34. At the beginning of the “Umbertina” section, Don Antonio addresses the villagers, quoting the famous line from canto 26 of Inferno in which Ulysses incites his companions to follow him in yet another daring journey: “Fatti non foste a viver come bruti/ma seguir virtute e conoscenza” (sic; 23–24). (In the English translation by Allen Mandelbaum: “You were not made to live your lives as brutes,/but to be followers of worth and knowledge,” 231.)

35. In Ulysses’ circle Dante also meets Guido da Montefeltro, who tells his story to Dante only because he thinks Dante is dead and thus will not be able to tell anyone on earth of Guidos damnation.

36. See Barolini, “Becoming a Literary Person Out of Context.”

HELEN BAROLINI: A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Books

Aldus and His Dream Book: An Illustrated Essay. New York: Italica, 1992.

Chiaroscuro: Essays of Identity. West Lafayette, Ind.: Bordighera, 1997.

Ed. The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian-American Women. New York: Shocken, 1985.

With Antonio Barolini. Duet (Poems in English and Italian). Venice: Neri Pozza Editore, 1966.

Festa: Recipes and Recollections of Italian Holidays. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988.

Love in the Middle Ages. New York: William Morrow, 1986.

Umbertina. 1979. New York: The Feminist Press, 1999.

Radio Drama

Margaret Fuller, an American Heroine of the Italian Risorgimento. RAI. Rome. 1971.

Selected Essays and Stories

“Appetite Lost, Appetite Found.” Through the Kitchen Window. Ed. Arlene Avakian. Boston: Beacon, 1997. 228–37.

“Becoming a Literary Person Out of Context.” Massachusetts Review 27.2 (1986): 262–74.

“A Circular Journey.” Texas Quarterly 21.2 (1978): 109–26.

“Going to Sicily.” Paris Review (summer 1980): 178–87.

“Greener Grass.” From the Margin: Writings in Italian Americana. Eds. Anthony Julian Tamburri, Paolo A. Giordano, and Fred L. Gardaphé. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 1991. 39–45.

“How I Learned to Speak Italian.” The Best American Essays 1998. Ed. Cynthia Ozick. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 19–32.

“The Italian Side of Emily Dickinson.” Virginia Quarterly Review 70.3 (summer 1994): 461–79.

“My Mother’s Wedding Day.” Southwest Review 77.1 (winter 1992): 34–47.

“Shores of Light.” Writers Forum 19 (1993): 137–56.

“Shutting the Door on Someone.” Southwest Review 75.4 (autumn 1990): 555–61.

Selected Interviews

With Carol Ahearn. Fra Noi (September 1986): 47.

With Kay Bonetti. Audiocassette. American Audio Prose Library. 1982.

With Dorothée von Heune Greenberg. MELUS 18.2 (summer 1992): 91–108.

WORKS CITED

Albanese, Catherine L., ed. A Cobbler’s Universe: Religion, Poetry and Performance in the Life of a South Italian Immigrant: Frank S. Spiziri. New York: Continuum, 1997.

Albright, Carol Bonomo. “From Sacred to Secular: Umbertina and A Piece of Earth” MELUS 20.2 (summer 1995): 93–103.

Allison, Dorothy. Bastard Out of Carolina. New York: Dutton, 1992.

———. Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature. Ithaca: Firebrand, 1994.

Anderlini-D’Onofrio, Serena. “Neither ‘White Widow’ nor ‘War Bride’: The Discursive Construction of Italian Women in America.” Voices in Italian Americana 8.1 (spring 1997): 11–31.

Baker, Aaron, and Juliann Vitullo. “Mysticism and the Household Saints of Everyday Life.” Voices in Italian Americana. Special Issue on Italian American Women Ed. Edvige Giunta 7.2 (1996): 55–68.

Bona, Mary Jo. “Broken Images, Broken Lives: Carmolina’s Journey in Tina De Rosa’s Paper Fish.” MELUS 14.3–4 (fall/winter 1987): 87–106.

———. Claiming a Tradition: Italian/American Women Writers. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999.

———. Review of Helen Barolini’s Chiaroscuro: Essays of Identity. Voices in Italian Americana 9.1 (spring 1988): 202–06.