Giovanna Summerfield, Ph.D. (2004), is Professor of Italian and French at Auburn University. She has published extensively on French and Italian literature, womens studies, and Mediterranean studies. She serves as editor of Italica and co-editor of I.S. Med. - Interdisciplinary Studies on the Mediterranean. Rosario Pollicino, Ph.D. (2019), is Instructor of Italian Studies at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. He has published on Italian colonialism, transnational Italy and Mediterranean studies. He serves as co-editor of I.S. Med. - Interdisciplinary Studies on the Mediterranean.Contributors are: Antonio Cecere, Jessica Boll, Stefania Licata, Filomena Viviana Tagliaferri, Valentina Grasso, Sherine Hafez, Roberta Cauchi-Santoro, Elena Frasca, Marco Pioli, Maria Sorbello, Giuseppe Serrantino, Samuel Boscarello, Elena Serina.

• Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Unframing and Reframing Mediterranean Spaces and IdentitiesGiovanna Summerfield1 Places and Moments of Mediterranean Reason: A Critical ReconnaissanceAntonio Cecere2 Three’s a Crowd? Córdoba’s Mosque-Cathedral as Representative Third PlaceJessica R. Boll3 Women at the Spanish Mediterranean Border: The Liminal Space of LegalityStefania Licata4 A Mediterranean Theater: Different Representations of Muslim Otherness in Early Modern Maltese Public FeastsFilomena Viviana Tagliaferri5 Elated Images of Jāhilīyah in Sicilian Decorative Arts of the Twelfth Century: The Islamic Iconography of DivertissementValentina Grasso6 The Madonna delle Milizie di Scicli and the Legacies of Contact in SicilySherine Hafez7 A Porous Mediterranean Écriture Féminine: Elena Ferrante’s L’amore molestoRoberta Cauchi-Santoro8 Marriage Annulment Lawsuits in XIX Century SicilyElena Frasca9 Sicily, Spain and the Mediterranean in Leonardo Sciascia’s Literary ProductionMarco Pioli10 A Journey in Search of the Ancient Flavors of SicilyGastro-tourism: Critical Issues and Opportunities for DevelopmentMaria Sorbello11 Southern European ClientelismA Case Study, Catania (Sicily): From Mass Party to Leader-Centered ClientelismGiuseppe Serrantino12 A Long MigrationCooperatives Practices and Social Innovation in Mediterranean Europe (1848–1900)Samuel Boscarello13 Towards a “Mediterranean Social Model”? Welfare Policies in Italy and Spain during the Interwar PeriodElena Serina14 Tracing “New Mediterranean Borders” through Artworks and TheaterRosario PollicinoIndex