The allusion is, of course, to The Fall of the Moon by Giacomo Leopardi, supposedly composed in 1836, is perhaps the last poetic text written by Recanati's poet before dying (even on the deathbed if one has to believe in ' Anecdote of Antonio Ranieri, often inclined to his "pale and absorbed myth" in the name of a friendship of a time). But this is not the problem, this is not what matters. The imagery of Fallani, all stretched out of the great Italian lyric tradition (from Leopardi to Pascoli or Montale - as with critical acclaim notes Giulio Greco in his introductory note titled Cantore della vita), is full of lyric solutions linked to the past It imposes, with freshness and impatience unusual, with its longing for an originality linked to the exploration of a continent, which is also new and unpublished to the poet's gaze. Fallani has clear ideas on poetry and its expressive function and tries to solve the problem of the relationship between past and present with far-reaching solutions. His book is also shaped as the beginning of a likely future fruitful relationship with poetry and, therefore, in the same way as all the works of a beginner, contains all of his author's past past and reports, though His expressive maturity, a series of lyrical tracks to be critically analyzed to understand the deep substance of his poetic operation. In him, in short, to say it with the title of a beautiful story by Stephen Crane, "the passage of youth" and this one has to be taken into account. He also pointed out the same preface of the text in one of the critical turns of his presentation: