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Fermenti d’irredentismo nel milieu carducciano: Pascoli e Guglielmo Oberdank

2017; Loescher; Volume: 194; Issue: 646 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1484/j.gsli.5.129678

0017-0496

Francesco Galatà,

Historical and Environmental Studies

This article offers a critical edition of a prose draft written by Giovanni Pascoli following the announcement of the death of a young irredentist from Trieste named Guglielmo Oberdan in 1882. Wrought with bitter anti-Austrian remarks mixed with harsh opinions of the Savoy monarchy and the Italian government, this plan for a newspaper article in its final form echoed Giosuè Carducci’s comments on the same topic. However, only a portion of the text was published in the 1920s, and for the most part the work has remained on the sidelines of critical debate. The critical edition is based on the autograph copy housed at the Casa Pascoli Archive and includes a reconstruction of the historical and cultural context surrounding the work, together with a detailed commentary. It also traces the place occupied by Oberdan in Pascoli’s own cultural biography and reconstructs a particular case regarding the reception of Pascoli’s early prose during the Fascist period.