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In reconstructing the history of Modern Spiritualism, scholars have largely focused on its Anglo-American, French, and German developments, often overlooking the Italian context. Modern Spiritualism in Italian Literature and Culture (1765-1969) challenges this perspective by examining the Italian case as a space of intersection between transnational currents of thought and deeply rooted cultural traditions. From the Enlightenment to the occult revival of the 1960s, Modern Spiritualism in Italy engaged with scientific discourse, philosophical speculation, literary imagination, and Catholic doctrine, producing a hybrid intellectual landscape that remains largely understudied. This volume traces the circulation and transformation of spiritualist ideas across different media and disciplines, analyzing their impact on literature, psychology, and science. By situating Italy within the broader European and transatlantic networks of occult knowledge, Modern Spiritualism in Italian Literature and Culture provides a new vantage point from which to rethink the historical evolution of modernity, belief, and the supernatural.
Contents
List of Contributors
Gennaro Ambrosino, Fabio Camilletti, Bart Van den Bossche, Introduction, Modern Spiritualism in Italian Literature and Culture (1765-1969)
1. Giulia Scialanga, The Discourse on Spectrality in Atanasio Cavalli's Delle apparizioni, ed operazioni de' spiriti (1765)
2. Gennaro Ambrosino, 'Gli occhi sono il telegrafo dell'anima'. Tracing the Prehistory of Modern Spiritualism in Italian Literature and Culture (1792-1853)
3. Simona Cigliana, Esotericism, Occultism, Psychic Research and the Origins of Modernity. Italian Cultural and Literary Landscape (1850-1930)
4. Stefano Serafini, Investigating the Supernatural in Modern Italian Literature
5. Francesco Paolo de Ceglia, Lorenzo Leporiere, Eusapia Palladino, the Despair of Science. The uncertain boundaries of mediumship in liberal-era Italy (1861-1921)
6. Bart Van den Bossche, Telling examples? Spirits, stories and plots in Pirandello
7. Alessandra Diazzi, The Psychic Psyche in Italo Svevo's La coscienza di Zeno
8. Michael Subialka, Spiritualism, Modernist Idealism, and the Séance: The Case of Italo Svevo
9. Fabio Camilletti, The Un-Death of the Author. Dante's Mediumistic Afterlives
10. Stefano Lazzarin, Moravia between Play and Aura in the Short Story Seduta spiritica (1960)
11. Fabrizio Foni, Alan Maglio, Luca Matarazzo, Night's Spiritual Heralds: Mediumistic Phenomena in the Milanese Newspaper La Notte (1952-1969)
