Marble Wilderness - Ruins and Representation in Italian Romanticism, 1775-1850

Klappentext In this 1987 text, by focusing on rhetoric, Dr Springer distinguishes between the encomiastic mode of the Papacy and the exhortatory mode of the Risorgimento. Zusammenfassung In this 1987 text! by focusing on rhetoric! Dr Springer distinguishes between the encomiastic mode of the Papacy and the exhortatory mode of the Risorgimento. Thus! the book argues! they concurred! despite dramatic ideological differences! in invoking archaeology as a figure of cultural rehabilitation. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: modes of archaeological representation, 1775-1850; Part I. Papal Archaeology: The Encomiastic Mode: 1. Monti's 'Prosopopea' and the ideology of the Pio-Clementine Museum; 2. The poetry of Papal encomium: archaeological texts and pretexts; 3. The rhetoric of restoration: archaeology and power, 1798-1840; 4. Archaeology and power, 1798-1840; 4. Archaology in Belli's Roman sonnets; Part II. Risorgimento Archaeology: The Exhortatory Mode: 5. Dei Sepolcri and the democratic tradition; 6. The Risorgimento debate: Mazzini and Gioberti; 7. Pius IX, the republic, and the scene of ruin; Selected chronology; Notes; Index of names.

Product details

• Authors: Carolyn Springer, Springer Carolyn
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.12.2010
• EAN: 9780521159296
• ISBN: 978-0-521-15929-6
• No. of pages: 210
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, Italy, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800