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Lorenzo Stecchetti was a fictional persona invented by the poet Olindo Guerrini (1845-1916) whose collection of poems Postuma was published in 1877. Allegedly, the posthumous work of Guerrini's cousin, Lorenzo Stecchetti, a poète maudit in the Romantic mould of Byron and Heine, who had supposedly died of consumption at the age of thirty. The collection provoked a scandalized response when it appeared in print on account of its frank treatment of erotic themes and the overtly blasphemous sentiments expressed in some of the verse. Nonetheless, Postuma sold extremely well and became widely popular, so much so that its publisher was compelled to reprint the volume several times to meet public demand as also a "complete edition" of Sacchetti's c ...more

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Le rime di Lorenzo Stecchetti

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Nova Polemica

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Postuma (1881)

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