Giovanni Pascoli’s Il negro di Saint-Pierre (The Saint-Pierre Negro), a narrative poem from Odi e inni (1906), transforms the 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée (Martinique) into a meditation on survival’s moral void and divine indifference. Through Dantean form and first-person narration, Pascoli fuses historical tragedy and metaphysical reflection, exposing humanity’s fragile coexistence with chance and death.
Il negro di Saint-Pierre by Giovanni Pascoli
Carlo Tirinanzi De Medici
2025-01-01
Abstract
Giovanni Pascoli’s Il negro di Saint-Pierre (The Saint-Pierre Negro), a narrative poem from Odi e inni (1906), transforms the 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée (Martinique) into a meditation on survival’s moral void and divine indifference. Through Dantean form and first-person narration, Pascoli fuses historical tragedy and metaphysical reflection, exposing humanity’s fragile coexistence with chance and death.File in questo prodotto:
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