Dido's turn: cultural syntax in Ungaretti's La Terra Promessa.(Critical essay)

Annali d'Italianistica | January 1, 1998| | Copyright

Virgilio ci accompagna non piu come un emblema ma come uno dei fatti della nostra vita. (1)

Let me begin by evoking the tantalizing though possibly false etymological connection between "Fascism" and "fascination." From the Latin fascis (bundle, pack) we arrive at "the bundle of rods around an axe, carried by lictors [of ancient Rome] before the highest magistrates," a sign of their power to punish even unto death; this becomes the iconographical symbol of the Italian Fascist Party. And possibly the Latin fascino derives from this same etymon, and signifies a ...

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