Resumen de Longhi, l'arte, la parola
Since the second half of the twentieth century much has been published on Roberto Longhi as writer. The subject has generally been addressed for more by philologists and literary scholard than by art historians. This essay, based on a lecture to the fellows of the Longhi Foundation, examines the great critic's writing only in its quality as a resource for interpreting works of art, as it was these which prompted Longhi's "invezione". The huge variety of materials seen by him, ranging in date over eight centuries or more, has its equivalent in a complex lexical heritage drawn from a wide variety of linguistic foundations. This is an extraordinarily fruitful process that develops its ekphrastic power in a special way, through formal solutions formerly ignored or poorly appreciated, during Longhi's moments of simultaneous interpretation and discovery
