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• "And I am in that number, even though it is useless": friendship between Lapo Mazzei and Francesco Datini

  120-135

  Gloria Camesasca

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  133

  The notary Lapo Mazzei (1350-1412) was a correspondent of the merchant of Prato Francesco di Marco Datini (1335 about-1410). Mazzei’s letters written to Datini from 1390 to 1410 and published by Cesare Guasti (1822-1889) are an important source because they return a significant cross-section of life and personal relations of a merchant and a notary lived in Tuscany at the end of the fourteenth century. The aim of this paper is to analyze the friendship between Mazzei and Datini and other important figures through the study of notary’s letters

• Apollinaire and Ungaretti: towards the "fall" of modernity

  96-118

  Laura Giurdanella

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  189

  The relationship of esteem and affinity between Apollinaire and Ungaretti involves both biographical and literary levels. While critics have plentifully probed the direct biographical relationships – starting with the encounter of the poets in 1913 – and followed the progress of their friendship during the years of the First World War, the indirect contacts, i.e. those prior to Ungaretti’s arrival in Paris in 1912, would still seem unexplored. Moreover, over the years, various thematic connections have also been proposed; however, certain other thematic and textual tangencies could still reserve new and profitable insights into their hermeneutic key to modernity.