Memory, the past and the use of quotations in Giacomo Leopardi’s Zibaldone

The work examines the interweavement of individual memory and historical past in Giacomo Leopardi’s Zibaldone, arguing that the genre of this ‘non-book’ can be identified with the ancient Greek notion of hypomnēmaton. The first section reads the Zibaldone as an answer to the so called ‘second printi...

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Main Author: Camilletti, Fabio
Published: University of Birmingham 2011
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.546080