The Extreme Trajectory of «Torpere»
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Abstract
The verb torpere ‘to numb’, following the example of Dante and Petrarch, was used in poetry until the nineteenth. In the twentieth century it significantly reappears in Eugenio Montale’s Ossi di seppia and in a late poem by Carlo Betocchi
Keywords
- Carlo Betocchi
- Eugenio Montale
- torpere (‘
- to numb’
- )
