D’Annunzio fra Nietzsche e Leopardi. Evocazioni testuali e pause del tempo in Meriggio e L’infinito.

Abstract

The essay identifies some thematic and stylistic connections between two extremely different poets in the Italian literature: Leopardi and d’Annunzio. The analysis is particularly focused on "L’infinito", considered as an antecedent of "Alcyone"’s "Meriggio": the author challenges the traditional criticism of the «beatitudine panica» in d’Annunzio’s poem, underlining on the contrary its dismal atmosphere inspired by some passages from Schopenhauer’s and Nietzsche’s works