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The content of the essay is introduced by four mottoes: The content of the essay is introduced by four mottoes:
-*"The fear of being overwhelmed and destroyed by barbarian hordes is as old as the history of civilization. Pictures of desertification, gardens and palaces looted by nomads in disrepair in which graze their flocks are recurrent in the literature of decadence from antiquity to the present day." -- [[Wolfgang Schivelbusch]] in ''[[Die Kultur der Niederlage]]'' (tr. Google Translate from Italian).+*"The fear of being overwhelmed and destroyed by barbarian hordes is as old as the history of civilization. Pictures of desertification, gardens and palaces looted by nomads in disrepair in which graze their flocks are recurrent in the literature of decadence from antiquity to the present day." -- [[Wolfgang Schivelbusch]] in ''[[Die Kultur der Niederlage]]'' (tr. Google Translate from the Italian translation).
* "... elegance, purity and measure are gradually surrendering to a new, frivolous and pompous style adopted by the superficial talents of our time." --[[The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review]] of 1825 , which dealt with the [[Ninth symphony of Beethoven]] * "... elegance, purity and measure are gradually surrendering to a new, frivolous and pompous style adopted by the superficial talents of our time." --[[The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review]] of 1825 , which dealt with the [[Ninth symphony of Beethoven]]

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I barbari is a collection of essays by Italian writer Alessandro Baricco, first published in the La Repubblica in 2006.

The content of the essay is introduced by four mottoes:

  • "The fear of being overwhelmed and destroyed by barbarian hordes is as old as the history of civilization. Pictures of desertification, gardens and palaces looted by nomads in disrepair in which graze their flocks are recurrent in the literature of decadence from antiquity to the present day." -- Wolfgang Schivelbusch in Die Kultur der Niederlage (tr. Google Translate from the Italian translation).
  • "He was not hard to talk to. Called me Sheriff. But I didnt know what to say to him. What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why would you say anything? I've thought about it a good deal. But he wasnt nothin compared to what was comin down the pike." --Cormac McCarthy, is the first pages of No Country for Old Men.

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