The drafts of Leopardi's 'L'infinito' reappear. Are they really fakes?

Authors

  • Pasquale Stoppelli già La Sapienza Università di Roma

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13130/2499-6637/15942

Keywords:

Giacomo Leopardi, Leopardi, autografi, falsi, attribuzione

Abstract

The authors' papers, as long as they remain available to private collectors, are like karst rivers that disappear and reappear. This article concerns two already known drafts of 'L'infinito', one in verse, the other in prose, nowadays other in prose, today unanimously considered to be fakes. Dr Fabio Massimo Bertolo, director of Finarte, has informed me that the auction house has in custody the original paper of those sketches and has put at my disposal the reproduction, that with his permission I publish here at the end of the article. I am dealing with it because it seems to me to be a good case to be investigated with the tools of philology.

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References

Lorenzo Abbate, Un capitolo della dispersione degli autografi leopardiani. Le “schede” dei doni di Paolina e Pierfrancesco Leopardi, «L’Ellisse», a. XIV/1 (2019), pp. 137-62.

Giuseppe Cozza Luzi, Appunti leopardiani offerti alla studiosa gioventù nel centenario della nascita di Giacomo Leopardi, Roma, Tip. Sociale, 1898.

Giuseppe De Robertis, Ritrovati gli abbozzi autografi dell’«Infinito», «Tempo », 1951, n. 9, pp. 20-21.

Giacomo Leopardi, Studi filologici, raccolti e ordinati da P. Pellegrini e P. Giordani, Firenze, Le Monnier, 1845.

Sebastiano Timpanaro, Di alcune falsificazioni di scritti leopardiani, «Giornale storico della letteratura italiana», a. CXLIII (1966), pp. 88-119.

Strumenti elettronici in cd-rom utilizzati:

• Giacomo Leopardi, Tutte le opere, a cura di Lucio Felici, Roma, Lexis, 1998.

• LIZ 4.0 - Letteratura Italiana Zanichelli, a cura di Pasquale Stoppelli ed Eugenio Picchi, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2001.

• Zibaldone di pensieri di Giacomo Leopardi, Edizione critica a cura di Fiorenza Ceragioli e Monica Ballerini, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2009.

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Published

2021-07-03

Issue

No. 6 (2021): Anniversaries

Section

Essays and textual inspections

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