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Ruins Past: Modernity in Italy, 1744-1836

By Sabrina Ferri

Book information

Publisher
Voltaire Foundation
Year
2015
ISBN
9780729411714
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
32 MB (33741377 bytes)
Series
Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment
Pages
\271
Topic
Literature
Time added
2020-05-12 15:52:21
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Description

Introduction 1. 'The Great Fragments of Antiquity': Ruins and Recovery of the Past in Giambattista Vice'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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