The paper analyzes "The Count of Kevenhüller" (1986), the last work published alive by Giorgio Caproni: a book of poetry exemplified the model of an opera, which tells the allegorical hunting and epistemological a mysterious beast. The author of this text, consciously retracing all the steps of caproniani characters, try to fill this meaning "empty allegory", studying topics, sources and special occasions and also analyzing the influences of the various author's previous works. While still in front of the lyrics and the words of the poet, the essay tries to show that it is impossible to pinpoint the Beast - in a manner not dissimilar to what was happening in the earth wall - is a problem of knowledge quite human, a limitation of Reason . And if the search for this Beast - like any other object - is undertaken through language, for Caproni, there can be no real knowledge, because it replaces the object of research: the Beast tragically become the language, the sail and hides.

Winner of the literary prize of poetry, criticism and translation 'Atelier, twenty years of poetry "in the critical studies section (2016)