La diffusione del mesmerismo nell’ambiente culturale napoletano: I 'Racconti inverisimili' (1886) di Federigo Verdinois

Gennaro Ambrosino

doi:10.18352/inc12866

La diffusione del mesmerismo nell’ambiente culturale napoletano

I 'Racconti inverisimili' (1886) di Federigo Verdinois

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Gennaro Ambrosino KU Leuven

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https://doi.org/10.18352/inc12866

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Spiritismo, mesmerismo, fantastico, racconto breve, divulgazione scientifica

Abstract

Federigo Verdinois (1844-1927) was an Italian journalist, translator and writer, one of the most influent intellectuals of the Neapolitan milieu in the post-unification years. He published a collection of short stories in 1886 entitled Racconti inverisimili di Picche, which manifest his interest in spiritism and, particularly, mesmerism. Mesmerism, a therapeutic practice based on magnetism and theorized at the end of the 18^th century by the German physician Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), enjoyed considerable success in Italy in the 1870s and 1880s. In this paper, I analyse the particular forms that Mesmerism took in the Neapolitan milieu, focusing on Verdinois’ Racconti inverisimili.

Author Biography

Gennaro Ambrosino, KU Leuven

Gennaro Ambrosino si occupa della diffusione e della ricezione del mesmerismo nella cultura e nella letteratura italiana dell’Ottocento. Ha completato la laurea triennale in Lettere moderne presso l’Università di Napoli “Federico II”, la laurea magistrale in Filologia moderna presso l’Università di Roma “La Sapienza” e il master in Western Literature presso la KU Leuven. Dal 2022 è dottorando in Italian Studies alla University of Warwick. La tesi magistrale verte sull’immaginario mesmerico in letteratura italiana di fine Settecento e inizio Ottocento; ne sono stati tratti contributi per la rivista Enthymema e per il Convegno Mesmerismo nell’8-900 organizzato dal Laboratorio Leopardi Sapienza.

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2023-06-27

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Ambrosino, G. (2023) “La diffusione del mesmerismo nell’ambiente culturale napoletano: I ’Racconti inverisimili’ (1886) di Federigo Verdinois”, Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani, 37(1), pp. 1–14. doi: 10.18352/inc12866.

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Vol. 37 No. 1 (2022)

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