Author Eleonora Sartoni

Eleonora Sartoni

Eleonora Sartoni is a PhD candidate at Rutgers University, New Jersey. She received both her B.A. in Modern Languages and Literature and her M.A. in Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies at the University of Siena. In her dissertation, titled Spectacular Capital(ist) City:Wanderings through Rome from 1870 to the Present, she investigates the creation of Rome’s national identity through the study of monuments, architecture, and urban expansion.

(Mamma) Roma between Archaic and Modern Italy: Urbanisation and the Destruction of Poetical Dwelling

Eleonora Sartoni

December 2015

The Legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini

This article reads Martin Heidegger’s lectures on dwelling alongside Pier Paolo Pasolini’s depiction of Casarsa in “L’Usignolo” (“The Nightingale”) and of the Roman periphery in Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini,...