Echoes of Opera in Modern Italian Poetry

Mattia Acetoso is an Assistant Professor of Italian at Boston College, USA. He received his PhD from Yale University in 2012. His research interests include modern Italian poetry, the relationship between literature and music, and contemporary Italian cinema.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: From Bayreuth to Fiume: D'Annunzio, Wagner and the Death of Italian Opera.- Chapter 3: Umberto Saba and the Verdian Sound of Italy.- Chapter 4: More Than Words: Ossi di seppia, Opera, and the Miracle of Counter-Eloquence. Chapter 5: Heart of Darkness: Saba's Operatic Eroticism.- Chapter 6: Strange Mercy: Montale, Opera, and the Death of Tragedy.- Chapter 7: Poetry and the Beast: Giorgio Caproni's Simulations of Opera.- Chapter 8: Conclusions 

"Echoes of Opera offers an excellent insight into the influence of opera on the works of D' Annunzio, Montale, Saba, and Caproni. The book's narrative flows easily, and the author gives plenty of examples to support his contentions. It is worth looking up the referenced works ... so the reader can get more familiar with the lesser- known sides and works of these key figures of twentieth-century Italian poetry." (Dora Bodrogai, Annali d'italianistica, Vol. 40, 2022)

“Echoes of Opera offers an excellent insight into the influence of opera on the works of D’ Annunzio, Montale, Saba, and Caproni. The book’s narrative flows easily, and the author gives plenty of examples to support his contentions. It is worth looking up the referenced works … so the reader can get more familiar with the lesser- known sides and works of these key figures of twentieth-century Italian poetry.” (Dora Bodrogai, Annali d'italianistica, Vol. 40, 2022)