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- Title: Leopardi's Il Copernico and Paradigm Shifts in Art.
- Author : Annali d'Italianistica
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 194 KB
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In this essay I discuss a heretofore unnoticed source for Leopardi's dialogue from the Operette morali, Il Copernico: the fragmentary Greek poem on truth and opinion, being and non-being, by the Eleatic philosopher Parmenides. The use of the classical source contributes to the dialogue's ironic dramatization of the paradigm shift in cosmological models from the Ptolemaic to the Copernican system. But the use of Parmenides also signals a significant compositional shift in Leopardi's own work, a move away from the Lucianic model for the philosophical prose of the Operette to a renewed philosophical poetry that culminates in the late poem, "La ginestra o il fiore del diserto." **********
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