Letteratura & Arte. 1. 2003

The goal of this new journal is to become a venue for the study and discussion of all relations between the visual and verbal languages from the antiquity to this time. Certainly, the relation between these 'sistes arts' is not a discovery of this century: the strenght of the image had playd its role in Western literature from ancient Greece and Rome through the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Reformation to the experiences of the Age of Enlightenment, Romanticism and 20th century. The journal want take possession of a treasuretrove of knowledge collected from the recent developments in the fields of literary studies and linguistics, anthropology and history of art, structuralism and semiotics or iconology, thus focusing on those matches, co-operations and even rivalries which the relationship between words and images has recently re-opted for.