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Proserpina Book I. E-book. Formato EPUB John Ruskin   -  Simone Vannini, 2016  - 

It is mortifying enough to write,—but I think thus much ought to be written,—concerning myself, as 'the author of Modern Painters.' In three months I shall be fifty years old: and I don't at this hour—ten o'clock in the morning of the two hundred and sixty-eighth day of my forty-ninth year—know what 'moss' is.There is nothing I have more intended to know—some day or other. But the moss 'would always be there'; and then it was so beautiful, and so difficult to examine, that one could only do it in some quite separated time of happy leisure—which came not. I never was like to have less leisure than now, but I will know what moss is, if possible, forthwith.

Proserpina Book I. E-book. Formato Mobipocket John Ruskin   -  Simone Vannini, 2016  - 

It is mortifying enough to write,—but I think thus much ought to be written,—concerning myself, as 'the author of Modern Painters.' In three months I shall be fifty years old: and I don't at this hour—ten o'clock in the morning of the two hundred and sixty-eighth day of my forty-ninth year—know what 'moss' is.There is nothing I have more intended to know—some day or other. But the moss 'would always be there'; and then it was so beautiful, and so difficult to examine, that one could only do it in some quite separated time of happy leisure—which came not. I never was like to have less leisure than now, but I will know what moss is, if possible, forthwith.

Scritti letterari. E-book. Formato EPUB John Ruskin   -  Archetipo Libri, 2016  - 

John Ruskin (Londra, 1819 – Coniston, 1900), critico d’arte e moralizzatore della società vittoriana, fu autore particolarmente prolifico. In passato, i 39 volumi di cui si compone la monumentale Library Edition degli scritti ruskiniani sono stati definiti una pietra tombale posta sull’opera dell’autore. Oggi, provando a sollevare appena quella pietra che schiude un universo di ricca scrittura, dove la lingua inglese avanza flessuosa tra gli incisi, i dettagli descrittivi, le citazioni, riportiamo alla luce tre scritti sulla letteratura: Fiabe (Fairy-Stories, 1868), Mondo di fiaba (Fairy Land, 1884) e l’articolato Letteratura. Bene e male (Fiction. Fair and Foul, 1880). Offrendoli in traduzione ai lettori italiani ci proponiamo di far conoscere le questioni affrontate da Ruskin al loro interno e di indicarle come punti chiave di una riflessione letteraria che solo l’endiadi “estetica ed etica” può, forse, rendere al meglio