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This paper undertakes a critical examination of the character of Christopher Columbus within the oeuvre of Giacomo Leopardi, identifying four key manifestations of this complex figure. Engaging rigorously with the extensive body of existing critical literature, the study delineates its sources while exploring various interpretative frameworks relevant to Leopardi’s literary corpus. The first encounter with …

Starting from the protean and problematic dimension of the “lyric self” in the poetic production of Sylvia Plath and Ingeborg Bachmann, this essay retraces the critical attempts of juxtaposition between the two poets, generally inspired by a biographical reading linked to the tragic destiny of the authors or to their sensitivity to the Holocaust, and …