The broad and desirable interest that for some years now has invested the "Julian question" at various levels, seems however sometimes to be expressed above all by the push of contingent reality and current sensitivity, thus leaving the origins at least partially in the background. ...

Enzo Santese's new book has a very suggestive title: Parvenze difformi (Venice, Cominiana Editrice). The first meaning of "difformi" is "diverse": the reader expects poems that evoke the multiplicity of reality, its conflictuality, its ...