Abstract
SummaryMichele Mari's novels are highly original disquisitions on intertextual referencing. The postmodern amalgamation of history and intertextuality in his novel Io venia pien d’angoscia a rimirarti (1990), undertakes a fantastic reworking of the historical facts associated with the life of the Italian Romantic poet Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837). Constructed around references drawn from Leopardi's canon, particularly the 1819 poem “Alla luna”, these erudite and hyperbolic references are woven into a new, alternative text that uses the fantasy genre to challenge literary canonicity with ironic distance, positing an alternative reality to the ends of drawing attention to the text's clearly defined parameters of fictionality.
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