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Il sorriso del conte zio. Manzoni, Sade e l’omaggio alla Vergine
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Camilletti, Fabio (2016) Il sorriso del conte zio. Manzoni, Sade e l’omaggio alla Vergine. Enthymema , 14 . pp. 231-246. doi:10.13130/2037-2426/6959
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.13130/2037-2426/6959
Abstract
The essay examines the figure of Lucia from Manzoni’s I promessi sposi, in the light of the literary ‘type’ of the ‘persecuted maiden’, at the intersection between hagiography, libertine literature, sentimental novel, Gothic narrative, and Romantic literature. In particular, through a comparative analysis of the frontispieces of I promessi sposi and of the 1791 edition of Justine, it focuses on the similarities, suggesting their reciprocal specularity, in being both answers (only apparently antithetical) to the metaphysical problem of evil. From this angle, the essay analyses the influence, on both Manzoni and Sade, of the figure of Mary, in the years witnessing – as a reaction against the secularization promoted by the Enlightenment and the French revolution – to a renewed worship for the Holy Virgin, later culminating in the promulgation of the Immaculate Conception dogma (1854) and the apparitions at Lourdes (1858).
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PQ Romance literatures | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > Italian | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Manzoni, Alessandro, 1785-1873 , Sade, marquis de, 1740-1814, Italian literature -- 19th century, French literature -- 18th century, Lucia Mondella (Fictitious character) | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Enthymema | ||||||
| Publisher: | Universita degli Studi di Milano * Facolta di Lettere e Filosofia | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2037-2426 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 2016 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 14 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 231-246 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.13130/2037-2426/6959 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access |
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