Cosimo De Giorgi poeta civile

After Italian unification, Lecce and its Province are seeing the realization of projects, such as Gas Lighting and the Maglie-Otranto Railway. Cosimo De Giorgi narrated this which was the pretext for an explicit socio-political satire, as unique in the vast literary production of the science man. He is not against material progress, but observes society that is deviating from moral principles, believing in false progress. In the background there is a more general disappointment by De Giorgi of the unitary project dreams. In particular, the poem Gas Lighting, for the "poetic joke" form and the lexicon used, refers to Tuscan Literary examples, showing De Giorgi still culturally linked to the places of its university formation, Florence, when was capital of Italy.Then there are 21 completely unpublished poems, an important document that sheds light on the political thought of the scientist from Lizzanello within the socio-political and cultural complex of Terra d'Otranto in the last part of the nineteenth century. From this emerges De Giorgi, like a civil poet.