«Almeno il suo giudizio». L’esordio poetico di Luciano De Giovanni nello scambio epistolare con Carlo Betocchi e Vittorio Sereni

«Almeno il suo giudizio». Luciano De Giovanni’s debut as a poet, in the exchange of letters with Carlo Betocchi and Vittorio Sereni · In this article, unpublished or partly-unknown epistolary records are used to describe a little episode regarding the literary society of the Fifties and calls the experts to focus their attention once again on the beginnings and career of Luciano De Giovanni, a poet and a shy plumber who could count on the high esteem and acquaintances of Carlo Betocchi and on an encouraging comment from Vittorio Sereni. A selection from the first collection of De Giovanni’s poems can be found in the Addendum.