La memoria ‘breve’ delle Faville del maglio

The work traces a hermeneutic line between the poem «La morte del cervo» in Alcyone and some Faville del maglio , prosastic texts in which d’Annunzio experiences a form of autobiography and the celebration of the poetic self. Starting from the Favilla , dated 1907, celebrating the sculpture of Clemente Origo, the essay establishes links with some texts, written much later, in which the poet turns poetic creation into a mythical ‘event’. In the last favilla, the symbolic act of the poet, who becomes centaur, can be read allegorically as a poetic act.