This article deals with the changing views of Dutch historian Johan Huizinga (1872–1945) on such topics as Russian culture, 19th-century Russia, and the Soviet Union. While Huizinga did not count them among his core research interests (he never published an independent ...

This article shows how the topic of exile and exile literature was presented in the Prague magazine Die Wahrheit after Adolf Hitler came to power. Although Die Wahrheit was an expressly proCzechoslovak magazine, it focused on problematic aspects of the situation of Germ...

This study reconstructs František Xaver Němeček’s concept of the sublime by examining notes on his lectures at the University of Prague taken by Peter Eduard Bolzano during the 1811–1812 academic year. After demonstrating how Němeček’s concept deviates from Kant’s in th...

This essay explores the works of art historian Anny Edeltrauth Popp (1891–?). One of the leading experts of the 1920s and 1930s on Michelangelo and the art of the Italian Renaissance, Popp seems to have disappeared without a trace in 1936. In the years 1919–1922, she pu...

This article considers how the joint translation work of Josef Hiršal and Bohumila Grögerová may be seen as an attempt to undermine the communist regime’s political slogans by implementing changes in the language, and to promote change in the collective worldview. These...

This short article on František Halas’s poem Píseň (‘The Song’; 1932) draws attention to an editorial issue concerning the word nah (‘naked’) as it appears in the first verse (‘Jdu k tobě nah a s písní nahou’ / ‘I go to you naked and with a naked song’). In nearly all e...

This article reconstructs the short career of Riccardo Selvi as a translator of Czech poetry. Thanks to archival documents and reviews published in Czech newspapers regarding his work, we have been able to reconstruct his rather singular literary path. In addition to hi...

The study presents a concrete proposal for the modification of the school educational program for history at primary schools. This proposal is based on the cyclical concept of teaching, i.e. that in each school year of the second level (6th to 9th grades) history as a w...

This article investigates Pirandello’s adhesion to the Italian Fascist Party by examining articles, interviews, letters, and essays with the aim of shedding light on the political dimension of this choice, so frequently mitigated by the critics, and of showing its relat...