Luciano Anceschi

Who is Luciano Anceschi?

Luciano Anceschi was an Italian literary critic and essayist. A pupil of Antonio Banfi, with whom he graduated in Philosophy in 1933, he held the teaching of aesthetics at the Faculty of Humanities and Philosophy at the University of Bologna from 1952 to 1981. His interest in literature and the arts was always accompanied by that for the modern anti-dogmatic philosophy: after the publication of his graduation thesis Autonomy and Heteronomy of art published by Sansoni in 1936, his research on anti-idealistic literary figures and models found voice in comments published in Orpheus since 1932 and in Corrente di vita giovanile from the years 1938-1939, self promoted magazines.

Sensitive to new cultural trends, he was in favor of Hermeticism and Neo avant garde, working at the same time as theorist and militant reviewer: he published the Saggi di poetica e poesia. Con una scheda sulla Swedenborg and edited the anthologies of Lirici nuovi and Lirica del Novecento. He was the author of the voice “Ermetismo” in the Enciclopedia del Novecento. Focusing on cultural models forgotten by Neo-idealism, he devoted himself to the themes of the Baroque period, giving to print in 1953 Del Barocco e altre prove and in 1960 Barocco e Novecento. Con alcune prospettive metodologiche.