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Come si racconta un'epidemia: Tucidide e altre storie (2022)

Emanuele Stolfi (Author)

Carocci Editore

ISBN: 9788829012824

Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: 144 pp.
Language: Italian

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Il libro propone un percorso nella letteratura classica per seguire le narrazioni che gli antichi elaborarono delle loro epidemie (reali o immaginarie). Dal resoconto più “moderno”, quello di Tucidide, si procede a ritroso sino all’inizio dell’Iliade, per poi passare all’Edipo tiranno di Sofocle e al poema Sulla natura delle cose di Lucrezio. Viene così offerta, accanto a una ricostruzione storica dei vari morbi, soprattutto un’analisi delle interpretazioni che essi suscitarono: con approcci anche sensibilmente diversi, ma quasi sempre riconducibili ad alcuni quesiti e motivi di fondo. Così la “peste” si fa questione etica e talora religiosa, ancor prima che biomedica, interagisce col potere e interpella molteplici saperi, per assurgere a metafora potente e polisemica, oltre che costituire un male ricorrente, per vari aspetti accostabile alla guerra. Impostazioni e chiavi di lettura che, al di là dell’enorme distanza degli scenari materiali e cognitivi, hanno ancora molto da dire per chi rifletta criticamente sulla drammatica esperienza della pandemia di Covid-19. [Abstract translated by Google Translate: This is the abstract in English… This book offers a journey in classical literature to follow the narratives that the ancients elaborated of their epidemics (real or imaginary). From the more "modern" account, that of Thucydides, we proceed backwards to the beginning of the Iliad, to then move on to Sophocles' Oedipus tyrant and Lucretius's poem On the nature of things. Thus, alongside a historical reconstruction of the various diseases, above all an analysis of the interpretations that they aroused is offered: with approaches that are also significantly different, but almost always attributable to some basic questions and reasons. Thus the "plague" becomes an ethical and sometimes religious question, even before being biomedical, it interacts with power and challenges multiple knowledge, to rise to a powerful and polysemic metaphor, as well as constitute a recurring evil, in various respects comparable to war. Settings and interpretations that, beyond the enormous distance of material and cognitive scenarios, still have a lot to say for those who critically reflect on the dramatic experience of the Covid-19 pandemic.]

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