‘Negletta prole’: Leopardi’s legacy in Morante’s Aracoeli

  • Frances Clemente University of Oxford

Résumé

This contribution addresses Giacomo Leopardi’s so far neglected legacy in Elsa Morante’s Aracoeli (1982), by unveiling the existence of two direct Leopardian hypotexts in the novel: the ‘Ultimo canto di Saffo’ (1822) and the ‘Dialogo della Natura e di un Islandese’ (1824). Focusing, in particular, on the correspondences between Aracoeli and Leopardi’s ‘Ultimo canto di Saffo’, the contribution points to the mourning aspect of the two œuvres, in which the narrative and lyrical voices (respectively, Manuele and Saffo) chant a cathartic elegy through which their wretchedness, far from being erased, leaves space for a resolving conciliation.

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Publiée
2021-07-15
Comment citer
Clemente F. (2021). ‘Negletta prole’: Leopardi’s legacy in Morante’s Aracoeli. Cuadernos de Filología Italiana, 28, 323-346. https://doi.org/10.5209/cfit.70476
Rubrique
Estudios literarios y culturales