La lezione di Foscolo e l'icona di Jacopo: tracce di ricerca

A model for patriotic inspiration, the protagonist of Ugo Foscolo’s first novel, Jacopo Ortis, has slowly yet progressively been made into a national icon. This essay aims to reconstruct and interpret Jacopo’s iconography throughout a va- riety of media, including painting, sculpture and cinema, in the light of two main trends in cultural and literary studies: the visual turn, on the one hand, and the history of emotions, on the other.