Rivista Internazionale di Studi Leopardiani

Premessa

Tatiana Crivelli — 2023-12-20

Nota al testo

Tatiana Crivelli — 2023-12-30

Sui lirici greci nelle Operette Morali: ‘affioramenti’, citazioni, affinità

Francesca Favaro — 2024-03-21

The essay aims to examine the presence of Greek lyricists in Leopardi’s Operette morali. In some cases this presence is realized through explicit quotations; more often, however, it corresponds to a suggestion, an allusion, an affinity. In this contribution I focus on the revivals and ‘unveilings’ of the poets Anacreon, Pindar and Semonides within the varied dialogic fabric of the Leopardi sylloge.

Quasi alla fine della Storia del genere umano: la Proposta di premi fatta dall’Accademia dei Sillografi

Aretina Bellizzi — 2024-03-21

This essay examines the possibility that the “age of Machines” («età delle macchine»), as mentioned in the Proposta di premi fatta dall’Accademia dei Sillografi, might align with the concluding phase of the History of Mankind (Storia del genere umano) introduced in the Operette Morali. This phase would occur just before the ultimate end of mankind, which the Dialogo di un Folletto e di uno Gnomo suggests has already occurred. By delving into the reasons behind Leopardi’s decision to evoke the ancient “Sillographs”, and into their ties to other incomplete or endeveloped Disegni, this paper aims to differentiate Leopardi’s post-human perspective from conventional posthumanism. This differentiation commences with an exploration of the moral implications stemming from the interactions between human and machine, both present and prospective.

«Rinnovare continuamente il mondo». Leopardi, Balzac e il potere della moda

Lorenzo Moscardini — 2024-03-21

The purpose of this essay is to show the ambiguity behind the concept of fashion in Leopardi’s and Balzac’s work. To this end, Leopardi’s Dialogo della Moda e della Morte is juxtaposed with Balzac’s Comédie humaine, in particular with the novel Illusions perdues, where the author explores the realm of fashion to transform it into narrative matter.

La poesia di Tristano

Laura Rosi — 2024-03-21

The Operette morali, the book of the “apparent lightness”, is a deeply unified work yet progressive in its philosophical movement. In the last text, Dialogo di Tristano e di un amico, which we could consider to be the summa of the work, Tristano, the protagonist-author, is in dialogue with his melancholic book, traversed by poetic traces, and finds the reasons for writing in the characters who have preceded him. Before dying, Tristano – whose name captures the depth of ancient philosophy and modern European instances – leaves behind the writing of the ‘novel of his life’. He invents a new poetry of life, death and silence, which recovers links with Leopardi’s memory, through the brave crossing into the desert of existence, from lost dreams to the lucid critique of his noisy and culturally empty century. The truth of the cognatio between life and pain is sealed by Tristano in laughter, long outline of the book, the two-faced gaze that grasps life and death together, leading him to cross the silent threshold of a near and necessary death. Tristano establishes a dialogue with the readers, set to continue, creating a poetic space, that suggests the images of the extreme season of Leopardi’s poetry, foreseeing the decline of the moonlight in the Tramonto della luna and the desert in the Ginestra.

Appunti sul Porfirio delle Operette morali e dell’ultimo Luzi: dall’“estrema lezione” al “ragazzo di Recanati”

Lucia Battistel — 2024-03-21

Porphyry, who acts as a spokesman, in the homonymous Dialogo, of a young Leopardi, and as a counterpoint to his Neoplatonic master Plotinus behind who hides a more mature Leopardi, is welcomed and rethought in Mario Luzi’s last poetry. As a new Plotinus, Luzi conveys a “final lesson” of humanitas to the “Recanati’s youngster”. By doing so, he rehabilitates and reconciles Leopardi’s philosophy with his own system of thought.

La traduzione latina dell’Inno ai patriarchi ad opera di Girolamo Picchioni: uno studio stilistico

Luca Costa — 2024-03-21

Giacomo Leopardi’s Inno ai patriarchi was translated into Latin in 1844 by Girolamo Picchioni (1792-1873), professor of Italian literature at Eton. This paper offers the first stylistic analysis of this translation. The most interesting element of the Latin text is its lexicon, which is the most fruitful way to gain insights about Leopardi’s own text.

Un giapponese ed un musulmano di Turchia: notizie poco note su Leopardi, gli Stella e le Operette morali

Luigi Stella (a cura di Patrizia Landi) — 2024-03-21

Le autrici e gli autori

Lucia Battistel — 2024-03-21