alberto comparini (Ed.) Ovid’s comparini comparini Metamorphoses in Twentieth-Century comparini (Ed.) Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Ed.) in Twentieth-Century Italian Literature Italian Literature his book aims to show the metamorphic nature of Ovid’s reception in twentieth-century Italian literature. It is a study of the aesthetic effects of Ovid’s poetics Italian Literature Twentieth-Century in Metamorphoses Ovid’s within both the novel and poetry tradition in Italy. By using a historical and philological methodology, the authors of each essay have shown the hermeneutic power of Ovid, read as a constant intertextual presence. From Giovanni Pascoli to Eugenio Montale, from Italo Calvino to Antonio Tabucchi, in this book Ovid’s recep- tion is finally shown to be as important as Virgil’s and offers new important tools in order to understand the role of Latin literature in the twentieth century. Universitätsverlag winter isbn 978-3-8253-6788-6 Heidelberg bibliothek der klassischen altertumswissenschaften Herausgegeben von jürgen paul schwindt Neue Folge · 2. Reihe · Band 157 alberto comparini (Ed.) Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Twentieth-Century Italian Literature Universitätsverlag winter Heidelberg Bibliografische Information der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliografie; detaillierte bibliografische Daten sind im Internet über http://dnb.d-nb.de abrufbar. cover illustration © Barbara Heinisch: Prozessmalerei im Düsseldorfer Atelier mit der Tänzerin Sayonara Pereira, 1992, Privatsammlung, Gelsenkirchen, Nutzung und Bildbearbeitung gemäß Creative Commons-Lizenz cc by-sa 3.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36243658 isbn 978-3-8253-6788-6 Dieses Werk einschließlich aller seiner Teile ist urheberrechtlich geschützt. Jede Verwertung außerhalb der engen Grenzen des Urheberrechtsgesetzes ist ohne Zustimmung des Verlages unzulässig und strafbar. Das gilt insbesondere für Vervielfältigungen, Übersetzungen, Mikroverfilmungen und die Einspeicherung und Verarbeitung in elektronischen Systemen. © 2018 Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg Imprimé en Allemagne · Printed in Germany Druck: Memminger MedienCentrum, 87700 Memmingen Gedruckt auf umweltfreundlichem, chlorfrei gebleichtem und alterungsbeständigem Papier. Den Verlag erreichen Sie im Internet unter: www.winter-verlag.de Notes Maria Massucco translated from Italian the essays by Raffaella Bertazzoli, Massimo Co- lella, Lucilla Lijoi, and Rosalba Galvagno. Maria was also responsible for revising the essays by Sergio Casali, Francesca Irene Sensini, Alessandro Giammei, Laura Bardelli, Barbara Olla, Alberto Comparini, Bart van den Bossche, and Vilma De Gasperin, which were written in English. Dylan Montanari translated from Italian the essays by Susanna Pietrosanti and Ales- sandro Fo. With Maria Massucco, he translated and revised the introduction by Alberto Comparini. Unless otherwise indicated, Ovid’s texts are cited from the following editions: Ovid: Epistulae ex Ponto, ed. by John Richmond, Stuttgart and Leipzig 1990; Ovid: Amores, Medicamina Faciei Femineae, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris, ed. by Ed- ward John Kenney, Oxford 1994; Ovid: Tristia, ed. by John Barrie Hall, Stuttgart and Leipzig 1995; Ovid: Fasti, ed. by Donald Wormell Alton, Donald Ernest Wilson Wormell, and Edward Courtney, Stuttgart and Leipzig 1997; Ovid: Metamorphoses, ed. by Richard Tarrant, Oxford 2004. 6 Titolo capitolo Contents 7 Acknowkledgments First of all, I would like to thank the DLCL (Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Lan- guages) and Stanford University’s Department of French & Italian for having made the publication of this book possible. My sincere thanks to Laura Wittman, Dan Edelstein, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, and Robert Pogue Harrison. I would also like to thank all the authors who have contributed to the physical and intellectual creation of this volume, the first results of which were presented at the American Association of Italian Studies meet- ing in Boulder, Colorado in March 2015, and at the American Association of Teachers of Italian meeting in Siena, in June of the same year. Without the encouragement of Robert Pogue Harrison, who witnessed the birth of this Ovidian project in a seminar on Italo Calvino at Stanford in the Spring of 2014, and that of Alessandro Barchiesi, this book would not have come to be. My deepest gratitude goes out to both of them. Finally, I would like to thank two people to whom this book is dedicated. They both believed in my intellectual capacities since the beginning of my academic career: Giulia del Giudice and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. Without them, my life would have taken a dif- ferent path. 8 Titolo capitolo Contents Alberto Comparini Italian Ovid. A Perspective on the Ever-Presence of Metamorphosis ...............................13 I Ovidian Philology Sergio Casali Ovid and Italian Philology ................................................................................................25 1 “Quellenforschung” in the Early Twentieth Century......................................................26 2 Between the Two Wars ..................................................................................................31 3 The 1940s, the 1950s, and the Bimillenary Celebrations of 1957-1958 .........................38 4 Ovid and the Self-Consciousness of Poetry ...................................................................45 II Ovid and the (Two) Italian Crowns Francesca Irene Sensini “Referre idem aliter.” Vestiges of Ovid in Giovanni Pascoli’s Work.................................57 1 Introduction....................................................................................................................57 2 Ovid in the Anthologies .................................................................................................58 3 Ovid on the Bookshelves and in the Archives................................................................62 4 Ovid Translated (and Metamorphosed) .........................................................................64 5 Ovid in the Backstory.....................................................................................................71 6 Conclusion......................................................................................................................75 Raffaella Bertazzoli “Nec species sua cuique manet.” D’Annunzio, Ovid, and the Re-Use of a Classic...........79 1 The “Will to Sing” .........................................................................................................79 2 Other Myths (beyond Ovid) ...........................................................................................81 3 What Myth? ...................................................................................................................82 4 The Metaphorical Muse..................................................................................................86 5 Between Myth and Vision..............................................................................................87 6 The Metamorphosis of the Self .....................................................................................93 7 The Etiologic Myth and Beyond ....................................................................................96 8 The Reuse of the Myth ...................................................................................................98 III Ovid and the Lyric, Part I Massimo Colella “Tu che il non mutato amor mutata serbi.” Ovid and Montale........................................107 1 Introduction..................................................................................................................107 2 Montale versus D’Annunzio. Different Models and Strategies of Metamorphosis ......110 3 Montalean Mythology: Annetta....................................................................................118 4 Montalean Mythology: Clizia.......................................................................................123 10 Contents IV Ovid between Modernism, Magism, and Surrealism Alessandro Giammei Massimo Bontempelli’s Re-Inventions. Magism, Metaphysics, and Modern(ist) Mythology.......................................................................................................................129 1 Those Who Had “an Ovid” in the Novecento...............................................................130 2 Rescuing vs. Restoring Ovid, from Prussia to Valòria .................................................134 3 Taking Mythology Seriously, or How to Remake Ovid ...............................................138 Lucilla Lijoi “Degno del canto di un Ovidio.” The ‘Metamorphoses’ as Key to Understanding Moder- nity in the Poetics of Alberto Savinio..............................................................................143 1 Ovid as ‘persona agens’ ...............................................................................................143 2 Savinio’s Metamorphic Poetics....................................................................................147 Laura Bardelli The Lure of the Apennines. The Myth of the Were-Goat in Tommaso Landolfi ............157 1 Introduction. Ovid, Landolfi, and the Apennines .........................................................157 2 Goats’ Footsteps (Ovid, Landolfi, Pavese, Montale, Levi) ..........................................158 3 The Village/Mountain Dichotomy and Pivotal Role of the Were-Animal ...................165 4 A Poetic Initiation