In Irresistible Signs, Paola Gambarota investigates the connection between Italian language and national identity over four hundred years, from late-Renaissance linguistic theories to nineteenth-century nationalist myths.
In Irresistible Signs, Paola Gambarota investigates the connection between Italian language and national identity over four hundred years, from late-Renaissance linguistic theories to nineteenth-century nationalist myths.
Introduction 1. Scripts of vernaculars and collective characters in early modern Europe 2. Ut lingua, natio: Dominique Bouhours’ genius of the nation and Ludovico Antonio Muratori’s Italian republic of letters 3. Giambattista Vico, the vernacular, and the foundations of modern Italy 4. Translating genius: Cesarotti, Ossian, and the question of national character 5. Toward sameness: Leopardi’s critique of character and the end of the nation 6. Irresistible signs? A postscript and the question of media Bibliography
Introduction 1. Scripts of vernaculars and collective characters in early modern Europe 2. Ut lingua, natio: Dominique Bouhours’ genius of the nation and Ludovico Antonio Muratori’s Italian republic of letters 3. Giambattista Vico, the vernacular, and the foundations of modern Italy 4. Translating genius: Cesarotti, Ossian, and the question of national character 5. Toward sameness: Leopardi’s critique of character and the end of the nation 6. Irresistible signs? A postscript and the question of media Bibliography
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