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Muses, sirens and black stars: the cruel tales of Carlo H. De 'Medici

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In the panorama of Italian fantastic and supernatural fiction, a prominent place must be reserved for Carlo H. De 'Medici, whose "black" stories, written in the 20s, were inspired by both the psychological horror of Edgar Allan Poe and Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, both from the French decadentist vein. Here we analyze the stories of him contained in the anthology "The cemetery mice", recently reprinted by the types of Cliquot Edizioni.

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The Bringer of Fire: Prometheus and the sense of the tragic in ancient Greece

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On the one hand the fire represents the Logos, but on the other Prometheus embodies the wild nature of ancient cosmology, as opposed to the rationalization implemented by the society of the polis on the world outside the Hellenic civilization considered "barbaric" and irrational. The very sense of the tragic is based exactly on the sphere of non-rationality, on the mythical representation of the unconscious shadows of the Greek population of the polis and of man himself.

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Edgar Allan Poe, singer of the abyss

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Unknown in life, Edgar Allan Poe saw his genius fully recognized only after his untimely death, as happened later also for HP Lovecraft, who followed in his footsteps: today, almost two centuries after his death, Poe is considered an author more unique than rare in narrating the unusual, in exploring the greatest and atavistic terrors of man, in recalling the lost beauties of ancestral times.

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On HP Lovecraft's โ€œRandolph Carterโ€: the Dream, Death and the Sublime

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Inside โ€œRandolph Carter's declarationโ€, a story that will give life to a cycle of stories dedicated to the character, unravels that network of meanings and concepts so dear to Howard Phillips Lovecraft, even if the story itself is only a few pages long.ย 

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