Uno scritto dimenticato del giovane Leopardi: la Disputatio e il suo rapporto con le Dissertazioni filosofiche
Journal title RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA
Author/s Gaspare Polizzi, Valentina Sordoni
Publishing Year 2009 Issue 2009/4 Language Italian
Pages 55 P. 653-707 File size 1303 KB
DOI 10.3280/SF2009-004001
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A forgotten document by the young Leopardi: the Disputatio and its relation to the Dissertazioni filosofiche - In this essay we look at the Disputatio, a forgotten document by the young Leopardi. It consists of a list of sixty questions, thirty written in Latin and thirty in Italian. These were the questions that Leopardi had to answer in his last public examination, held on the 20 July 1812. In the first part, the authors and sources used by Leopardi in the preparation of the exercise will be studied and compared with the text of the Disputatio. The second part is a comparison between the text of the Disputatio and that of the Dissertazioni filosofiche of 1811-1812. This comparison and consideration of the order in which the subjects are presented reveal that the Dissertazioni filosofiche were written when the poet was preparing for the above-mentioned examination, and that in the Disputatio there are thinkers and subjects, such as La Mettrie and Holbach, that were important for the development of Leopardi’s mature philosophy.
Keywords: Leopardi, Disputatio, Dissertazioni filosofiche, philosophical and scientific education, study of the sources, natural and moral philosophy.
Gaspare Polizzi, Valentina Sordoni, Uno scritto dimenticato del giovane Leopardi: la Disputatio e il suo rapporto con le Dissertazioni filosofiche in "RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA" 4/2009, pp 653-707, DOI: 10.3280/SF2009-004001