Dante e Ulisse. Da Auschwitz al Salento

A metaphorical journey of echoes and resonances of Dante's Ulysses in the literary context between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that takes the aire from the desolation of Auschwitz, where the word of the Poet resounds like a "trumpet call". The search for knowledge and transgression of the limit by Laerziade are central to the structure of the poem as the Ulyssian lexicon and imaginary are functional to Dante's itinerary, whose thirst for truth is however filled by the final, heavenly intuition of mystery of the Trinity. The cult of Alighieri, an icon of national unity in the Risorgimento era, spreads from north to south of the Peninsula, taken also by a model from Giuseppe De Dominicis for his poem in the vernacular.