Literary criticism is born out of a debt of love towards books read. This is George Steiner’s “lesson” and it is the principle that inspires Con la stessa voce (With the same voice): an itinerary in three sections, poetry, fiction and literary criticism, to reread and rediscover the voices of the classics from Leopardi to Foscolo, from Melville to Pavese, from Pasolini to Raboni, to rediscover authors such as Marin and Camon, and to relaunch more recent writers such as Cappello, Crico and Di Palmo in the right critical light.

“As we go deeper into the reading,” writes Antonia Arslan in introducing these pages, “literary history takes shape like an ideal architecture, letting us enter the building of true literature, where the great spirits converse with each other and with us in the captivating adventure of thought”