Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. 1 Scripts of Vernaculars and Collective Characters in Early Modern Europe 1
5. 2 Ut Lingua, Natio: Dominique Bouhours’s Genius of the Nation and Ludovico Antonio Muratori’s Italian Republic of Letters 59
6. 3 Giambattista Vico, the Vernacular, and the Foundations of Modern Italy 99
7. 4 Translating Genius: Cesarotti, Ossian, and the Question of National Character 145
8. 5 Towards Sameness: Leopardi’s Critique of Character, and the End of the Nation 190
9. Irresistible Signs? A Postscript and the Question of Media 227
10. Notes 235
11. Bibliography 307
12. Index 339