The ‘hermite des Apennins’: Leopardi and theAntologiain 1824–26

Abstract

The relationship between the poet Giacomo Leopardi and the Florentine journal, the Antologia, has long been the subject of scholarly dispute, of relevance also to the vexed question of the poet's relationship to the Risorgimento. My essay addresses this question by way of a study of the invitation extended to Leopardi by Gian Piero Vieusseux to write a regular column in the guise of a ‘hermite des Apennins’. I seek to shed light upon Leopardi's refusal by considering the journalistic genre, created by Etienne de Jouy, to which this invitation refers, and its relationship to the more general, climatological literature of custom and character. I also scrutinise other writings upon which Leopardi was then engaged, namely, the Discorso sopra gli costumi degli Italiani and the Zibaldone. The essay concludes with some comments upon the years in Naples, and upon the complex relationship between Leopardi's Florentine and Neapolitan periods.

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