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Mapping Leopardi
Are you curious about the private laboratory of Giacomo Leopardi, Italy’s greatest modern lyrical poet? Interested in using expert maps to explore it, while deepening your acquaintance with one of the most creative materialist thinkers? This collection of essays makes very original use of the new translation of Leopardi’s Zibaldone di pensieri and investigates its connections to all his other works. Whether your primary interest lies in Italian literature and criticism, linguistics and poetics, the origins of genres such as the fantastic, or in philosophical queries regarding materialism and hedonism, this collection offers original research that will challenge the reader to view this outstanding intellectual in a new light. Offering some of the earliest reflections against anthropocentrism, championing the artist’s interest in the natural sciences, and questioning humanity’s purpose(s) in this world, Leopardi’s work is presented in this volume as an indispensable tool to understand the complexity of Italy’s cultural transformations between the 18th and the 19th centuries.
Sapienza for International Development Cooperation
The volume presents the interventions of the speakers and the posters of the professors of Sapienza University of Rome as evidence of the results achieved in international cooperation with a special emphasis on capacity building actions in the main geographical areas identified as: Africa, Mena countries and Latin America and Asia. The materials were presented at the University Conference “Sapienza in International Development: Strategies, Projects, Initiatives” held in Rome, at the Aula Magna of Sapienza University of Rome, on 11 December 2018 and organized with the collaboration of the Roma Sapienza Foundation. The volume also presents in its introductory part a moment of reflection on the geographical areas of cooperation of greatest interest and strategic for Sapienza.
The Quest for the Primordial
Although fifty years passed since the boom of the theories on Japanese national character and considerable academic literature was produced to debunk its ideological tenets, the Nihonjinron still plays a significant role in the mainstream public discourse on Japanese identity. Intellectuals, journalists, policymakers routinely repropose the ever-lasting cliché of Japanese cultural, linguistic, racial uniqueness. In doing so, they adopt a primordialist stance in the narration of Japanese identity, that is a conception of Japanese nation as a primordial entity, located in an original fatherland since immemorial times. Drawing on the writings of Suzuki Takao and Watanabe Shoichi, the book analyses the rhetorical strategies and discursive features supporting essentialist ideas of Japaneseness. At the same time, it highlights the heuristic value of primordialism as an effective descriptor of the nationalist ideology, thus challenging its widespread usage as a category of analysis.
Modern Forms of Work
The collective volume “Modern Forms of Work. A European Comparative Study” evokes the intent to embody a reflection focused on modern labour law issues from a comparative perspective. A first set of essays contains national reports on modern forms of work. The second group contains some reflections regarding critical issues on digitalization, platforms and algorithms, analysing the different facets of the galaxy of digital work. The third group of essays flows into the section entitled “new balances and workers’ rights in the digital era”, a crucial topic in the debate. The complex of the writings, despite the diversity of approaches and methods, reveals the existence of a dense and inexhaustible dialogue between young scholars, at European and extra-European level. The analysis of new forms of work – the offspring of transnational processes of globalization and technologization – forms a fertile ground for experimenting a transnational dialogue on which young researchers can practice with excellent results, as this small volume confirms.
Italy for Sale
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Italian Renaissance art, objects, and even the idea of Italy itself figured heavily both in the dynamic international art market and in the eyes of the general public. The alternative objects that were actively dispersed and collected -- authentic works, pastiches, Renaissance-inspired counterfeits, and reproductions -- in the diverse media of paint, plaster, terracotta, and photography, had a tremendous impact on visual culture across social strata. These essays examine less studied aspects of this market through the lens of just a few of the countless successful sales of objects out of Italy.
La più antica immaginazione
Nel corso dei suoi studi giovanili, Leopardi si avvicinò alla lingua ebraica tra la fine del 1813 e l’inizio del 1814, negli stessi mesi in cui avviò l’apprendimento del greco. Se però dei suoi studi classici si ha un quadro chiaro, del suo rapporto con l’ebraico si sa decisamente meno. La lingua veterotestamentaria esercita negli anni un’influenza silenziosa ma profonda, agendo carsicamente dalle prime prove di traduzione fino al Ciclo di Aspasia. Leopardi studia l’ebraico da autodidatta, affidandosi a grammatiche, lessici e bibbie poliglotte presenti nella biblioteca paterna; nel 1816 questa conoscenza libresca si misura con la traduzione dei Salmi e del Libro di Giobbe, senza...
Il lessico delle virtù nella letteratura italiana ed europea tra Settecento e Ottocento
I saggi di questo volume affrontano il nodo cruciale del rapporto tra morale e letteratura dall’inizio del Settecento alla prima metà dell’Ottocento. Privilegiando l’analisi semantica della parola «virtù» e della sua costellazione lessicale, gli studi si concentrano su importanti autori del panorama italiano ed europeo (Crescimbeni, Gravina, Muratori, Ramsay, Rousseau, Alfieri, Leopardi e Manzoni), attivi nell’arco temporale che dalla “crisi della coscienza europea” arriva fino al tournant des Lumières e alle prime fasi della nuova società capitalista. A partire dal dialogo con la grande tradizione morale, emerge un nucleo di questioni ricorrenti, variamente declinate: il ruolo della letteratura nel dibattito morale, la relazione individuo-società, il complesso legame tra virtù e amor proprio, la sventura della virtù nella modernità.
Lessico Leopardiano 2022
Il progetto del Lessico Leopardiano (Laboratorio Leopardi – Sapienza) giunge con questo volume al suo quarto appuntamento. Proseguendo la linea di ricerca già avviata con le precedenti pubblicazioni (2014, 2016, 2020), si offre qui lo studio lessicale e semantico di quindici lemmi, allo scopo di aprire un varco di accesso ai nodi capitali dell’opera e del pensiero di Leopardi: da contentezza a esercizio, da errore a novità, le parole-chiave prese in esame consentono di osservare da una prospettiva inedita le linee di tensione che attraversano i diversi ambiti della riflessione leopardiana (morale, antropologia, estetica, linguistica), specie in relazione alla diagnosi della modernità. Per la prima volta, inoltre, si propongono due sezioni incentrate sull’indagine di più vocaboli riconducibili alla medesima area di significato: quella della ‘stravaganza’ e quella della ‘voce’.
