Poetisch erschlossene Geschichte: Ferdinand Gregorovius’ „Wanderjahre in Italien“ und seine Dichtung über den Garten von Ninfa. (German)

„Not without merit“. This is how Theodor Mommsen described the most important historical work by Ferdinand Gregorovius, the „History of Rome in the Middle Ages“ before going on to add critically „but he has too much imagination“. This paper reflects on the historian Gregorovius’s openly declared relationship with the imagination, the close affinity between history and poetry. It describes the peculiar role, which we could perhaps describe as that of an outsider, of an author forced to write his books as an independent scholar, funding them mainly with his work as a journalist. Using Gregorovius‘s direct experience of the enchanted gardens at Ninfa, which attracted him as an author of lyric poetry and as an explorer of the historical landscape, we examine some case studies of the genesis of the narrative form that he developed and discuss it as a challenge to historicism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

„Non senza meriti“: così qualificò Theodor Mommsen la principale opera storica di Ferdinand Gregorovius, la „Storia della città di Roma nel medioevo“, aggiungendo però criticamente: „Ma egli ha troppa fantasia“. Le presenti riflessioni indagano proprio questo rapporto dichiarato dello storico Gregorovius con la fantasia, con l’intima affinità tra storia e poesia. Esse tematizzano il ruolo particolare, forse anche di outsider, di un autore che era costretto a scrivere le sue opere da studioso privato, finanziandole in gran parte con i suoi lavori giornalistici. Sulla base di come Gregorovius ha vissuto l’esperienza del giardino incantato di Ninfa, il quale lo attraeva come lirico e come esploratore del paesaggio storico, si esamina in alcuni esempi la genesi della forma narrativa da lui sviluppata e la si discute come sfida nei confronti dello storicismo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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