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MAQ Magazine n. 10 / February 2019

In the romantic interpretations of Gardini, so, we find the impetus of those who conceive of art as explicating their capacity for realization, while in the positivistic ones of De Filippi there is something passive, medieval, hairy treat to the headless man of the times currents, which brings us back to a beautiful observation of one of the greatest Italian writers of the twentieth century,

Vitaliano Brancati (in The Two Dictators, Italian Association for Freedom of Culture, Rome, 1952, p.9):

"What will the fool do to experience the thrill of genius? It will make mass. So, shouting the same scream along with a hundred thousand others, he will believe that the whole of humanity speaks from his wide-open mouth. "

MAQ Magazine n. 10 / February 2019