Un poeta di retroguardia negli anni dell'avanguardia futurista

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate, through the restoration of an unknown collection of verses by the poet Vincenzo Modoni (1883-1945), the rearguard position (or refusal of the avant-garde) of certain regional literature in the years between the two wars. The article intends first of all to document the rejection of Futurism by the author in question and the persistence in his texts of nineteenth-century positions (in the manner of Leopardi and Pascoli). Each text, verified philologically, is subjected to historical and stylistic analysis (with appropriate references to the sources).