The essay reconstructs a profile of Giovanni Mestica, professor, literary critic and man of institutions, referring above all to the commitment to promote the memory and knowledge of Giacomo Leopardi and his work.

In an article titled Sincerità (Ariel, 1898) Pirandello criticizes the artistic simulation, particularly the theft of other authors’ motifs and ideas. On the same topic Pirandello’s friend Ugo Fleres writes a novel, L’Anello ...

In the essay, the author conducts an intertextual inquiry that highlights the terms of the ‘dialogue’ between ancient and modern, in which Dante’s Comedy invariably returns a source the source, always alive and current, ...

Giancarlo Mazzacurati defined One, No One and a Hundred Thousand, as Pirandello’s testamentary novel, a breathless and more or less conscious experiment of self-analysis as well as of self-therapy». The protagonist’s ...

The essay deals with Piero Chiara’s method of work, always relying upon the reality, from which the writer takes his characters’ names and the facts described in his short stories and novels. As a specimen of a similar ...

Pirandello’s interest in animals is evident in the narrative, in the early poems and in the plays. There is no shortage of critical juxtapositions to the fable and to Aesop, and in the critical literature of Pirandello ...