La diffusione del mesmerismo nell’ambiente culturale napoletano I 'Racconti inverisimili' (1886) di Federigo Verdinois
The spread of mesmerism in the Neapolitan cultural milieu Federigo Verdinois’ Racconti inverisimili (1886) Federigo Verdinois (1844-1927) was an Italian journalist, translator and writer, one of the most influent intellectuals of the Neapolitan milieu in the post-unification years. He published a co...
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Published in | Incontri (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 1 - 14 |
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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27.06.2023
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Summary: | The spread of mesmerism in the Neapolitan cultural milieu Federigo Verdinois’ Racconti inverisimili (1886)
Federigo Verdinois (1844-1927) was an Italian journalist, translator and writer, one of the most influent intellectuals of the Neapolitan milieu in the post-unification years. He published a collection of short stories in 1886 entitled Racconti inverisimili di Picche, in which emerges his interest in spiritism and, particularly, mesmerism. Mesmerism, a therapeutic practice based on magnetism and theorized at the end of the 18th century by the German physician Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), enjoyed considerable success in Italy in the 1870s and 1880s. In this paper, I analyse the particular forms that Mesmerism took in the Neapolitan milieu, focusing on Verdinois’ Racconti inverisimili. |
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ISSN: | 0169-3379 2214-7705 |
DOI: | 10.18352/inc12866 |