Document Type
Article
Department/Program
Modern Languages & Literatures
Journal Title
Romance Studies
Pub Date
2014
Volume
32
Issue
1
First Page
57
Abstract
This article considers Calvino's Il barone rampante (1957) as a parable of the deforestation and excessive urban development that took place along the Italian Riviera, starting in the late eighteenth century. The novel's inter-textual references point to the intellectual foundations of the author's ecological ethics, and reveal his understanding of the Enlightenment as a culture vested in the protection of its forests and interested in recasting human relationships with the natural world.
Recommended Citation
Pacini, Giulia, Arboreal and Historical Perspectives from Calvino's Il barone rampante (2014). Romance Studies, 32(1), 57-68.
10.1179/0263990413Z.00000000058
DOI
10.1179/0263990413Z.00000000058
