Nel presente lavoro vengono suggerite nuove strategie di lettura per un’opera che costituisce un unicum, non solo nella produzione narrativa di Italo Calvino, ma certamente anche nella storia letteraria del Novecento. Il castello dei destini incrociati (1973) viene interpretato in senso cartografico, come il tentativo di mappare un mondo labirintico, dai significati inesauribili e comunque destinato a farsi inghiottire dal gorgo della modernità. Pur conservando i tratti del romanzo enciclopedico, viene messo in luce come il Castello si sottragga al desiderio di rappresentare la totalità, scegliendo piuttosto la strada del potenziale e della metamorfosi, nel tentativo di individuare i fattori primi di ogni storia narrabile. Un po’ torre di Babele e un po’ arca dell’alleanza, emerge nel lavoro come il libro nasca dal bisogno di verificare le ragioni della letteratura e di rivisitare il ruolo dell’intellettuale: sul finire degli anni sessanta, Calvino allestisce in chiave allegorica e figurale un’allarmata riflessione sulla convivenza, profetizzando l’apocalisse di un mondo che è chiamato a recuperare l’antica fiducia nella progettazione e nell’utopia. / This work suggests new reading strategies for a novel that represents a singular event, not only in Italo Calvino’s narrative production, but also in the history of Nineteenth-Century literature. The Castle of Crossed Destinies (1973) is approached in a cartographical way, as an attempt to give the map of a labyrinthine world, complicated by inexhaustible meanings and, in any case, destined to be swallowed by Modernity’s wheel. Though conserving the features of the encyclopaedic novel, the Castle is shown as a book that tries to dodge the desire to represent the world as a whole, as a totality: on the contrary, it chooses to go through the paths of potentiality and metamorphosis, seeking the prime factors of every possible story. The Castle is a sort of Tower of Babel, an Ark of the Covenant: Savio’s thesis underlines that this novel grows out of the need to check the reasons of literature and to rethink the role of intellectuals: in the end of the Sixties, allegorically and figurally, Calvino sets up an alarmed reflection about the coexistence of mankind, foretelling the apocalypse of a world that is called to rescue its old faith in planning and utopia.

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Das Forschungsgebiet der deutschen Literaturgeschichte verfügt heute - wie die meisten anderen Zweige der Wissenschaft - über ein leistungsfähiges Informationssystem. Dieses bestehende Netzwerk ist zugleich mit dem in den letzten einhundert Jahren konstituierten Fach entstanden und gewachsen; es spiegelt zu jedem Zeitpunkt seiner Entwicklung dessen Profil und die sich daraus ergebenden Bedürfnisse der Forschung wider. Die vorliegende Studie zeigt die frühesten Ansätze und Fortschritte auf dem Teilgebiet der (damals zeitgenössischen) Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts, von den Versuchen einzelner Schrittmacher auf und führt bis an den Zeitpunkt, wo an deren Stelle organisierte Gemeinschaftsunternehmungen treten, die sich den veränderten Erfordernissen anpassen. Im ersten Teil werden die Ergebnisse anthologischer Sammeltätigkeit, sofern sie auf geschichtlich-biographische Aspekte eingehen, vorgestellt. Teil 2 befaßt sich mit dem Ertrag, der sich von außerhalb der Literaturforschung betriebenen bibliographischen Arbeit (Buchhändlerkataloge, Aufnahmen von Privatbibliotheken) einstellt. Im Teil 3 wird die weiterführende Leistung alphabetisch geordneter Autorenlexika des Zeitraums entwickelt, während der letzte der ausführlichen und exakten Dokumentation dem Schaffen Karl Goedekes, von dessen ersten anthologischen Versuchen bis zum Entwurf und Programm seines "Grundrisses zur Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung", in dem die Literatur seiner eigenen Zeit auf Grund authentischer Auskünfte der Schriftsteller selbst dargestellt werden sollte, gewidmet ist. / The research on the field of German literary history has today at its disposal an efficient system for current and cumulative informations. This existing network is a result of the evolution in the scientific efforts during the past hundred years and is reflecting this branch´s height at any time. The study´s intention is to lay open the early advances and steps on the field of German 19th century literature from ist beginning by individual pioneers until the first organized information system in partnership. Part 1 represents the results of anthologies provided with biographical details about the authors, pt. 2 represents bibliographical indexes compiled for various aims, pt. 3 represents contemporary author dictionaries in chronological order. A last part contains programms of encyclopadies created by Karl Goedeke, from his antological experiments with his printed highlight "Grundriss zur Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung". The productive elements of these four varieties are the fundament of the literary information continuations.

This study examines the rise, development, and crisis of theological encyclopaedia in nineteenth-century Germany. As introductory textbooks for theological study in the university, works of theological encyclopaedia addressed the pressing questions facing theology as a ‘science’ (Wissenschaft), a rigorous, critical discipline deserving of a seat in the modern university. The project of theological encyclopaedia, I argue, functioned as the place where theological reflection and the requirements of the institutional setting in which that reflection occurred—here the German university—converged. I explore its roots as a pioneering idealist model for organizing knowledge in the German university system in the late eighteenth century. I focus especially on Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834), the father of modern Protestantism and principal intellectual architect of the University of Berlin (1810). Schleiermacher’s programme transformed the scholarly theological enterprise into one defined in terms of science. That transformation laid the groundwork for the later historicization of theology, which I investigate in the two predominant ‘schools’ of German university theology in the middle of the nineteenth century, the Hegelian ‘speculative’ school and ‘mediating theology’ (Vermittlungstheologie). Among the latter, I emphasize the remarkable international influence of the Swiss-German Karl Hagenbach (1801–74), whose theological encyclopaedia was among the most widely read theological books in German-speaking Europe from the 1830s through World War I. Finally, I analyze the project’s downfall in the context of Wilhelmine Germany and the Weimar Republic, beset by radical disciplinary specialization, a crisis of historicism, and the attacks of dialectical theology. Throughout, I contend that theological encyclopaedia represented the institutionalization of the idea of theology as science, which furnishes an explanatory grid for understanding the relationship between theology and the university. The project resulted in a powerful synthesis that fundamentally shaped the reigning theological paradigms in nineteenth-century Germany and beyond.