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Classicism and Romanticism in Italian Literature: Leopardi's Discourse on Romantic Poetry
Author(s): Fabio A Camilletti (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 1 Mar. 2013
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 1848932871
- ISBN-13: 9781848932876
Book Description
In 1816 a violent literary quarrel engulfed Bourbon Restoration Italy. On one side the Romantics wanted an opening up of Italian culture towards Europe, and on the other the Classicists favoured an inward-looking Italy. Giacomo Leopardi wrote a Discourse of an Italian on Romantic Poetry aiming to contribute to the debate from a new perspective.
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‘fills a gap in studies on European Romanticism and nineteenth-century literary history … Camilletti has made a substantial contribution to studies in the field, one which is bound to incite further research in areas of related interest.’ The BARS Review ‘Camilletti puts into dialogue the sources about the literary quarrels of that time with the thought of Hartog, Bejnamin, and Warburg, so to question the notion itself of “querelle”.’ (Translated from Italian) Rassegna della Letteratura italiana ‘This is a book that opens radically new perspectives on Italian Romanticism, where the fractures that will resonate through the conflicting cultures of modern Italy first begin to take shape. With at its heart the most original contribution to the Romantic debate in Italy, Giacomo Leopardi’s Discourse of an Italian on Romantic Poetry, Camilletti’s study provides both a new assessment of Leopardi’s writing in its historical context and a nuanced account of the cultural trauma that characterized the early years of the Restoration, between 1815 and 1827.’ Michael Caesar, University of Birmingham
About the Author
Fabio A. Camilletti
