TY - EJOUR AU - Vera Fravventura T1 - Narrative Telos and the Great Beauty TT - AB - «What was Italian exceptionalism and how did it come about?». For Ronald Witt, answering this question requires a comprehensive, structural overview of an entire cultural system. In this section, I will briefly touch on some of the key-points of Witt’s interpretative paradigm, which entails some specific (albeit not always explicit) conceptualization of notions such as ‘literature’, ‘creativity’, ‘innovation’, as well as an implicit focus on Renaissance humanism as the final cause of a coherent teleological pattern AD - Univ. Milano, Dipartimento di Studi letterari, filologici e linguistici, Via Festa del Perdono 7, 20122, Milan, Italy CY - Bologna DO - 10.12977/stor743