L’articolo indaga l’“ideale romanzo” elaborato nell’opera scientifica, edita e inedita, d’Ernesto Monaci e ne contestualizza il significato all’interno della dialettica ottocentesca tra classicismo e romanticismo.
The paper analyses the “Romance idea” developed by the scientific work, published and unpublished, of Ernesto Monaci and places its relevance in relation to the dialectic between Classicism and Romanticism.