Il colore in Terra vergine di d’Annunzio: bibliografia critica e nuova proposta di lettura

The article offers a new figurative reading of Terra Vergine (1882), focusing attention on the colour of the sketches of d’Annunzio’s novels and retracing the critical bibliography, in order to outline the pictorial innovation, but without evading the prodromes in the poetic collections Primo vere (1879) and Canto novo (1882). In fact, they are important for demonstrating how d’Annunzio can be considered the architect of certain technical mechanisms typical of cinematography (even modern), capable of effectively conveying a sense of the ‘wonderful’ and the ‘sublime’.