- Laura Follesa
- XV (2020), 2
- Saggio
This contribution is about Herder’s selection and use of Italian literary, philosophical and scientific sources. His later writings (especially the Briefe, and the journal «Adrastea») contain a huge repertory of Italian sources and confirm Herder’s purpose to present authors of the past as ‘models’ for developing a new kind of humanity and to offer, by means of an historical recognition, an instrument to face the future.