Massimo Bontempelli giornalista e ammiratore dei Quattrocentisti: per un rinnovamento letterario della Terza epoca
Massimo Bontempelli, Journalist and Admirer of the Italian Quattrocento: Towards a Literary Renewal for the Third Era

Summary/Abstract: The article presents selected newspaper articles and a preface written by Massimo Bontempelli which have been relatively unexplored and unacknowledged by the literary criticism. The comparative analysis of the preface from 1913 and selected articles from his early period and the early 1920s, shows that numerous core ideas pertaining to his cultural and literary project ‘novecentismo’, which was officially launched as a theoretical proposal between 1926-1927, were already present in his early editorial collaborations as well as the articles: the role of linguistic transparency, the importance of imagination, Bontempelli’s anti-canonical attitude and the role he assigns to the reader, to name a few.

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