«L’incanto è qualcosa di ineffabile»
Venezia in letteratura
open access | peer reviewed
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edited by
- Alessandro Cinquegrani - Ca' Foscari University of Venice - email orcid profile
- Angela Fabris - University of Klagenfurt - email
Abstract
“Enchantment is something ineffable,” writes Goffredo Parise of Piazza San Marco. In his view, no words can truly replace the sense of wonder evoked by this vision, nor fully capture it. This book emerges from a challenge: to reflect on how Venice has been described through words over the centuries, from the Middle Ages to the present day. Rather than offering a literary history of Venice, it presents a series of illuminations, moments that have shaped that history.
The volume is the result of a collaboration between Ca’ Foscari University and the University of Klagenfurt within the framework of the PhD Programme in Italian Studies. It brings into dialogue the perspectives of scholars working in the lagoon city with those of researchers coming from elsewhere: a multicentred perspective for a cosmopolitan city.
Keywords Chiari • Anthropology of play • Power dynamics • Avant-garde • Interdict • Eighteenth-century Venice • Myth • Carnival • Dante • Books of letters • African Venice • Republic of Venice • Archetypes • Venetian society • Afropean • Literature and Landscape • Lottery Gambling • Chronicles • Sovereignty • Marco Polo • Contemporary City • Daniele Del Giudice • Filippo Tommaso Marinetti • Huizinga • Magic circle • Futurism • Female identity • Francesco Gritti • Italian literature • Dominican Order • Historical fiction • Colonialism • Gender Studies • Vittorio Malamani • Eighteenth Century • Twentieth‑century history • Roman church • Stereotypes • Elisabetta Caminer Turra • I and world • Incarceration • Renaissance Venice • Art history • Andrea Calmo • Contemporary Italian Literature • Venice • Emanuela Canepa • Identity • Paolo Sarpi • Othello • Goldoni • Religious freedom • Sarpi • Venetian Futurism • Venetian literature • Dionysus • Lyric Poetry • Visual poetry • Genoese lottery • Spirituality • Visions
Thema codes DSB • 5TD-IT-A • 1DST-IT-NVE
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/979-12-5742-064-2 | e-ISBN 979-12-5742-064-2 | Published May 14, 2026 | Language it
This volume was published with the support of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Education at the University of Klagenfurt (Austria).Copyright © 2026 Alessandro Cinquegrani, Angela Fabris. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.