La densità meravigliosa del sapere

The reception of German culture in Italy, starting from the mid-eighteenth century, takes shape within an increasingly ramified network of mediators and mediation structures. Academies, universities, publishing houses and magazines mark the perimeter within which the activity of intellectuals animated by multiple interests unfolds, linked to a transnational conception of their profession and often able to intercept early tendencies and movements still at an initial state, creating the conditions for their incardination into Italian culture. A circulation of ideas that accompanies the development of social and political relations between the two countries, often providing incisive interpretation tools for tensions, conflicts and rapprochements.