Rebuilding post-Revolutionary Italy

Leopardi and Vico's 'New Science'

AvMartina Piperno

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Co-Winner of theModern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for ItalianStudies, 2018.The rediscovery of the thought of Giambattista Vico (1668-1774) – especially his New science – is a post-Revolutionary phenomenon. Stressing the elements that keep society together by promoting a sense of belonging, Vico’s philosophy helped shape a new Italian identity and intellectual class. Poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) responded perceptively to the spreading and manipulation of Vico’s ideas, but to what extent can he be considered Vico’s heir?Through examining the reasons behind the success of the New science in early nineteenth-century Italy, Martina Piperno uncovers the cultural trends, debates, and obsessions fostered by Vico’s work. She reconstructs the penetration of Vico-related discourses in circles and environments frequented by Leopardi, and establishes and analyses a latent Vico-Leopardi relationship. Her highly original reading sees Leopardi reacting to the tensions of his time, receiving Vico’s message indirectly without a need to draw directly from the source. By exploring the oblique influence of Vico’s thought on Leopardi, Martina Piperno highlights the unique character of Italian modernity and its tendency to renegotiate tradition and innovation, past and future.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-04-30
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:200 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment
Antal sidor:284
Förlag:Voltaire Foundation
ISBN:9780729412087

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Martina Piperno is an FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Leuven, Belgium, in the MDRN Research Lab. She was awarded her PhD in Italian studies at Warwick University in 2016, and after that she was a visiting fellow in the Department of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London, an Alberto Institute Visiting Fellow at Seton Hall University, and a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow in the Italian Department at University College Cork.

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'Piperno’s study is extremely wide-ranging; yet, along the many routes explored (from the Homeric question and the rise of modern philology, to political and religious appropriations), the objective is always clear: one must rethink the plethora of discourses shaping the reception of an author. […] As we reach the conclusion, Piperno brings together this variety of responses within a steady methodological framework, making a fundamental contribution to today’s scholarship.'Daniela Cerimonia, Modern Language Review

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Note on conventionsIntroductioni. Vico’s legacy, Vico’s ‘heir’ii. Diffractioniii. The structure of this work1. Forms of Italian modernityi. The power of the originsii. Belief2. Principiumi. The pride, the origins and the destiny of the nationii. Epics, poetry, creation and nation-building3. Fictioi. Redefining fictionii. Translating and mediating the ancient worldiii. Was Vico Classicist or Romantic?iv. Fiction and/as belief4. Mythosi. Mytho-logein: Vico and Leopardi as mythologistsii. Towards ‘Alla Primavera’: Leopardi’s itineraries in myth (1815-1818)iii. ‘Alla Primavera’: about (un)poetic logic5. Philology and eposi. Florence 1827-1828: refoundation, recovery, reconstructionii. Zibaldone 4311-4417: Leopardi inside Homer’s system6. Recoursei. Rereading Vico in post-Revolutionary Naples: history, progress, perfectibilityii. ‘Cantare la religione civile’: Vico’s ideas in poetryiii. Regress, disbelief and fable in Leopardi’s last worksConclusionBibliographyIndex