Roberto Longhi´s correspondence (1909-1927) with Giuseppe Prezzolini offers notable insights into the former´s youth, casting light not only on questions of character and vocation relating specifically to those years, but also on aspects that herald the much better-known Longhi of the decades that followed. Thus if the conception of art as a complex entity of rigorously formal construction was destined to undergo substantial rethinking, the identification of scholarship as "letteratura di accostamento", and as a functional compendium of ancient and modern stimuli, was to be brilliantly confirmed in the evolution of Longhi´s writings.
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