Le postille sulle carte di Renato Serra dedicate a Pascoli e a Kipling

Abstract

This work aims to describe and attribute the annotations on some reviews of Renato Serra. In particular it analyzes the handwritten notes of the Giovanni Pascoli and Rudyard Kipling texts on which are found comments and corrections in color pencil made by a sharply different handwriting from Serra’s. The thesis of the paper is that such notes should be ascribed to Luigi Ambrosini. Elements supporting the thesis are the relationship of trust and respect which bound the two critics, and especially the correspondence between the handwritings. The comparison between the handwritten texts and the final ones shows that Serra seriously took into account the suggestions in pencil. The result is a new perspective on Serra’s review works, and on the relationship between Serra and Ambrosini.