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Modern Italy
Journal of Modern Italian Studies
RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI
Anno XIV , n° 1, Giugno 1996 ( Contributi ) pag. 153-164
PASCOLIAN INTERTEXTS IN THE LYRIC POETRY
OF ATTILIO BERTOLUCCI
THOMAS PETERSON
The University of Georgia,
Athens, Georgia
When Giovanni Pascoli was named "Poeta Nazionale" by the Fascists in June, 1925, one had good cause to wonder about their motives. Though such a gesture, thirteen years after the death of the poet, may simply have been a rubber stamp of an academic recommendation by a regime still laissez faire in its aesthetic politics, it was also a way to counter the authority of Benedetto Croce, a confirmed anti-Pascolian who in May, 1925, had led the signers of the anti-Fascist manifesto. While Mussolini, who did not attend the ceremony, was privately sarcastic about the coronation, it did allow him to seem ecumenical and to accept that "Nationalistic" Pascoli who appealed to him. One thinks in particular of the 1911 article, "La grande Proletaria si ¨¨ mossa", in which Pascoli the Vate and populist spoke in support of the Italian invasion and colonialist expansion into Libya, advocating his own brand of nationalistic socialism for the sake of the masses of poor Italian emigrants. [...]
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