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It might be useful, in order to better
understand the poet, to add information
about his life and some suggestions for
further reading, even if some interpreta-
tions and judgments have been indicated in
the general introduction.
Salvatore di Giacomo was born in Naples
in 1860. He enrolled in the School of
Medicine but withdrew because of the
horror he felt every time he went into the
anatomy room, as he himself recounts in an