Abstract
Starting from Tasso’s renewed fortune in the 1950s, the article intends to reconstruct Italo Calvino’s demystifying perspective on "La Gerusalemme liberata". The analysis will focus on some warrior characters in Calvino’s works: from "Il visconte dimezzato" to "Il cavaliere inesistente", up to the «chief» Orlando in "Il castello dei destini incrociati" and San Giorgio in "La taverna". Tasso’s palimpsest transforms them all into emblems of a fracture. The aim is to demonstrate how Calvino reiterates his attempt to find a synthesis between the self and the other, or even to abolish any distinction. By doing so, he categorically contradicts the prevaricating ideology of the Crusade and of Tasso’s religiosity.
| Translated title of the contribution | [Autom. eng. transl.] Jerusalem halved. Calvino against Tasso |
|---|---|
| Original language | Italian |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-12 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | SINESTESIEONLINE |
| Volume | XIII |
| Publication status | Published - 2024 |
Keywords
- Italo Calvino
- Torquato Tasso
- Letteratura cavalleresca
- Modernità letteraria
- Chivalric literature
- Letteratura italiana del Novecento
- Literary Modernity
- Contemporary Italian Literature
- Letteratura italiana contemporanea
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