‘Il fringuello cieco’. From St. Thomas to St. John, from Aristophanes to Dante
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Abstract
Giovanni Pascoli’s poem "Il fringuello cieco", mostly interpreted as a statement of skepticism, can instead be read as a poetic autobiography, in which the story of an arduous approach to poetry is narrated: from a first period of comedy, to the time of tragedy and blindness, to the last one of the aoidos and of the canzone.
Keywords
- Giovanni Pascoli
- Il fringuello cieco
- Canti di Castelvecchio
- Poetic Autobiography
