Author Description

Salvatore Settis's recent book, Incursioni. Contemporary art and tradition (Feltrinelli 2020) intercrosses the boundaries of the history of art, contemporary and beyond, of philology and antiquity, of philology and of the history of the classical tradition, of philology and anthropology. Therefore, Monica Centanni and Giuseppe Pucci invited archaeologists, art historians, philologists, anthropologists and philosophers to compose a choral reading about Settis' work, corresponding to the various solicitations that the book provokes. All scholars who have participated to the collective reading – Anna Anguissola, Maurizio Bettini, Marilena Caciorgna, Maria Luisa Catoni, Monica Centanni, Maria Grazia Ciani, Claudia Cieri Via, Gabriella De Marco, Giuseppe Di Giacomo, Elisabetta Di Stefano, Eva Di Stefano, Roberto Diodato, Dario Evola, Claudio Franzoni, Maurizio Harari, Franco La Cecla e Anna Castelli, Alessandro Poggio, Valentina Porcheddu, Daniela Sacco, Antonella Sbrilli, Salvatore Tedesco – have responded, in the style of each author, with a plurality of form, such as short essay, with bibliography and images, general analysis of Settis’s volume, in-depth studies on one of the themes, reflections on tradition and contemporaneity.