Retorica tra letteratura e storia. Agostino e il Medioevo polimorfo di Louis De Wohl
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https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-7362/15581Keywords:
Louis De Wohl, Augusine of Hippo, Rhetoric, Historical Novel, HistoriographyAbstract
The article intends to explore the question of the Middle Ages as a place of narrations starting from Louis De Wohl’s (1903-1961) novel about Augustine of Hippo, The Restless Flame (1952) and the theme of rhetoric. The subject of rhetoric, as one of the possible dimensions in which to represent history, gives rise both to a peculiar descriptive narrative of the Middle Ages, plural and variegated, and to a narration that creates history itself, since the power of Augustine’s word is captured in its ability to affect and transform history itself. The paper concludes with an analysis of some salient features of other medieval novels by De Wohl, on Francis of Assisi (1958) and Thomas Aquinas (1950), in order to observe the peculiar representation of the Middle Ages that emerges, which at times seems to go beyond the historiographic schemes of the years in which they were written.
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