L’amore condiviso, l’Arte. Sulla formazione giovanile di Giuseppe Schirò e di Luigi Pirandello (1884-1890)

The retrived epistolary of Pirandello and Schirò helps reconstruct the relationship between the two young writers, both protagonists of different and private love affairs. The backdrop against which their lives unfolded were the Classical College Vittorio Emanuele where they met; the Palermo of the Liberty style of the end of the 19th century and the cultural context dominated by reknowned and famous Sicilian intellectuals such as their professors Mario Villareale and Pier Giacinto Giozza, or the poets Mario Rapisardi and Eliodoro Lombardi, and other outstanding figures such as Giuseppe Pipitone Federico, Giuseppe Pitrè and Salvatore Salomone-Marino. This third part of the essay considers the literary activity shared by the two young writers focusing on the young Arbëresh poet, which today appear lacking compared with those of his friend from Agrigento. Pirandello’s documents turn out to be fundamental in order to understand the evolution of numerous manuscripts by Schirò.