Enrico Castelnuovo
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| - | ''[[Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method]]'' (Miti, emblemi, spie: Morfologia e storia) is a book by [[Carlo Ginzburg]]. | + | '''Enrico Castelnuovo''' (February 12, 1839 – February 16, 1915) was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[writer]] who had an active role in the [[Italian unification]] movement. |
| - | Excerpt: | + | He was the father of [[Guido Castelnuovo]]. |
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| + | == Literary works == | ||
| + | * ''[[Il quaderno della zia]]'', 1872 ("Aunt's notebook") | ||
| + | * ''[[s:Stories_by_Foreign_Authors_(Italian)/It_Snows|Nevica]]'', 1878 ("It Snows") | ||
| + | * ''[[Reminiscenze e fantasie]]'', 1885 ("Reminiscences and fantasies") | ||
| + | * ''[[Prima di partire]]'', 1890 ("Before leaving") | ||
| + | * ''[[Il ritorno dell'Aretusa]]'', 1901 ("The return of [[Arethusa (mythology)|Arethusa]]") | ||
| + | * ''[[I coniugi Varedo]]'', 1913 ("The couple Varedo") | ||
| - | ::Morelli's books look different from those of any other writer on art. They are sprinkled with illustrations of fingers and ears, careful records of the characteristic trifles by which an artist gives himself away, as a criminal might be spotted by a fingerprint . . . any art gallery studied by Morelli begins to resemble a rogues' gallery . . . . ([[Edgar Wind|Wind]] 1963:40-41) | ||
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| - | :This comparison was brilliantly developed by an Italian art historian, [[Enrico Castelnuovo]] (1968:782), who drew a parallel between Morelli's methods of classification and those attributed by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]], a few years later, to his fictional creation, [[Sherlock Holmes]]. The art connoisseur and the detective may well be compared, each discovering, from [[clues]] unnoticed by others, the author in one case of a crime, in the other of a painting. Examples of Sherlock Holmes's skill at interpreting footprints, cigarette ash, and so on are countless and well known. But let us look at "[[The Cardboard Box]]" (1892) for an illustration of Castelnuovo's point: here Holmes is as it were "morellizing." | ||
| - | ==See also== | ||
| - | *[[Clue]] | ||
| - | *[[Historical method]] | ||
| - | *[[Giovanni Morelli]] | ||
| - | *[[Sherlock Holmes]] | ||
| - | *[[Sigmund Freud ]] | ||
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Enrico Castelnuovo (February 12, 1839 – February 16, 1915) was an Italian writer who had an active role in the Italian unification movement.
He was the father of Guido Castelnuovo.
Literary works
- Il quaderno della zia, 1872 ("Aunt's notebook")
- Nevica, 1878 ("It Snows")
- Reminiscenze e fantasie, 1885 ("Reminiscences and fantasies")
- Prima di partire, 1890 ("Before leaving")
- Il ritorno dell'Aretusa, 1901 ("The return of Arethusa")
- I coniugi Varedo, 1913 ("The couple Varedo")
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