Il romanzo delle passioni in Italia nel «Tournant des Lumières»

Abstract

The essay gives an account of the reception of La Nouvelle Héloïse and more generally of the Romance line of Rousseuian origin during the Italian Tournant des Lumières, with particular regard to the Cartesian and Enlightenment metaphor of the cultivation of affections. Analysing the novels of Giovan Battista Giovio (Il sepolcro su la montagna, or Luigia e Alfonso) and Carlo Botta (Per questi dilettosi monti), we try to show the persistence and metamorphosis of a narrative model that will reach Foscolo and Manzoni, through the progressive destruction of the idyllic chronotope.

Keywords

• tournant des lumières
• romanzo
• rousseau
• passioni
• idillio