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Focusing on the representation of ruins by Italian writers, scientists, and artists between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Sabrina Ferri explores the culture of the period and traces Italy’s complex relationship with its past.

Table of Contents
List of illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. ‘The great fragments of antiquity’: ruins and recovery of the past in Giambattista Vico’s New science

2. ‘The ruined cities lie desolate’: natural catastrophe and historical change in eighteenth-century Italy

3. Time of nature, time of man: ruins and the materiality of the historical imagination

4. Melancholies of the modern: nature and history in the late eighteenth-century Picturesque

5. The ghostly ruins of Neoclassicism: Alessandro Verri’s Roman nights and the posthumous life of the ancient

6. The shipwrecks of time: Giacomo Leopardi’s poetics of ruins

Epilogue: a glance back

Bibliography

Index

Ruins Past Modernity in Italy 17441836

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      Publisher: LUP - Voltaire Foundation
      Publication Date: 12/3/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780729411714, 978-0729411714
      ISBN10: 0729411710
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Focusing on the representation of ruins by Italian writers, scientists, and artists between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Sabrina Ferri explores the culture of the period and traces Italy’s complex relationship with its past.

      Table of Contents
      List of illustrations

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      1. ‘The great fragments of antiquity’: ruins and recovery of the past in Giambattista Vico’s New science

      2. ‘The ruined cities lie desolate’: natural catastrophe and historical change in eighteenth-century Italy

      3. Time of nature, time of man: ruins and the materiality of the historical imagination

      4. Melancholies of the modern: nature and history in the late eighteenth-century Picturesque

      5. The ghostly ruins of Neoclassicism: Alessandro Verri’s Roman nights and the posthumous life of the ancient

      6. The shipwrecks of time: Giacomo Leopardi’s poetics of ruins

      Epilogue: a glance back

      Bibliography

      Index

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