I watched with interest, on TVa few evenings ago the film about Giovanni Pascoli entitled Zvanì. Many wondered if it was believer. It wasn’t in the dogmatic sense of the term, but it wasn’t either atheist.
It was a man religiously restless, marked by a crisis of faith that translated into a sentimental, ethical and symbolic religiosity. In adulthood he no longer adhered to the Catholic faith as a system of certain truths. In his texts there is no clear saving faith, nor the idea of a Providence that repairs evil. However, it does not deny God nor does it claim that the world is pure chance. He’s just obsessed with the idea that something is there, but he doesn’t let it grasp. A religiosity of mystery, not of doctrine.
Luciano Verdone
It is true, the religiosity of the poet of Starling horse it was intimate and restless, far from dogmatic faith. God is perceived as a mystery and, at the same time, a need for consolation, rather than as a certainty. In his verses emerge pain, a sense of evil and the desire for protection, all entrusted to a religiosity of the “heart”, a little childish and human, marked by doubt and compassion. Thanks to Giuseppe Piccioni’s film for showing this attitude of Pascoli, which is so common today among our contemporaries.
