Abstract: When Friedrich Schlegel approached India as the home of linguistic, cultural, and religious perfection, he did not know, paradoxically, the Vedic texts. The subsequent acquaintance with these texts compelled romantic Indology to reconsider the Schlegelian model. The chief Indologist who achieved this remodelling was Max Müller. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the main Italian Vedists were De Gubernatis and Kerbaker, and they had to reckon with Müller’s ideological co-ordinates. While Müller (or maybe De Gubernatis) provided Carducci with the first inspiration for the Vedic section of his "barbarous" ode All’Aurora, Carducci owed Kerbaker the poetic "materials" for the final composition of the hymn sung by the "Aryan fathers". In the following we analyse Kerbaker's contribution to Vedic studies and the relation between the Kerbakerian approach to Vedic world and the idea of universal history as reflected in Carducci's ode. Relazione presentata (su invito) al Convegno Nazionale “Figure letterarie e musicali dell’India in Occidente dal Settecento a oggi” (Carmina Paduana 2011 – Carmina Indica), a c. di L. Clerici; M. Meli; P. Mura, Padova, 28-30 nov. 2011.

Michele Kerbaker e la ricezione del Rigveda nell’Italia dell’Ottocento al tempo dell’Aurora di G. Carducci

MAGGI, Daniele
2015-01-01

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Abstract: When Friedrich Schlegel approached India as the home of linguistic, cultural, and religious perfection, he did not know, paradoxically, the Vedic texts. The subsequent acquaintance with these texts compelled romantic Indology to reconsider the Schlegelian model. The chief Indologist who achieved this remodelling was Max Müller. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the main Italian Vedists were De Gubernatis and Kerbaker, and they had to reckon with Müller’s ideological co-ordinates. While Müller (or maybe De Gubernatis) provided Carducci with the first inspiration for the Vedic section of his "barbarous" ode All’Aurora, Carducci owed Kerbaker the poetic "materials" for the final composition of the hymn sung by the "Aryan fathers". In the following we analyse Kerbaker's contribution to Vedic studies and the relation between the Kerbakerian approach to Vedic world and the idea of universal history as reflected in Carducci's ode. Relazione presentata (su invito) al Convegno Nazionale “Figure letterarie e musicali dell’India in Occidente dal Settecento a oggi” (Carmina Paduana 2011 – Carmina Indica), a c. di L. Clerici; M. Meli; P. Mura, Padova, 28-30 nov. 2011.
2015
978-88-6938-026-6
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