Statue e dipinti nel <i>Poema paradisiaco</i>

Within the poetic imagery that takes shape in the Poema paradisiaco , painting and sculpture echo with particular prominence in numerous texts, thickening especially in the second section of the collection, Hortus larvarum . The aim of this presentation is to analyse the different nuances and poetic-literary function possessed by pictorial and sculptural images in a work in which the lesson of classical myth and the pre-Raphaelite artists' canvases is modelled in a symbolic-decadent key by d'Annunzio's admirable art of the word.