L'entrée en matière vs le médaillon. Quelques notes sur le policier archaïque italien et sur Jarro.

[Machine translation] After beginning a criticism of periodization, prehistory, catalog and the construction of an archaic Italian crime novel tradition starting with Un secolo in giallo. Storia del poliziesco italiano (1860-1960) by Maurizio Pistelli, this article highlights the importance of highlighting, perhaps obviously but accurately, Italian literary models and a greater continuity of “bel paese” literature. In this perspective, Jarro (Giulio Piccini, born in 1849 in Volterra and died in 1915 in Florence) is an “introduction” that allows us to appreciate a “fluid fertility” within the Italian literary context and to blur this “medallion” that quickly makes Jarro a “missing link” in the chain of archaic detective novels and who metamorphoses his inspector into a kind of by Sherlock Holmes before the Arno letter.