Nostalgia (1) comes from the greek " nostos " "return" and " algos" pain ", but greek is a modern coinage, from Alsace to be precise. The first to have used the term that is Johannes Hofer, majoring in medicine, a native of Mulhouse, in 1688.
topic of his thesis was the disease that often caught the Swiss during military service in foreign armies . It 's just at the end of the nineteenth century that this term, leaving the boundaries doctors, more precisely in 1874.
find him as the title of a poem Carducci ( Nostalgia , 1874), in which the poet returns to his mind the Maremma and its adolescence. If Malombra (1881) Fogazzaro of the "nostalgia" is a mood of profound sadness for our country far away (in the novel, is the wife of Steinegge in New York is sick of nostalgia), in more modern times, "nostalgia" includes joining two meanings: it combines the yearning of the land they lose the feeling of melancholy yearning for an era that no longer exists or that it was best for the youth in it, up to accommodate the negative sense in a political sense.
If we go back to the meaning introduced by Carducci in his poem, we realize that nostalgia is the lack of something that is no longer part of this durative existence of an individual: a land far away, past , youth, dreams and hopes, set in motion the memory and with it the attempt to recover what is lost, securing the written page. But what is more distant in time that you want to recover the memory, the more difficult it will be an objective of this operation (2).
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(1) See-Cortellazzo Zolli, etymological dictionary of the Italian language , 3/IN. Bologna, Zanichelli, 1983, p. 810.
(2) The information is excerpted from memory found in Cesare Pavese. Thoughts on the moon and the bonfires in comparison with The District of Vasco Pratolini "in : Jacqueline Spaccino, His face was carved in stone. Five essays on the work of Cesare Pavese . Rome, Arachne Publishing, 2010, pp. 15-16.
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