Poetica e maledettismo in Prigionie
Poetics and Cursedness in the Collection of Poetry Entitled Prigionie

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims at shedding light on the first collection of poetry by Alba de Cespedes, Prigionie (1936), which was, in many terms marginalised concerning the rest of the author’s oeuvre. Spiritual unrest forever associated with the constant need for expressing one’s own sorrow and loneliness imposes itself as the key element of this poetry, thus bringing it, on the one in connection with both the oeuvre of some prominent figures of the Scapigliatura movement (Emilio Praga and Giovanni Camerana) and the poetry of Dino Campana and Carlo Michaelstaedter. Apart from the analysis of common points in the poetry of Alba de Cespedes and the aforementioned authors, this paper focuses on the similarities and differences in the following poetic achievement by Alba de Cespedes, Chansons de filles de mai, her second and last collection of poetry, published in Paris in 1968, at the time when the author relates descriptions of her own feelings to the socio-historical turmoil taking place in global terms.

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