Dalla parte degli ultimi. La speranza cristiana in Pascoli

The essay examines Pascoli’s work in verses and in prose on the traces of Christian hope, considered from one side as a hope for man’s improvement, for faith in the advent of a new world with individuals’ pacified consciousness and for the relationship between classes and people, where the redemption of the humble is realized, together with the overturning promised by Christ in his beatitudes. From the other side it is considered as an eschatological wait, aiming at deleting pain and overcoming death, which is transformed in passage towards eternal life inside Easter horizons. Biblical and Dantean motives, taken by liturgical language and references to contemporary authors present in Pascoli’s Italian and Latin textes, are deeply and punctually indicated and inquired.