Abstract
«Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence», it is the Santayana’s exergue, that is chosen by Giuseppe Pontiggia for Vite di uomini non illustri (1993), parody of Dizionario biografico.The writer tells about eighteen lives with many parody mode, which range from humor to seriousness, from light tones to a destabilisation of the literary genre.One of the eighteen stories, called Una goccia nell’oceano divino, it has been freely reused by Mario Monicelli for Facciamo Paradiso.
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