No. 4 (2023): Una / Κοινῇ - Rivista di studi sul classico e sulla sua ricezione nella letteratura italiana moderna e contemporanea
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Of languages and beauty: Leopardi and the most beautiful language

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  • Giulia Pallaro
Giulia Pallaro
Universitò di Padova
Published December 15, 2023
Keywords
  • Leopardi, languages, beauty
How to Cite
Pallaro , G. (2023). Of languages and beauty: Leopardi and the most beautiful language. Una Κοινῇ - Magazine of Studies on the Classic and Its Reception in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature, (4), 98-125. Retrieved from https://unakoine.it/index.php/unaK/article/view/124

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Abstract

This paper focuses on how the idea of beauty and its related concepts are applied to the linguistic thought of Giacomo Leopardi.
First, a historical excursus shows that this happened in the seventeenth century as well as in the historical-comparative linguistics of the nineteenth century. In the second part, the paper analyses how Leopardi, who knew nothing about those theories, created a complex evaluative system in the notes of the Zibaldone.

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