Ombre e presenze – Ungaretti e il secondo mestiere (1919 – 1937)

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Ombre e presenze. Ungaretti e il secondo mestiere (1919 - 1937)

A book full of evocations and recalls, which intends to "confront, dutifully, with an intense activity alongside the primary and absolute vocation to poetry: Giuseppe Ungaretti art critic, appreciated lecturer and prefator, travel writer, sent special, literary journalist, politician, custom and current affairs ". «Life of a man», in fullness of meaning, also this "second job" in all its complex articulations. Ungaretti himself, moreover, had appreciated that the all-encompassing designation of "life of a man", so dear to him, extended to his entire and manifold activity as a "man of the word". [...] This book confirms and documents, with the extensive exploration of sources not infrequently known and rarely used, the exemplary and centrality of a poet, "the fruit of innumerable contrasts / of grafts" [...] that He wanted and knew how to deserve to be remembered also as a passionate and qualified witness of his time.
(from the Premise of Emerico Giachery)

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Fabio Pierangeli teaches Italian literature and Travel literature at the department of Literature and Philosphy at University of Rome Tor Vergata. He is the director of the literature section in che magazine “Studium” and the supervisor of the collection “Mosaic. Viaggi nelle letterature” (Paolo Loffredo Editore). He is in the scientific council of the National Library of Rome. He also manages the project “Università in carcere, Rebibbia-Tor Vergata” (University in jail, Rebibbia-Tor Vergata) and of the writing laboratory which fosuses on integrating disabled people. He mostly focuses on prose and theatre from XIX and XX centuries, studying sometimes religious poetry from the XIII and the XIV century. His last published volumes are: Sulla scena (inedita) con Guido Morselli (Roma 2012), È finita l’età della Pietà. Pasolini, Calvino, S. Nievo e i mostri del Circeo (Avellino 2015), Ombre e presenze. Ungaretti e il secondo mestiere (Napoli 2016), Tomasi di Lampedusa (Grandangolo-Corriere della sera 2018).