Idea of Beauty in Italian Literature and Language

Claudio Di Felice is Assistant Professor of Italian Linguistics at Leiden University. He has published on the history of literary Italian, on Abruzzese dialect and Italian minority languages, as well as on textual bibliography. Recently he published an edition of Silvestro di Tano Pantaleoni’s will, a close family acquaintance of Dante Alighieri (Italian Studies 2017, n. 72,1).Harald Hendrix is Director of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome and full Professor of Italian Studies at Utrecht University. He has published on the European reception of early modern Italian literature, on the baroque aesthetics of the non-beautiful, and on the intersections of Italian literature, memorial practices and travel cultures.Philiep Bossier is full Professor of Italian Studies at Utrecht University, and the University of Groningen. He has published on early modern Romance literature in Europe, the history of Italian professional theatre and the rhetoric of emerging female authorship in the Italian renaissance.

• List of FiguresIntroductionHarald Hendrix, Claudio Di Felice, and Philiep Bossier 1 Forms and Variations of Lemmata Indicating “Beauty” in Literary Italian and the Common LanguageRosario Coluccia 2 “Bellezze ed adornezze e piacimento”: The Concept of Beauty in the Sicilian SchoolFrancesca De Blasi3 Beauty as a Forma Mentis: Francis of AssisiBrigitte Poitrenaud-Lamesi 4 From Earthly Venus to Heavenly Venus: On the Evolution of the Concept of Beauty in Girolamo BenivieniSergio Di Benedetto 5 The “True Form” of Beauty: Poetry and Portraits from Petrarch to the Sixteenth CenturyVeronica Pesce 6 “Love is Naught but a Certain Desire to Enjoy Beauty”: Castiglione and Raffaello*Pasquale Sabbatino 7 The Principle of Beauty in the Literary Criticism of the 16th CenturyAntonio Sorella 8 Beauty at the LimitSilvia Fabrizio-Costa 9 Words for Beauty: Giuseppe Parini between Ideal Cities and the Decadence of the WorldMarcello Ciccuto 10 Amorose e di galanteria: Considerations about the Language of Love, Beauty and Desire in someUnpublished Poems by Giulio BajamontiMonica De Rosa 11 “The Profound Beauty is Greatness”: Itinerary in Giovanni Boine’s AestheticsEnrico Riccardo Orlando 12 The Origins of Beauty in Leopardi’s ZibaldoneStefano Bragato 13 History of a Modest Beauty: Models of Woman’s Aesthetics from Fermo e Lucia to I promessi sposiGavino Piga 14 The “Second Beauty”: Ideas of Politeness and Beauty in Italian Books of MannersGiovanna Alfonzetti 15 Fosca and her Sisters: Origins and Hypostases of the “Medusean Beauty” in the Narrative of the ScapigliaturaFrancesco Bonelli 16 Reconsidering Fin de Siècle Aestheticism: the Case of Gabriele D’AnnunzioFilippo Fonio 17 Paradise Saved and Lost of Fin de Siècle Aesthetics: Matelda and Mariana in the Works of Giovanni PascoliFrancesca Irene Sensini 18 Eugenio Montale: for the “Incredible, Wonderful Face” of Clizia, between Photographs, Letters, the Palio and other VersesEpifanio Ajello 19 P.V. Tondelli and the Cannibals’ Generation in Search of the Lost BeautyAgata Pryciak