Foscolo's masks: simulatio and dissimulatio as reflection instruments about identity in Foscolo's literary work Foscolo's masks: simulatio and dissimulatio as reflection instruments about identity in Foscolo's literary work
2017
Abstract
The article deals with Foscolo's contribution to autobiographic writing. The study focuses on methods that the author uses, having a particular attention for the foscolanian masks and their functions.
The analysis of Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis, Sesto Tomo dell' io and Notizia intorno a Didimo Chierico makes us declare that Foscolo continued, throughout his literary career, a reflection on the concept of identity which had the practice of simulation in the instrument of knowledge.