«History» that Needs to be Historicized. Some Considerations for a New Edition of Umberto Saba’s «Storia e cronistoria del Canzoniere»
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Abstract
Despite its title, Storia e cronistoria del Canzoniere is not a work of history but a reassessment. For Saba, the revised Canzoniere, published in 1945, was the “definitiveµ work to be presented to the future; Storia e cronistoria was its complement, which, by demolishing much of the body of earlier criticism (heavily influenced by Hermeticism), was intended to prepare the ground for a fresh reevalutation of his poetry. This essay traces the foundations for a new philological edition that should aim to document both the making of Saba’s poetry and the contemporary critical response to it.
Keywords
- Umberto Saba
- Twentieth-century Italian poetry
- Twentieth-century literary criticism
- Philology
- Textual scholarship
- Authorial Commentary
