Classico e romantico: la lezione di Camporesi

Abstract

Between the 1950s and 1960s and before devoting himself to the studies for which he became world-famous, Camporesi published the text of Romitorio di Sant’Ida, the edition of Ludovico di Breme’s Letters and dedicated an essay to Pietro Borsieri. Camporesi’s studies have had the merit of highlighting the innovative scope of Italian Romanticism in its intrinsic components, in its profound literary choices and in its connections with the personal existence and public and social life of its protagonists. Going beyond the traditional historiographical outline, now the object of profound revisions, Camporesi has proposed an original and problematic rereading of the categories of classic and romantic, far from an exclusively oppositional logic and capable of restoring the propositional intensity of the experiences that characterised the early Italian 19th century.