In this article were examined the representation modalities of Italian economic miracle in Sardinia included in Il Parroco di Arasolè by Francesco Masala. The starting point for the author of the novel are antithetical concepts such as progress and regress, the past and the present, immutability and changes, winners and losers.
In the face of changes taking place in Italian society during post-war period, Masala reflects on how economic factors have affected the society and analyses individual solutions directed to face them as well as their consequences at social and personal level.

In her essey the author focuses her attention on the technics of acting in the very first period of the Italian theatre, reborn in XVI century. Analysing the tractat of A. Ingegneri, the dialog of L. de’Sommi and other testimonies devoted to the scene practice of those days, the author of the essay describe the main rules of acting, on the one hand refered to the court theatre, on the other to the commedia dell’arte. In the court theatre decorations and the text of the play used to count much more than in commedia dell’arte and were thought to compensate for – as even in part – the poor level of acting of the interpreters – courtiers. On the other hand the basis of the commedia dell’arte theatre was acting,
whilst the role of decorations was very limitated. Nevertheless the main rules of acting seem similar in both types of theatre.

The following paper deals with the subject of the presence of European immigrants called “polacas” in Brazilian history and points to some of their performances in the literature. It introduces the distinction between two feminine types – the Jewish woman, kidnapped to a brothel and the voluntary immigrant from the Eastern Europe – as well as makes a reference between their stereotypes and the image of the mulatto woman, being the latter an element already existing in Brazilian culture. The article reflects about the similarities and the differences between them, shaped by the patriarchal discourse and attemps an analysis of their literary images.