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Italian literature --- Antiquities in literature --- Civilization, Ancient, in literature --- Etruscans --- Italic peoples --- History and criticism --- Etruria --- In literature.

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New insights on the reception of Etruscan antiquity in the modernist period."L'Étrurie est à la mode", French archaeologist Salomon Reinach bluntly stated in 1927. Since the beginning of the nineteenth century, Etruria had not only been attracting the attention of archaeologists and specialists of all sorts, but it had also been a fascinating and, in some cases, captivating destination for poets, novelists, painters and sculptors from all over Europe. This volume deals with the impact of the constantly expanding knowledge on the Etruscans and their mysterious civilisation on Italian, French, English, and German literature, arts and culture, with particular regard to the modernist period (1890-1950). The volume brings a distinctive point of view to the subject by approaching it from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective, and by looking at a quite diverse range of topics and artefacts, which includes, but is not limited to, the study of drawings, art works, travel essays, novels, cooking recipes, schoolbooks, photographs, and movies.By exploring a new paradigm to understand ancient cultures, beyond the traditional ideas and models of "reception of the classics", and by challenging the alleged fracture between the so-called "two cultures" of humanities and natural sciences, Modern Etruscans will be of interest to scholars from various disciplines. Designed as a learning tool for university courses on the interplay between literature and science in the twentieth century, it is suited as recommended reading for students in the humanities.Contributors: Francesca Orestano (Università degli Studi di Milano), Chiara Zampieri (KU Leuven), Bart Van den Bossche (KU Leuven), Lisa C. Pieraccini (University of California, Berkeley), Martin Miller (Italienisches Kulturinstitut Stuttgart), Marie-Laurence Haack (Université de Picardie Jules Verne), Gennaro Ambrosino (University of Warwick), Martina Piperno (Durham University), Andrea Avalli (Scuola Superiore di Studi Storici di San Marino).Ebook available in Open Access.
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Etruria --- Antiquities. --- Civilization. --- Arts --- Archaeology --- Literature --- Antiquity --- Reception --- Etruscology --- Etruscans --- Modernism --- Reception of antiquity --- Social Science / Archaeology --- Art / History / Ancient & Classical --- Social science. --- Art --- Art, Classical. --- Arts, Ancient. --- Arts. --- Archaeology. --- Social sciences.

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This thesis focuses on the in-depth study of Francesco Orioli’s (1783-1856) archaeological works. I will analyse his corpus from two perspectives: the relationship between the field of the Etruscan archaeology and that of natural sciences and mesmerism; and the literary dimension of his works, questioning the boundaries between science and fiction. In the first chapter, I will reconstruct the author’s life and bibliography (which has never been systematically analysed). I will then divide Orioli's career into three stages: the first phase relating to the years of his youth (1816-1820); the second phase in which he achieved the highest honours of his career (1821-1831); finally, the years of exile (1832-1849) which are marked by a "spiritualist" turn. I will highlight how his archaeological research developed, how his topics and interests changed and his rhetoric on the Etruscans evolved during the years. Examining the common thread between mesmerism and Etruscology, I will focus in particular on the metaphor of the magnetic gaze, on the categories of “specioso” and “insolito” (which I will define in the course of the thesis) and on the common tendency for the unknown. Moreover, I will analyse Dante's influences and those of the author's contemporary travel literature. Finally, I will focus on the metaphor of stratification and the metaphorical meanings of the ground, highlighting the subterranean thread between the ground itself, past, infernal landscape and the unconscious.

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Le mythe est à la charnière des deux activités de poète et de philosophe de Giacomo Leopardi. Sa quête de sens voit l’échec de la rationalité : elle bute sur la contradiction, celle de la Nature qui crée pour détruire, celle du tragique de l’homme qui désire le bonheur et, constitutivement, ne peut l’atteindre. Achoppant sur l’absurde, Leopardi a comme besoin d’une autre forme de pensée, celle du mythe. Ce dernier lui permet tour à tour de retrouver un temps révolu, de parler par images, mais aussi de jouer de sa culture et de saper les idées reçues. Toutes les nuances du mythe sont alors concernées : nostos vers le mythe antique, réécriture apocryphe ou non, invocation ou parodie de figures mythologiques tutélaires, imprégnation de schèmes mythiques reconnaissables seulement en transparence, satire des mythes contemporains émergents - mais aussi création d’une mythographie proprement léopardienne. Car Leopardi, pourfendeur de mythes, produit des figures qui deviendront des mythes littéraires… L’ambition du volume serait de comprendre l’articulation de ces différentes présences du muthos chez un auteur lui-même mythique.

Literature and myth --- Myth in literature --- Literature and myth. --- Myth in literature. --- Myth and literature --- Myth --- Leopardi, Giacomo, --- Ǧākomo Léwopārdi, --- Leopardi, Džakomo, --- Leopardi, Dzhakomo, --- Leopardi, G. --- Léwopārdi, Ǧākomo, --- Papareschi, Cosimo, --- Leopardi, Giacomo --- Criticism and interpretation --- mythe --- littérature italienne --- écriture