Il principe poeta. Tutte le poesie e le liriche di Totò

He was a prince, but his true nobility lay in the heart that beat within that puppet's body: a heart that had made him famous as "Totò," but which had also suffocated the man – Antonio De Curtis – for his entire life. His poems lack the witticisms and gestures that made him famous, but rather the world seen from behind that mask. There's the difficult life of his early years (and beyond), the success, the loves, the disappointments, the nostalgia. There's Naples, with its "mother tongue," which, however, is not the overused "land of the sun," but in a certain sense, the world. Because Antonio De Curtis's is above all a "moral poetry" – not moralistic – that is born and speaks to the hearts of men. It believes in goodness and cannot tolerate arrogance. It believes in beauty and does not give up on love, even amid the inevitable bitterness that life holds for everyone. Finally, a complete collection – with five previously unpublished works – relaunches and rediscovers Totò's poems, taken from the "original papers" by his niece Elena, together with Virginia Falconetti.