ABSTRACT
Edoardo Sanguineti, by contrast, who was born in 1930, was introduced to film and film culture during the 'golden season' of the cineclubs of the post-war period, to use Virgilio Tosi's phrase. Sanguineti's profile as a cinephile provides insight into the role of film in general, and of the enduring influence of the cineclubs in particular, in the tumultuous decades after Second World War in Italy, when the cinema was at the centre of social life and a topic of cultural and political debates. Indeed, Sanguineti has commented on the importance that even a few years difference in age could make to one's experience of the immediate post-war period. Moreover, the negative connotations of the phrase, 'pellicole videoaudiosubite', bring to mind Sanguineti's comments cited at the outset. In constructing a simple taxonomy of film references in his poetry, the first category for our consideration consists of the names of auteurs and the titles of classic films.
