Pierrot, Perelà, and the Italian Saltimbanco: French fumisme and the Italian Modernist Imagination

Luca Cottini

doi:10.18352/incontri.10266

Pierrot, Perelà, and the Italian Saltimbanco: French fumisme and the Italian Modernist Imagination

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Luca Cottini Villanova University

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https://doi.org/10.18352/incontri.10266

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Pierrot, Perelà, Saltimbanco, Commedia dell’Arte, Modernism

Abstract

Pierrot, Perelà, e la figura del saltimbanco in Italia: Dal fumismo francese all’immaginazione modernista italiana

Il presente saggio esplora i legami tra l’immaginario fumista, nella letteratura e nel teatro francese del XIX secolo, e le rappresentazioni dell’artista come saltimbanco nella cultura italiana del primo novecento. A partire dalla riscoperta francese del repertorio della commedia dell’arte, la presente ricerca documenta l’impatto delle re-invenzioni di Pierrot, da parte di Laforgue e Giraud, sul teatro futurista di Marinetti e sulla figura letteraria di Perelà, protagonista del romanzo palazzeschiano Il codice di Perelà. Lo studio dell’immaginario pierrotesco nella cultura francese e italiana mette in evidenza un significativo momento di contatto tra l’Italia e il modernismo europeo.

Author Biography

Luca Cottini, Villanova University

Luca Cottini is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at Villanova University. He holds a Ph.D from Harvard University (2012), a Master’s from the University of Notre Dame (2007), and BA in classics from the University of Milan (2003). He published for Longo I passaggi obbligati di Italo Calvino (2017) and for University of Toronto Press The Art of Objects. The Birth of Italian Industrial Culture, 1878-1928 (2018). His scholarship includes studies on Calvino, Fenoglio, Palazzeschi, Papini, De Amicis, Alvaro, Fellini, the silent film Maciste alpino, and Italian war photography.

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2018-12-20

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Cottini, L. (2018) “Pierrot, Perelà, and the Italian Saltimbanco: French fumisme and the Italian Modernist Imagination”, Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani, 33(2), pp. 27–37. doi: 10.18352/incontri.10266.

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Vol. 33 No. 2 (2018): L'Italia e la Francia: Scambi culturali / Italy and France: Cultural Exchanges

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