After examining the function of Jacopo Ortis's Last Letters as a national novel in the light of the most recent studies on the construction of memory and the invention of tradition, the essay analyzes two episodes of the very early fortune of Foscolo's character in the most recent reception in time: the tragic drama in five acts Jacopo Ortis by the Neapolitan baron Giovanni Carlo Cosenza (1812) and the short poem in loose hendecasyllables The tomb of Jacopo Ortis by Francesco Longhena from Brescia (1818). Opposing in origin (south and north) and environment (aristocracy and workers), the two works reveal the immediate appropriation of Jacopo Ortis for dramatic and lyrical purposes, giving him an archetypal and paradigmatic value in the construction of the collective imagination of Italians to come.
Stefano Jossa (2024). Dal romanzo della nazione al fantasma di Jacopo: primi appunti su memoria collettiva, comunità immaginata ed esiti letterari delle Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis. In T. Iermano (a cura di), «Una d’arme, di lingua, d’altare…» Letteratura e Potere nella formazione della patria. Libreriauniversitaria.it.
Dal romanzo della nazione al fantasma di Jacopo: primi appunti su memoria collettiva, comunità immaginata ed esiti letterari delle Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis
Stefano Jossa
2024-10-01
Abstract
After examining the function of Jacopo Ortis's Last Letters as a national novel in the light of the most recent studies on the construction of memory and the invention of tradition, the essay analyzes two episodes of the very early fortune of Foscolo's character in the most recent reception in time: the tragic drama in five acts Jacopo Ortis by the Neapolitan baron Giovanni Carlo Cosenza (1812) and the short poem in loose hendecasyllables The tomb of Jacopo Ortis by Francesco Longhena from Brescia (1818). Opposing in origin (south and north) and environment (aristocracy and workers), the two works reveal the immediate appropriation of Jacopo Ortis for dramatic and lyrical purposes, giving him an archetypal and paradigmatic value in the construction of the collective imagination of Italians to come.
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