History and Pastoral in the Structure of Leopardi's "Canti"
2008; Modern Humanities Research Association; Volume: 103; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/mlr.2008.0066
ISSN2222-4319
Autores Tópico(s)Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition
ResumoThis article explores the cultural matrices of Leopardi's "Canti", one of the most complex and stratified poetic books of the Italian tradition: the notion of history and that of pastoral (or bucolic or idyll, as Leopardi would have it). Emphasis is put on Leopardi's translations from the Greek, on the shaping spatial and temporal metaphors of the book, and in particular on the classical sources of 'L'infinito', a poem provisionally resolving the intellectual clash between historical decline and utopian nostalgia on which the structure of the collection is based.
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