Italian American history, literature, cinema, and cultural studies to a large audience of specialists, general readers, and students. Featuring works on modern Italy (Renaissance to the present) and Italian American culture and society by established scholars as well as new voices, it has been a longstanding force in shaping the evolving fields of Italian and Italian American Studies by re-emphasizing their connection to one another.

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14835

Paolo Bartoloni

Objects in Italian Life and Culture Fiction, Migration, and Artificiality

Paolo Bartoloni Italian, Arts Millennium Building National University of Ireland, Galway Galway, Ireland

Italian and Italian American Studies ISBN 978-1-349-94874-1 ISBN 978-1-349-94875-8 DOI 10.1057/978-1-349-94875-8

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Large sections of this book were written during the year of sabbatical leave granted by my university, the National University of Ireland, Galway, in 2014. I wish to acknowledge and thank the support and the financial assistance of the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia, and the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS), which respectively appointed me visiting professor and honorary research associate in the months of August and September 2014. During that period I had the opportunity to work closely with Francesco Ricatti of the