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Arboreal and Historical Perspectives from Calvino's Il barone rampante
Pacini, Giulia
Pacini, Giulia
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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.
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2014-01-01
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Modern Languages & Literatures
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10.1179/0263990413Z.00000000058