In the Poets’ Footsteps

Giovanni Capecchi is Professor of Italian Literature at the Università per Stranieri di Perugia. He is involved mainly in the study of 19th and 20th century literature and has published volumes on the literature of the Italian Risorgimento, on Giovanni Pascoli, on War time literature, on Aldo Palazzeschi, and on Marcello Venturi.

• Preface1 Literary Tourism1Literature and Geography2Poetic Maps3Writers and Territorial Marketing4The Origins of Literary Tourism5Authentic Locations, Invented Locations6Time, Absence, Memory2 Literary Guides1Aci Trezza without Verga2Giampaolo Dossena and “Literary Locations”3Watching Europe, Watched from Europe4Literary Guides: Types and Classifications5The Writer as Guide3 Writers’ Homes1“There is the Poet’s Home”: Ugo Ojetti in the Rooms of the Writers2House Museums, Houses without Museums, Museums without Houses3Writers’ Houses: Classifications and Types4From House to House5Narrate, Reinventing6The Story of One’s Own Home, the Story of Others’ Homes7A Room All to Herself4 Literary Parks1The Two Nievo’s2“Against the Corruption of Landscapes”3The Season of Global Subsidy4The Park “System”5 Literary Festivals1“A Festival is First and Foremost a Location”2Topic, Time, Space3Effetto FestivalIllustrationsIndex