Blind windows: Leopardi with Rothko

Davide Messina

doi:10.1080/08905495.2018.1545428

Blind windows: Leopardi with Rothko

Davide Messina

School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures

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Abstract

This essay examines the way in which an Italian poem of the nineteenth century, i.e. Giacomo Leopardi’s idyll L’Infinito (The Infinite, 1819), created one of the most famous places in the Italian literary imagination: a Romantic landscape turned inside out, where life and 'nothingness' can be experienced at once. A comparative study of paintings by one of the most representative artists of the so-called ‘abstract sublime’, Mark Rothko, offers a new visual-arts framework for analysing and interpreting the poetics of this place.

Original language	English
Journal	Nineteenth-Century Contexts
Volume	41
Issue number	1
Early online date	17 Dec 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/08905495.2018.1545428
Publication status	Published - Jan 2019

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infinite
Rothko
landscape
place

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