Translation and editing by Matthew Didemus and Filippo Scafi “I am convinced that Battisti’s notion of the real is what finally binds together much of this otherwise eclectic book. He uses the word in reference to the city of wood behind the classicizing stone facades, the breaches in decorum that distinguish the nonheroic sculpture of […]

translation and editing by Filippo Scafi and Matthew Didemus Chaosmotics presents the first English translation of excerpts from 1962 L’antirinascimento by Eugenio Battisti, a deep and multifarious study on the value of Renaissance in order to shed light on the relation between folkloristic belief and the development of humanistic rationalism. That is: a problem of […]