THE LANDSCAPE IN THE ITALIAN LITERATURE: NOTESON REPRESENTATION AND HISTORICALAND CULTURAL MEANING OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL SPACE IN THE ITALIAN LITERATURE, FROM DANTE TOPIRANDELLO.

Abstract

The study about the treatment of the landscape and the territory in the Italian literature, as in any other context of this nature, returns in a way to explore the cultural horizons that have been influenced (and, in turn, they have influenced) for the narrative and poetical works of this tradition. Across the poetics of the principal Italian authors (of whom we have taken a few examples of his better-known works), from Dante up to coming to Pirandello, passing for Ariosto, Leopardi Manzoni and Verga, we propose a thematic excursion on which path space and time give themselves a rendezvous. These two categories, in literature like also in other disciplines, are difficultly separable, and each tradition has represented them in his way.