| RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI | |
| Anno XVI , n° 2, Dicembre 1998 ( Contributi ) | pag. 359-375 |
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HISTORY AND THE POETIC VOCATION IN SOPRA UN MONUMENTO DI DANTE |
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| CRISTINA LA PORTA | |
| New York, N. Y. | |
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It is a great thing for a Nation that it get an articulate voice, that it produce a man who will speak forth melodiously what the heart of it means! Italy, for example, poor Italy lies dismembered, scattered asunder, not appearing in any protocol or treaty as a unity at all; yet the noble Italy is actually one: Italy produced its Dante; Italy can speak! (Thomas Carlyle)1 Leopardi's 1818 poem Sopra un monumento di Dante anticipates Thomas Carlyle's 1841 essay, promoting the idea of the hero as poet. The poem, occasioned by the 1818 publication of a manifesto announcing the erection of a monument to Dante in Florence, had an immediate effect on nationalistic Italians. According to Leopardi's friend Pietro Giordani, "Le vostre canzoni girano per questa città come fuoco elettrico: tutti le vogliono [...]. Si esclama di voi, come di un miracolo"2. Leopardi uses the celebratory event honoring Italy's past as a pretext for criticizing his contemporaries and looking forward to Italy's future. [...] |
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