Riccardo Sturaro

My project, which combines the methods of authorial philology and literary criticism, focuses on the final twenty years of Mario Luzi's life and lyrical production, from 1985 to 2005. Under the supervision of Professors Siriana Sgavicchia and Sabrina Stroppa, I specifically study the diaries, notebooks, and jotters of Luzi held at the Alessandro Bonsanti Contemporary Archive of the Gabinetto Vieusseux in Florence, on which the poet concretely shaped his works. The aim is to provide a detailed catalogue and an analytical description of these materials, shed light on the writer's compositional strategies, and reveal the hidden history of some of his masterpieces, while also uncovering unpublished texts found during the research. In this way, I hope, on the one hand, to expand knowledge of the author's material documents—which for the most part still lie unexplored—and, on the other, to deepen the understanding of his final, exceptionally creative period.