Plants-Nations have very different characters in different countries or in different ages in the same country; like wines, in every terroir they have a particular taste and always preserve it, though some years are better than others. Everything depends upon the air and its qualities. It is a home air, but it is not always the same. National characters are the product of a (changeable) balance between identity and diversity, permanent general elements and variations in time. Jean-Baptiste Du Bos’ Réflexions critiques sur la poésie et sur la peinture, first published in 1719, attempt to keep this balance and present themselves as an indispensable reading for those who want to discuss national characters and their causes even in 1748, when Montesquieu published the Esprit des lois and Hume Of National Characters.
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Titolo del capitolo
Aria di casa. Du Bos e il carattere delle piante-nazione
Autori
Emilio Mazza
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-160-0.04
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2020
Copyright
© 2020 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Titolo del libro
Nazioni come individui
Sottotitolo del libro
Il carattere nazionale fra passato e presente
Curatori
Michela Nacci
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
158
Anno di pubblicazione
2020
Copyright
© 2020 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-160-0
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-159-4
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-160-0
eISBN (epub)
978-88-5518-161-7
Collana
Studi e saggi
ISSN della collana
2704-6478
e-ISSN della collana
2704-5919