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Ruins Past: Modernity in Italy, 1744-1836

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Author(s): Sabrina Ferri
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment
Publisher: Voltaire Foundation
Year: 2015

Language: English
City: Oxford
Tags: ruins, Italian, modernity

Introduction
1. 'The Great Fragments of Antiquity': Ruins and Recovery of the Past in Giambattista Vice's New Science
2. 'The Ruined Cities Lie Desolate': Natural Catastrophe And Historical Change In Eighteenth-Century Italy
3. Time of Nature, Time of Man: Ruins and the Materiality of the Historical Imagination
4. Melancholies of the Modern: Nature and History in the Late Eighteenth-Century Picturesque
5. The Ghostly Ruins of Neoclassicism: Alessandro Verri's Roman Nights and the Posthumous Life of the Ancient
6. The Shipwrecks of Time: Giacomo Leopardi's Poetics of Ruins
Epilogue: A Glance Back
Bibliography
Index