Romanticism

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Giacomo Leopardi's Zibaldone: a hypertext research platform

Posted by Silvia Stoyanova on January 11, 2012

Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) is one of Italy’s most acclaimed poets and intellectuals, whose interpretation of the crisis of modernity gained him recognition already among his 19th century contemporaries Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, but it was not until the publication of his intellectual diary, the Zibaldone, at the turn of the 20th century that Leopardi’s thought began to reveal its depths and to gather due critical attention.

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Digital Science Archive

Posted by Melissa Bailes on November 18, 2011

This archival project will provide an online multimedia collection of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century scientific poems, novels, treatises, and illustrations. Covering the fields of botany, zoology, geology, chemistry, astronomy, etc., it will appeal to literary scholars and historians of science alike. The archive will be fully searchable, including effective pedagogical tools to help students understand the important overlaps of literature and science in this era.