«Io pur ritorno a dimandar mercede»: fiducia nella parola nella poesia orante di Tommaso Campanella

[Autom. eng. transl.] In Tommaso Campanella's literary production, the dimension of prayer unfolds eminently within his collection of poems, the Scelta di poesie filosofiche di Settimontano Squilla, and mostly takes on the typical tones of the psalter: invocation, supplication, lamentation, thanksgiving, renewing, at each recurrence, the performative energy useful for communicating the author's message. Prayer fits into Stilese's verses as if in a place that is natural to it, as a form proper to the matter, because they constitute a space of freedom strictly linked to the nourishment of life and trust in the word: such verses, in fact, are freed from subservience to political power and the rules of literary taste and, according to the indications of the author's poetic theory, contribute to the conservation of the individual and society. While, on the one hand, the verse takes on the demands of prayer or liturgy as its content, on the other, as a complement, in a biunivocal dynamic, the performative tension of the prayer attracts into its field of forces the form of the verses, which, marking their rhythm according to that of the human pulse, also represent its less exhibited aspirations.