LA POESIA-VITA DI DARIA MENICANTI La vita dello scriba è una «manciata di sillabe e vocali e consonanti e di allitterazioni»

  • Marta Rabbione

Abstract

Poetry - Daria Menicanti’s life. Scribal existence is an «handful of syllables and vowels and consonants and allitterations». This speech means to shed light on a poetic female voice of the XXth century, which has been unfairly forgotten: Daria Menicanti. Pupil of one of the leading figures of the italian critical rationalism, whose name is Antonio Banfi, Menicanti moulded herself at a school called “Statale di Milano” and took part in the cultural and intellectual circle known as the “scuola di Milano”, gravitating toward Banfi’s antidogmatic philosophical thought. Her affinity to this passionate and stimulating cultural environment (whose followers were not only philosophers, but also pedagogists, musicologists, artists, intellectuals, writers and poets), let Menicanti acquire Banfi’s complex lesson and inspired her to transfer his philosophy in most of her poetic works. Poetry always needs to start from magmatic reality, crossing infinite plans, from the chaos of existence where everybody lives. However joys, passions, fears represent only a starting point: as a matter of fact, the poet appoints to eulogise reality in order to transform it through the clarification afforded by reasoning, poetically inflected as a lyrical and philosophical summery, as labor limae, a meticulous work on shape and word, which is - first of all - sound and music. According to Daria Menicanti, by weakening her own past experiences, poetry could reach its goal: adding value in terms of universality, not only from an aestethic point of view, but also from ethical and moral ones.

Author Biography

Marta Rabbione

Marta RABBIONE graduated in 2017 in Literature, Philology and Italian Linguistics at University of Turin where she presented a dissertation whose main topics were the influence of Antonio Banfi’s philosophy and the influence of the “school of Milan” on Antonia Pozzi’s poetry. Today she teachs Literature at secondary school. Recently her attention is focused on the poetic works of another leading figure of the “school of Milan”, Daria Menicanti.

Published
2019-12-30
How to Cite
Rabbione, M. (2019). LA POESIA-VITA DI DARIA MENICANTI La vita dello scriba è una «manciata di sillabe e vocali e consonanti e di allitterazioni». RiCOGNIZIONI. Rivista Di Lingue E Letterature Straniere E Culture Moderne, 6(12), 183-195. https://doi.org/10.13135/2384-8987/3130
Section
ItINERARI