UN PRUSSIANO A ROMA: LE LETTERE ITALIANE DI WINCKELMANN

Abstract

In the multilingual epistolary by JJW, writing in Italian goes along with the aim of showing his agreement to the foreign welcome context/background. However, beyond its pragmatic function, W feels the energy and enthusiasm of the new idiom that he learns not without any difficulties and imperfections. Thanks to the interferences from German, the Italian language experienced in his letters, is in line with the stylistic freedom and the vis polemica of the founder of the history of art.