The essay aims to focus the influence that Luigi Capuana, “verista” inclined to the occult’s fascination, had on Effetti di un sogno interrotto (1936), the last Pirandello’s tale, where dreams become reality, the fantastic ...

The essay reconstructs the many journeys made by Ennio Flaiano in his life, analyzing the desires of this little-remembered writer, author of about 60 films including some masterpieces directed by Federico Fellini, until ...

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 ...

This essay is about the relationship between the Italian nationalism and the French nationalism. Two very important intellectuals of this period were Gabriele d’Annunzio and Roberto Forges Davanzati. The author, in this ...

This essay deals with one of the lesser-known aspects of Eugenio Montale’s expressiveness, that of painting. The artistic sensitivity of the Ligurian poet and his predilection for the genre of still life, can be one of ...

The word memory in the Delsartean writings can refer to two different phenomena. On the one hand, there is the individual memory, a sort of archive that man builds during his existence and that allows him to connect several ...