Wenecja ezoteryczna i tajemnicza. Tło historyczne, „czarne legendy” i źródła dokumentalne (XVI–XIX wiek)
Esoteric and Mysterious Venice. Historical Background, ”Black Legends”, and Documentary Sources (16th–19th Century)

Summary/Abstract: A reconstruction of literary and imagination matrices of one of the motifs stubbornly recurring in mythological perceptions of Venice, thus presenting a version of the “back legend” of the lagoon town. Apparently, the majority of motifs re-enacted by contemporary popular literature and films (double agents, secret assignations, mysterious female characters, the fake occultist, conspiracies, intrigues, a general aura of uncertainty and threat, etc.) was supplied by literature from centuries past. The author discovers them in a laboratory form in Friedrich Schiller’s novel The Ghost-seer (end of the 18th century).

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