Parole Rubate (Dec 2018)
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.