The evil of the world: a never-ending cicle or an abyss that keeps collapsing? Gozzi and Baretti: the observer and the whipper of the «corruzione de’ costumi presenti»
Gasparo Gozzi (1713-1786) and Giuseppe Baretti (1719-1789) have been intellectuals who dealt with varied and multiple interests, ranging from theatre, to critique, from reflections on language, to the argumentative or moralizing tendency that characterizes their periodical production. The former one from Venice, the second from Turin, they first met in 1738, when Baretti arrived in Venice and became a frequent visitor of the Gozzi household. In the following years they were both members of the Accademia dei Granelleschi, founded in 1747 by a group of men of letters who had been meeting since the 1730s around the Gozzi brothers. The multiformity of their interests is reflected in their production, of which, however, it is mainly a thematic aspect that we are interested in analyzing. It is worthwhile then, in order to compare the modus operandi of their condemnations of modern corruption, to narrow the field of our research to their most successful and most famous editorial attempts: Gozzi’s L’Osservatore veneto and Baretti’s Frusta letteraria. These two periodicals, directed and ... continua a leggere
tag: corruption, Gasparo Gozzi, Giuseppe Baretti, periodicals, satire
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