%0 Journal Article
%T Divagazioni su temi voltairiani: gusto, stile, lusso, ironia
%A Riccardo Campi
%J Montesquieu.it : Biblioteca Elettronica su Montesquieu e Dintorni
%D 2011
%I University of Bologna
%X The aim of this paper is to stress the relevance in Voltaire¡¯s thought of such notions as style and taste not only in the literary and aesthetical domains, but in the ethical one as well. As a dramatic author and poet, Voltaire held fast to the traditional rules of classicism and rhetoric; his prose works, and even his correspondence, show instead how his esprit and irony, and his defence of luxury too, were, first of all, the display of a higher, more enlightened civilisation.
%K Voltaire
%K Irony
%K Luxury
%K Style
%K Taste
%K Esprit
%U http://www.montesquieu.it/biblioteca/Testi/Divagazioni_volt.pdf