PRESENTATION OF THE ENTIRE WORK
After more than twenty years of study Giuliano Ladolfi presents in an organic essays published in the journal "Atelier" dedicated to Italian poetry from the twentieth century to the present day.
For the first time an attempt is made to give the titanic enterprise lines of understanding a phenomenon elusive because of the difficulty to be classified into categories. The author, in fact, a need that its interpretation is supported by two basic elements: a personal aesthetic concept and a vision that the development of civilization are lymph and motivations.
In the first volume, after the explanation of tools and methods, is plotted the framework of writing in verse over the period considered, which constitutes the backbone of the following works: the crisis of Western culture, come to consciousness in the Decadent causes the divorce between words and reality is revealed in the line, called Second Decadent or "nine hundred", which comes from Corrado Govoni to Zanotto (Volume II). The poets, who do not accept this separation and trying to plug the abyss, fall, despite the diversity of routes, under the name of "antinovecento" (Volume III). The fourth volume is devoted to four "masters" who have represented the deep crisis of Western culture and have shown the results. Last tome, which includes the authors of Postmodernism or Globalized Age, are included studies on a group of poets who published the Seventies until 2104, which, in overcoming the avant-garde and manners sperimentaliste, have tried and are trying new landings. Among them are several young men reported that lead to hope for a future thriving season of Italian poetry.
Faced with the current marginalization of contemporary poetry from school, universities, and the distribution of the circuit mass media, the work of Ladolfi comes as the first attempt to restore dignity to this art that was for four millennia tool culture and food of humanity.
FIRST TOMO
The first volume of the study, dedicated to Giuliano Ladolfi Italian poetry of the twentieth century and early twenty-first, is intended to provide the reader with the categories with which he worked. And, since, in his opinion, the Decadent is the historical moment in which Western civilization takes awareness of the crisis in which struggles for several centuries, he runs it in a robust way, starting from the classical culture and finds as this crisis has resulted in art in general and poetry in particular the greatest revolution of modernity that is the divorce between words and reality.
The student analyzes the consequences on poetry and, after clarifying their aesthetic concepts, sets the scene of the work that will be done in the following volumes, assuming that the Decadent, broadly interpreted as cultural-historical moment and not only phenomenon as literary and artistic avant-garde in the line continues in the twentieth century-from experimental Govoni comes up to Zanotto, through Hermeticism. In parallel is traced a line granting still trust in the word without being able to ricucirne the abyss with the world.
