Ruskin, Dante e l’Europa romantica

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dc.contributor.author	Sandrini Giuseppe
dc.title	Ruskin, Dante e l’Europa romantica
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dc.description.abstract	My paper aims to show how Ruskin, through Dante’s work, looks for an alternative to romantic aesthetics. In Ruskin’s view, Dante is Medieval Italy (his knowledge of the poet being parallel to his discovery of Italian cities such as Lucca and Verona). Gothic art is the source of Europe: so Dante is «the central man of the world» (The Stones of Venice) and the fulcrum of an aesthetic based on sharpness and allegory, the two attributes that are typical of the architecture of a gothic cathedral. Ruskin’s ideas are then compared to those of Wordsworth and Coleridge, but also to the view of nature of other protagonists of the romantic age in Europe, such as Chateaubriand and Leopardi.
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dc.issued	2020-12-15
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dc.subject	Dante Alighieri
dc.subject	Dante Alighieri
dc.subject	François-René de Chateaubriand
dc.subject	François-René de Chateaubriand
dc.subject	Giacomo Leopardi
dc.subject	Giacomo Leopardi
dc.subject	John Ruskin
dc.subject	John Ruskin
dc.subject	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
dc.subject	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
dc.subject	William Wordsworth
dc.subject	William Wordsworth

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Ruskin, Dante e l’Europa romantica

Giuseppe Sandrini Università degli Studi di Verona, Italia

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My paper aims to show how Ruskin, through Dante’s work, looks for an alternative to romantic aesthetics. In Ruskin’s view, Dante is Medieval Italy (his knowledge of the poet being parallel to his discovery of Italian cities such as Lucca and Verona). Gothic art is the source of Europe: so Dante is «the central man of the world» (The Stones of Venice) and the fulcrum of an aesthetic based on sharpness and allegory, the two attributes that are typical of the architecture of a gothic cathedral. Ruskin’s ideas are then compared to those of Wordsworth and Coleridge, but also to the view of nature of other protagonists of the romantic age in Europe, such as Chateaubriand and Leopardi.

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Keywords: John Ruskin • Giacomo Leopardi • William Wordsworth • François-René de Chateaubriand • Dante Alighieri • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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