Scapigliatura

La Scapigliatura ( from Italian scapigliare: tousle the hair ) was the name for a group of mainly Lombard artists and writers in Milan 1860-1880.

Like other European groups of artists of those years (about the Impressionists) calling for a renewal of art. Inspired by the bohemian Paris of the bourgeois lifestyle was rejected. Undoubtedly, the influence of French writers such as Charles Baudelaire and Gustave Flaubert. As models of Scapigliatura the German poet Novalis, Friedrich Hölderlin, ETA Hoffmann and Heinrich Heine also apply. The scapigliati - ie the members of the group - opposed the supremacy of religion and the rhetoric of the Risorgimento and advocated a freer Adult and the release of drugs. Characteristic of the Scapigliatura was next to the anti-bourgeois protest the glorification of sensual love and evil. In addition, this movement was in the literature in dialogue with the music and the visual arts, also referred to as " le tre arti sorelle " ( the three sisters of the art ). Significant representatives were the writer Arrigo Boito and Emilio Praga and Giuseppe Rovani, Cletto Arrighi (aka Carlo Righetti ), Igino Ugo Tarchetti, Tranquillo Cremona, Giovanni Camerana, Carlo Alberto Dossi, Salvatore Farina, Arrigo and Camillo Boito and the young Giovanni Verga. The young authors wrote for magazines and publishing their work in these. Only later the works were published in bound form.