Resumen de Manzoni e il romanticismo
The positive principle of Manzoni’s esthetic reflections on Romanticism is the compliance of art and the ‘real’, together with the identification of such ‘real’ with a Christian ‘real’ as the answer to the modern man’s infinity anxiety and permanent awareness of human imperfection. As an ideal disciple of Schlegel, Manzoni, in constant dialogue with his friends, Visconti and Fauriel, also defines his Romanticism as the refusal of allegory and mythological fables, as well as of any idea of the a priori superiority of ancient writers, in a radical criticism of literary rules starting from Aristotle’s poetics. Such principles shaped Manzoni’s romantic poetics between 1816 and 1817; his theoretical itinerary, however, was marked by constant reticence and the refusal of any direct involvement in literary controversy, being Manzoni rather oriented towards a progressive inclusion of the classics in the universal canon of Romantic Literature.
