"Dietro veniva don Abbondio, a cui nessuno badò". Letteratura italiana e letterature straniere nella manualistica scolastica e nella pratica didattica

[Autom. eng. transl.] The essay carries out a polemical thesis: the esterophilia of which it generally sins, for several decades, our literary historiography is a form of provincialism no less aberrant than the old Risorgimento-autarchic model. The habit, established in school manuals, of systematically treating foreign authors before the Italian ones generates a dangerous misunderstanding: the totally wrong idea of a backward and peripheral Italian literature, devoid of intrinsic value and originality, a minor phenomenon of epigonism. On the contrary, as demonstrated, among others, by the truly paradigmatic cases of a Marino, a Metastasio, a Goldoni, a Manzoni, a Verga, a Svevo, a Futurist or a Pirandello, our literature, even in modern times, it has been able to compete on a par with the others and not infrequently go even further. It is suggested, therefore, in the historiographical context as in the teaching practice, the adoption of some appropriate strategies for the layout of the topics.