ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Edoardo Sanguineti's ideology and on the set of ideas that inspired the writer. A man dominated and overrun by the qualities of a genius, always extremely lucid and in control of himself, relentless in many of his opinions, so ironic and often sarcastic in poetry and in life, Sanguineti could suddenly become fragile and be overcome by emotion. Instead, Sanguineti was on the right track when he decided on the title Ideologia e linguaggio for a collection of his essays: like language, and more so for the language of poetry, ideology is conditioned by the profound life of the psyche. In 1960, under the common title Opus metricum, Sanguineti revived Laborintus and published his second collection, Erotopaegnia, a work charged with oneiric inspiration, in which the structure of a poem persists with a noticeable broken and elliptical syntax.
