Libro Blu and L'infinita vanità del tutto. Selected poems (2011-2022)

“L'infinita vanità del tutto” and “Libro Blu” are my two books of selected poems, published by Eretica Edizioni (Buccino, Salerno). 

They also include a forword (“Libro Blu”) and a afterword (“L'infinita vanità del tutto”) by a major Italian poet, Manrico Murzi, the disciple and university assistant of the famous poet Giuseppe Ungaretti, member of the editorial staff of the well-known publisher Bompiani.

The poet is a craftsman of the “words caught in the maternal womb. This is the real poetic language, the one that comes from within”. To say it is Manrico Murzi, the “globetrotting poet”. “One cannot become a poet, one is born a poet”- he adds. He knows seven languages and he has translated international authors of great fame such as Marguerite Yourcenar and the Egyptian Nagib Mahfuz, 1988 Nobel Prize for literature.

After graduating from La Sapienza University in Rome, where he studied, he began to teach but he left it in 1958 to navigate as a Commissioner on Board. He got to know the places of classical civilisation and the Mediterranean countries, approaching the various cultures, old and new, learning modern Greek and Egyptian, teaching pre-Islamic Arabic. He is also Ambassador for Unesco culture, member of the European Union Writers Artists Scientists and of the Academy of Turkey.

On the cover of “Libro Blu” there is the work “Finestra dell’anima” (Window of the soul) by Italo Bolano (1936-2020), painter from Elba Island. In 1995 he met the poet Mario Luzi. He was fascinated by his hermetic poetry, so they collaborated on a number of works, which have been titled and signed by the famous poet.