Ricordo di Donato Valli

In this paper we remember Donato Valli, longtime Professor of History of modern and contemporary Italian literature at the University of Lecce, one year after his death. In particular, we will examine his scientific activity, which includes several important studies on 20th century Italian poetry, on hermeticism, on the so called "fragment" and the "prose of art", as well as on the literary culture of Salento in the 1800s and 1900s. In the Appendix, there is a short unpublished Dichiarazione by Donato Valli.