Archivio d’Annunzio

Rivista di Studi comparati

Journal | Archivio d’Annunzio
Journal issue | 7 | 2020
Research Article | «Buon dì, messer cantore!»: Isaotta, la bellezza e i modelli europei

«Buon dì, messer cantore!»: Isaotta, la bellezza e i modelli europei

Abstract

The essay proposes a suggestive reading of Isaotta Guttadauro (1886) by d’Annunzio from a new critical perspective. Evasion and fantasy are not a literary game for its own sake but they have a parodic and polemical intent towards a materialistic simplicity that had lost the aesthetic dimension of the experience. The main object is the attendance of Beauty and Literature to guarantee the evolution of the civilised man. It also explores the European models that had influenced d’Annunzio’s choice: Keats, Ruskin, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood that had a lot of followers in Rome during the Umbertine Period (1878-1900).


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: Jan. 19, 2020 | Accepted: June 5, 2020 | Published Oct. 22, 2020 | Language: it

Keywords l dolce grappolo • Dame e cavalieri • La favola di Isaotta • Pre-Raphaelism in Italy • Isaotta Guttadauro

Copyright © 2020 Gianni Oliva. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/AdA/2421-292X/2020/01/001


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