Pier Maria Rosso di San Secondo (November 30, 1887 in Caltanissetta – November 22, 1956 in Lido di Camaiore), or simply Rosso di San Secondo was an Italian playwright and

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Poetry

His poetry is characterized by

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and a pessimistic view of the relationship between man and society, with characters often marked by loneliness and a certain contrast between passion and rationality. Often this contrast is symbolically sought from San Secondo in the confrontation between the Italian North, characterized by a rational life, concrete and gray, and the Italian South characterized as a mythical dream, passionate colors of life. Among his most important plays are ''La sirena ricanta'', which debuted in 1908, and ''Marionette, che passione!'' in 1917, a work that kindled the interest of

Luigi Pirandello Luigi Pirandello (; 28 June 1867 – 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his almost magical power ...

, who pushed for the work to be recognized. The plot of ''Marionette, che passione!'' is focused on the meeting of three random characters, unable to make sense of their lives. The three are revealed in the end to be puppets, at the mercy of fate. A grotesque drama, some link the work to Pirandellism. According to Gaetano Savatteri, the true significance of Rosso di San Secondo was overshadowed by the figure of Pirandello. Following the great success of ''Marionette, che passione!'', Rosso di San Secondo wrote several other plays, including ''La bella addormentata'' in 1919, ''L'ospite desiderato'' in 1921, ''Tra vestiti che ballano'' in 1927, ''Il ratto di Proserpina'' del 1954, ''Una cosa di carne'', ''Il delirio dell'oste Bassà'', ''Amara''. He also wrote fiction books, such as novellas collected in ''Ponentino'' in 1916 and the novel ''La Fuga'' 1917. Rosso di San Secondo is buried in the cemetery Angeli di Caltanissetta.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rosso di San Secondo, Pier Maria 1887 births 1956 deaths Italian dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Italian dramatists and playwrights People from Caltanissetta Writers from Sicily