Giovanna Alfonzetti
List of John Benjamins publications for which Giovanna Alfonzetti plays a role.
Article
2023 A European model of polite conversation? Della Casa, Gioia and Knigge Politeness in and across Historical Europe, Paternoster, Annick, Gudrun Held and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 105–123 | Article
This paper reconstructs the model of polite conversation that is outlined in two Italian conduct books, Della Casa’s Galateo (1774 [1558]) and Gioia’s Il Nuovo Galateo (1802–1827), a model which will then be compared with one detailed in the German text Über den Umgang mit Menschen by Adolph… read more