https://doi.org/10.31261/FLPI.2025.09.06
Alfieri’s La virtù sconosciuta is one of the author’s most personal texts. The work, a dialogue with his deceased friend Francesco Gori Gandellini, recalls an essential fragment of the author’s life and work from 1786. The text contains many stories about the his-
tory of literature, Alfier’s past and future, and specific fragments of his autobiography, which the author published shortly thereafter. However, the article attempts to emphasise the political significance of this work. As Giuseppe Ricuperati claims, in fact, this dialogue, along with other treatises, refers to the European Enlightenment tradition and is close to authors such as Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, Helvétius, Boulanger, Mirabeau, Diderot. The study, therefore, attempts to highlight the political level of the work by examining its various aspects, from the choice of the interlocutor, a Republican from Siena, to the points of contact of this dialogue with other political works of the Asti area. Historical and archival aspects are then examined: the work was developed at the Kehl printing house, where Alfieri published his other political texts to escape the restrictions of French censorship. Finally, the first draft of La virtù sconosciuta appears in the same formula in which the above-mentioned political works are created.
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No. 1(9) (2025)
Published: 2025-06-30
10.31261/FLPI
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