«L’incanto è qualcosa di ineffabile»
Venezia in letteratura
open access | peer reviewed
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edited by
- Alessandro Cinquegrani - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
- Angela Fabris - Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria - 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 Avant-garde • Contemporary City • Venetian Futurism • Sarpi • Books of letters • Lottery Gambling • Genoese lottery • Eighteenth-century Venice • Chronicles • Futurism • Venice • Anthropology of play • Carnival • Francesco Gritti • Renaissance Venice • Sovereignty • Chiari • Italian literature • Goldoni • Archetypes • Historical fiction • Magic circle • Visual poetry • Roman church • Filippo Tommaso Marinetti • Dante • I and world • Power dynamics • Dionysus • Myth • Afropean • Republic of Venice • Eighteenth Century • Huizinga • Art history • Lyric Poetry • Andrea Calmo • Contemporary Italian Literature • Identity • Elisabetta Caminer Turra • Literature and Landscape • Venetian literature • Daniele Del Giudice • Dominican Order • African Venice • Incarceration • Marco Polo • Twentieth‑century history • Venetian society • Religious freedom • Othello • Spirituality • Colonialism • Visions • Vittorio Malamani • Emanuela Canepa • Interdict • Paolo Sarpi • Gender Studies • Stereotypes • Female identity
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.