Per il Dante di Fernando Bandini

Abstract

Dante’s influence permeates Fernando Bandini’s poetry from the Sixties to his 2010 Quattordici poesie. This article offers an overview of Bandini’s Dantism through a selection of representative examples, including re-figurations of Dantesque situations, explicit intertextual tesserae or rewritings of wider scenes. Bandini’s relationship with Dante is not a ‘struggle with his literary father’, but rather the unlimited re-use of a maternally welcoming and freely citable Commedia.

Keywords

• poetry
• XXth Century