The anthology of Mannerism and the rhetoric category of Eugenio Battisti’s L’antirinascimento

Abstract

This article intends to focus on Eugenio Battisti’s book L’Antirinascimento, published for the first time in 1962 when the Italian culture struggled against the vestiges of fascism. We will deal with the historiography of that period related to the Renaissance-Mannerism debates in order to understand better the implications stimulated by L’Antirinascimento.