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 am particularly studying the diaries, notebooks, and journals kept by Luzi at the Alessandro Bonsanti Contemporary Archive of the Vieusseux Cabinet in Florence, on which the poet concretely shaped his works. The aim is to offer a detailed catalogue and analytical description of these papers, shed light on the compositional strategies of the writer, and reveal the hidden history of some of his masterpieces, while also bringing to light previously unpublished texts discovered during the research. In this way, I hope to contribute, on one hand, to expanding knowledge of the material documents left by the author, which still remain largely unexplored, and, on the other, to deepen the understanding of his last, supremely elevated, creative season.