Voices of Italian Poets. Storia e analisi fonetica della lettura della poesia italiana del Novecento

This book presents a pilot study of Italian poetry reading through experimental Phonetics tools. The purpose of this work is to provide a first model of study and a methodological proposal for the investigation of Italian poetry reading. The first chapter presents the project and archive of VIP-Voices of Italian Poets, which is dedicated to the conservation and study of the recordings of Italian poets. The second chapter develops a specific system to study the readings of Italian authors and outlines the first history of XX-century Italian poetry reading, using a qualitative and a quantitative approach and proposing a periodization. This study sheds light on the many, yet relatively unexplored, layers and rich historical heritage of Italian poetry reading of the last decades.