La metrica di Alfonso Gatto. Strutture formali e paradigmi artistici

The thesis focuses on the metrical forms in Alfonso Gatto’s poetry. The work analyses Gatto’s entire production from the first book, Isola, dated 1932, up to the posthumous volume, Desinenze, published in 1977, one year after the writer’ s death. It is fundamental, in a global perspective on the metrical aspects, to delve on the interaction between art and literature. Gatto wrote several essays about painting, sculpture, architecture, theatre and cinema. His books were often illustrated by contemporary artists, like Fulvio Bianconi (Allegretto, 1957), Carlo Carrà (Venezia, 1964) and Graziana Pentich (Il vaporetto, 1963), the poet’s mate. The aesthetic concept that emerges from his articles and from the collaborations with some painters allows to adapt some categories used for the arts of XIX and XX centuries (Impressionism, Cubism, Abstract and Informal Art) to describe the metric of Gatto’s poems. Gatto used various poetic forms, both regular and closed (especially sonnets, quatrains of hendecasyllables and canzonette of settenari) and written in free verses (short and long ones). The connection among the different types of verses is similar to the dynamic aspects of painting, sculpture and cinema. The book in which explicitly appears the importance of the parallelism between painting and literature is Rime di viaggio per la terra dipinta, a collection of 100 poems created with 100 pictures painted by Gatto himself.