Heart and Gestures in Ugo Foscolo’s Inni alle Grazie and epistolary

VAGATA, Daniela Shalom. Heart and Gestures in Ugo Foscolo’s Inni alle Grazie and epistolary (Heart and Gestures in Ugo Foscolo’s Inni alle Grazie and epistolary.). In Affect, Emotion, Sensation, Cambridge, Society for Italian Studies Themed Conference 2023. 2023.

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Original name

Heart and Gestures in Ugo Foscolo’s Inni alle Grazie and epistolary

Authors

VAGATA, Daniela Shalom

Edition

Affect, Emotion, Sensation, Cambridge, Society for Italian Studies Themed Conference 2023, 2023

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Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60206 Specific literatures

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

Ugo Foscolo; Dissertation on an Ancient Hymn to the Graces; heart; celestial rosy red

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Abstract

V originále

My paper intends to examine the affects that inform the allegorical system of Ugo Foscolo’s unfinished poem Inni alle Grazie. These affects can be also described as “significant gestures” (meaning the “physical translation of emotions” and a “tool of the heart”), as Foscolo himslf indicated in some of his letters to painter Francois Xavier Fabre and Salvatore Fabbrichesi who was the theatre company lead of Foscolo’s play La Ricciarda. This paper argues that, in his poem, Foscolo developed a new sensibility towards the individual’s emotions through the notion of grace and its visual manifestations. Consequently, I assert that Inni alle Grazie represent a shift in literature towards psychological introspection of feelings.