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areas of lyricism which, while postulating an

immersion in matter to be able to assume a

shape, tend to dematerialize in sound, to

become music and color, to transmute into

vivid essences in the apparent immateriality

of a sigh.

Essential Bibliography: Maffia’s

bibliography is very extensive. Cf., besides

the collections in dialect (A vite i tutte i jurne:

Rome, Edizioni Carte Segrete, 1987, prefaced

by G. Spagnoletti, and U Ddìje poverille:

Milan, All’insegna del Pesce d’Oro, 1990, with

a preface of A. Stella); Il leone non mangia

l’erba (1974), pref, by A. Palazzeschi; Le favole

impudiche (1977), pref. by D. Valli; Passeggiate

romane (1979), pref. E. Mandruzzato and

afterword by D. Bellezza; L’eredità infranta

(1983), pref. by Mario Luzi; Il ritorno di

Omero (1984), pref. by G. Ferroni;