Decadentism

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Decadentism (also called Decadentismo) was an Italian artistic movement based loosely on the Decadent movement found in France and England at the end of the nineteenth century. Its chief writers were Antonio Fogazzaro, Italo Svevo, Giovanni Pascoli and Gabriele D'Annunzio. Although differing in their approaches, they championed the idiosyncratic and the irrational against the advancing tide of scientific rationalism and mass culture at the turn of the 20th century. A later critic, Walter Binni, analyzed the movement favorably in his 1936 book La poetica del decantismo and distinguished between moral and aesthetic decadence.^[1] Another scholar of decadentism was Norberto Bobbio, especially his 1945 book, La filosofia del decadentismo.

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• Decadent movement

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