La sensualità dell’inorganico. Traiettorie intorno a Lucca nella letteratura tedesca di primo Ottocento

In some German works from the early Romanticism and the post-Romantic period, the city of Lucca offers new spaces to the imagination: such are the novella Das Marmorbild by Joseph von Eichendorff, the “Reisebilder” of Die Stadt Lukka by Heinrich Heine and the poem Lucca by Ludwig Tieck. In each of these works the town of Lucca represents an Italy between the ideal and the real, with its architectural Middle Age and its churches that refer to a fantastic world yet still within reach. This paper aims to give an account of how the approach of these three writers has transfigured the real Lucca and made it as a place of wonders.