Elena Borelli is assistant professor of Italian at the City University of New York.

Although its title specifically refers to Pascoli and d’Annunzio, this book offers a wide examination of the whole late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Italian cultural milieu, which is looked at through a specific philosophical lens. . . . This is a very interesting book not only for scholars of d’Annunzio and Pascoli, but for anyone interested in fin-de-siècle Italian culture and in the ways in which philosophical debates impact on artists’ aesthetics.

• DedicationAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Desire in the Italian Fin de Siècle: Between Evolutionism and AestheticismChapter 2: Action or Contemplation? The Role of the Artist in Fin de Siècle ItalyChapter 3: Giovanni Pascoli’s Divine Comedy: a Poem of DesireChapter 4: The Male Hero and the Evolution of Desire in D’Annunzio’s NovelsChapter 5: Giovanni Pascoli’s Poemi Conviviali and the Shipwreck of DesireChapter 6: The Centaur of Modernity of the Body Without DesireConclusionBibliography

Elena Borelli is assistant professor of Italian at the City University of New York.

Although its title specifically refers to Pascoli and d’Annunzio, this book offers a wide examination of the whole late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Italian cultural milieu, which is looked at through a specific philosophical lens. . . . This is a very interesting book not only for scholars of d’Annunzio and Pascoli, but for anyone interested in fin-de-siècle Italian culture and in the ways in which philosophical debates impact on artists’ aesthetics.

• DedicationAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Desire in the Italian Fin de Siècle: Between Evolutionism and AestheticismChapter 2: Action or Contemplation? The Role of the Artist in Fin de Siècle ItalyChapter 3: Giovanni Pascoli’s Divine Comedy: a Poem of DesireChapter 4: The Male Hero and the Evolution of Desire in D’Annunzio’s NovelsChapter 5: Giovanni Pascoli’s Poemi Conviviali and the Shipwreck of DesireChapter 6: The Centaur of Modernity of the Body Without DesireConclusionBibliography

Elena Borelli is assistant professor of Italian at the City University of New York.

Although its title specifically refers to Pascoli and d’Annunzio, this book offers a wide examination of the whole late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Italian cultural milieu, which is looked at through a specific philosophical lens. . . . This is a very interesting book not only for scholars of d’Annunzio and Pascoli, but for anyone interested in fin-de-siècle Italian culture and in the ways in which philosophical debates impact on artists’ aesthetics.

• DedicationAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Desire in the Italian Fin de Siècle: Between Evolutionism and AestheticismChapter 2: Action or Contemplation? The Role of the Artist in Fin de Siècle ItalyChapter 3: Giovanni Pascoli’s Divine Comedy: a Poem of DesireChapter 4: The Male Hero and the Evolution of Desire in D’Annunzio’s NovelsChapter 5: Giovanni Pascoli’s Poemi Conviviali and the Shipwreck of DesireChapter 6: The Centaur of Modernity of the Body Without DesireConclusionBibliography