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

Abstract

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.