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- Title
OF GOLDEN FEATHERS AND LIGHT READING: GUIDO GOZZANO'S "PIUMADORO E PIOMBOFINO.".
- Authors
Mazzoni, Cristina
- Abstract
Guido Gozzano's "Piumadoro e Piombofino" (1909) is a text light in terms of genre (a literary fairy tale), style (six short, poetic segments, rich in repetitions and fantastic elements), and, most obviously, content (the eponymous protagonist suffers from a spell that has made her body weightless). A comparison between Gozzano's tale and its two literary antecedents--George MacDonald's "The Light Princess" and Luigi Capuana's "Piuma d'oro"--reveals a play with citations and literary models analogous to that found in Gozzano's poetry as well as the addition of significant social reflections: Gozzano's protagonist overcomes the hurdles of a difficult age (embodied in the tasks of the Fairy of Adolescence); she saves the man she loves rather than the other way around; she starts out at the lowest social rank and becomes, in the end, a queen.
- Subjects
PIUMADORO e Piombofino (Book); GOZZANO, Guido, 1883-1916; LITERARY form; POETRY (Literary form); PROTAGONISTS (Persons) in literature; QUEENS in literature
- Publication
Quaderni d'italianistica, 2008, Vol 29, Issue 1, p105
- ISSN
0226-8043
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.33137/q.i..v29i1.8495