"Un vero personaggio nella posterità": autore e pubblico tra Parte prima e Parte seconda nella Vita di Alfieri

This paper focuses on the structure of Alfieri's autobiography (Vita) and namely on two overlapping structural partitions: on the one hand, the division into Epoche and chapters (which is a thematic pattern); on the other hand, the division into two Parts (which originates from two writing phases). Besides not influencing the structure of the author's autobiography, the division into two Parts allows us to consider how Alfieri's relation with his work and with his self-representation changes over the time.