Gabriele d'Annunzio, La parabola dell'uomo ricco e del povero Lazaro. Edizione critica

[Machine translation] The parable of the rich man and the poor Lazarus is one of the three evangelical rewritings composed by Gabriele D'Annunzio between 1897 and 1898 and then included in the Faville del Maglio (1924). The retrieval of the minute autograph, full of corrections, makes it possible to prepare the critical edition, offered here following the philological criteria adopted by the National Edition of the Works of Gabriele d'Annunzio., The edition is preceded by an introductory study reconstructing the genesis of the work, whose manuscript was donated by the author to Count Giuseppe Primoli, the protagonist of the cultural and social life of Rome and Paris during the Belle Époque. The style with which the author emulates, in his own way, that of the evangelical source (Luke 15:11-32) and the corrections aimed at perfecting it are illustrated: like and more than the other two parables, D'Annunzio reverses the evangelical message here, supporting the choices of the rich epulone, dedicated to luxury and lust, an extreme exponent of hedonistic and aestheticizing superhomism but also of a sadism towards which the author seems to show a disturbing empathy.