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Modern Italy
Journal of Modern Italian Studies
RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI
Anno II , n° 1, Giugno 1984 ( Contributi ) pag. 79-89
TOBINO: THE MADMAN AND THE POET
ANTONINO MUSUMECI
University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
The world that thought to measure
and justify madness through psychology
must justify itself before madness.
(M. FOUCAULT)

It was only a matter of time, of course: madness has finally
become fashionable. The stultifera navis, that mysterious medieval boat in which madmen were assembled and cathartically abandoned to the seas1, after a vicissitudinous journey through confinements and asylums, pages and canvasses, has finally landed in the living rooms of the leisure class. The "Madness Revolution" (D. Cooper) has proclaimed ours as the "Age of Unreason": thinking, unable to solve our problems, has itself become the problem. Thus madness has been elevated to an aesthetic creed, an ideology, a cult: we cannot even go mad without organizing conferences, writing books on the subject, sitting down to review our thoughts just once more2. [...]
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