La pietra e la rosa. Ungaretti nei siti archeologici della Campania

Abstract

Almost all modern and contemporary writers, as well as propose a symbolic idea of travel as a literary archetype, have left no books, articles, or travel diaries, so also in the intervening «odeporica» strictly understood. Giuseppe Ungaretti, of which nomadism is well known, with well-known synonyms already exposed in the beautiful oxymoronic title «Allegria dei naufragi» wrote remarkable report. Ungaretti visit the ruins of Paestum and other archaeological sites in Campania, to draw up a series of articles dedicated to the South, for the «Gazzetta del Popolo», 12 April 1932 - 19 July of that year, then flowed into «Il deserto e dopo». Of Paestum wrote: «[…] nel cuore della pietra brucia la luce che non consuma».