3. A walk
through the meadows of Asphodel
February 13, 2013
San Marcello Pistoiese, Italia
“Classical authors
have not only an literary importance but they found a civilization”.
More or less with these
words Romano Luperini opens his speech dedicated to the theme of the dead from
Homer to Dante.
Through a path in
diachrony he aims to analyse the topic highighting, in the first place, the
difference between the ancient world and the modern world.
In the ancient world,
the poem was composed primarily in order to found a civilization and was
therefore especially epic poetry. Less important was the weight that was
attributed to lyric poetry, although this does not exclude even a large
production (think, in this regard, of the Liber of the famous Latin poet Catullus).
Lyric poetry, moreover,
assumes preponderant value only from the nineteenth century on the basis of one
of the greatest exponents of Italian Romanticism, Giacomo Leopardi, wo gives to
the subjectivity of the self and a private dominant dimension. Luperini,
moreover, states that in order to give meaning to life you need to ask the
basic questions, and through a psychological process, making its own history in
relation to the past.
This is what both the
individual and the community are called to do.
Benedetta Giampietri, Simone Orsatti
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