I custodi della selva. Lo spazio sacro nel Parsifal di Wagner

The pamphlet’s text analysis elaborated by R. Wagner for over a thirty years span highlights a trilogy of Parsifal, correspondent to the three acts of the play, which defines the Redemption phases following a christological and universal rhythm: sacrifice – descent to the underworld – and resurrection. Wagner, in the intricate symbolic dowry of the pamphlet, introduces quotations from prophetic books, especially Isaiah, an finds inspiration in the Apocalypse to elaborate a personal eschatological conception. Fascinated by Schopenhauer, Wagner elaborates a sort of religious syncretism centered on the figure of the Savior, similar to Gnostic tendency, which finds confirmation in his epistolary production and his essays.