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1882
Volume 202, Issue 678
  • ISSN: 0017-0496
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Abstract

Abstract

Il saggio, sulla base di una ricognizione della critica e di nuove acquisizioni, desidera indagare l’influsso del patrimonio aneddotico legato alla figura di Saffo nell’opera leopardiana. Si ragiona innanzitutto sulle più importanti fonti dalle quali Leopardi poteva avere notizia della vicenda della poetessa, mostrandone l’eterogeneità. Sono quindi presi in esame diversi testi leopardiani, tra cui (1814) e il (1824). Il saggio si sofferma soprattutto sull’(1822) e sulle pagine zibaldoniane ad esso legate. Oltre al motivo erotico e a quello mortuario, è preso in considerazione l’elemento della bruttezza di Saffo, analizzato alla luce di una lunga trafila letteraria che risale all’opera di Platone; ne risulta una profonda rimodulazione leopardiana dei dati desunti dalla leggenda della poetessa.

Abstract

Following a careful scrutiny of critical sources and new analytical insights, this article explores the influence that various anecdotal references to the figure of Sappho had on Leopardi’s works. It focuses first of all on the most important sources which provided Leopardi information on the poet’s life, illustrating their heterogeneous nature. Some texts by Leopardi are then examined, including [Impatience] (1814) and the [Dialogue between Christopher Columbus and Pedro Gutierrez] (1824). The article pays particular attention to the [The Last Song of Sappho] (1822) and the pages dedicated to it in the . Together with the erotic and funerary themes that emerge from these works, the role of Sappho’s ugliness is taken into special consideration and analysed in relation to the extensive body of literary works on the same topic, some dating as far back as Plato. What emerges is a profound reworking by Leopardi of the data he collected on the poet.

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