L’apprendista stregone: Pietro Selvatico tra opinionismo pubblico e storiografia specializzata nell’Italia pre-quarantottesca

Abstract

This article investigates some polemical tendencies in the Italian art discourse during the 1840s, it particularly focuses on Pietro Selvatico's writings on art historical methodology and on his contribution to Gaetano and Carlo Milanesi's commented edition of Vasari's «Vite» (1846-1870).