Enrico Cesaretti is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Castelli di carta: retorica della dimora tra Scapigliatura e Surrealismo (2001) and has published articles on nineteenth-and twentieth-century Italian literature. His other research interests include travel theory and environmental humanities.

• Contents: A Futurist Digest: F.T. Marinetti’s Alimentary Rhetoric – Modernist Effacements: Aldo Palazzeschi’s Consuming Bodies – Hard to Swallow: Two Fictions by Paola Masino and a Play by Massimo Bontempelli – How to Cope with the Bites of Modernity: Two Literary Recipes by Massimo Bontempelli and Luigi Pirandello.

Enrico Cesaretti is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Castelli di carta: retorica della dimora tra Scapigliatura e Surrealismo (2001) and has published articles on nineteenth-and twentieth-century Italian literature. His other research interests include travel theory and environmental humanities.

• Contents: A Futurist Digest: F.T. Marinetti’s Alimentary Rhetoric – Modernist Effacements: Aldo Palazzeschi’s Consuming Bodies – Hard to Swallow: Two Fictions by Paola Masino and a Play by Massimo Bontempelli – How to Cope with the Bites of Modernity: Two Literary Recipes by Massimo Bontempelli and Luigi Pirandello.

Enrico Cesaretti is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Castelli di carta: retorica della dimora tra Scapigliatura e Surrealismo (2001) and has published articles on nineteenth-and twentieth-century Italian literature. His other research interests include travel theory and environmental humanities.

• Contents: A Futurist Digest: F.T. Marinetti’s Alimentary Rhetoric – Modernist Effacements: Aldo Palazzeschi’s Consuming Bodies – Hard to Swallow: Two Fictions by Paola Masino and a Play by Massimo Bontempelli – How to Cope with the Bites of Modernity: Two Literary Recipes by Massimo Bontempelli and Luigi Pirandello.