«Storia di cinquecento vanesse» e «Le farfalle»: Gozzano verso un «risveglio alato» della poesia?

The essay analyzes the first two compositions of the unfinished "Epistole entomologiche", focusing on the themes that cross the entire collection and testify its organicity. The metamorphic dynamics, the work of Nature, the analogy between the destiny of man and that of the butterfly, the coexistence but also the contrast between life and death, the sacrifice, the succession of opposites are, for the last Gozzano, the subject of a new poetry, which will be represented by forms of expression different from the logic of the first two collections. These forms will be the privileged object of this investigation. Dante’s Commedia work and style are the indispensable formal model of the verses dedicated to butterflies, wich are influenced, even if indirectly, by the various voices of the philosophical reflection that reacts to Positivism