Calderon en las polemicas italianas del siglo XIX: Carducci, Graf y Martini

Abstract: When the echo of the romantic recovery of Spanish classic theater arrived to Italy, the selection proposed by Germans was accepted and Calderón was redeemed according to a partial view. In the second half of the nineteenth century, when schoolars went further the classical-romantic dispute, Calderón was studied in a less ‘ideological’ way, between returns to anti-Catholicism, historicistic approaches and new readings, as Italian Hispanism was borning. Our study considers three critical texts of this era: Goisuè Carducci’s review after witnessing a staging of La vida es sueño, in August of 1869; the essay by Arturo Graf «La vita è sogno, dramma di Pietro Calderón», published in 1878; and the article by Ferdinando Martini’s article «Nel secondo centenario di Calderón de la Barca» of 1881.