Zarte Fügung. Hölderlins Rhythmen der Erinnerung

After 1801, Hölderlin’s poetry changed considerably through the reworking of earlier poems and the development of a major new project which  would, however, remain fragmentary. Hölderlin experienced the political and military failure of  revolution in his time . From his perspective, the spirit is filled with  what most people ‘hope for’, but also what they do not expect: «Nicht daß irgend eine Form, irgend eine Meinung und Behauptung siegen wird […]». The modern world (hesperischer Orbis) and the current revolution have given rise to  great change, even destruction, but also created new relationships and possibilities that have yet to be understood and expressed. Hölderlin explores the ambivalence of this new world both in the extensive fragments of Das Nächste Beste and in the perfectly accomplished poem Andenken. The poetic rhythm of memory resonates with that ambivalence and, at the same time, leads to the revelation of the forgotten origin of all things (das Ursprüngliche). The enduring realisation of  the «vaterländische Umkehr» can only be achieved through the intimate appropriation of this rhythm

Studia theodisca – Hölderliniana IV (2025)

Studia theodisca – Hölderliniana IV (2025). The entire volum

«O Natur!» Hölderlins erste Liebe oder Was Ökologie bedeuten könnte

The international research on Hölderlin has certainly not overlooked how much Hölderlin’s entire poetry and thinking revolves around nature. Therefore, his efforts, so diverse in themselves, to understand what ‘nature’ actually means to us, appear highly relevant in the face of the currently emerging ecological crisis. This article aims to present a specific interpretive framework using the model of permeable concentric circles in which the various phases of Hölderlin’s conceptions of nature do not cancel each other out, but remain valid and insightful simultaneously, rather than mutually exclusive

Reviews by Francesco Rossi, Franco Toscani, and Giuseppe Vacca

Review of Friedrich Hölderlin: Prose, teatro e lettere. A cura e con un saggio introduttivo di Luigi Reitani, traduzioni di Mauro Bozzetti, Elsbeth Gut-Bozzetti, Andreina Lavagetto, Cesare Lievi, Adele Netti, Luigi Reitani. Milano 2019, by Francesco Rossi Review of Hegel y Hölderlin, una amistad estelar. Eds. Ana Carrasco-Conde, Laura Anna Macor, Valerio Rocco Lozano. Madrid 2021, by Franco Toscani Review of Barbara Santini: Morale e religione. Hölderlin interprete di Kant. Napoli 2023, by Giuseppe Vacca &nbsp

Studia theodisca XXXI (2024)

Studia theodisca XXXI (2024) - The Entire Volum

«Kannst du’s wohl mit geschloßnen Augen denken?». La semantica del vedere nelle traduzioni italiane della «Pentesilea» di Kleist: [«Can you still visualize it when you shut your eyes?». The semantics of seeing in the Italian translations of Kleist’s «Penthesilea»]

Starting from the centrality of the part played by the eye in Kleist’s work and, in particular, in Penthesilea, I propose to investigate how this field emerges from the Italian translations of the work. Supported by the instruments of Textsemantik (Greimas) and Texttheatralität (Poschmann) and following the comparative method (Utz), particularly significant passages from the tragedy are analysed which, in the light of this theme, pose interesting questions related to isotopy and can illuminate the differences between the translations