Apollinaire e Ungaretti: verso la “caduta” della modernità

Abstract

The relationship of esteem and affinity between Apollinaire and Ungaretti involves both biographical and literary levels. While critics have plentifully probed the direct biographical relationships – starting with the encounter of the poets in 1913 – and followed the progress of their friendship during the years of the First World War, the indirect contacts, i.e. those prior to Ungaretti’s arrival in Paris in 1912, would still seem unexplored. Moreover, over the years, various thematic connections have also been proposed; however, certain other thematic and textual tangencies could still reserve new and profitable insights into their hermeneutic key to modernity.