Rivista Internazionale di Studi Leopardiani

Sguardi leopardiani su natura, paesaggio e società

Tatiana Crivelli,Patrizia Landi — ven, 14 mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Nota al testo

Tatiana Crivelli,Patrizia Landi — ven, 14 mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Lo sguardo di Dedalo. Leopardi e la veduta dall’alto

Sabrina Ferri — ven, 14 mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This article highlights and analyzes how the motif of the view from above in Leopardi exemplifies the epistemological and phenomenological changes that come along with the birth of the modern spectator and observer. It focuses on a few specific elements that characterize the way Leopardi describes and thinks about the act of viewing from above. These elements are connected to new theories of perception and visual experience that emerge between the 18th and 19th centuries. Particular attention is paid to: 1) how the concept of ‘horizon’ takes on a new significance and, from its original meaning as a mathematical and artistic notion, comes to define primarily a sensory experience; 2) how the “panoramic view” comes to be a predominant mode of experiencing landscape; 3) how the ‘coup d’oeil’ becomes a way to comprehend both the landscape specifically and the system of nature more generally.

Cose artificiate e vestigia di cultura. Paesaggio, campagna e immaginazione a partire dall’Elogio degli uccelli

Enrica Leydi — ven, 14 mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Focusing on the Elogio degli uccelli, in this essay I present a reading of the countryside as anthropized landscape, i.e. as territory modified by human intervention, the sight of which can generate pleasure. Furthermore, as it is marked by modernity, I argue that the countryside can also be interpreted as an objective correlative of imagination, which is subject to the process of rationalization.

Il paesaggio mitico di Alla primavera o delle favole antiche alla luce di Ungaretti e dell’ecocritica

Cristina Coriasso Martin-Posadillo — ven, 14 mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Drawing on both Giuseppe Ungaretti’s analysis and contemporary ecocriticism, this paper explores Alla primavera o delle favole antiche (1822), a canzone in which mythical images materialize the landscape and are synthesized in a way that the poet and the critic considered mysterious. This process establishes an open dialogue with nature, which is ‘pious not, but at least a spectator’, devoid of the myths that animated it, but not stripped of its aura.

Assenze, presenze e prospettive del paesaggio naturale nello Zibaldone

Veronica Medda — ven, 14 mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This essay discusses the key theme of nature in Leopardi, with a focus on the term ‘landscape’ in the Zibaldone. During that period, this concept evolved from a purely humanistic dimension to a more scientific one, allowing for a deeper exploration of the relationship between humans and nature. The aim is to suggest the possibility of an ethical-environmental use of modern literature.

«Ed ecco all’improvviso distaccassi la luna»: Leopardi e la dissoluzione dell’idillio

Elena Moro — ven, 14 mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Leopardi’s relationship with the idyll is a fundamental yet complex issue, one that is always worth investigating. Positioned within an already extensive body of scholarship, this paper analyses the series of idylls written between 1819 and 1821 from a particular point of view. This perspective shows how Leopardi deconstructs the genre, dissolving the traditional idyll through repurposing its defining features. Treating the series as a macrotextual unit, built upon key elements of continuity, this study explores how Leopardi reimagines the idyll by drawing on the productive tension amongst antithetical forces. These include the human desire for recognition and rootedness in the world – linked to an ancient anthropological perspective – and the awareness of a deeply anti-anthropocentric worldview, informed by scientific and philosophical paradigms. The idyll thus emerges as a fully modern ‘genre of contradiction’: no longer a secluded locus amoenus where tensions between the ideal and the real are resolved, but rather an open-ended space where these tensions are both heightened and accepted as an intrinsic part of the modern condition.

«Seguìta però a dovere». Considerazioni sulla riflessione politica leopardiana oltre i due concetti di natura

Paolo Giovanni Baggi — ven, 14 mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Leopardi’s reflections on politics and society revolve around a vision of nature that remains beneficial, even in the face of the discovery of evil within the natural order. Rather than undermining this view, the specific form of materialism Leopardi develops provides the most appropriate theoretical framework for understanding how illusion operates as a mechanism of control over the social order, preventing its contradictions from erupting.

La mancata collaborazione all’Antologia

William Spaggiari — ven, 14 mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Le autrici e gli autori

Redazione — ven, 14 mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000