Visions litteraires des paysages de la bonification en Italie

This paper analyses, from a geo-critical viewpoint, the representations of Italian land reclamation space and landscape, as reflected in some literary works. In particular, three phases of the literary gaze on land reclamation landscape are considered, as well as some themes running through them. From a classical phase, centred on the indirect eulogy of land reclamation as a mean to overcome the swamp, we get to the phase of fascist modernization, which reads in land reclamation the construction of an efficient landscape guided by order, geometry and mechanic. The third phase, the contemporary one, sees a reconsideration of land reclamation landscape, marked by humanization, lived experience and a renewed sense of place.