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

Abstract

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.