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The Adriatic Sea, between the Italian and Dalmatian coasts, so close to each other, is a land of historical, economic and literary interesection. The novel Il Cerusico di mare, by the then young D'Annunzio, belongs to this universe. A text with obvious loans from Verga and Maupassant, pierced by dialogues in the Pescara dialect, and which recounts a navigation through the sea painted from the European decadence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The poetry of Giacomo Leopardi is a synthesis of meditation and songs, a living unity of thought and expression. His most celebrated poem, L'Infinito, reaches a supreme value when it is contextualized within the framework of the poetic theory elaborated by the poet himself in the most reflexive of his works, Zibaldone, where Leopardi conceives poetry as a form of philosophy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]