Rime di viaggio per la terra dipinto.(Otto/Novecento)(Critical essay)

Introduction

Certainly Alfonso Gatto was one of the most original poets to emerge from the cradle of the Hermetic movement during the 1930s. Hermeticism was named after Hermes Trismegistus to whom the forty-two Hermetic books are attributed. Trismegistus meaning three times greatest Hermes, is the title the Greeks gave to the Egyptian Thoth, lord of wisdom and learning and scribe of the gods. The Hermetic books covered subjects ranging from magic, alchemy, healing, and wisdom to writing, cosmography, geography, and mathematics. Hermetic poetry is said to tend toward the…