Rilke was in Capri between December 1906 and May 1907. This Italian journey was the occasion for developing a new insight in nature and history, landscape and memory, through a series of experiences that may be recognized as ‘mystery’ in the ancient esoteric sense of the eleusine rituals studied by Karl Kerenyi a few years after Rilke’s more orphic or mystery works. The “figura” of this experience is “Kore”, the young girl, daughter of Demeter and wife of Hades, and her different “Erscheinungen”. Basing on his classical memories, animated by his aesthetic and poetic pursuit of a dynamic trace that may express the Unspeakable, pervaded by the strong impressions due to nature, the people, the myths and rituals of the Island of Capri, Rilke develops a metamorphic image of Kore-Nymph with a series of mystery attributes that will flourish in the later phase of Duino.
- La cartografia italiana di Rilke
- «Per raggiungere l’estate». Rainer Maria Rilke nella primavera di Firenze
- Esercizi della visione: Rilke e l’arte italiana
- Rilke e Venezia. Una città senza decadenza
- Rilke e Petrarca
- Ritmo e metamorfosi. Rilke e Kassner
- Il poeta e la principessa. Rilke e Marguerite Caetani
- Kore a Capri. Un piccolo mistero rilkiano
- Visione fluida e natura morta. Rilke a Napoli
- Consumati dal vento
- Saggi
- La fonte della critica di Herder al modello della statua esposta nell’Abhandlung über den Ursprung der Sprache
- ‘Männerbünde’ e sentimento omosociale: deresponsabilizzazione etica ed estetica
- Recensioni
- Abstracts