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When confronted with contemporary poetry, Fortini feels «the force of two contrary passions, that towards participation and that towards detachment, from which derive both the presence and the ingratitude of the host». His vocation is to stand on thresholds and frontiers: even as a scholar, he places himself simultaneously within the lyrical mainstream and outside of it, looking back to the pre-Romantic era and foreshadowing a future one. What unites the different fields of his critical oeuvre investigated here – Italian (Saba, Noventa), French (Baudelaire, Symbolism, Surrealism), and comparative literatures; prosody, theory, and translation studies – is his attitude towards a modernity that should not be completely repudiated, but rather transformed, in the hope of a society capable of combining individual freedom and collective destinies.

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