{"id":2314,"date":"2012-04-10T15:31:55","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T15:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antoniocorbo.it\/en\/riccardo-merolla\/"},"modified":"2016-07-04T12:31:22","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T10:31:22","slug":"riccardo-merolla","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.antoniocorbo.it\/en\/riccardo-merolla\/","title":{"rendered":"Riccardo Merolla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;Sezione&#8221; fullwidth=&#8221;on&#8221; specialty=&#8221;off&#8221; background_image=&#8221;http:\/\/www.antoniocorbo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/saggi-bg.jpg&#8221; transparent_background=&#8221;off&#8221; allow_player_pause=&#8221;off&#8221; inner_shadow=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method=&#8221;off&#8221; padding_mobile=&#8221;off&#8221; make_fullwidth=&#8221;off&#8221; use_custom_width=&#8221;off&#8221; width_unit=&#8221;on&#8221; make_equal=&#8221;off&#8221; use_custom_gutter=&#8221;off&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221;][et_pb_fullwidth_header admin_label=&#8221;Titolo saggi critici&#8221; title=&#8221;Critical essays&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; header_fullscreen=&#8221;off&#8221; header_scroll_down=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method=&#8221;off&#8221; content_orientation=&#8221;center&#8221; image_orientation=&#8221;center&#8221; title_font_size=&#8221;46px&#8221; custom_button_one=&#8221;off&#8221; button_one_letter_spacing=&#8221;0&#8243; button_one_use_icon=&#8221;default&#8221; button_one_icon_placement=&#8221;right&#8221; button_one_on_hover=&#8221;on&#8221; button_one_letter_spacing_hover=&#8221;0&#8243; custom_button_two=&#8221;off&#8221; button_two_letter_spacing=&#8221;0&#8243; button_two_use_icon=&#8221;default&#8221; button_two_icon_placement=&#8221;right&#8221; button_two_on_hover=&#8221;on&#8221; button_two_letter_spacing_hover=&#8221;0&#8243;] [\/et_pb_fullwidth_header][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221; transparent_background=&#8221;off&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#404040&#8243; allow_player_pause=&#8221;off&#8221; inner_shadow=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method=&#8221;off&#8221; padding_mobile=&#8221;off&#8221; make_fullwidth=&#8221;off&#8221; use_custom_width=&#8221;off&#8221; width_unit=&#8221;on&#8221; make_equal=&#8221;off&#8221; use_custom_gutter=&#8221;off&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Testo&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;justified&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2>A geometry of wise balances<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; In poetry that can be considered as a geometry of wise balances and compositions of the double, because even the poetry of Corbo is not unique but double, or at least complex and non-linear.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s just that one of the lines emerges clear, dominant, overbearing, while the other is simpler, or almost hidden underground.<br \/>\nThe first one, for example, is the intimate lyrical, retreated on itself &#8230; but always reserved and discreet, never rhetoric, never sentimental in a banal way, never an improper confession.<br \/>\nBut a closer look, an anatomical investigation that penetrates the bowels, a psychoanalytic sound that touches the deep &#8230; reveal a second line that, first hidden by the artifices of poetry, finally discloses\u2026<br \/>\nIt is, instead, a line projected outwards, toward the world, toward the others, that is toward the history, achieving the traces of a real solidarity towards the common suffering, towards the dramas of modern life.<br \/>\nSometimes they are only sudden hints, so unexpected to be caught by, and yet radically changing the original intimate-lyrical direction of a poem &#8230; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Riccardo Merolla<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Professor of Italian Literature <\/em><br \/>\n<em>University &#8220;La Sapienza&#8221; in Rom<\/em><\/p>\n<div class='et-box et-shadow'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'>Il brano \u00e8 tratto dalla presentazione della raccolta di poesie di Antonio Corbo, Il cancello di faggi, Ragusa, Cultura Duemila Editrice, 1992.<\/div><\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A geometry of wise balances &#8220;&#8230; In poetry that can be considered as a geometry of wise balances and compositions of the double, because even the poetry of Corbo is not unique but double, or at least complex and non-linear. It\u2019s just that one of the lines emerges clear, dominant, overbearing, while the other is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<h2>Una geometria di sapienti equilibri<\/h2><p><em>Riccardo Merolla - Docente di Letteratura Italiana \u2013 Universit\u00e0 \u201cLa Sapienza\u201d di Roma<\/em><br \/> \u00ab\u2026 In poesia ci\u00f2 pu\u00f2 significare geometria di sapienti equilibri e ricomposizioni del doppio, perch\u00e9 anche la poesia di Corbo non \u00e8 univoca ma doppia, o quantomeno complessa<br \/> e non lineare.<br \/> Soltanto che una linea emerge chiara, predominante, prepotente, mentre l\u2019altra \u00e8 pi\u00f9 dimessa, celata o quasi sotterranea.<\/p><p>La prima, ad esempio, \u00e8 quella della lirica intimistica, ripiegata su se stessa \u2026 ma sempre pudica e discreta, mai retorica, mai banalmente sentimentale, mai confessione impudica.<\/p><p>Ma uno sguardo pi\u00f9 attento, una indagine anatomica che penetri le viscere, uno scandaglio psicoanalitico che tocchi il profondo \u2026 svelano una seconda linea che, prima nascosta dagli stessi artifici della poesia, alla fine si scopre\u2026 \u00c8 una linea proiettata invece verso l\u2019esterno, verso il mondo, verso gli altri, cio\u00e8 verso la storia, arrivando a toccare punte di vera e propria solidariet\u00e0 verso la comune sofferenza, verso i drammi del vivere moderno.<\/p><p>Talvolta sono solo accenni improvvisi, tanto subitanei da sorprendere, e che pure mutano radicalmente l\u2019originaria direzione lirico-intimistica di una poesia\u2026\u00bb<\/p><p>[box type=\"shadow\"] Il brano \u00e8 tratto dalla presentazione della raccolta di poesie di Antonio Corbo, Il cancello di faggi, Ragusa, Cultura Duemila Editrice, 1992.[\/box]<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2314","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antoniocorbo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antoniocorbo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antoniocorbo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antoniocorbo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antoniocorbo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antoniocorbo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antoniocorbo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}