INTELLETTUALI, VIAGGIATORI E ARTISTI ITALIANI ALLA “RISCOPERTA” DELLA GRECIA FRA XVIII E XIX SECOLO
Italian intellectuals, travelers and artists in “rediscovering” Greece in the XVIIIth and XIXth centuries)

Summary/Abstract: After a long period of oblivion and a series of great international events, Greece was rediscovered by Western Europe at the turn of the XIX century. Regarding this general context, not even Italy, that had always had a close relationship with the Hellenic world, thanks to remarkable cultural and historical affinities that bound the two peoples together, was an exception. This essay means to focus attention on the characters of the Italian intellectuals, travellers and artists of that time who favoured this great appeal for the Hellenistic civilization, developping in the Italian peninsula a strong philhellenic sentiment, useful for supporting the Greek Risorgimento and for binding the two nations together.

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