The term ‘macabre’, travelling through the cultures of Spain and France, possesses a broad range of etymologies. The intermingling of all these etymologies reveals how the attention to that kind of manifestations has always been connected to moments and situations belonging to all branches of art, from visual, to literary, musical, dramatic and cinematic arts, as the articles written for the International Conference held in Trieste in 2007 “Balla con la morte: estetica del macabro dal medioevo ai nostri giorni” (“Dance with Death: The Aesthetics of Macabre from the Middle Ages to the Present Day”) demonstrate.
