Elda Garetto

Garetto

Doctor of Philology,

Professor at the University of Milan

Education:

Graduated from the University of Turin

DSc Thesis:

The Function of Metaphors and Comparisons in the Works of F.M. Dostoevsky

Research interests: 

Russian Russian literature of the 20th century, the history of Russian culture and Russian emigration, Italian-Russian cultural relations.

Professional Service:

  • Research and teaching at the University of Bergamo and at the University of Milan.
  • Coordinated the project www.arterussamilano.it based on the archives of the City of Milan, the Mondadori Publishing Foundation, the Archive of G. D'Annunzio (Vittoriale) and the La Scala Theater (2009–2012).
  • Coordinated the PRIN national research projects on the Russian presence in Italy (www.russinitalia.it) (2007–2011).
  • Member of the Italian Association of Slavists (AIS);
  • Member of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES);
  • Member of the Editorial Board of “Emigrantica” (IWL RAS)

Teaching Activity:

  • Professor of Russian Culture and Literature at the University of Bergamo.
  • Professor of Russian Culture and Literature at the University of Milan.
  • Courses in the history of Russian literature and culture, courses in the history and theory of literary translation at the Universities of Bergamo and Milan (1982–2020)

 

Scientific publications — more than 100 scientific publicatications

Selected publications

Monograph

  • Una Russa a Roma, dall’Archivio di Olga Resnevič Signorelli (1883–1973). Milano, Cooperativa Editorial I.U.L.M., 1990.

Books (author, editor-compiler)

  • Dostoevsky Never Wasted Paper. Research Ideas from the Works of Rinaldo Kufferle. Milan, 2016.
  • Archivio russo-italiano. 6: Olga Signorelli e la cultura del suo tempo. A cura di Elda Garetto e Daniela Rizzi. Salerno: Europa Orientalis, 2010. 438 p. (Europa Orientalis: Archivio Russo-Italiano)
  • Russian-Italian Archive IX: Olga Resnevich-Signorelli and Russian Emigration: correspondence: in 2 vols. Salerno, Vereja Edizioni, 2010.

Selected Essays

  • “D’Annunzio’s Legacy in Post-Revolutionary Russia.” Gabriele D’Annunzio and World Literature Multilingualism, Translation, Reception. ed. by Elisa Segnini, Michael Subialka. [Edinburgh], Edinburgh University Press, 2023. pp. 285–304. (Co-authored with Sofia Lurie)
  • “1929–1931: le Pagine Russe su La Stampa di Malaparte.” Malaparte e la Russia. Atti del Convegno. Milano, 26 Novembre 2021, a Cura di C.M. Giacobbe e F. Oneta. Milano, Luni Editrice, 2022. pp. 101–124.
  • From the Archive of Olga Resnevich-Signorelli. M. Gorky in Italy. St. Petersburg, Symposium Publ., 2022, pp. 455–547. (with K. Kumpan, E. Matevosian, G. Propolianis)
  • “Correspondence of I.A. Bunin with A.V. and I.V. Amfiteatrovs.” Literary heritage,  Vol. 110, no. 2. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2022, pp. 632–810. In Russ. 
  • “Il Pane Altrui di Ivan Turgenev: Diffusione e Ricezione Critica in Italia (1894–1990).” Nina M. Kauchtschischwili: Eredità Scientifica, Lascito Culturale, Ricordi, a Cura di U. Persi e A. Polonskij. Belgorod, Bergamo, Politerra, 2021, pp. 85–94.
  • “The Image of Ivan Bunin in the Correspondences of Aleksandr Amfiteatrov with the Russian Émigré Writers in Paris (Mark Aldanov, Boris Zaitsev, Teffi, Ivan Shmelev).” I.A. Bunin and His Time: Context of Life — History of Work. Ex. eds. T.M. Dvinyatina and S.N. Morozov; Eds. A.V. Bakuntsev and E.R. Ponomarev. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2021, pp. 161–175. In Russ.
  • “Ivan Bunin's Controversy against Delfino Cinelli on His Book ‛Tolstoy’.” I.A. Bunin and His Time: Context of Life — History of Work. Ex. eds. T.M. Dvinyatina and S.N. Morozov; Eds. A.V. Bakuntsev and E.R. Ponomarev. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2021, pp. 15–25. In Russ.
  • The Dissemination and Perception of M. Gorky's Plays in Publishing Houses and on the Stage of Milan (1903–1947). Russian Ideological Contexts and Italian Realia, ed. M. Bemig, L. Tonini, D. Di Leo. Rome, Universitalia, 2020, pp. 307–324. 
  • “Rinaldo Küfferle (1903–1955) — a Translator, Publisher, Critic and Correspondent of Ivan Bunin (Based on Papers from Private and Editorial Archives).” Literary fact, no. 1(11), 2019, pp. 276–311. In Russ. 
  • “‛... I Hasten to Bring you my Heartfelt Gratitude...’ Letter of P.A. Sorokin to A.V. Amfiteatrov from 11 April 1928.” Literary life: Articles. Publications. Memoirs: in Memory of A.Y. Galushkin. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2017. pp. 43–46. In Russ. 
  • “Strokes to the biography of A.V. Amfiteatrov.” Novyi zhurnal, no. 261, 2010, pp. 43–84. In Russ.