GRICE E FUSINIERI

Immaginazione, ricordanza e imitazione: Giacomo Leopardi e Paolo Marzolo By Alice Orrù visibility 160 Views  description 34 Pages  link 2 Files ▾ 2021, "Il primo fonte della felicità umana". Leopardi e l'immaginazione  sell Giacomo Leopardi, John Locke, Etienne Bonnot, abbé de Condillac, Lucretius, De rerum natura, Empirismo Show more  Show more keyboard_arrow_down The paper aims to show the common sensistic and ‘ideological’ root of Giacomo Leopardi’s and Paolo Marzolo’s thought. Both indeed share references to Lucretius’s De rerum natura, John Locke’s empirism, and Condillac’s sensism. The presence of common topics such as the relation between word, sentiment, and thought, as well as the role of the faculty of imitation and its connection with memory and senses, constitutes (historically, philosophically, and linguistically) a litmus test of the empiric, materialistic, and sensistic background of Italy in the early 19th century, which will later develop with positivism.