Abstract
Il contributo focalizza l’amicizia fra Costantino Nigra e Francesco D’Ovidio, ambedue accademici lincei, con l’apporto di molte notizie inedite. Oltre a significativi giudizi su personaggi coevi appartenenti al campo politico e letterario, si coglie l’animo amareggiato e deluso del diplomatico per ragioni familiari, per l’andamento politico italiano e più in generale per la crisi della stessa civiltà latina. Giubilato dalle cariche ufficiali il Conte Nigra si tuffò con ardore negli studi, coltivando in particolare l’antico amore per la linguistica appresa negli anni giovanili dall’amico e maestro Giovanni Flechia. La morte interruppe i progetti con tanta passione perseguiti.
The essay focuses on the friendship between Costantino Nigra and Francesco D’Ovidio – both members of the Accademia Lincea –, offering many inedited information. In addition to some meaningful judgments on coevals, we uncover the embittered and disenchanted mood of the diplomat, due to family reasons, to the course Italian politics was taking, and, more generally, to the crisis of Latin civilization itself. Satisfied by the official recognitions, Costantino Nigra passionately dove into his studies, especially cultivating the ancient love for linguistics he had acquired in youth from his friend and teacher Giovanni Flechia. His death brought the projects he was pursuing with so much passion to a halt.