Simona Storchi is Lecturer in Italian at the University of Leicester. She has published on Italian Modernism and the Avant-garde, the relationship between Fascism and culture, 20th century Italian literature, art criticism, periodicals, and the relationship between classicism and modernity. She co-curated the exhibition Against Mussolini. Art and the Fall of a Dictator (London, 2010).

• Contents: Harald Hendrix: Italian Writers’ Houses and the Shift from Private to Public– Loredana Polezzi: Layers of Intimacy. Openness and Segregation in Narrative Representations of the Colonial House – Simona Storchi: «La casa all’italiana». Domus and the Ideology of the Domestic Interior in 1930s Italy – Emily Braun: From the Drawing Room to the Piazza. Anna Kuliscioff, Margherita Sarfatti and the Salon Tradition in Italy – Danielle Hipkins: The Brothel in Italian Cinema, 1959-1960. Creating a Space for Female Spectators – Patrizia Sambuco: Construction and Self-Construction in Elena Ferrante’s Gendered Space – Charlotte Ross: Queering Spaces in Turin – Laura Rorato: Private and Public Spaces. The Anatomy of three Italian Cities: Caserta, Bologna, Milan – Lesley Caldwell: The Ultimate Public Space. Filming on the Campidoglio – Stephen Gundle: The Via Veneto by Night. Space and «Unreal Estate» in the Rome of the Dolce Vita – John Foot: Sites of Memory? The Superga Disaster and the Myth of Il Grande Torino – Monica Jansen/Inge Lanslots: Piazza Alimonda’s Open Wound: The Memory Site of Genoa 2001.